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Ray Brassier - Brassier Unbound

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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A Dorno to O, Thoug He's Less Confidence.

If you dissolved the conditions that make a compulsive self preservation necessary, then the ego as we know it would be redundant. That's an interesting kind of implication. Oftis misview. When i was reading your paper on marcusa andadorno and this antenomy of progress, it made me think of one of my favorite novels, which is brave new world. And how huxley kind of imagines this fantastical future society where some of the conditions are also redundant. Instead of merging with the cosmos through the means of the magic drug soma, there are these ina ritual communions with with other bodies. You know, it's, everyone belongs to everyone else

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