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™
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“Metaphysical Boredom in the Empire of Desire”: Prime Intellect and posthistoire
Roger Williams’s novella The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect (1994) isn’t a narrative primarily concerned with technology, but, rather, with the end of history. This is generally true of singularitarian science-fiction (SSF). Consider, for example, the degree to which Iain M. Banks’s novels Player of Games (1988) and Use of Weapons (1990) address, respectively, the fundamental… Continue Reading “Metaphysical Boredom in the Empire of Desire”: Prime Intellect and posthistoire