Just a quick note: the SMP Compendium entry “World State Organization” is what I will be working on for this week as part of the Compendium. Unfortunately, unlike the the previous entries from the past few weeks, this one is… Read More ›
Splinternet
Compendium: Technology and the War Effort (Pt. I of III)
An Arms Race of Military-Industrial Complexes War is politics. The Military-Industrial Complex is one of the products of all forms of Total Mobilization. How the Military-Industrial Complex conducts itself, especially whether the Totality of any nation has any influence on… Read More ›
Ernst Jünger’s Der Arbeiter (Pt. VI of VII)
Just as Technology is an art requiring creativity and ingenuity, so it too does it pave the way for political-economic change. The conditions of Total Mobilization compel the need to alter the conception of the nation-state as a Western polity…. Read More ›
Compendium: Why the “Splinternet” is an Alternative to the World Wide Web (WWW)
The rise of the Internet in the 1990s posed serious questions besides the sovereignty of the nation-state in the 21st century. It has introduced the role of Information as a fifth vector in the dynamics of Liberal Capitalist-style Free Trade,… Read More ›
Compendium: The Internet, the Y2K Bug, and the Work-Standard’s Mechanization Rate
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 ›
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