At the Dark Edge of Enlightenment:

Spielmann, Guy

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“…Finally, menial workers similar to slaves occupy the bottom of the hierarchy. Yarvin's ideas on corporate government and the right to exit were consolidated in Nick Land's (2012) blog "The Dark Enlightenment." Land's vision equates residents with customers in an undemocratic, free market governance where their voice is seen as "semi-criminal."…”

Section: Politics Of Exitmentioning

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“…Finally, menial workers similar to slaves occupy the bottom of the hierarchy. Yarvin’s ideas on corporate government and the right to exit were consolidated in Nick Land’s (2012) blog “The Dark Enlightenment.” Land’s vision equates residents with customers in an undemocratic, free market governance where their voice is seen as “semi-criminal.” To stay or leave the corporation’s territory account as their only possible exercise of rights (Burrows, 2019). Residents’ participation in the system is thus reduced to Land’s principle: “No voice, free exit.”…”

Section: Anti-democracy and The Politics Of Exitmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure

Lynch,

Muñoz-Viso

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Libertarian “exit” imaginaries project new social, political, and economic structures separate from existing institutions in which “sovereign individuals” can opt-in to the governing system that fits their ideals. This paper traces libertarian exit imaginaries through a variety of territorial and technological projects. Demonstrating how these imaginaries evolve, it describes a recent proposal to build a semi-autonomous, blockchain-based smart city in Nevada. Reflecting on these projects, the paper highlights (1) their inevitable failure as they confront reality, (2) their role as spectacle, spreading libertarian ideology, and (3) their real-life impacts on distinct places and communities even when they fail or never materialize.

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Section: Politics Of Exitmentioning

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Section: Anti-democracy and The Politics Of Exitmentioning

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Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure

Lynch,

Muñoz-Viso

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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“…As has been widely discussed (cf. Hawley, 2018; Hermansson et al, 2020; Nagle, 2017), the chief driver of Land’s new popularity was ‘The Dark Enlightenment’, a blog series starting in 2013 that critiqued liberal democracy’s ‘relentless trend to (intellectual) degeneration’ and toys with neo-reactionary themes including ‘race realism’ and ‘human bio diversity’ (Land, 2013). At the same time, the fact that Land was listened to at all was a product of the cultural prestige he had amassed as a philosophy lecturer and guru to a new generation of cultural theorists.…”

Section: Conclusion: From 1990s Occulture To the 2016 Culture Warsmentioning

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Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age

Haworth

2023

Theory, Culture & Society

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Several scholars have noted parallels between the online communicative tactics of the American alt-right and those of industrial musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. This article explores these connections further by analysing the informational media that industrial musicians developed. Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, these zines, handbooks, and websites made a strenuous break with the values of democracy, egalitarianism, and grassroots authenticity that were the default ideological ‘mode’ of DIY. Where the Californian ideology would centre the summer of love and the politics of the New Left, the zines ambiguously celebrated the nihilistic, authoritarian, and occult vectors of psychedelia – tendencies that have been associated with the late 1960s fate of the counterculture rather than its earlier heyday. The article tracks these themes from Vague magazine and Rapid Eye, to the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit in the 1990s, to neoreaction and the Dark Enlightenment, asking whether communicational utopianism should be considered a blip rather than the internet’s default state.

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At the Dark Edge of Enlightenment:

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Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure

Blockchain urbanism: Evolving geographies of libertarian exit and technopolitical failure

Post-punk, Industrial Culture Zines, and the Information Dark Age

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