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

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The Theory of Materialism

Theory of materialism that Mark Fisher is putting forward here is going to be the central one of the CCIU, which is cybernetic realism. It is all flows of data and communication. And the question is, now we have technologies that embody this and show it to us in a brute fact. The screen is thought, Mark Fisher also calls the Gothic flat line. A plane where it is no longer possible to differentiate the animates from the inanimate,. Where to have agency is not necessarily to be alive.

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