At one point even Nancy Pelosi wanted single payer healthcare in the 90s, the dems can mold Newsom in their image

I agree about emulation. It is also emerges out of the moment where Deleuze and Guattari-influenced Accelerationist theory was all the rage, and that was the context that I read it in.

I read it much later than that, but I first came across a quote of it in an essay a bit over a decade ago and never forgot it. The book is quite poetic. Anyone not familiar with the CCRU (particularly Land) stuff and D&G would definitely struggle a bit because he freely uses that kind of terminology, but I feel like the writing is compelling enough that someone could still enjoy it without.

I know like two other people who have read it. Its a book with a small intended audience.

When I read it I would explain it to my partner and they would look at me like I was losing my mind lmao.

Have you ever found anything like it? I feel like anyone trying to emulate it would fall flat because it was compelling partly because it was pretty novel at the time. The only thing close for me is just reading a thousand plateaus, which has a similar unhinged quality lol

Ian Wright’s essays can have a similar vibe too, and is explicitly about Marxism

https://ianwrightsite.wordpress.com/

It can be a hard read at times because it’s quite dense with esoteric theory. See my edit about Accelerando too, it’s a fun read and packed with ideas.

If you like the first chapter of Cyclonopedia, there is a book called XYZT written by the same author (not Reza, but someone else). I haven’t read this yet, but will be soon. I’ve heard mixed opinions on it.

Have you read Cyclonopedia? It’s like the theory fiction book, and is quite a ride. It’s like someone put post-structuralism and Persian mythology into a blender.

A lot of the Warwick CCRU stuff reads the same way, including the worst of all Nick Land lol. Reza was loosely associated with them, but has gone his own way since.

Less theory fiction, but has a similar vibe to the essay you posted is Accelerando by Charles Stross.

I’ll be unavailable for a while at the end of the month, but I can go whenever else

I used to watch it all the time. Closest thing left to unhinged public tv

I’m in, but I will dig to the circus lol

I had drinks and publicly advocated for what amounts to socdem policy tonight. You can ban me now

I just tell people that if they want to leave, that’s fine, we should simply reappropriate their assets.

Neoliberalism has resulted in countries willingly compromising their own sovereignty and its frankly embarrassing.

Very generous

Send help, I’m playing KSP again

Good point. I changed it

I watched that part because it just seemed so ridiculous. She talks about the FTC and anti-trust policy. Which is about as milquetoast as expected from her.

All production is done in kind, and dwarves take from common resources at will even if that means you want to wear so many crowns that you can barely walk. The only non-communist part is the nobles, but their titles are fake, and if you don’t give them a dungeon or police all they can do is be sad (and be involved in tragic accidents). I tend to kill them off until all I’m left with is a mayor again, and they’re democratically elected.

Ngl, if they ever add back in the capitalism mechanics, I’d mod it out immediately. It’s my little bronze age drunken communism simulator.

Did Robinson really have that much reach? Maybe it’s just the general socdemification of the left going back many decades. Seems like many who became “socialists” because of Bernie carry this idea (I know I did at one point).

Where does the prevailing idea of socialism as individual workers owning their individual workplaces come from? Can I blame Richard Wolff for this one? It must be an older idea than that though.

Nice. I didn’t make any all winter because I didn’t see any peppers besides jalepeno and stuff. New grocery store I go to now has a great selection.

I’m growing a few kinds this summer. I almost bought ghost pepper seedlings. I may still grab one…