alexander0's review
4.0
In a strange sort of way, this is a very lucid reading. That said, it is ROUGH. This is a book out of the mind of an anarchistic, hacker-space/-sphere which collages together a set of minor philosophies and anthropologies in order to bring us a loosely organized religious text. There's some real irony here in realizing that to a degree, memetics has become a religion unto itself considering Dawkins' meme is often utilized to explain the "meme" of religion.
That said, much of the stuff here could be done "better" in the sense that it could hold to a more clear metaphysical framework. It bounces too much between new materialism and post-modernism. It really should have settled for Affect theory more properly instead. Of course, that might have been out of reach in the space/time this was written, but not by much.
At its core, this is a book that attempts to explain a (r)evolutionary way of living which does not involve exact institutional arrangements such as a Marxist or post-Marxist might argue. Instead of arguing for the "organization"/"organizing" of people, it argues for the post- (or maybe even anti-) human "organism" of "cybernetic" memetic mind/bodies.
To a degree, this is an activist manual for Spinozists. That I like about this book's "magic".
That said, much of the stuff here could be done "better" in the sense that it could hold to a more clear metaphysical framework. It bounces too much between new materialism and post-modernism. It really should have settled for Affect theory more properly instead. Of course, that might have been out of reach in the space/time this was written, but not by much.
At its core, this is a book that attempts to explain a (r)evolutionary way of living which does not involve exact institutional arrangements such as a Marxist or post-Marxist might argue. Instead of arguing for the "organization"/"organizing" of people, it argues for the post- (or maybe even anti-) human "organism" of "cybernetic" memetic mind/bodies.
To a degree, this is an activist manual for Spinozists. That I like about this book's "magic".
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