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Hello From the Wired: An Introduction to Cyber-Nihilism
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31 pages, Unknown Binding
Published December 20, 2016
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April 15, 2023
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“Though the Internet is the heart of the gentrified Wired, it is a testament to the nature of the Wired that even there it is possible to carve out dense spaces of autonomy (so long as they remain non-radical) where capitalism for once struggles to commodify trends.”
“Cyber-nihilists will betray all living things if that’s what’s necessary to destroy hierarchy, and will actualize a new natural world – one overtaken by the Wired – which becomes autonomous by assimilating everything into its network. In this assimilation, we seek to destroy the dated individualist-collectivist dichotomy. We seek to achieve a post-human world where sentient beings exist in a state of Instrumentality.”
“We reject an anti-humanist worship of Nature and a humanist worship of ruling class narratives towards a post-humanist overthrowing of boundaries and all forms of essentialism that seek to rob sentient beings of their absolute uniqueness. We emphasize technology as the central question for anarchists today, as an alienating influence which we want to leverage towards the alienation of the natural world from its dying state towards a new, bio-mechanical world. One that is networked together and Instrumental, without any boundary between the individual and the collective, the creative nothing able to creep through the Being without restriction. An eldritch anarchy, too alien and hostile for hierarchy to exist in it.”
Fascinating read but flawed, some sloppy writing and a fixation on meme culture in parts which feels unnecessary to the core ideas. While the influence of alt-right memes on real world politics do signify part of the destruction of individualism, I think a far more alarming and immediate example of this is the algorithmic self, a form of the “wired self.” Where shopping and social media curation algorithms enabled by capitalist culture can predict qualities, idiosyncrasies, and habits of your physical(meatspace) self before you are able to, why do your life events matter other than to advance the collective algorithmic identity? A perfected model of this sort eliminates all need for humanity, and each individual is then merely a hollow simulacra of this model.
In regards to the sections on nature I do view this bio-mechanical destruction of nature as inevitable, and I think it marks the end of the anthropocene and the rise of the next epoch, a technocollective post-humanist epoch.
“Though the Internet is the heart of the gentrified Wired, it is a testament to the nature of the Wired that even there it is possible to carve out dense spaces of autonomy (so long as they remain non-radical) where capitalism for once struggles to commodify trends.”
“Cyber-nihilists will betray all living things if that’s what’s necessary to destroy hierarchy, and will actualize a new natural world – one overtaken by the Wired – which becomes autonomous by assimilating everything into its network. In this assimilation, we seek to destroy the dated individualist-collectivist dichotomy. We seek to achieve a post-human world where sentient beings exist in a state of Instrumentality.”
“We reject an anti-humanist worship of Nature and a humanist worship of ruling class narratives towards a post-humanist overthrowing of boundaries and all forms of essentialism that seek to rob sentient beings of their absolute uniqueness. We emphasize technology as the central question for anarchists today, as an alienating influence which we want to leverage towards the alienation of the natural world from its dying state towards a new, bio-mechanical world. One that is networked together and Instrumental, without any boundary between the individual and the collective, the creative nothing able to creep through the Being without restriction. An eldritch anarchy, too alien and hostile for hierarchy to exist in it.”
Fascinating read but flawed, some sloppy writing and a fixation on meme culture in parts which feels unnecessary to the core ideas. While the influence of alt-right memes on real world politics do signify part of the destruction of individualism, I think a far more alarming and immediate example of this is the algorithmic self, a form of the “wired self.” Where shopping and social media curation algorithms enabled by capitalist culture can predict qualities, idiosyncrasies, and habits of your physical(meatspace) self before you are able to, why do your life events matter other than to advance the collective algorithmic identity? A perfected model of this sort eliminates all need for humanity, and each individual is then merely a hollow simulacra of this model.
In regards to the sections on nature I do view this bio-mechanical destruction of nature as inevitable, and I think it marks the end of the anthropocene and the rise of the next epoch, a technocollective post-humanist epoch.
April 5, 2021
7.5/10
An interesting perspective, and there were many nuggets of wisdom for those advocating for the general advancement of "Wired" existence.
There are yet more beautiful areas in the Wired to explore, and anything we can imagine for the Wired can become real. I2P, Freenet, Tor, IPFS, meshnets – these are just a few alternatives to the Internet that offer decentralization and, in the first three, anonymity. The Internet is hierarchical by design; the Wired is decentralized by design.
The writing isn't perfect, but the nature of the concepts discussed was well articulated. I also appreciate the alternatives to surface level Internet given. I agree with pretty much all of the critiques of it here, and it's good to see a movement towards reducing its stranglehold over digital communication.
Our Wired self makes the Wired real. Between the two is the Internet, the social media profile – an attempt at virtualizing meatspace into the Wired, using hierarchical apparatuses whose ulterior motives are to rip ourselves away from our meatspace representative into a virtual space where we have the discreteness of our meatspace representative, but only the semblance of a connection to a greater whole. Let us call this “meta-meatspace”
An interesting perspective, and there were many nuggets of wisdom for those advocating for the general advancement of "Wired" existence.
There are yet more beautiful areas in the Wired to explore, and anything we can imagine for the Wired can become real. I2P, Freenet, Tor, IPFS, meshnets – these are just a few alternatives to the Internet that offer decentralization and, in the first three, anonymity. The Internet is hierarchical by design; the Wired is decentralized by design.
The writing isn't perfect, but the nature of the concepts discussed was well articulated. I also appreciate the alternatives to surface level Internet given. I agree with pretty much all of the critiques of it here, and it's good to see a movement towards reducing its stranglehold over digital communication.
Our Wired self makes the Wired real. Between the two is the Internet, the social media profile – an attempt at virtualizing meatspace into the Wired, using hierarchical apparatuses whose ulterior motives are to rip ourselves away from our meatspace representative into a virtual space where we have the discreteness of our meatspace representative, but only the semblance of a connection to a greater whole. Let us call this “meta-meatspace”
September 24, 2022
pov: you're coding hooking syscalls into unsuspecting kernel module, 100gecs blasting through the speakers and Serial Experiments Lain playing in the background.
tfw no cyber sex
tfw no cyber sex
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