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Materialist Semiotics and the Nature of Qualia
I recently read the essay by China Miéville “Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism” which is all about criticizing Marxism and…
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Contra Capital as Abstract Domination
A review of “Mute Compulsion”
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A Soul of a New Type
My essay collection is out
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Why the Universe is Not Math
A response to Alexander Prähauser
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The Platypus Ideology
The Critique of Chris Cutrone
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Nicolas D Villarreal
AT Protocol, AT Fields, and the Liberation of the Social Graph
As ubiquitous as it is now, the social graph, or alternatively, social network or sociogram, which defines our connections and who we relate to in…
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On Immortality and Prophecy
Continuing Discussion on AI
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Against Butlerian Jihad
A Response to Simon McNeil
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To Hell with the American Gentry!
Check out my latest essay in Cosmonaut Magazine:
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A Defense of Cybernetic Planning and Social Reproduction Theory from the Reactionary Tendencies of Paul Cockshott
Science is a process which is decentering of the subject, moving beyond it in order to come to terms with objects as they relate to each other.
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Nicolas D Villarreal
UFOs, the X-Files and Bureaucrat Epistemology
With all the recent disclosures from the military about UFOs, it’s only appropriate that I’ve started to binge watch the X-Files on Hulu.
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Nicolas D Villarreal
Badiou and Exiting Plato's Cave
A critique of Plato's Allegory
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