A political compass for weird theory Twitter:
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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.Show this thread
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.
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every single one of the words you just typed frighten me deeply
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And we can only imagine what fell ideologies lie off the grid.
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Kabbadic Immortality; 
Namekian Democrats; 
Rapa Nui Isolationism; 
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KT restorationism; 
Cult of the Monolith; 
Telluric vectoralism; 
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What do you mean by cabin in the woods? Is it just as simple as Unabomber philosophy?
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Yep, it’s a Unabomber joke at the expense of pine tree Twitter.
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if one would do a principal component analysis, what would be the 3rd most relevant dimension extracted? so that compass becomes a rubric cube...
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Hmm, perhaps the Z-axis would just be the old-fashioned Left-Right spectrum hiding from view. Or it could be Major and Minor politics (as in D&G) -- so although
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It’s a reference to CCRU, but any techno-mysticism should fit
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you forgot the unnameable ones
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they are the axis
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This is amazing. It reads like a "how-to" guide on different interesting scifi futures.
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im somewhere between deep ecology and posthuman
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Adjusting my twitter bio accordingly
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the inside of a chambered nautilus is a spiral
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please write a book (or five)
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