My new piece for The Guardian
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My new piece for The Guardian
The real goal of 'Make America Healthy Again'? Woo-woo treatments for the rich, shrinking healthcare for the poor | Alexander Avila
lol i need to stop having arguments with people on here
...it's about repurposing & socializing productive and technological infrastructure. Here's a good reference:
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I don't advocate for "accelerating capitalism" and criticize this notion in the video when talking about Land. I think that there are certain institutions and logics that have developed under capitalism that can be reoriented away from profit. It's not about "doing more capitalism"...
I think you have a misconception about left accelerationism and its history. And I’ve consistently criticized Big Tech, its fascist connections, and support legislation to decentralize and regulate it.
The recent video I did has several engagements with left accelerationism and explains why I find value in the term. I'm not going to waste time rehasing that over Bluesky with a random person.
I’m a left accelerationist in the same way Mark Fisher, Alex Williams, and Nick Srineck are left accelerationists.
hersephoria.com/files/books/...
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Accelerationism can be left or right wing, and its left wing variants predate Sillicon Valley’s fascist reappropriation of it by several decades. It was arguably originally a left wing philosophy if you trace its heritage back to deleuzoguatarrianism.
hersephoria.com/files/books/...
I criticized Nick Land and techno fascism extensively in my recent video. This town hall is mostly focused on the left wing accelerationism of Mark Fisher, who was inspired by Land’s early leftist work before his right wing turn.
Town Halls are one of the ways I fund my channel so my main content can remain free :)
During this Town Hall, we'll discuss why the left has turned against technology, the dangers of uncritically reifying the past, nostalgia as a symptom of social failure, what role accelerationism plays in left wing philosophy, and what a genuinely radical technological/social future could look like.
People think that accelerationism is about letting everything get really bad until things get so bad that suddenly the Revolution™ happens. That's not what it is. It is a philosophy about reclaiming technological and social development and repurposing it toward radical ends.
ACCELERATIONISM
A DIGITAL LECTURE AND DISCUSSION
SUNDAY, JULY 27TH AT 4PM EST
patreon.com/aretheygay
You might’ve heard about right wing tech figures like Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin. Or maybe Trump’s destruction of democracy & Project 2025. Maybe radical philosophies like accelarationism. But how does it all come together? What are the links? This video covers it all.
youtu.be/olhu9UhFGl4?...
How Tech Bros Hijacked the Government
A feature length treatise on techno fascism and the future.
For my favorite platform, BlueSky :)
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Thanks for making me aware of his shitty views! Foucault had shitty views, Marx had shitty views. I cite them, too. I’ll stay clear of Alexander, but I don’t think that takes away from the point made in that section and I still don’t support fascism or Nazism.
Okay? Out of 300 citations in this entire project I may inadvertently cite research with authors I otherwise denounce because I cannot vet every single thing every author has ever said. There is another peer-reviewed source in that same section that supports the claim in that footnote. [108-2]
For the record, I someone should **** ***
So do people still think I’m a fan of Curtis Yarvin? Because that was pretty funny.
to making a video in which one of the main points is that the anti-AI backlash has been co-opted by right-wing lobbying groups.
You characterized the initial retweet as me believe that people dislike my video because I criticized tech bros:
"do you REALLY believe people are criticizing you for standing up AGAINST tech bros?"
No, I don't. The tweet I retweeted is a humorous take on the reaction I got in response
As I say in part 1 of the video, you don’t have to be a copyright abolitionist to agree with these criticisms of the current legal strategy.
(I talk about this in the video). I think a better way to address displacement is through unions: collective bargaining and labor organizing can more directly address this problem. I have pointed to the WGA-West’s 2023 contract proposal as a model strategy.
only ensure that Big Media gets a slice of the revenue of the new technology. They will not redistribute this to artists. In fact, the lawsuit's and legislation's implication for the definition of Fair Use or derivative work could inadvertently affect independent artists in negative ways
independent artists. The current effort to expand copyright via lawsuits and legislation will not solve the problem of displacement. What is currently being sought in courts is to establish a licensing regime that will not stop generative AI use,
of this problem. It’s a really horrible situation, and I sympathize with the artists who have lost work. But my argument, that I will make more explicit in part 2, is that copyright is absolutely NOT the only tool available, and the current approach has the risk of exacerbating the harms to
