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The transhumanist imperative to radically reengineer humanity is really at the heart of all of the other claims that TESCREALists make. We’re probably not going to be able to colonize space if we don’t radically reengineer ourselves or upload our minds to computers or just create a new species of AGI to completely replace humanity. Does that make sense?
Tech Capitalists Don’t Care About Humans. Literally.
jacobin.com
Both Marazzi and Sennett point out that the disintegration of stable working patterns was in part driven by the desires of workers – it was they who, quite rightly, did not wish to work in the same factory for forty years. In many ways, the left has never recovered from being wrong-footed by Capital’s mobilization and metabolization of the desire for emancipation from Fordist routine.
Capitalist Realism
Mark Fisher
Mind-numbing techniques (such as meditation, chanting, speaking in tongues, denunciation sessions, debilitating work routines) are used to suppress doubts about the group and its leader(s).
Effective Altruism Is a Dangerous Cult — Here's Why
Émile P. Torres
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