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Technocracy 2.0(brooklynrail.org)
93 points by antonomon 8mo ago|56 comments
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A New Anti-Political Fervor(noemamag.com)
8 points by antonomon 8mo ago|2 comments
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by antonomon 8mo ago
An essay on the global wave of anti-political anger Unlike “anti-establishment” which a bit vague and overused to the point of meaninglessness, anti-politics describes a mood that doesn’t easily convert into governance. It’s a rejection and
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A New Anti-Political Fervor(noemamag.com)
3 points by antonomon 8mo ago|1 comments
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The New Vertigo Years(novum.substack.com)
1 points by antonomon 1y ago|1 comments
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by antonomon 1y ago
Over a century ago, the world felt anxious and unsettled much like today
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Living in a Time of Psychopolitics(donotresearch.substack.com)
4 points by antonomon 1y ago|1 comments
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by antonomon 1y ago
How an idea by philosopher Byung-Chul Han helps us reframe our world
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by antonomon 2y ago
As the Soviet Union fell apart, dissident writers in Central Europe came to power, but some had mixed feelings about their newfound purpose
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by antonomon 2y ago
As the Soviet Union fell apart, dissident writers in Central Europe came to power, but some had mixed feelings about their newfound purpose
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by antonomon 2y ago
Rereading Christopher Alexander's classic 1965 essay "A City Is Not a Tree" in the digital age
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by antonomon 3y ago
In his 2017 work Psychopolitics, Byung-Chul Han writes of how power today has grown reliant on manipulating psychological states, uniquely made possible by technologies of control. Its symptoms are of the mind, like burnout and diseases of
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The Return of the World's Fair(novum.substack.com)
2 points by antonomon 3y ago|0 comments
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by antonomon 3y ago
Very true. I like doing this as well. I think the path of least-resistance, sitting in our room, is actually the most harmful. Generative activity only happens when you're engaging with novelty and meeting others, even just in passing.
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Living in a Time of Psychopolitics(novum.substack.com)
5 points by antonomon 3y ago|2 comments
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There Once Was an Empire(novum.substack.com)
4 points by antonomon 3y ago|1 comments
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by antonomon 3y ago
If you’re interested in reading about historic periods on the edge, times when people had to suddenly start over, then you may like this essay. It's about the collapse of Austria-Hungary how and a generation of writers came to terms wi
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On the Importance of Roots(3quarksdaily.com)
1 points by antonomon 3y ago|1 comments
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by antonomon 3y ago
In the past decade, the writer Simone Weil has grown in popularity and continues to provoke conversation some 80 years after her death. She was a writer mainly preoccupied with what she called “the needs of the soul.” One of these needs, al
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The Man Who Shredded the Newspaper(3quarksdaily.com)
1 points by antonomon 3y ago|0 comments
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by antonomon 3y ago
You're eliminating all the nuance. Given that OpenAI effectively has a monopoly and is now suddenly being alarmist, makes it pretty clear this is "for their own gain." They have every incentive to to gatekeep the regulatory e
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by antonomon 3y ago
The New York World's Fair in 1939 promised a dream future unlike any other, but the consequences of its vision were buried beneath the spectacle.
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by antonomon 4y ago
Weekly review #5 Topics for this issue: "Storification" and the Abuses of Storytelling; Humanities on the Decline; and Why Writers Shouldn’t Worry about the Machines
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by antonomon 4y ago
Stories covered from the past week: Tea with the Mujahideen, What Is "Hyperpolitics?", One Year of War in Ukraine, and a Murder at the Institute for Social Rejection
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by antonomon 4y ago
Based
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by antonomon 4y ago
Ever since it became a superpower, America has suffered from bouts of paranoia over its possible decline. But this time feels different.
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by antonomon 4y ago
Taken from Weekly Retrospective #1 "Jan 28th to Feb 4, 2023 — Introducing This Weekly; Mentions of Distress at Record High; Cold War Victory Syndrome; Weird AI Friendship Ads; and The Long 2010s."
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How the locomotive became a metaphor for modernity(novum.substack.com)
3 points by antonomon 4y ago|1 comments
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by antonomon 4y ago
A century ago, many different ideologies tapped into the locomotive as a metaphor in a struggle over the soul of the modern world.
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Maybe Real Modernity Has Only Just Started(novum.substack.com)
2 points by antonomon 4y ago|2 comments

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