Criticism

[Breach is] the idea that the internet has become our externalised collective unconscious, capturing and then amplifying a swirling ocean of our projections, hopes, fantasies, and violent urges. Some of these become archetypal, turning into myths and memes that evolve to take on a life of their own. The longer our unexpressed desires and rages swir... See more

This form of anonymous, procedural power, which I’ve characterised elsewhere as “swarmism”, has emerged as a central feature of post-liberal governance. To supporters, it’s innocuous: just well-designed institutions functioning as they should.

[“deep state” (Bannon) “the Cathedral” (Curtis Yarvin)] ... its most salient characteristic is ...“power wi... See more

[Colette’s daughter sewing and thinking]

His [Han’s] tinkering is done with the stuff of thought rather than ‘wires or soldering irons’. The metaphor conveys a sense of thinking as more an environment than an activity, a distinctly German conception of the thinker’s vocation. ... [Han:] ‘Thinking is also tinkering, and thinking can produce explosion... See more