Chim

Jul 6

Learning via Semantic Tree

For a while I’ve thought the linear form of information ingestion we experience today and have experienced for a long time (from the papyrus scroll to the webpage) is somewhat outdated. Information in the form of chunks of text stacked on top of each other may be easily human-readable, but this form does not contain the relations among the information besides the order in which they appear. Thus information as it is presented in any given article or book is preserved simply as an array of par...

Chim

Feb 12

Is Post-Modernism e/acc?

This is part of a new series in which I am attempting to provide the e/acc movement with a more philosophical and historical foundation.Short answer: no (in fact they’re antithetical), but without post-modernism there would be no e/acc.So I was watching this debate between a bunch of cigarettes smoking philosophers from 1981 when post Post Modernism was just starting to turn from a real niche group into something a bit more mainstream. Back when postmodernism was cool. This one professor, Gay...

Chim

Oct 25

#11 - Work Part I: Alienation and its Remedy

Examining Marx: Disproving the Causation Between Wage Labor and Alienation Using Existential Conflict as a Remedy for Social Contagion In this paper, I will critically assess Marx's argument that wage labor inevitably results in the alienation of the worker from their species being. I will begin by outlining Marx's depiction of the alienation process and its spread throughout society. Subsequently, I will challenge the premise that wage labor is the primary factor driving this alien...