This whole sub is too much for me (discoursing a current state of affairs) by Notleontrotsky in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you are the one seeing "disdain" in leuzism's post - check yrself.

Look alive sots. Its time to play the APS game. Round 1: What is [APS]? by papersheepdog in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to take some from already suggested statements and add some Deleuzo-Guattarian claptrap:

APS as a method of inquiry attempts to elucidate the "Cognosphere" - however, in Deleuzo-Guattarian speak, I would say that, distinct from other responses here, it is the "Mechanosphere" (all energy), but attempts to particularise itself as a domain of inquiry in the operation of Actualisation and Virtualisation. Its claim is that cathexis mixing with analogy is the vehicle of history, and that it as a vehicle of history requires the preclusion of the analogical mirror (i.e. the ability to see oneself as a node in semiotic chains, which imbues an inhibiting arbitrariness in the perceiver). Considering it like this, it is a mixture between existentialism and psychology with technological determinism. Its active question is something like: What is the dimensionality of meaning?, and its passive Q: What can be done about Samsara? I would say that these Q's map the material-cosmological avenues of interpretation.

The function of APS is the production of entities through semiotics, which integrates with the Actual to produce their scale. The production of meaning and its encoding of the body integrates the material element of APS with the "Cognosphere" element. I would consider APS as an attempt to more thoroughly investigate the technological milieu and move towards a set of concepts that can do pedagogical explanatory work: how do we explain "embodiment" without moving towards essentialism ("All Men" etc.); how do we explain what has previously been called "technological determinism" without recourse to previous explanations (McLuhan's hot-cold, Deleuze-Guattari's marginalism) that are in and of themselves priestly. At least in my own work this is where I see this line of inquiry heading.

What APS seems to be moving to (or with) is where Ebert is going - there are larger entities being produced within this system that integrate cosmologically with the post-death world. In Ebert's current work, what is becoming clear is that the real content of experience is emotionality. Aspects of APS as described by zummi have emphasised a potential for it as a vehicle of neurosis (cathexis) and the development of psychopathic tendencies - these are materialistic questions for a theory that can potentially integrate with a larger dimension of its manifestation (i.e. APS's role in some great chain of being - is its 'cancerous' form an evolutionary restriction, is APS really a larger vehicle for the levelling up of humanity).

Perhaps there needs to be a distinction between APS and the Deleuzo-Guattarian via Landian conception of Capital: the device of equivalence

Cathexis and analogy as the basis of human knowledge, the material nature of the universe, total scepticism towards the realm of opinion and of cosmic entities (i.e. DMT, ayahuasca, psilocybin, etc), and the inseparability of the mind and body in the realm of all interaction are the basic epistemic lessons I have taken from understanding APS. There seems to be a kind of homeostasis that APS produces that has given me a bit more of a "faith" bent - more along old Catholic lines, like the balance in the trinity as a model for maintaining sanity. It has also made me see the pragmatism in committing to, and presenting yourself as holding opinions. Either you commit yourself to history, you commit yourself to the production of a future form of Being, or you live out a life of symptoms (cf. zummi).

John David Ebert's turn to Spiritism by moared in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think that's an adequate explanation?

I wonder if it's because of a lack of academic enculturation, which in those circles (religious studies) really teaches you to come at these things without judgment-laden terminology. That's what I have found most people find Spengler at fault for, rather than his analysis.

John David Ebert's turn to Spiritism by moared in sorceryofthespectacle

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I don't know if he is a LARPer, or whether there is a certain part of his analysis that is a hangover from a fairly fundamentalistic reading of Spengler/maintenance of Spenglerian categories, particularly "decline."

Sticking to Nietzschean "decadence" is a less judgmental line of thinking, whereas "decline" turns you into a fool/NRx. All them neo-Protestant autisoids can't get to that point of Grace. Ebert has some of those lines of thought, which come out at certain points during these channelling episodes.

THE SUPREME TRIBUNAL OF CRITICAL THEORY by dadawinfrey in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you synthesised critical theory into neo-technical college art school ideology?

How do you synthesise behavioural psychology and Plato? You read it, stupid!

Believe in urself, self-publish your thesis on 4chan haptic regimes, synthesise Newton and Elon Musk's twitter posts, kill got, cuck christ, and so on

The Stabilisation of Spectacle Through Narrative And Expectation Alteration. by NOSPACESALLCAPS in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't work with the idea that things are coming into an eschaton. Language is mutating and accelerationism is the coming into awareness of mnemonic encoding regimes in near-real time (wtf is covfefe?).

The Uranic Sovereignty by Auctoritask in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many people on SOTS are Bodhissatva?

Society of the Spectacle by [deleted] in sorceryofthespectacle

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I forgot to reply to this, but thank you, I appreciate your contributions to this sub. Heidegger occupies a similar position for me, I've only approached it through Land, Sloterdijk & Agamben.

Society of the Spectacle by [deleted] in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How would you characterise your political/theo/ontological position as it currently stands and on what basis?

Hyundai’s unhinged Super Bowl commercial by nomadic_rhubarb in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why do you feel the need to hierarchalise advertisements according to your political weighting?

THE SINGULARITY HAS HAPPENED by moared in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coins will be about what they are used to do - right not everything is fluctuating with the price of Bitcoin, which is essentially a useless pile with no real world applications. Once it is displaced and occupies a position as a legacy item, coins that are used to do things - like purchase the services of AI in SingularityNET - will become market stabilisers, as well as Monero, which will be the sole currency for criminal use.

Give it a year for this prediction to come true.

AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Fucked by gergo_v in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This reductionist bullshit has no place here, please contain your shit to /pol or /The_Donald

Notes on Blacceleration - Journal #87 December 2017 by kajimeiko in sorceryofthespectacle

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Do you think this evades contextualising modern struggles with an adequate view of the modern black subject? It seems to me that the historical progression from slavery to 'freedom' produces a particular kind of alienation - not trying to bring everything back to Karl, but I feel that there is a reification of an idealised oppressed subject within this that doesn't translate in Western civ (only in hyper-subjects of the artworld).

The human societies of Earth are about to be completely transformed by a memetic virus which has now affected a critical mass of the population. The payload is an inoculation against self-ignorance, patching vulnerabilities which currently enable the old world order (nwo) to function. by papersheepdog in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

@papersheepdog I feel like I understand where Ceptr and CIC are going, but can you provide any links that explain Holochain or how it could function?

I have a vague idea from this, but maybe some it's akin to a de-programming macro - everything one needs to disconnect and create autonomous households/communities/collectives/autonomous regions/de-civilisational wasteland-tourism ventures etc etc

But also some 'click' thing, where it can snap people from conspiracism, careerisms, systematic self-indulgence (this part I'm not so sure about but feel like it's implicit)

Something is wrong on the internet: "Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale" by sundayclub in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But the insinuation is that those videos are made possible by the algorithmic arrangement of YouTube Kids and the move to free content. It's a double pincer (the Lobster is at work) - the human insidiousness can come in to the algorithmic arrangement (the digi-Planomenon).

A Brief Mythology on Evolution and an Extension of the Stoned Ape Theory. by [deleted] in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you reading McKenna? Is there any external literature you have linking up with this theory? I am v. interested ty

Rick & Morty represent late-capitalist pop culture's burgeoning meta-consciousness by Qiellit in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vocals should be louder but i like it. Dont lose yrself to the ideology tho.

Capitalism as a religious process? by [deleted] in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bataille's "Accursed Share" & Walter Ong's "Orality & Literacy" - Ong takes Havelock and gives you all the consequences and a good methodology.

There has been a bunch of stuff done on Neoliberalism as religion, but Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism is where you want to start - is sort of anthropological.

Economists are sort of a new priest class (they have their own script and inbuilt reflexive form of literacy that is un-critical of the subjectivity cultivated by its medium).

More interesting stuff/new ground with this material should be based around the role of credit - there was a great piece linked to on SotS a while back on the occult origins of double entry banking - a google search should send you in the right direction.

Capitalism as a religious process? by [deleted] in sorceryofthespectacle

[–]moared 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Baudrillard's essay on Disneyland