r/Vaporwave

...an endless, 24/7, transcendentally corporate, transcendental survey, instantly collecting and collating human habits to move towards what? Very possibly not late capitalism but something like pre-quantum capitalism — pre-infallibly predictive capitalism?

...and the situation couldn’t even be properly categorized as like a “conspiracy” or some sor... See more

The story of a human retreat from this world, either to the stars above or the virtual realm within, can mask a disregard for or resignation about what is done with the world we do have, both in terms of the structures of human societies and the non-human world within which they are rooted. Put another way, we might say that imagining the digital s... See more

I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative wei

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