baselines
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 […]
Author Archives: Arran Crawford
dismantling the future: lunatic riffs on extinction engineering
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 […]
7 Day Stoicism
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 […]
Endless manifesto
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 […]
Aumm: the interpretation of memes.
the possibility of a left stoicism?
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 […]
“I want to save the world”
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 […]
mutilations on philosophy
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 […]
psychopathic hymns
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 […]
visions and voices [i]
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 […]
dividing zero
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 […]
Ecopathologies: The Trauma of Climate
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 […]
HP Lovecraft: Fear of the Climate
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. […]
Unknowing in the Wild
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 […]
Post-nihilist praxis and pessimism: rehashing some old ground
In the last few months I have begun to explore philosophical pessimism, although not in writing and not on syntheticzero. It might seem strange to do so now, given that syntheticzero is above […]
neuronihilism as post-nihilist praxis
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 […]
Magical or Machine Politics
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.
The Material Unconscious
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…
The Walking Dead
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…
political economy in the open asylum
Continuing to view contemporary society as an open asylum this post looks at the function of money after it’s derefentializing.
