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Against the postmodernist suspicion of grand narratives, we need to reassert that, far from being isolated, contingent problems, these are all the effects of a single systemic cause: Capital. We need to begin, as if for the first time, to develop strategies against a Capital which presents itself as ontologically, as well as geographically, ubiquitous.

Capitalist Realism

Mark Fisher

All of us are caught in the logics of a history turned into simulacra, our enemies the only ones who take us seriously, in degraded attempts to make sense of a future in which the only thinkable outcome is The Bad Guys running the world into mutual ruin. We are all caught up in the contradictions of this; the right just runs with it.

The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute

Matthew Ellis

We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.

The Information

James Gleick

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