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Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital with Nick Land

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The Block Chain Is Based on Distributed Consensus

Minkowski space time is where you get the most clear mathematical formulation of this new and what had been taken to be so modern take on this. The background to it is very tied up with the eclipse of cantianism in the late nineteenth centuryand early twentieth century. It's, it's simply impossible to say o, meaningless to say even which of which of two events come first. You know, the notion of simultaneity is lost. A time order is lost. So absolute newtonian time is lost. Newtonian space as well as lost. But the block chain simply cannot function. If in so far as the block chain functions at all, it's because that kind of

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