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Mark Fisher's 'Flatline Constructs': Reading Group Wrap Up #1 (Zer0/Repeater)

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The Fisher's View of the Cybernetic

Mark Fisher's understanding of the cybernetic is found as far back as Machiavelli. The revolutionary dwells in the gap between the crisis and its management, right? My other fear here is that this discussion about the liveliness of machines transposes a kind of old school natural philosophy vitality onto a foreclosed political existence. I think this is the same kind of technopositivism that Craig, you were critical of in Marcuse when we spoke with Ray Braussier.

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