Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Mark Fisher
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Dreamwalking off the Cliff
Consider this question: how do you know you are not dreaming right now? When you are immersed in a dream, everything feels real, until—a moment of lucidity breaks the spell. You say, “Oh, I am in fact dreaming”. But what guarantees that you are not dreaming right at this moment? You might point to consistencies,…
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Hegel Is Dead, and We Have Killed Him
This intervention diagnosticates the contemporary domestication of critical negativity by algorithmic infrastructure. It traces a genealogy of the Promethean impulse—from the theological dogmatism of 19th-century Russian Hegelianism and Nikolai Fedorov’s Cosmism to its monumentalization under Soviet Brutalism —in order to contrast it with the frictionless, predictive engineering of late capitalism. Ultimately, it investigates what thought…
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Expressions In-Between Time
To the depressed person, this statement might seem phantasmagorically counterintuitive. In the depressed state, the depressed person perceives time as, as Kronic argues further in the essay, a “a dead grey time in which nothing can possibly happen”, a sort of inescapable limbo between productive time and a chosen non-productive expenditure, In fact, depression expends…
Hyperspekulation 