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.5 replies 31 retweets 170 likesShow this thread -
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Replying to @bloodfawn93
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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Replying to @thewastedworld
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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Replying to @bloodfawn93 @thewastedworld
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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Replying to @bloodfawn93 @thewastedworld
Hi this shitpost has me Thinking.
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Replying to @bloodfawn93
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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Replying to @thewastedworld @bloodfawn93
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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Replying to @thewastedworld
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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Yeah I see it as the natural endpoint of the materialist position (of Lucretius, Bruno, and Spinoza)—that the human is a product of material agencies, which work at far greater capacities and durations than human life.
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