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The time has come to inflect and fly on, beyond, and back under the fray. Eternal departure can tone and keep tempered what withers in unchanging weather. Cling to the hearth for too long, and the fibers relax into thermal coalescence; too briefly and fate becomes frigid. So the desert dilates...

Just had a thought about the development of capitalism, and how the stage we are entering is actually quite justifiably called "techno-fuedalism" by Yanis Varoufakis. I put the title in quotes because its still tentative for me, not yet settled. The basic picture: from the highest order...

Kinda want to do a brief taxonomy here, just to calibrate our understandings. As I use it, "libido" is largely synonymous with terms like vitality, energy, life force, passion potential, etc. Average all those together, and we have the basic idea. Perhaps it is best to think of it as an energy...

A digital threadshrine. Never got around to visiting their location in Chicago, but Drag City was central to my last phase of music listening. The players, albeit on a rather tight bench: I'll start with potentially my favorite album: Hippo Lite by DRINKS (Cate le Bon and Tim Presley)...

A space for conjecture as well as informed opinions. Whether or not you use some source material, be it a text or a lecture, or you just procure knowledge from thin air. Any and all topics. An occasion to bolster both your personal understanding of a given topic, as well as the rigor of...

Dissentio Imbibendum a COMBINATORICS of S P I R I T S a C A L C U L U S of INTOXICATION an ALCHEMY of B U R N I N G W A T E R The thread for cocktails. Pay homage to legendary drinks, or devise your own. Submit recipes to be listed and...

Just listened to an episode of Hermitix with John Cussans, whom I hadn't heard of but is apparently close to the whole ccru milieu. His main point was a point that I've encountered a couple times, perhaps here, but one that hasn't quite clicked until now. Namely, that the more you traffic...

Couldn't find a thread about this - 3D printers, 3D scanners, replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap), etc. I just got a Creality CR-6 SE from kickstarter, using it to print out pieces for an automated microscope (OpenFlexure). Still getting used to what is possible here, what kind of structures...

(If you want to bypass the Rant and get to the Point, just scroll to the next dashed line) - - - - - - - - - - - - - I hadn't really thought, before, about what trouble is, but it seems to be a kind of excitement, a baseline excitement that keeps us busy, moving forward. The most troubled...

I'd be interested to hear thoughts, with surgical precision, on hipsters, hipsterdom, etc. How has the label developed over the years? Was it originally a black american term (vaguely remember a mention of it in Mumbo Jumbo, but I could be mistaken), and has since been *ahem* broadened? What is...

I don't think that I'll argue any of the following stuff is right, so much as I will argue that it can and will drop us off at various advantageous points of thought - and from these points, perhaps larger issues will become clearer, perhaps we may become ever-more right. What if our base mode...

Been interesting in elaborating ideologies that are not centered around the human (which is arguably impossible), but perhaps around something upon which the human is superstructural. Spending time here, at Dissensus, granted me an understanding of accelerationism as an inhuman ideology (at...

I thought about it, and didn't really know where to start. At what point did the real interplay of power shift from nations to corporations? Or what were the critical points? Or has this even happened? Or have extragovernmental parties always had the power? It just seems like the kind of...

Frank Ramsey was, from what I gather, a strikingly promising logician and thinker who operated in the Cambridge environment and dealt frequently with Keynes, Wittgenstein and Russell. He died at 26 years old, with much potential left unrealized. At least, that is the image that historians paint...

I was thinking about how one's spirituality and personality could be influenced by the colors of one's environment, or more broadly by the aesthetics of one's environment. These spiritual/personal qualia could, in turn, come to inform/determine ideology. What difference is there, across...

While the point of this thread is to generate useful and quotidian applications for this otherwise abstruse ideology, I'm afraid I must start off with a more academic application: hermeneutics. @catalog the gadamer/ricoeur stuff could help us out here - I'm unfamiliar with the two. By...

Thanks to @catalog 's suggestion regarding psychotopography, I got to reconsidering the psyche- element, attempting to focus more on ideology, which seems to be best encapsulated in ismos, which is usually used as the suffix -ism. Thus psychotopography becomes ismotopography. Still needs work...

I have been ruminating on the concepts of classes determined by intelligence, indiscriminate of many other factors such as race and gender, and what kinds of problems would emerge from such a structure. Then I thought about it not in terms of class (although that is still a contending factor)...

edit: "Psychotopography" (the mapping of psychic locations/places) has been reconfigured as "Ismonautics" (the exploration of ideologies). Psychotopography would consist of the plotting of courses from one psychic place/state, or topos, to another. This would include, but may not necessarily...

Could be the next step in formalizing/constructing some kind of theory machine. What is meant by these terms? "Second-Order" inherits from second-order cybernetics, which, to my understanding, can more or less be summarized as such: If first-order cybernetics involves an observer of a world...