Step 73: Camouflage (Sex and Trust)
When the tactics of camouflage are ubiquitous trust is impossible.
Step 71: The Costume & Inscribed Violence
From fantasy into reality, the image has it’s own defenses and prophetic will.
Step 70: Scapegoating and Sacrifice
Reversing inner pressure outward requires a scapegoat to sacrifice in order to stabilize society.
Step 68: Malign Velocities (Accelerationism)
Machinic automation, revolution, libido, sex as work, poop, and more
Step 67: Accelerationism & Futurism
From the 1909 Italian futurists into the 2008 accelerationists the allure of speed worship takes a new cyber-tech twist.
Step 66: Cybernetics & Capitalism
Regulating a system requires moderating energies. Is capitalism moderating not only our desires but our rebellions as well?
Recent
- Step 89: Pacifism as Pathology
- Step 88: Rorty’s Cruelty, Solidarity, and Liberal Hope
- Step 87: Rorty’s Ironists and Metaphysicians
- Step 86: Rorty’s Contingency
- Step 85: The Semantic Drift of “Good”
- Step 84: Language Failure: How Words Shape Our Reality
- Step 83: {AI}ice’s Odyssey in DALL-E Land
- Step 82: Art and AI
- Step 81: Kant and the Rise of Subjective Realism
- Nov-Dec 2023: Consuming and Producing