*Never thought I'd say that one. There must be something goin' on, if me and ol' Slavoj are seeing eye to eye.
https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/88/birth-of-altermodern.html
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"And now, entering a new era of humanity where postmodernity is slipping into altermodernity, we find that the binaries we rejected are not only blurring but finally collapsing. Unable to say with any certainty what is real or virtual, human or animal, organic or genetically modified, some wish to resuscitate again, but this time with nostalgia, the failed antimodern project of shattering distinctions. While the chorus – composed now of cyberpunks and activists joined by capitalists and technocrats – rejoices in the indistinguishable difference between online and offline, organic and synthetic, man and machine, the most crucial distinction of all – that between resistance and complicity – is collapsing as well. Unless we can discover a way to critique the system without furthering the system, we shall be lost."
*Dude: "get lost." Really. Get over yourself. You are not critiquing a system. You are navel-gazing.
*The planet's in a massive financial collapse and a spiralling environmental disaster. That is what's left of "the system." You're curled up in your pyjamas from your fear of triumphant "cyberpunk capitalist technocrats"?
*How the heck did you ever manage to argue yourself into such a cramped and ludicrous position? Get over it. Just drop the dusty chalk, back away from the Swarthmore College chalkboard circa 1990, and try and wake up a little. This is 2010, dude. We're not altermodern by accident. We didn't "slip" there, we got hammered there. You're like some kinda febrile Arts and Crafts guy clutching a William Morris tapestry. Gee whiz.
*Naomi Klein is a grown-up girl. She's not gonna cry in her Canadian beer that her beloved WTO isn't around to kick any more. Naomi Klein actually *reads cyberpunk novels* and can do that without, like, this pitiful moral panic.
*What fossil are you clinging to that is so precious to you? What benefit does this confer to anyone? Are you gonna melt down in a puddle of margarine because you realize that philosophies change with the times? You've become a reactionary.
