/lit/ - Literature

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i have, i've read it all, i've read everything and since my own wishes are only for decadence and drug abuse i now dream of Heroic Communism and science fiction adventures saving the world. i don't want to turn into Crusty Old Anger Nick but there is no turning back from what Young Nick hath wrought. and i dislike that Land threads can become spirals of race and gender bullshit too, because they are inescapable woven into conversations about intelligence that rip the guts out of everything that is beautiful about /acc.

here's what Murphy wrote today:

>Cybernetics and evolution name basic principles of reality, and they help to explain our oppression as well as our flourishing. These concepts help to explain why capitalism is so hard to overthrow, but they also explain how we heat our homes (the thermostat being a classic textbook example of a cybernetic device). Humans flourish through technoscience as intelligence instantiated, and we try politically to contain the anti-social implications of technoscientific reality-penetration, but capitalism is what happens when intelligence escapes its last political box and starts replicating until we eventually become the objects of its manipulation. We started with the idea that we’d buy and sell things to advance our interests, leveraging the cybernetic price system like we leverage the thermostat to keep our house’s temperature in equilibrium. Before we knew it, the price system evolved new types of people that better suited its interests, and now we are so many thermostats in the service of capitalism.

>There is still, in principle, the possibility of generating systemic liberation dynamics via cyberpositive tactics. The big questions of the late 21st century, however, will be: Can the human desire for liberation dynamics beyond capitalist exploitation pass the empirical bottleneck of intelligence takeoff, given the brutally unforgiving requirements involved, and can the intelligent pass the bottleneck of destructive hordes who fear they cannot pass the bottleneck of intelligence takeoff?

source:
https://theotherlifenow.com/deleuze-cybernetics-evolution-academics/

angry and stupid me says the answer to both is no and that answer makes me think only of death and horror. talking about destructive hordes is what gets guys like Murphy exiled from academia, and it's what happened to Land too. i want to dwell purely in my own imagination in which the CCP becomes the Human Techno-Futurist Party and basically crowbars mankind out of space and we all live happily ever after. i don't want to read any more grimdark /acc cyberpunk stuff or utopian NRx stuff.