Samples from Tomorrow's Left
"The more and more I look, the more and more I see that technology and capital are most dependent on each other, just as government and capital, or government and technology. Not in the way you would think, a synergetic stride to a goal, maybe, or a simple partnership, like an old-times trust. The nature of capital, government, and technology are alligators that hold each other in a death roll, pulling themselves down to the pressure-filled bottom of the lake, pushing each other down until they reach a point of no return, and all three die from some form of pressure-related issue. What we are seeing in the modern day is nothing but this death roll, a sort of vicious spiral wherein we have a strong government that’s only getting stronger, capital that’s propping it up and aiming where that strength goes, and technology that necessitates, along with capital, for governments to allow for programs that actively endanger their citizenry, and tear apart the relationality of society as a whole."
"The only way “out” under a reign of the technocapitalist state apparatus is further down, with the point being to make the populace dependent on technologies to the extent of impossibility of dissent, aside from a newly degrowth-centric, more world-conscious ultra-left. I see the modern techno-progressive or even techno-leftist projects to be futile."
"Sadly, we don’t live in a magical world wherein we have an infinitely abundant number of resources, and where most of the resources are become subject to nothing but subjugation, to an extent that any “first-world” egoist-leftist often pushes away from, or simply ignores for the sake of the non-pejorative selfishness they seek within a societal structure, one that (if they are even mildly cybersocialist, or transhumanist) is just as unsustainable as capital."
"I contend that we push away from labor, and let Flower Bomb’s second-life anarchy (see An Obituary for Identity Politics by Flower Bomb) become a way of being, a freeform organization that acts of its own will and seems to lose and gain members at random, being highly volatile, but also enjoying every moment of this, the moments that allow you to be truly deterritorialized, not “deterritorialized” through commodity, technology, or capital. The enforced becoming-useful should be undermined, and we should deny the world our “labor,” the enforced unhappiness built into modernity."
Samples from Anarchist Future
"To work as the individual within a cybersociety is to be a territorialized mark on a sheet of paper, a datapoint, or furthermore a wire for the machines of Silicon Valley-adjacent idealists like Nyx Land. To work within the cybersociety at all is to be dependent on cybernetics and technological advancements that make up your society, from top to bottom. I'll refer to this as The Great Dependence, and it is something that is built into every one of us within a "modern society," an ideal created in and of itself by the people who are made to "modernize.""
"A further cyberneticization and technological dependency of the spectacle and obfuscation of the social; all of this being made to manifest a hyperreality into being despite the fact that reality has in and of itself been indiscernible since the rise of neoliberalism on a global scale. A grand conspiracy, if you will. Our Great Dependence creates factors that enforce us to bow to authority, to eat the boot even if we demand ourselves be proletarian, or post-proletarian, and demand ourselves to be the great opposers of authority. We fall to the demands of the scientific Wired, the territorialized fractures and splinters of originally deterritorialized material that we manifest as our modernity."
"This Great Dependence, the one that muzzles the left, boosts the right and boosts those who find themselves to be left counterrevolutionaries (which is almost all now,) and is able to create the dependency on cybernetics and technology that it has (making people into veritable cyborgs,) also has a more sinister material aftershock. Those who have been worked to death in the "unmodern societies" and the underbellies of the "modern society" will become the only people able to survive the worldwide aftershocks of a process simply called The Great Deprivation, which will almost definitely follow the final moments of the era of The Great Dependence, if we even make it that far. Acceleration is a process by which we speed up, shifting into impossibly high gear, going further into some presumed infinity until ______, a blank that differs between who you ask. The Great Deprivation is what happens whenever we hit the wall that is at the veritable end of that "infinity," where the "modern" people lose their modernity through inability to accelerate any further, realizing that they've hit something from which they will never recover: the end of social and technological advancement."
"Those cyborgs that find themselves to be alienated deeply in the loss of their favorite form of spectacle (the spectacle of advance and modernity) will slowly lose themselves, lost in a web made of the realization that there is no modernity to be had, that there is no more speculative God to worship, and there is no Ticket To Ride, no more "opportunity" bought off the backs of dead children who were mining indefinitely for rare earth metals."