Jeff Hunt

“Whatever late capitalism is, it seems to be careening into this embrace of growth by negation. Through that prism, it’s hard not to see the advances in something like artificial intelligence less driven by technological breakthroughs as by a society that has, over years, over decades, become normalized to a greater and greater magnitude of both loneliness and theft, such that a sputtering algorithm badly trained on the stolen work of real human beings might be celebrated with a straight face as something approximating humanness.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“If Brave New World points us towards the emerging Total System of the Machine”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“This in turn is partly due to conservatism’s other flaw: its love affair with private property and the sovereign individual. Each of these things can be a necessary bulwark against the top-down collectivism of the left”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity

“Whatever we think our politics are (and they are likely to be the least important thing about us)”
― Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity