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May 11, 2022Liked by thedayofthecollar

Dear, @correancollar , you offer an elegant solution... However, I'm not sure how we escape Dialectal Materialism... Not that we shouldn't think it, but, I wonder, do we fetishize this overcoming? As psychoanalysis teaches us we cannot ever full occupy the space of the Signifier, we're always trapped in the interregnum of the traumatic symptom that is the real (if we're talking like this our real is first-world Capitalist order)... The rhizomatic emergence of semi-feudal anarchic utopian society is as likely as any other potential ideological re-organization of labor-power, within localized and proximate participants, of course.--But TBH... I'm drawn to your entangling of (LR)-NXr = Nice equation. Great paper!... Ps. sorry for all the ML talking points... I'm just romantic like that!

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far from being convinced by the idea of a left-wing Neo-Reaction i'm willing to entertain the thought but will point out certain thinkers or strand of thought that at least thread the same terrains and ideas as the people listed in the article above but are nowhere near NRX except as potential critics of it :

Murray Bookchin's scaled out, networked localism and focus on the multi-causal potentialities of the political process as part of (not only an authentic but any) everyday life and as the necessary precondition to any self-governed polity would be a good addition to a left project that seeks both to look at the way technology conditions and sometimes determines political processes and a project that hopes to have something to say about the absolute state of the climate crises we find ourselves in.

(as well as having been an actual influence on existing projects and processes https://communalistlibrary.carrd.co/)

The work of information theory offers a good starting point for thinking about the true limits to action in the world, which are not uniformly "material" but rely on the capacity to process and treat information, those questions are related to political processes by many thinkers and scholars, Seeing Like A State's james c. scott being a famous one, but recently the people who most touch on those question wrt left-politics are found at the Center For A Stateless Society (https://c4ss.org/content/52963) and are not afraid to pit hayek's insights against his own lies to make him somewhat marxist(https://c4ss.org/content/54067) or to push the normative assumptions of transhumanism towards their logical anarchistic conclusions (https://c4ss.org/content/44993) and (https://c4ss.org/content/56320).

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