Information technologies grew up alongside nuclear technologies in the wake of the Second World War. The most obvious example of their pervasive importance is of course the World Wide Web (WWW). The WWW is the digital medium that everyone uses… Read More ›
Ernst Jünger
An Update and Preview of “What is the ‘Splinternet?'”
To begin, I must state that as of this writing, I will be updating my PC to Windows 10 sometime this week. I don’t expect the changeover to cause any serious delays since I have a backup laptop that I… Read More ›
Compendium: Project Cybersyn and Ernst Jünger’s ‘Phonophores’ and ‘Luminar’
It is generally agreed that the Internet and smartphones are ubiquitous aspects of everyday life in the early 21st century. Everyone uses the Internet to connect with others and everyone else browses on their smartphone when the opportunity arises. It… Read More ›
Compendium: A Critique of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies
The Work-Standard was never designed to be operating according to the paradigms of Labour Vouchers and Time-Based Currencies. Both pseudo-currencies were developed as products of Utopian Socialist endeavors by people like Robert Owen and Josiah Warren at the height of… Read More ›
Compendium: Currency Depreciation/Appreciation (Pt. II of II)
The following is related to the Work-Standard’s conception of Currency Depreciation/Appreciation under Socialist Monetary Policy (SMP). This entry assumes that the reader has in fact understood the conventional Liberal Capitalist version of Currency/Appreciation relative to Inflation/Deflation. Everything here will hereby… Read More ›
Compendium: A Reading of Ernst Jünger’s Total Mobilization
It is understandable for the term ‘Total Mobilization’ to convey imagery of military preparations for an impending war. It is also inevitable for the term itself to conjure the notion of sustaining a war effort against a common enemy. This… Read More ›
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