Category: politics
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“A good and generous man”
By a strange coincidence, when Justin Murphy shared his newsletter on Mussolini, I had just finished “Conversation Hitler-Mussolini”. A book that studies transcripts of meetings, letters and notes from third parties involved in the Mussolini-Hilter relationship between 1934-1944. His author, Pierre Milza, a Science Po teacher, is one of top-tier specialists of Mussolini. Like a…
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Whats is E/ACC?
What’s E/ACC (pronounced /ˈiːak/) ? At first it was a meme, distributed around Tweets, bios and Twitter spaces. Patient zero unknown. Newspapers started to talk about it, but only scratched the surface. This post is an attempt to reverse engineer E/ACC, to get its substance. Accelerationism First we need to define accelerationism. Accelerationism refers to…
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Roman Empire Did Not Fall: It Became Software
Imagine that the Roman Empire did not fall but just became Software? If the hardware of the Empire has disappeared, its memic image has definitively survived. What if the choice of Christianism, by the very last Roman emperor Constantin, was a virus designed to upload the Empire into some sort of memetic entity? All the…
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Nixon and the Second Coming
“You must be familiar with my favorite poem by Yeats, The Second Coming. Black Irish, very moving.” – Director of CIA in Nixon (Oliver Stone, 1995). The full scene can be found here: https://youtu.be/JWRVyaKnGcA?t=531 Rise of State Agencies During my last watch of Oliver Stone’s Nixon, I encountered a poem by Yeats, recited by Richard McGarrah…