tfw Nicks concept of Fascism is the ONE thing I 100% agree with him, and the take that gets most people pissed off.https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/958034889986600960 …
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Thus in lands political spectrum we have top down “line of sight” inflexible political ideologies on the left and on the other we have fluidic governance-as-technology that is highly adaptive and intelligent as well as decentralized
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Its cybernetics all the way down with Land. "Fascism" is just the 20th century modern decription of a negative feedback thermostat as a political system. Like you said, top-down, highly centralized, stratified systems of control.
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Land's writing on the subject matter is pretty clear, and offers a very simple and insightful reading of 20th century history. It puts aside aesthetic considerations, which most writers on modern political movements are obsessed about, and goes to the core of the issue.
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I would say that Foucault is the other writer who is capable of offering a good overall reading of these systems of control, delineating quite clearly its genealogy. Same with Burnham, who also got burned by his contemporaries and mediocrities like Orwell, lol.
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What Nick does is simply calling things by their name, probably quite aware of the shock in using the "F word", but using it, because its the ideal definition.
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