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Some Belated Response to Grant’s “LA 2019”
Considered as one of the fundamental texts in the British Accelerationist strand is Iain Hamilton Grant’s 1996 essay “LA 2019: Demopathy and Xenogenesis. Some Realist Notes on Bladerunner and the Postmodern Condition” to which his very idea of the “postmodern” was lifted directly and almost uncritically from the writings of the French Philosopher, Jean-Francois Lyotard.…
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Dialectical Materialist Responses to Liberal Wokeness (No. 1)
Today, I’m trying to start a serial again, hopefully something which I can sustain. Still, something non-cinematic in focus. I’m trying to address in this series what the title says: responding to liberal “hot takes” through abstracting them with dialectical materialism. The method takes from the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist line which abstracts phenomena in social practice. Mao…
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28 Years Into the End of History
28 years into the end of history, we are experiencing eternal contemporaneity. What the recent times have assured with Mark Fisher’s declaration of the ‘slow cancellation of the future’ is the making-contemporary of what was 5 years ago can be considered as nostalgia. Nostalgia does not exist anymore, 28 years into the end of history.…