We’re Fucked. So (Now) What? | R. Scott Bakker
“Conscious self-creation.” This is the nostrum Roy Scranton offers at the end of his now notorious piece, “We’re Doomed. Now What?” Conscious self-creation is the ‘now what,’ the imperative that […]
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ŠUM#9 interview with R. Scott Bakker
There comes a time when “theory” just stops working. The one thing that was once seen (and used) as a weapon against the crushing stupidity of common sense (or ideology, […]
‘Crash Space’, by R.S. Bakker (pdf)
Postscript Reverse engineering brains is a prelude to engineering brains, plain and simple. Since we are our brains, and since we all want to be better than what we […]
No results found for “cognitive psychology of philosophy”.
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
That is, until today. The one thing I try to continuously remind people is that philosophy is itself a data point, a telling demonstration…
Control/Crisis/Junk
Datawar In the comments to my previous post, Sketches on Mutant Design, RS Bakker raised an important point on the technologies insulated in the core of neoliberal functionality: “I think […]
The Semantic Apocalypse
Originally posted on Speculative Heresy:
Last week, I was privileged to be a respondent to a lecture entitled “The End of the World As We Know It: Neuroscience and the…
The Persistence of Belief
The elimination and ratification of belief The problem of nihilism is also the problem of belief. If our highest values have corroded and our firmest foundations have been removed from […]
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