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Air Conditioned Prose (Weapons of the Weak)
Air Conditioned Prose Writers: Hipsters in air-conditioned universities cuttin’ up Scott’s “Weapons” like discount sushi, twistin’ it into a weapon against the very resistance it documents. Bullshit. Scott wasn’t peddling resignation, man, he was unveiling the roach motel of power. The weak ain’t sheep. They’re cockroaches scuttling through the cracks, pissing on the carpet of…
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Tragedy of the Commons
The Privatization Racket: https://ramurrio.medium.com/games-without-frontiers-980abb60b1e7 They call it the Tragedy of the Commons, man, a cosmic downer flick projected on the greasy screen of reality. Garrett Hardin, that square with a heart full of barbed wire, spins this yarn about how people, us rubes, can’t be trusted with the good stuff – the land, the water, the air, even. We’d just suck it dry, turn it into a…
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Fiturbug
In the sun-baked wasteland of software development, where lines of code shimmer like mirages and deadlines loom like dust devils on the horizon, there exists a curious creature: the fiturbug. It ain’t quite a feature, that much is certain. None of that shiny, brochure-worthy functionality there. No, the fiturbug is the bastard offspring of a…
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The Ideology of Ideology Denial
In contemporary discourse, we are increasingly confronted with a peculiar phenomenon: the denial of ideology in the very moment of its most aggressive assertion. This paradox is most evident in the popular claim that certain political or economic positions are “devoid of ideology.” Such claims are not merely erroneous; they are symptomatic of a deeper…
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It’s All One Long Movie
You flip the chrome switch, a hiss and hum, the screen blooms like a malformed god. Feed it data packets, a digital Eucharist, and the cathode cathedral flickers to life. But it’s all the same movie, man, a neverending reel of flickering phantoms projected through layers of chemical lies. Flip the script, man. Streaming ain’t…
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MAP AND TERRITORY
MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE REDUX EPISODE 4 Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability. — Werner Heisenberg If territory is a concept, the question would be: what is the problem to which it answers? Territory: An area of of phase space under the jurisdiction of…
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Marxism As Commodity
The proletariat screams, but their cries are muffled by the plush cushions of capitalist comfort. Marxism, once a revolutionary fist raised against the iron cage of capital, has become a trendy t-shirt slogan, a badge of rebellion ironically displayed on iPhones assembled in exploited factories. The critique of the bourgeoisie has been co-opted, repackaged, and…
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SIGN AND SYMBOL
MUSIC IN PHASE SPACE EPISODE 3 “Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used “to tell” at all.” Umberto Eco Art allows for…
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Selling Out
You dig? Selling out ain’t about empty shelves. It’s when the product pimps you, the consumer, to the real score. They don’t refine the sugar, they refine you. Dumber, twitchier versions of your former glorious self, slavering for the next dopamine drip, the next gaudy trinket. You dig, selling out ain’t about empty shelves. It’s…
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