The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Technocratic Control of USrael Iain Davis In the United States (US) a gaggle of Silicon Valley oligarchs has formed a partnership that has seized operational control of the US defence sector. This group of oligarchs can be distinguished by their liking for the ideas presented in Nick Land’s Dark Enlightenment and their enthusiasm for Technocracy . They want to build what their guru Curtis Yarvin called a “patchwork of realms” in the form of a transnational network of privately owned city-states , or neostates . Inspired by both the Dark Enlightenment and Technocracy, a wider Neoreactionary movement (NRx) has formed, and the Silicon Valley oligarchs are its inspirational leaders. The NRx oligarchs’ investment strategy focuses on seed funding “disruptive technology” startup ventures. In keeping with the Dark Enlightenment, this is called accelerationism . The NRx-aligned oligarchs—often referred to as the PayPal Mafia—include Peter Thiel (Palantir Technologies), Marc Andreess...

  Lilies, the Devil, and Rainbow Colors A Brief History of Our Sacred Symbols Vuk Bačanović Sarajevo’s first Pride march in which took place on 8 September 2019. Participants are marching under the slogan “Ponosno zajedno” (Proudly Together). Photo credit: Antonio Balic This year’s Sarajevo Pride produced exactly what contemporary politics increasingly specializes in: a symbolic scandal. A participant dressed as the Devil marched at the front of the parade, another wrapped Bosnia’s medieval lily emblem in rainbow symbolism, and within hours social media was flooded with warnings about sacrilege, national humiliation, and moral catastrophe. In a country that has survived war, ethnic cleansing, state capture, mass corruption, deindustrialization, and the systematic looting of public wealth, it was apparently a young man with a rainbow flag who finally crossed the red line. Let us set aside, for a moment, the fact that the struggle against discrimination based on whom people share the...