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Western culture is reduced to pure instrumental reason

Burn! depicts two parallel trajectories: on the one hand, the moral abyss into which neocolonialism pushes its agents and, on the other, the progressive development of a political consciousness among the ruled people. When Walker meets Dolores, he believes in civilisation and progress, with the i…

—p.145 Salvage #5: Contractions Melancholy Images, from Left Wing Melancholia: Marxis, History and Memory (137) missing author
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Left Accelerationists

The Left enthusiasts of Nick Land appear to come from tonier climes. They are often clustered within academia, the tech sector, venture capitalism, or the media. Sometimes calling themselves ‘Left Accelerationists’, they produce political tracts such as the ‘#AltWoke Manifesto’. Keen to harness the…

—p.121 Behemoth and Leviathan: The Fascist Bestiary of the Alt-Right (109) missing author
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dare we speak of salvage or even of hope?

Dare we speak, then, of salvage or even of hope? If we would struggle to keep alive – or resurrect – movements and traditions, revolutionary ways of parsing the world, the wisdom of our forebears and ancestors, in what language should we speak of such slippery things? And if our dialects and our mi…

—p.108 Salvaging the Dormant: On Language (95) missing author
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the wreckage of the Old Left

[...] The term itself conveys loss but no responsibility for that loss.

Indeed, if salvage conjures Robinson Crusoe salvaging from the wreckage enough to survive, those socialists who came of age ‘in the wilderness’, watching the wreckage of the Old Left wash up on the beach, may see, if not a p…

—p.97 Salvaging the Dormant: On Language (95) missing author
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dissolve the people and elect another

If the failure of presidentialness is less the failure of the inaugurated persuader-in-chief to persuade than of the unpersuaded to be persuadable, presidentialness’s partisans can only pine to dissolve the people and elect another.

—p.93 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville