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Hegemonic Capture in the Piped Society
digital architectures as global pipes, ordinary person's de facto nonchoices, the rise of Meta's hegemonic control of community through WhatsApp, and…
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That summer feeling: Derna in autumn, Melbourne in spring
trying to conceive of our community of fate from the distance of a first world spectator of a third world devastation
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on returning... ....to 2023
some no doubt glib and broad brushstrokes impressions on travelling to, and coming back to, the 2020s
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$imulating Intercours€
of milk cows, magic cucumbers, and the collective and cumulative costs of our societal preference for simulation
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Stacksistence
as I commit to another year on a platform that uses content production to grow numbers and create success and stack sovereignty
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'Capitalism delivers the goods'
tracing out ineluctability and the emergence of global one dimensionality, via two idiosyncratic Hegelian scholars, Fukuyama and Marcuse
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On Maxing it, after 2020-1
Easing ourselves into our chosen maw of more and more and MOAH
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School of Block
, or: why most people preferred simulation to reality by 2025
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Dopamine Fantasies of our Land of Cockaigne
unboxing the tragic paradox of consumption by glancing at the production of ‘dopamine stock’, scarcity – and the collective fantasy at the heart of…
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Death by Trinkets
on not seeing the collective effects of itty bitty shit bits of plastic at civilisational repetition and planetary scale
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3SD '25: The Choice of a New Generation
(Surreal, Stubborn, Stupid) + (Dangerous, Destructive, Dumb) = 3SD, and its emergence through the psychosis of media and head shred scroll holes of Tik…
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In conversation with Chris Hobson
a discussion about Naomi Klein's Doppelgänger(s), pipiking, Baudrillard, conflict as spectacle, how love will tear us apart, and the possibility of…
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