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psychopathic survivalism

October 24, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

On the one side, then, are the Stoics and Neo-Stoics like Martha Nussbaum, who defend a rationalist and cognitive theory of the emotions, in which any emotion must involve an […]

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Stoicism

baselines

October 24, 2015by Arran Crawford 7 Comments

When I am manic I am a leftist; when I feel normal I am a pessimist.  The key question of post-nihilist praxis is why should anybody care about anything. We’re split […]

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dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering

October 21, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Just finished my first pass of the first chapter of Inventing the Future. Its pretty familiar but still quite dense for that. One of the lurking monsters beneath the chapter […]

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Marx, Srnicek

7 Day Stoicism

October 21, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

I’d written a fairly long post on Stoicism and psychopathy to accompany this post but the computers here at work ate it. They log you off if you’re inactive for […]

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Endless manifesto

October 19, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

Going through old posts, old fragments of things half-thought, attempting to organize them into something coherent at a moment where catastrophic thought is penetrating even into leftism optimism. I found […]

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Aumm: the interpretation of memes.

October 18, 2015by Arran Crawford 4 Comments
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the possibility of a left stoicism?

October 18, 2015by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

Salvage has a new article up that is being spread over FB. The article is by Alberto Toscano and focusses on the more or less forgotten Italian Marxist Franco Fortini. To continue […]

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politics

“I want to save the world”

October 18, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

If you haven’t seen Mr Robot I’d suggest you stop what you’re doing and watch it now. It’s up there with TD:1’s pessimism, The Leftovers’s post-traumatism, and Rectify’s contemplation as one […]

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mutilations on philosophy

October 18, 2015by Arran Crawford 6 Comments

The drive towards philosophy is autistic and has the profile of an addiction. The need for consistency and to have things things hang together in some kind of systematic or […]

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Pessimism

psychopathic hymns

October 17, 2015by Arran Crawford 11 Comments

As you are aware, I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of […]

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visions and voices [i]

October 17, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Is this my 4th or 5th post today? I don’t know. I have been on nightshift and should by now really be asleep. Still, inspired by Craig Hickman’s posting of poetry and […]

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fiction

dividing zero

October 17, 2015by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

Levi’s latest post on consciousness is melancholy in its weighting towards a lost past. It is as if he has something specific in mind, and yet it is as if […]

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Pessimism

Ecopathologies: The Trauma of Climate

October 17, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Although this post can be read alone, it might make sense to read it in sequence. The previous posts can be found here and here. I have at least two […]

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HP Lovecraft: Fear of the Climate

October 17, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

What is a human? An ape stumbling quite stupidly through a world threatening to collapse. An organism that considers itself to be thriving. It has done quite well in its own estimation. […]

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Lovecraft

Unknowing in the Wild

October 16, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]

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Crawford, Thacker

neuronihilism as post-nihilist praxis

October 2, 2015by Arran Crawford 17 Comments

James Harris thinks he might get into trouble for this. So naturally I want to signal boost to insure he does get into trouble. How else do you know anyone’s paying […]

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Magical or Machine Politics

August 16, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

Humans are bad machines. Replace them with other ones. If they aren’t necessarily going to be better, they at least can’t be worse.

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The Material Unconscious

August 12, 2015by Arran Crawford Leave a comment

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Perhaps we would do best to call it the material unconscious.  Freud famously said that there had been three blows to human narcissism:  Copernicus and…

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The Walking Dead

August 11, 2015by Arran Crawford 2 Comments

Originally posted on Larval Subjects .:
Perhaps, for us, the question is how to continue thinking, philosophizing, creating art, creating literature, dancing, and, above all, doing politics, when we are the…

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political economy in the open asylum

August 5, 2015by Arran Crawford 1 Comment

Continuing to view contemporary society as an open asylum this post looks at the function of money after it’s derefentializing.

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