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> If there are thinkers who have been in the conceptual space of the 23rd century and beyond, Simondon was surely one.

The 23rd Century shouldn't belong to ecofascists.



None of those mentioned are ecofascists, especially not Simondon [1], that was the point: the true radicals destroy the future worlds, not directly the present one. Alan Turing destroyed all the multiverse branches [2] in which we don't use computation. Norman Borlaug [3] destroyed all the multiverse branches in which we don't have high-yield wheat.

Perhaps an even better parallel would have been Alexander Grothendieck [3], the mathematician of the 20th century (maybe even of the 21st century if concepts as the topos [4] are made into usable tools for deep neural networks [5]), but also a person who was teaching mathematics in Vietnam [6] while hiding from bombs. When the world burns, all that remains is the Glasperlenspiel [7].

[1] 2022, Governing progress: From cybernetic homeostasis to Simondon’s politics of metastability, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00380261221084...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topos

[5] 2021, Topos and Stacks of Deep Neural Networks, https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.14587

[6] 2013, Grothendieck’s 1967 Lectures in the Forest in Vietnam, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-013-9368-6

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game


You're throwing out a lot of names to defend a White Supremacist Fascist named Ted Kaczynski.


Reading comprehension is certainly irrelevant if one is interested only in their tunnel-visioned thesis.

At no point the impromptu syllabus from above defends anyone or anything. In fact, it is so tame it didn't even mention more problematic, although arguably important and interesting, works such as Martin Heidegger's [1]. To think referencing someone as Günther Anders defends fascism is just too ludicrously functionally illiterate for any other words to be further possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Techno...




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