“China is a futuristic country,” he said. “I realized that the world around me became more and more like science fiction, and this process is speeding up.” Cixin Liu = the prophet of our times for Chinese accelerationism.https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/06/24/liu-cixins-war-of-the-worlds …
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Reminds me of how Badiou described the 19th century as prophetic/utopian and the 20th century as being characterized by “the passion for the real.” Wonder how he would describe the 21st century.
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