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liminalOyster » Sat Jun 23, 2018 3:38 pm wrote:But aren't we seeing new forms of primitive accumulation? My not well thought through instinct is that mutable identity is the first bit of primitive accumulation for the singularity/AI futures.
It always seems necessary to vocalize my distaste for Trump on this board but his existence/ascension still feels like it has a *revelatory* quality. For instance, while I dont want to jump on the train of rightists and bernie die-hards this week crying out "but but Obama did it too," I'd be hard pressed to dispute that the diff in their immigration policy is particularly significant compared to its commonality. Which should lead to a much bigger historical/geographical discussion of the Americas and the setup for the crisis itself. So whereas people remained oblivious-complacent when racists policies were attached to a black maybe progressive figurehead, a small tweak of same policies attached to a clearly racist white bloat sack becomes a moral crisis. The reveal is more psychological - ie our attachment to symbolic royal figureheads is apparently very deep - than anything. But I find it is teaching me a great deal very quickly about how it all works.
Can you link to your Company dossier? Is it in the DD?
American Dream » Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:30 pm wrote:I agree that we need more better theorization and appreciate the efforts of Matthew Lyons, Alexander Reid Ross et al., though we really could use much more effort in that direction.
That said, characters like Troy Southgate, Keith Preston or Boyd Rice will never a free pass.
kelley » Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:53 am wrote:it's difficult to say much beyond this represents the end of the cold war playing itself out on american soil after a brief neoliberal interregnum
and yes to the observation of what a complete digitalization of media might incur
the two phenomena are linked
liminalOyster » Sat Jun 23, 2018 4:14 pm wrote:I like Libcom etc too. But mostly they're not talking about what most interests me. I don't think tropes like Red/Brown alliance and third positionist continue to hold up under scrutiny. The political sphere is now close to fully digitally mediated and its shape is too ambiguous to support those old figurations.
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