In 2023, Yoshua Bengio, one of the men who helped create modern artificial intelligence, stood on a stage and issued a warning. The machines, he said, were beginning to lie. They were planning. They were showing signs of self-preservation. And this—he insisted—was terrifying. But perhaps he was looking in the wrong direction. In the 1950s, […]
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Imperceptibility is where true power lies—not in domination or visibility, but in the quiet, invisible forces that shape the world without being captured. Deleuze and Guattari describe this as escaping the stratifications of identity and control, blending into the flows of life, and becoming part of something larger, something ungraspable. Ideas work the same way. […]
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The story of modern capitalism is one of contradictions, hidden in plain sight. On the surface, it appears as a grand system of progress, constantly driving humanity forward through innovation, production, and profit. But beneath this façade, it is haunted by a profound reliance on two forces: the movement of people and the birth of […]
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I used to work with somebody who paid te monthly subscription to Andrew Tate’s Hustler University. They paid about £60 a month if I recall correctly. I asked him what exactly he learned from Andrew. Society is rigged in favour of rich people Buy shitcoins that are worthless in the hope they will reach $1 […]
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In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari introduce the concept of double articulation: the process through which matter is organized (content) and then given a recognizable structure (expression). This dual-layered process, they argue, forms the basis of stratification—how reality, whether physical, social, or linguistic, is divided into layers that seem natural but are, in fact, […]
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In the early centuries of the Common Era, a profound synthesis of ideas emerged. Gnosticism—a movement both spiritual and philosophical—absorbed influences from the East, the Jewish mystical tradition of the Qabala, and the structured metaphysical system of Platonism. It was a collision of worlds, ideas woven together in an attempt to explain the duality of […]
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The remainder, in Baudrillard’s sense, becomes the hidden and inescapable flaw in the vision of control espoused by the Silicon Valley elite and embodied in the rise of Trump. It is the excess, the chaos, the fragments of humanity that refuse to be assimilated into the perfect systems of optimisation and simulation. For Curtis Yarvin […]
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In the early hours of a cold November morning, somewhere in the archives of an old library, a scholar flips through a brittle, yellowed manuscript. The pages whisper secrets of long-dead gods, their names half-forgotten but their essence still lingering in the air. The scholar pauses, eyes tracing the lines of an ancient invocation to […]
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Imagine a world where reality is no longer real—where the horrors of the past are not just exposed but repackaged, twisted, and fed back to us as evidence of something even bigger, something darker. Jimmy Savile was not just a paedophile. He was a grotesque symbol of institutional failure—a man who operated in plain sight, […]
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In the 21st century, war no longer announces itself with explosions. There are no parades of tanks, no iconic mushroom clouds. Instead, it slips silently into your feed, disguised as a meme, a video, a funny headline. A war of perception. A war of meaning. And most of all—a war of belief. You wake up, […]