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Sequel to Cities: The Post-Urban Society
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Published January 1, 1969
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December 28, 2023for being published by some outfit called rebel books in nyc, was definitely a surprise at how californian this ideology is. and before altamont even !!!
but the value of the prophecies of the counterculture-adjacent promethian ghouls that would eagerly instrumentalize themselves directly into the heideggerian standanding-reserve of technology is that *it didn't happen*. Raskin is absolutely correct in reading into the implications of emergent technologies and the human relationship with the city, except for having the same bizarre lack-of-understanding of how humans work emotionally that lead to, say, Yarvin/Moldbug cooking up his idea of patchwork. like Yarvin he tries to recognize and account for this lack of understanding with an appeal to some hypothetical liberalism considered as an emergent property of the system. Raskin, at least, is honest about certain inherent cruelties of the emerging world, and is offering a prediction rather than a megalomaniacal design for The Future.
but it didn't happen: correct as these readings are, they are irrelevant in *what comes to pass* because technology is ultimately a baron-or-whatever for the economy, and then the economy itself probably serving the demonic violence at the center of rene girard's mimetic theory (or the "devil, probably" spoken of on "the devil, probably"). sorry, man.
but the value of the prophecies of the counterculture-adjacent promethian ghouls that would eagerly instrumentalize themselves directly into the heideggerian standanding-reserve of technology is that *it didn't happen*. Raskin is absolutely correct in reading into the implications of emergent technologies and the human relationship with the city, except for having the same bizarre lack-of-understanding of how humans work emotionally that lead to, say, Yarvin/Moldbug cooking up his idea of patchwork. like Yarvin he tries to recognize and account for this lack of understanding with an appeal to some hypothetical liberalism considered as an emergent property of the system. Raskin, at least, is honest about certain inherent cruelties of the emerging world, and is offering a prediction rather than a megalomaniacal design for The Future.
but it didn't happen: correct as these readings are, they are irrelevant in *what comes to pass* because technology is ultimately a baron-or-whatever for the economy, and then the economy itself probably serving the demonic violence at the center of rene girard's mimetic theory (or the "devil, probably" spoken of on "the devil, probably"). sorry, man.
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