Is the City of BLAME!--the vast architectural mess the size of the solar system--the urban blight that stretches to the Oort Cloud, mostly devoid of humans, the end point of the Anthropocene, the final extinction event of our geological era that creates a new geologic age fit to totally obliterate all the others? Maybe. There's issues with that term though and with the broader using of geology to narrate history, as Daniel Hartley points out in Salvage Magazine. Drawing on the work of Jason Moore, he suggests that really we occupy the "Capitalocene"--that the current extinction event we face is driven by a particular, historical attitude towards extracted resources, itself driven by a vision of an endlessly growing economy.

Nick Land's opus magnum on bitcoin

After writing one of the most relevant books in the 21st century, Capitalist Realism, Mark Fisher began to look at the immediate subjective, cultural implications. Implications around a state of melancholy, new nostalgia, cultural depression, lost futures, and a new inlook into hauntology. His second book 'Ghosts of My Life' detail these very states through the perspective of pop culture and his personal experiences.

Newcomers, please note how "Things must get bad before they get better" which can be translated as "turn right to go left", is at the top of the iceberg; meaning that's basically bullshit.

Discuss.

Making things worse in the short term in the hope of bringing about a utopian society in the long term through social tension and misery... that sounds like a pretty evil philosophy to me. Ordinary people (non-communists) don't care about some theoretical utopia, they want improvements to their quality of life now.

Am I missing something?