/lit/ - Literature

>>11826969
the rise of the illiberal left is indeed quite a phenomenon. some of it makes me wonder if the reason why the radical left struggled so much with islam was because there was a subterranean elective affinity there all along. it's not that we dislike the idea of sharia, it's that we'd prefer to have our own rules about it...

...and you see the same thing with social credit now in china. again, i think that system is going to work so long as the economic end of the bargain holds up and the state has the people's confidence. if not, it's not hard to imagine people burning their cards and saying they want closer relations with the West. but these are the times of trouble and the Trumpocene Era.

>the IC-tech complex's panopticon and Big Data driven predictive total police state.
i remember when i actually had to strain my brain to ask what deleuze meant by societies of control.

here's the link for any anons interested:

https://cidadeinseguranca.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/deleuze_control.pdf

the panopticon will be a thing. it's already here, it's a part of googlification and the rest. we will work out the kinks eventually. but BNW gonna BNW.

>>11826972
>Or more abstractly the emergent AI god who may or may not be literally satan.

possibly. but it's one of the reasons i like whitehead so much these days. no satan necessary for a cosmology that makes no major distinctions between theology, philosophy and science. Ask Interesting Questions seems to be his motto. alfred is the fucking bombshell. he's been a blast to read and definitely has been good for the ulcer i grew reading land.