Bottles and Necks

Wolf Tivy (@wolftivy) / X

I like Wolf, but this is old wine in a new bottle.

This is just Nietzschean โ€œOvercome historical moralistic baggage that holds us backโ€ from the Genealogy of Morals 1 combined with Foucaldian antihumanism. Itโ€™s just accelerationism, in other words, in somewhat different garb. I mean, Nick Land has been writing the same shit since the 1990s. The whole CCRU project was Deleuze-Guattari plus Nietzsche plus cybernetics, with the human seen as a bottleneck to progress.

Regardless, there is no way to credit โ€œwhat we really areโ€ without an implicit normative story about which capacities count as the real ones and which are historical baggage. There is no way around this; part of any useful philosophy is making value judgments. What Wolf is doing is reinventing the wheel while not even knowing what a wheel is or why there are wheels.

  1. Read that when I was 11, probably not the best idea.

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