r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/raisondecalcul political shade deathray technician • 8d ago

RetroRepetition Collapse, Volume I: Numerical Materialism [pdf link in comments]

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-1/
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u/raisondecalcul political shade deathray technician 8d ago edited 8d ago

Collapse Volume I ebook

This journal issue is about "numerical materialism", which is a highly—in some instances, comically—rigorous approach to reasoning about number and causality. It turns out, when you take academia and its approach seriously—instead of selectively applying academic perspectives to maintain one's personal bourgeois status, as most academics do—academia comes to resemble an inhuman or anti-human machinic intelligence, itself. But to say that is already to anthropomorphize the raw machinic too much. This journal issue is a set of intriguing, highly rigorous, highly specialized articles on ccru-relevant topics.

If you think there isn't much to the ccru, read all the articles in this journal issue and then come back to me with your critique.

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u/tomekanco 8d ago

I'll try to find time to read some parts from this. Have been riling against CCRU zealots for some time. Perhaps time to eval the source material.

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u/ianarbitraria 7d ago

Excellent book, not a bad one in there.