Probably best read perpendicularly to this one www.minasmongrel.xyz/blog/dune--s...

credits for graphics @lithauch.bsky.social

It's all quite sketchy but I wanted to connect a few dots and point to something I feel important - how to think political asymmetry

& the Bôa Duvet edit at the end is mindmelting

Thivai in Kathy Acker's 'Empire of the Senseless'

Galloway on digitality (in discussion with Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan):
www.e-flux.com/journal/121/...

why palimpsest?

What I was also wandering reading yr piece is how the theory of idea as sign that you adopt is to the theory of idea developed by Deleuze in 60s. I can't answer that from top of my head, probably will have a look in the next days.

Oh that one. Well, you rewire your brain by engaging with philosophy and science - the methods of developing ideas - not by dismissing them as bourgeois fancy. Otherwise, it's all just running in circles of reflexivity.

What were the controversies?

quotes: Louis Althusser, Philosophy as a Revolutionary Weapon

The philosophy of fourth continent is clearly psychoanalysis, but the fifth I'm unsure because we're still inside as it unfold (it stretches from cybernetics and functionalism, through information, noise and complexity theory, to accelerationism and neorats to name just a few)