“Everything in the world is, as we see it now, rule, order and form; but anarchy still lies in the ground, as if it could break through once again, and nowhere does it appear as if order and form were what is original but rather as if initial anarchy had been brought to order.” –… Continue Reading The agora and the archipelago
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COLD_FUTURES.exe and the Virtual Exodus™
1. Humor me. Let’s explore further the possibility of vaporwave as an organic, highly speculative mode of political theory. I say “further” because a number of people already noticed that vaporwave seems to be doing something political. Exactly what that something is still remains to be seen. Perhaps it will never be fully visible. In… Continue Reading COLD_FUTURES.exe and the Virtual Exodus™
Notes on digital personae (1)
We need to get over the fantasy that the complex, temporally distended symbolic performances we call “online identities” really have anything much to do with personal identity at all. A digital persona is structurally analogous to the commodity form insofar as both are fungible media of transaction. Engaging in communication or symbolic action online involves… Continue Reading Notes on digital personae (1)