It's like he's Nick Land but he does things
I've not read this guys book, but have been keeping an eye on certain intersections of NRx, accelerationist, and cryptoanarchist ideas and their materialization. While great swathes of it are, I'm still not sure "postmodern" or even "neo-nazi" is the most productive terminology to use as it misses certain unique characteristics of what this space is manifesting.
Tbh, I was pretty enthralled with what the guy was saying until he mentioned the balkanization of amerika and bitcoin. I was thinking, "oh, you're THAT kind of republican." I think what's important to realize is how racialized all this stuff is. They believe capitalists are a race of people. Or to put in a Foucault type way, they pursue a biopolitics of maintaining a racial hierarchy whose purpose and justification is civil society with markets. The dependence on Singapore as a model is illustrative, as is the pact between racism and anarcho-capitalist politics in the US. And then in this way you can become simultaneously anti-nationalist and for secession along racial lines.
They seem like they want to destroy civil society, but it's more like they want to destroy politics so it can get the fastest cybernetic updates. Notice how he criticizes politics as endless deferral, but then describes himself as just a cipher for machinic anti-politics. When he describes Trump, you can see the admiration and how we wants to repeat that event through his work. You can be charitable and say it's aimless ultra-leftism, but even then, they're bound to become captured by reactionary forces. Tor already shows how much crypto-anarchy is captured by the government.
I'll have to read the book, as maybe I'm just conflating him too much with Land. Though he really seemed to be channeling him there.
marimite posted:Though he really seemed to be channeling him there.
Yeah, like how he speaks of the first 3d printed gun is pure hyperstition.
I guess that's really the whole shtick of people orbiting Land; the common belief that they are/experience atemporal echos of an unknowable that exists as some future attractor point.
Gssh posted:have been keeping an eye on certain intersections of NRx, accelerationist, and cryptoanarchist ideas and their materialization.
i been watching netflix
codywilson posted:well see there's a guy named michel foucault i recommend you read him sometime
wtf is this for real?
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colddays posted:What's the difference between buying one of your milling machines to make a gun on and buying some other / making your own milling machine to make a gun on? Lots of hobbyists have garage workshops; many have small CNC mills. Not trying to shit on you, just genuinely curious about the specific improvement this brings to home manufacturing.
I mean the joke is that guns are trivially easy to get in the united states, both legal and illegal. This would be interesting if the dude was Japanese but the ideology involved forecloses that possibility. This is pure white settler fantasy as marmite pointed out.
Also dude namedropped Agamben, the impossible to understand philosopher who baby Finland was obsessed with before he went off to twitter fame. I'm not saying baby Finland is a white settler who has racial fantasies which become expressed through increasingly bizarre philosophy and ironic posturing. I'm also not not saying that 
babyhueypnewton posted:colddays posted:
What's the difference between buying one of your milling machines to make a gun on and buying some other / making your own milling machine to make a gun on? Lots of hobbyists have garage workshops; many have small CNC mills. Not trying to shit on you, just genuinely curious about the specific improvement this brings to home manufacturing.
I mean the joke is that guns are trivially easy to get in the united states, both legal and illegal. This would be interesting if the dude was Japanese but the ideology involved forecloses that possibility. This is pure white settler fantasy as marmite pointed out.
Also dude namedropped Agamben, the impossible to understand philosopher who baby Finland was obsessed with before he went off to twitter fame. I'm not saying baby Finland is a white settler who has racial fantasies which become expressed through increasingly bizarre philosophy and ironic posturing. I'm also not not saying that
I don't think it's fair to trivialize the whole project this way. Guns may be easy to get now, but that could change in the future either due to tighter gun laws, or in the wake of a serious event in which armed groups are put at odds with the government. The risks and logistics of buying guns legally or illegally, especially in large quantities, are very different from those of manufacturing them. A development that lets people make firearms in their homes is worthy of discussion. Obviously it would have ramifications beyond just the USA, and maybe the ideological landscape in Japan doesn't mesh with this development, but it could become relevant in Europe or Africa. Even if Cody Wilson is doing this out of white settler fantasy (idk if he is, I haven't read his book), the idea behind it is real. New rapid manufacturing technology is getting better and cheaper, and fitting into people's garages and even desktops, and nobody thus far has really thought about people making guns with that tech.
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The racism of the American justice system is another reason that this issue is actually very relevant. Whites have basically nothing to fear when it comes to gun control, and people of color do have something to fear. This is fundamentally a discussion about access to weapons. People of color could make homebrew guns if their access is restricted.
This topic always brings to mind this quote from Gianfranco Sanguinetti
And those who today, either out of despair or because they are victims of the propaganda the regime propagates in favour of terrorism as the nec plus ultra of subversion, contemplate artificial terrorism with uncritical admiration, even attempting sometimes to practise it, do not know that they are only competing with the State on its own terrain, and do not know that, on its own terrain, not only is the State the strongest but that it will always have the last word.
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tpaine posted:lol guy with a last name that means blood. good fakepost if a little esoteric
I'm pretty sure all Italian surnames refer to a specific shape or thickness of pasta
I agree, there is no transformative social/political power inherent to easier access to guns. Anybody being able to 3d print a gun isn't going to change America much more than anybody being able to give their hookup at the klan rally 200 bucks for a shotgun, but this extends beyond that. Just like guns can be effective when used as a tool by an organized and disciplined party, the means to produce them can be effective in the hands of that same party.
So means to resist gun control are good, though really it's more an issue of the right to assemble. That is what makes it a good transitional demand insofar as liberals are supposed to protect this, but that kind of thinking isn't even on the horizon for this guy. The basis of political organization isn't any kind of technology or ideas, it's your relationship to the masses. When postmodernists say they want to be taken up by some unnameable force, they are saying 1. I don't believe in anything 2. I'm for sale. This guy is using philosophy to sell toys to white petite-bourgeois racists. And really, the most significant effect of postmodern thought has not been made by activists but by marketers, pr flaks, academia, journalism and all the other petite bourgeois occupations where lying is your job. That's what "hyperstition" is at the end of the day.
On other hand, making the proliferation of self defense technology the basis of your political praxis is pretty cool, and actually happened under the guidance of Ancient Chinese Master Mo.
