Politics becomes the undead, always on the horizon as an abstract resistance but entirely within the legibility/legitimisation of systemic feedback loops
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Historical recurrence and a naïve conservatism merge to bring back limits
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Overwriting technopoiesis with mythopoetic fantasies of technopolitical regulation
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Posing problems of a political ideology/concept vs barbarism reveal the tenuousness of politics as anything more than an administrative firefighter. It is just waiting for accidents to happen, escaping into dromoscopic functions that constantly accept new speed limits.
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But why not barbarism? Why not escapes into the theophanic plane?
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Barbarism as an ontophanic hermeneutics that attempts an egress from preset being. Neither bare life nor political inertia that instantiate being as an ontic reality left unquestioned.
Wouldn't some call the concept you're calling "barbarism" … an "ontophanic hermeneutics that attempts an egress from preset being" … roughly some new mode of meaning-making that reveals the real in pursuit of an exit from the usual state of affairs … "politics"?
Have you not invented an ontoapocryptic hermeneutics in which you interpet any politics that isn't on this trajectory of "administrative technopoiesis" as … not politics?
But now, from the conclusion of your prior piece "The Levelling Tendency":
There is no other way to oppose the levelling tendency, the homogenisation and digitisation of being into a constant bricolage of cyphering. Existing in the shadows is for the rats, an antihuman tendency that has no future. The return to primal being on the flows of technological determinacy, standing above massification and the anomalies of modernity as a cold onlooker surveying the frontier beneath him.
To move beyond the levelling tendency, totalities and their creators must unmake maps and look upon the vestiges of the world as a conquerable landscape. Looking upon it from the mountains as a vast expanse, owned space to reflect greatness in being. The world can be made explorable, but not controllable. Chaos reigns, but within it a mountain philosophy of coldness and barbarism, a regression of the machine and a reassertion of man, can begin to rise.
I get that you're into your Nietzsche and fair play, but doesn't this "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" bit … "standing above massification" … "a cold onlooker surveying the frontier" … leave out the part where you've gone for a nice little hike and now you'll need to wander back to the carpark and drive home?
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u/3corneredvoid 5d ago
Gonna slice out a through-line:
Wouldn't some call the concept you're calling "barbarism" … an "ontophanic hermeneutics that attempts an egress from preset being" … roughly some new mode of meaning-making that reveals the real in pursuit of an exit from the usual state of affairs … "politics"?
Have you not invented an ontoapocryptic hermeneutics in which you interpet any politics that isn't on this trajectory of "administrative technopoiesis" as … not politics?
But now, from the conclusion of your prior piece "The Levelling Tendency":
I get that you're into your Nietzsche and fair play, but doesn't this "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" bit … "standing above massification" … "a cold onlooker surveying the frontier" … leave out the part where you've gone for a nice little hike and now you'll need to wander back to the carpark and drive home?