Dune & solarpunk & eco-jihad | Minas Mongrel Denis Villeneuve with *Blade Runner 2049* employed an iconic cyberpunk movie to make a symbolic transition to a solarpunk aesthetic that exposes a transformation of political imagery already underway;...

Probably best read perpendicularly to this one www.minasmongrel.xyz/blog/dune--s...

credits for graphics @lithauch.bsky.social

It's all quite sketchy but I wanted to connect a few dots and point to something I feel important - how to think political asymmetry

Kujawa ÷ Galloway. Allegory as institution as grammar as black box. Politics of subtraction | Minas Mongrel A transversal allegory can be understood as a figure or grammar of institutions that take care of (but also appropriate) the commons emerging from network and black-box infrastructure. The post-networ...

New blogpost on transversal allegory being a figure of institutions belonging to a new semiotic order that originates in black-box architectures of network technologies. The commons as vectors / acc. www.minasmongrel.xyz/blog/kujawa-...

& the Bôa Duvet edit at the end is mindmelting

EDITS W/ KELMAN DURAN & Carlycore 11th December 2024 Playing Experimental, Gabber. Rail Up resident DJ and visual artist Kelman Duran broadcasts monthly with original edits and guests.

phenomenal
www.nts.live/shows/kelman...

Yeah, you tell these thick mathematicians who they really are, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich!

Sarah Davachi's organ drones are perfect for limitless grey of Eastern European fall into winter.

Kathy Acker on imagination, terrorism and the Luigi Mangione event

Thivai in Kathy Acker's 'Empire of the Senseless'

When all that's know is sick, the unknown has to look better.

It's an accelerationist phenomenon that the algorithmic media circuit has to intensify the cuteness of the shooter to make unaliving a CEO a viral.

Does anyone know any work that'd map Hegel and complexity theory onto each other (that is not Negarestani)?

Internet feels now like early Harmony Korine, like Xenia, Ohio in Gummo, a town just hit by a tornado, nothing worth to do, no work, no fun, nowhere to go, mostly just weirdos and abuse

Galloway on digitality (in discussion with Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan):
www.e-flux.com/journal/121/...

Correction: the fifth continent is Digitality - Information is only its one dimension but it bifurcates into another dimension that is Structure (excavated by structuralism).

why palimpsest?

Celine writes a noise novel also because every human being is a liar and a deceiver, with intent or aimlessly. A counter-Kantian world that persists on the web of ruin and mendacity.

What I was also wandering reading yr piece is how the theory of idea as sign that you adopt is to the theory of idea developed by Deleuze in 60s. I can't answer that from top of my head, probably will have a look in the next days.

Oh that one. Well, you rewire your brain by engaging with philosophy and science - the methods of developing ideas - not by dismissing them as bourgeois fancy. Otherwise, it's all just running in circles of reflexivity.

What were the controversies?

I really enjoyed this essay (and its structure), especially the approach that a combination of materialism and semiotics - which seems to be less popular today - is necessary "to escape the ideological subordination of thought to the reproduction of social structures".

quotes: Louis Althusser, Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon

The philosophy of fourth continent is clearly psychoanalysis, but the fifth I'm unsure because we're still inside as it unfold (it stretches from cybernetics and functionalism, through information, noise and complexity theory, to accelerationism and neorats to name just a few)

Freud opened up the fourth continent of the Unconscious, and computers (from Turing to transformers) have unlocked the fifth continent of Information.

The narrator speaks about a constant roar that accompanies him ever since to which he had to adapt in order to be able to think. System built around this impossible to repress or heal source of noise. Noise as impairment and individuation.

It begins with a harrowing description of shellshock and artillery injuries sustained in a WWI battle set on a French farmhouse - literary machine for both Freudian trauma and mental state of noise that Malaspina speaks about a lot.

I'm reading Celine. His 'Death on the installment plan' was excellent, only Bernhard can complete with his spite

It was a dark night for pirates.

*hard to post (obv)