Brooks is incredible on this subject. He's great on a lot of things really. I've gained a lot watching his videos on Deleuze and Nietzsche and Marx

I realize that 'solar anus' is probably not especially helpful for anyone not familiar with Deleuze, but God damn if it's not a perfect analogy.

youtu.be/2lwr2fg2Ops?...

Don't buy it on Amazon. They are selling a low quality knockoff for the same price as what you pay for a higher quality copy ALONG WITH the PDF (DRM free) on the Elsevier store site.

This crisis has produced the clearest possible fault lines: students and faculty (the authentic university) on one side, administration and finance capital (with an assist from the security state) on the other.

I had kind of thought that `goth' as an actual subculture had been overtaken by the `goth' as an aesthetic for social media and memes about goth girlfriends. Glad to see there's people still carying the flag ^o^

Always been much more of an industrial guy, but I LOOOOOOOOOOVE Roz Williams, especially his early Christian Death stuff.

Not to mention Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Early Attrition ("Attrition of Reason"---kind of a mix of goth and electro, very cool).

CONCLUSION:
AI-as-engineering has been trespassing into cogsci, confusing us with decoys. The time is apt to reclaim the early conception of AI-as-theoretical-psychology. This means using AI as a theoretical tool; but we want to not fall in the trap of makeism again. 17/n

This is the octopus designed by Apple in the late 90s