mk_void
@mkvoid.bsky.social
he/him • electronic literature • multimodality • Marxism • psychoanalysis • dialectical critic • Luddite
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if I were Elon Musk I would spend less time worrying about the dangers of humanity staying earthbound and more about the threat of my primal horde of offspring banding together to overthrow castrate and cannibalize me but maybe this is just a STEM vs humanities thing
April 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
if I were Elon Musk I would spend less time worrying about the dangers of humanity staying earthbound and more about the threat of my primal horde of offspring banding together to overthrow castrate and cannibalize me but maybe this is just a STEM vs humanities thing
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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson
― William Gibson
Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.
Philip K. Dickens
Philip K. Dickens
April 10, 2025 at 10:33 AM
“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson
― William Gibson
“I maintain, and I will ambiguously maintain — and in doing so, I believe that I am following Freud’s footsteps — that poetic creations generate psychological creations more than they reflect them.” - Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI
March 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“I maintain, and I will ambiguously maintain — and in doing so, I believe that I am following Freud’s footsteps — that poetic creations generate psychological creations more than they reflect them.” - Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI
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we are living under fascism right now
March 21, 2025 at 5:08 PM
we are living under fascism right now
Enoch made them, Enoch shall break them!
we now have new technologies that use more energy than most nation-states and evaporate whole lakes en masse to (AI) make search engines unusable and generate the shittiest words and images you've ever seen, and (crypto) scam rubes with unregulated securities fraud. throw silicon valley into the sea
March 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Enoch made them, Enoch shall break them!
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we now have new technologies that use more energy than most nation-states and evaporate whole lakes en masse to (AI) make search engines unusable and generate the shittiest words and images you've ever seen, and (crypto) scam rubes with unregulated securities fraud. throw silicon valley into the sea
March 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
we now have new technologies that use more energy than most nation-states and evaporate whole lakes en masse to (AI) make search engines unusable and generate the shittiest words and images you've ever seen, and (crypto) scam rubes with unregulated securities fraud. throw silicon valley into the sea
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"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
The Last Good Dad — Parapraxis
On Fredric Jameson’s pedagogy Nico Baumbach
www.parapraxismagazine.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
"Marxism, for Jameson, never provided some orthodox solution or ready-to-hand explanation for understanding our world but provided interpretive problems that always needed to be reinvented and reimagined."
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the...
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The image of the night.
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The image of the night.
“Beckett poses the decisive antithesis: an avowed process of subtraction. Instead of omitting what is temporal in existence—which can be existence only in time—he subtracts from existence what time, the historical tendency, is in reality preparing to get rid of.”
February 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Beckett poses the decisive antithesis: an avowed process of subtraction. Instead of omitting what is temporal in existence—which can be existence only in time—he subtracts from existence what time, the historical tendency, is in reality preparing to get rid of.”
ned ludd . . . save me . .
February 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
ned ludd . . . save me . .
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"Rejecting identitarianism...means abandoning the neoliberal dream of impeccably multicolored boardrooms. But it does not mean retreating into a tone-deaf class-only politics."
myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...
myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...
What’s New About Woke Racial Capitalism (and What Isn’t) – Spectre Journal
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Enzo Rossi explain how "woke" racial capitalism reveals contradictory tendencies in the material structure of capitalism and its ideological superstructure.
spectrejournal.com
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"Rejecting identitarianism...means abandoning the neoliberal dream of impeccably multicolored boardrooms. But it does not mean retreating into a tone-deaf class-only politics."
myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...
myself and @enzoreds.bsky.social for @journalspectre.bsky.social.
spectrejournal.com/whats-new-ab...
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New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
‘Things Are Going to Get Intense:’ How a Musk Ally Plans to Push AI on the Government
404 Media has obtained audio of a meeting held by Thomas Shedd, a Musk-associate who is now heading a team of government coders. In the call one employee pushed back and said one of the planned moves ...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
New from 404 Media: inside the gov meeting where Musk ally laid out plans for data sharing across gov/AI. We got audio. In the call an employee pushed back and said the plan would be “illegal.” Musk ally said “we should still push forward and see what we can do.” www.404media.co/things-are-g...
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The Lord gave us one Stuart H.M. Hall decades ago to teach us that we must talk about class and race together. I understand that Dem thought-leaders can't/don't read, but still, let's not embarrass ourselves here.
January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Lord gave us one Stuart H.M. Hall decades ago to teach us that we must talk about class and race together. I understand that Dem thought-leaders can't/don't read, but still, let's not embarrass ourselves here.
“In the dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About to the dark times.” - Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”
January 31, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“In the dark times, will there also be singing? / Yes, there will be singing. / About to the dark times.” - Bertolt Brecht, “Motto”
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“Instead of looking inside (the character) for some final key to the film, we must attend to the strange folds, burrows and passageways of Inland Empire’s weird architecture, in which no interior space is ever secure for long, and gateways to the outside can open up practically anywhere.”
January 18, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“Instead of looking inside (the character) for some final key to the film, we must attend to the strange folds, burrows and passageways of Inland Empire’s weird architecture, in which no interior space is ever secure for long, and gateways to the outside can open up practically anywhere.”
“It is only at this price-that of the simultaneous recognition of the ideological and Utopian functions of the artistic text-that a Marxist cultural study can hope to play its part in political praxis, which remains, of course, what Marxism is all about.”
January 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“It is only at this price-that of the simultaneous recognition of the ideological and Utopian functions of the artistic text-that a Marxist cultural study can hope to play its part in political praxis, which remains, of course, what Marxism is all about.”
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This is not a "sports" bill. It's a first-step-in-legally-defining-trans-people-out-of-existence bill
January 7, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is not a "sports" bill. It's a first-step-in-legally-defining-trans-people-out-of-existence bill
“James Ensor tirelessly confronted [the crowd’s] discipline with its wildness; he liked to put military groups in his carnival mobs, and both got along splendidly — as the prototype of totalitarian states, in which the police make common cause with the looters.”
December 28, 2024 at 4:58 AM
“James Ensor tirelessly confronted [the crowd’s] discipline with its wildness; he liked to put military groups in his carnival mobs, and both got along splendidly — as the prototype of totalitarian states, in which the police make common cause with the looters.”
“Surrealism has come ever closer to the Communist answer. And that means pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals.”
December 25, 2024 at 10:26 PM
“Surrealism has come ever closer to the Communist answer. And that means pessimism all along the line. Absolutely. Mistrust in the fate of literature, mistrust in the fate of European humanity, but three times mistrust in all reconciliation: between classes, between nations, between individuals.”
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A medium reveals a medium- as medium. Without other media, a medium is not a medium.
Peters
Peters
December 10, 2024 at 6:17 PM
A medium reveals a medium- as medium. Without other media, a medium is not a medium.
Peters
Peters
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*December deadlines after thanksgiving break
November 29, 2024 at 1:55 AM
*December deadlines after thanksgiving break
“Seek for food and clothing first, then the kingdom of God shall be added unto you.” - G.W. Hegel
November 28, 2024 at 9:01 PM
“Seek for food and clothing first, then the kingdom of God shall be added unto you.” - G.W. Hegel