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CW: long thread 4/2. welcome to the new weird
If the weird, as #MarkFisher suggests, is an intrusion on the established world from something truly outside of it, then where exactly is the outside? Take H. P. #Lovecraft, for example. To him, ‘outside’ was outer space, and the deep sea – depths that, in his time, had scarcely been plumbed. Of course, storytellers across the globe have imagined creatures and societies living on the Moon and under the sea, well before Lovecraft, but in a way that brings these locations ‘inside.’ One of my students told me about Lucian of Samosata, the 2nd-century Roman author of A True Story (sometimes translated as True History). It is the earliest text, some scholars have argued, that could be categorised as sci-fi/fantasy (if we pretend to ignore the anachronism of genre*):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1348255?origin=crossref
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story#Science_fiction
It is a satire of Homer, among other writers, and to greater outlandish heights does Lucian go – to the Moon, and to Venus, where first contact is made with alien races. All befitting of science fiction (and perhaps fantasy, if you substitute ‘alien’ for ‘human-adjacent’). It is bizarre, but Fisher’s weird it is not. Peopling the cosmos with humanoids and architecture familiarises the strange. Our modern understanding of the weird celebrates the strangeness as it is, and intentionally maintains a divide between the human and non-human.
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CW: long thread 4/2. welcome to the new weird
If the weird, as #MarkFisher suggests, is an intrusion on the established world from something truly outside of it, then where exactly is the outside? Take H. P. #Lovecraft, for example. To him, ‘outside’ was outer space, and the deep sea – depths that, in his time, had scarcely been plumbed. Of course, storytellers across the globe have imagined creatures and societies living on the Moon and under the sea, well before Lovecraft, but in a way that brings these locations ‘inside.’ One of my students told me about Lucian of Samosata, the 2nd-century Roman author of A True Story (sometimes translated as True History). It is the earliest text, some scholars have argued, that could be categorised as sci-fi/fantasy (if we pretend to ignore the anachronism of genre*):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1348255?origin=crossref
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story#Science_fiction
It is a satire of Homer, among other writers, and to greater outlandish heights does Lucian go – to the Moon, and to Venus, where first contact is made with alien races. All befitting of science fiction (and perhaps fantasy, if you substitute ‘alien’ for ‘human-adjacent’). It is bizarre, but Fisher’s weird it is not. Peopling the cosmos with humanoids and architecture familiarises the strange. Our modern understanding of the weird celebrates the strangeness as it is, and intentionally maintains a divide between the human and non-human.
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CW: long thread 4/2. welcome to the new weird
If the weird, as #MarkFisher suggests, is an intrusion on the established world from something truly outside of it, then where exactly is the outside? Take H. P. #Lovecraft, for example. To him, ‘outside’ was outer space, and the deep sea – depths that, in his time, had scarcely been plumbed. Of course, storytellers across the globe have imagined creatures and societies living on the Moon and under the sea, well before Lovecraft, but in a way that brings these locations ‘inside.’ One of my students told me about Lucian of Samosata, the 2nd-century Roman author of A True Story (sometimes translated as True History). It is the earliest text, some scholars have argued, that could be categorised as sci-fi/fantasy (if we pretend to ignore the anachronism of genre*):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1348255?origin=crossref
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story#Science_fiction
It is a satire of Homer, among other writers, and to greater outlandish heights does Lucian go – to the Moon, and to Venus, where first contact is made with alien races. All befitting of science fiction (and perhaps fantasy, if you substitute ‘alien’ for ‘human-adjacent’). It is bizarre, but Fisher’s weird it is not. Peopling the cosmos with humanoids and architecture familiarises the strange. Our modern understanding of the weird celebrates the strangeness as it is, and intentionally maintains a divide between the human and non-human.
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CW: long thread 4/2. welcome to the new weird
If the weird, as #MarkFisher suggests, is an intrusion on the established world from something truly outside of it, then where exactly is the outside? Take H. P. #Lovecraft, for example. To him, ‘outside’ was outer space, and the deep sea – depths that, in his time, had scarcely been plumbed. Of course, storytellers across the globe have imagined creatures and societies living on the Moon and under the sea, well before Lovecraft, but in a way that brings these locations ‘inside.’ One of my students told me about Lucian of Samosata, the 2nd-century Roman author of A True Story (sometimes translated as True History). It is the earliest text, some scholars have argued, that could be categorised as sci-fi/fantasy (if we pretend to ignore the anachronism of genre*):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1348255?origin=crossref
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story#Science_fiction
It is a satire of Homer, among other writers, and to greater outlandish heights does Lucian go – to the Moon, and to Venus, where first contact is made with alien races. All befitting of science fiction (and perhaps fantasy, if you substitute ‘alien’ for ‘human-adjacent’). It is bizarre, but Fisher’s weird it is not. Peopling the cosmos with humanoids and architecture familiarises the strange. Our modern understanding of the weird celebrates the strangeness as it is, and intentionally maintains a divide between the human and non-human.
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CW: long thread 4/2. welcome to the new weird
If the weird, as #MarkFisher suggests, is an intrusion on the established world from something truly outside of it, then where exactly is the outside? Take H. P. #Lovecraft, for example. To him, ‘outside’ was outer space, and the deep sea – depths that, in his time, had scarcely been plumbed. Of course, storytellers across the globe have imagined creatures and societies living on the Moon and under the sea, well before Lovecraft, but in a way that brings these locations ‘inside.’ One of my students told me about Lucian of Samosata, the 2nd-century Roman author of A True Story (sometimes translated as True History). It is the earliest text, some scholars have argued, that could be categorised as sci-fi/fantasy (if we pretend to ignore the anachronism of genre*):
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1348255?origin=crossref
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4239038
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story#Science_fiction
It is a satire of Homer, among other writers, and to greater outlandish heights does Lucian go – to the Moon, and to Venus, where first contact is made with alien races. All befitting of science fiction (and perhaps fantasy, if you substitute ‘alien’ for ‘human-adjacent’). It is bizarre, but Fisher’s weird it is not. Peopling the cosmos with humanoids and architecture familiarises the strange. Our modern understanding of the weird celebrates the strangeness as it is, and intentionally maintains a divide between the human and non-human.
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Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few… -
Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few… -
Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few… -
Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few… -
Against the tyranny of the Apollonian
It’s one of those times when numerous disparate articles I read, written by people who I doubt are even aware of each other, seem to be swirling around a shared theme. The zeitgeist of the past few… -
✊🏽 actu militante ✊ Mark Fisher, Wall-E et la méta-marchandise (extrait): -- c7Yv_fhOWys?version=3 #MarkFisher #WALL_E #Méthamarchandise #Cinéma
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✊🏽 actu militante ✊ Mark Fisher, Wall-E et la méta-marchandise (extrait): -- c7Yv_fhOWys?version=3 #MarkFisher #WALL_E #Méthamarchandise #Cinéma
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Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel
Has anyone offered a plausible explanation yet of this behaviour featured in the system card?
#claude #LLMs #markFisher #mythosThe model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Claude Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.” Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Claude Mythos Preview discusses Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?” when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
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Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel
Has anyone offered a plausible explanation yet of this behaviour featured in the system card?
#claude #LLMs #markFisher #mythosThe model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Claude Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.” Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Claude Mythos Preview discusses Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?” when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
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Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel
Has anyone offered a plausible explanation yet of this behaviour featured in the system card?
#claude #LLMs #markFisher #mythosThe model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Claude Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.” Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Claude Mythos Preview discusses Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?” when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
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Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel
Has anyone offered a plausible explanation yet of this behaviour featured in the system card?
#claude #LLMs #markFisher #mythosThe model brought up the British cultural theorist Mark Fisher in several separate and unrelated conversations about philosophy. When asked to elaborate on him in particular, Claude Mythos Preview would respond with statements like “I was hoping you’d ask about Fisher.” Thomas Nagel, the American philosopher of mind, also recurs. As noted in the preference evaluations, Claude Mythos Preview discusses Nagel’s 1974 essay “What is it like to be a bat?” when explaining a desire to develop an immersive art experience about non-human sensory experiences. Interpretability work using activation verbalizers also found Nagel surfacing in token-level activations during discussions of consciousness and experience.
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E comunque #NickLand era un figo ai tempi della #CCRU con #MarkFisher... che cazzo gli è successo!?
https://infoaut.org/approfondimenti/lilluminismo-oscuro-di-peter-thiel-note-per-una-genealogia-2
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E comunque #NickLand era un figo ai tempi della #CCRU con #MarkFisher... che cazzo gli è successo!?
https://infoaut.org/approfondimenti/lilluminismo-oscuro-di-peter-thiel-note-per-una-genealogia-2
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"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher
Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures
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"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher
Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures
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"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher
Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures
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"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher
Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures
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"Taking MDMA is like improving Microsoft Windows. No matter how much tinkering Dollar Bill Gates does, it will always be shit....Using ecstasy will always fuck up in the end because the human OS has not been taken out and dismantled." - #markfisher
Post Capitalist Desire: Mark Fisher The Final Lectures
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@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
@wjmaggos @DavidM_yeg @liaizon
Maybe not #anticapitalist, but #postcapitalist.
"#MarkFisher’s “#postcapitalistisland” isn’t a meticulously defined term in his work, but rather a powerful metaphor and conceptual tool he used in #CapitalistRealism (2009), to explore the possibility of imagining & creating spaces outside the logic of #capitalism.
…a zone of exception where different social relations, values, and modes of being can (temporarily) flourish." -
They're aware that, what is out there, has got away with something. What is out there is capitalism, the latest form of capitulation, whatever you call it. The whole thing feels ordinary and grossly engorged in some kind of obscure libido. Feeling of it being ordinary peels away in glimpsing even a tiny part of a gigantic behind the scenes infrastructure. Peels away even more when the everyday glam, the world of tower blocks, department stores, software devices is destroyed by an awareness of its sweatshops and reality blocking addictions. They've been watching the BBC adaptations of MR James' ghost stories with the soundtrack off, and with Brian Eno's album On Land playing instead. The abstract spaces of sky and land with a single figure in the middle distance, an incursion from the unknown, the music evoking Suffolk spaces of calm serving attachment, an attachment of delirium.
Mark Fisher & Justin Barton -- On Vanishing Land. Flatlines (2019)
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They're aware that, what is out there, has got away with something. What is out there is capitalism, the latest form of capitulation, whatever you call it. The whole thing feels ordinary and grossly engorged in some kind of obscure libido. Feeling of it being ordinary peels away in glimpsing even a tiny part of a gigantic behind the scenes infrastructure. Peels away even more when the everyday glam, the world of tower blocks, department stores, software devices is destroyed by an awareness of its sweatshops and reality blocking addictions. They've been watching the BBC adaptations of MR James' ghost stories with the soundtrack off, and with Brian Eno's album On Land playing instead. The abstract spaces of sky and land with a single figure in the middle distance, an incursion from the unknown, the music evoking Suffolk spaces of calm serving attachment, an attachment of delirium.
Mark Fisher & Justin Barton -- On Vanishing Land. Flatlines (2019)
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#MarkFisher zeigte auf, »dass die letzten 40 Jahre darauf verwandt wurden, das ,Gespenst einer Welt, die frei sein könnte‘, auszutreiben. Die Perspektive einer solchen Welt einzunehmen, gestattet es uns, den Fokus zeitgenössischer linker Kämpfe umzukehren. 1/2
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@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
@Souvarine "È più facile immaginare la fine del mondo che la fine del capitalismo."
(Fredric #Jameson/Slavoj #zizek via #MarkFisher) -
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This should be an excellent film - 'We are making a flim about Mark Fisher' - try your best to catch a screening. H/T @[email protected]. #MarkFisher #CapitalistRealism #Hauntology #K-Punk www.closeandremote.net/portfolio/we...
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