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This is only mostly a shitpost. Y axis is tech-positive versus tech-negative (Which direction should history take?). X axis is humanist versus anti-humanist (to what extent can we shape our history?).
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Top-left is Promethean:
Muskite space-futurism; Left accelerationism; Global Leviathan; Cyberpunk urbanism.
Top-right is Posthuman:
Assorted xeno-theorists; Unconditional accelerationism; Posthuman slime-hackers; Lemurian time-warriors.
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Bottom-left is Restorative Politics:
Adornian pessimism; Paleo-political nostalgia; Heideggerian agrarianism; Degrowth/Regrowth.
Bottom-right is Deep Ecology:
Salvagepunk post-capitalism; Chthonic Ones; Cabin in the woods; Gaia’s revenge.Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Examples of post-human slime hackers?
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Thinking of biohacking, including perhaps Haraway’s insect-hybrids in her Camille Stories (Staying With The Trouble), or Preciado’s hormonal experiments (Testo Junkie).
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Gotcha! I think with my interests in the occult (Thelema/Hermeticism) I feel aspects of tech/bio-stuff can help liberate us in a quasi-Gnostic quality. I suppose being trans goes into this of course lol. Ideas of ritual music have been changed by people like Coil also!
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Various examples by Coil, but their Time Machines drone album really changed the way we see ritual music now, as well as Stockhausen and even binaural beats (lol)
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Hi this shitpost has me Thinking.
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Haha I’m glad it has. It’s been great seeing the reactions to it, and that it’s reached way beyond the cavetwitter sorts that I had in mind when making it.
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I’m in a similar camp to yourself, having interests all across the compass. In a lot of ways I think the chart narrows on its right side, so that the anti-humanist extremes have more in common with each other than the left-hand positions have with one another.
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I think that makes sense, seeing a reconciliation between the two on the right is essentially my thing, where we can work with the mind/body/soul issue through working with both the natural world and technological.
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Gonna need a run down on Lemurian time-warriors.
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See "CCRU: Collected Works"
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it's nothing like i hoped it was going to be
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Do you have any good examples of xeno-theorists?
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