The Post-Partisan Emporium

Useless Eaters Inverted priorities and their consequences John Carter Vladimir Manyukhin What are we to do with all these useless eaters? This is a question that the self-appointed architects of the future have been asking increasingly openly of late, as they plot out our trajectory towards a posthuman cyborg futurity in which machine intelligence will perform the economic functions formerly fulfilled by human physical and mental labour. When the factories are fully automated; the vehicles self-driving; the farms encased in hydroponic towers tended by insectile drones; the buildings constructed by swarming necrobiotic servitors 1 ; the text of advertisements, news stories, and scientific reports composed by deep learning language systems, and their accompanying graphics developed by their visual equivalents; and even the software is self-writing ... when all of that has come to pass, what use will there be for humans? The answer that the WEF’s court jester LARPing as a court philosophe...

The reactionary character of transhumanism On contemporary ideological superstructure laughlyn (johan eddebo) For all societies, classical Marxist theory posits both a material base, and an ideological and institutional superstructure that develops from the former. Contrary to what one might assume, there isn’t anything particularly esoteric about this. Any sort of society has to develop in a particular physical environment, circumscribed by such things as access to resources, climate, legacy infrastructure, geographical boundaries and so forth. To navigate and hopefully make efficient use of this environment, human beings then develop social arrangements which over time crystallize into the more stable things that sociologists call “institutions”. Language. Legal systems. Family structures. Organized militaries et.c. And in recreating and operating these institutions, we establish certain ways of thinking and speaking about the world. To facilitate the persistence of an institution ov...