"The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity..."
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What Is the Real Driver of Modernity?
Nickland is calling in this essay renaissance, rationalization and oceanic navigation. That's actually a valid and helpfully parsimonious summary of what actually really happened. Social scientists would call an idea like that a theoretical constractLike that, a stylized fact. So that's how you should understand nick lands jargon,. These concepts he's introducing. He is actually describing stylised facts, and then we can go look into the record and see well they match the reality of the factual history.
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