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It's... interesting lol. You can tell he had a kind of amphetamine-based Nietzschian breakdown in parts of it, but it's also scarily convincing at points. It's, at the very least, not boring philosophy. It's considered a major contribution to leftist thought by many, but it also planted the seeds of right wing accelerationism unintentionally. Like Nietzsche himself, I think which "wing" this work falls under depends on how you want to read it.

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the attempt to read Deleuze (and Guattari) without the vitalism of Bergson and instead with this Nietzschean anti-vitalism (of the will) is a fascinating failure. the well-rehearsed productions with cyberpunk and neo-Lovecraftian toy kits are nothing more than disorientation before the exit sign in postmodernity's hall of mirrors, self-satisfaction oozing out between the panes. as much an experiment in non-standard thought as a child courting a throw-up is a dervish.

in comparing the writing here on women and on artificial intelligence what becomes evident is that as woman is the ego-double of man in patriarchy's sex-gender narcissism so too is AI the ego-double of capitalism’s narcissist-subject. this is not to say you can find embryonic neoreaction in diapause awaiting implantation stimuli but just as satanism is continuous with Xianity, and repression is part of a mixed disciplinary system with authorised releases and modes thereof: the photograph and the photonegative are both slaved to photography. I think if you’re going to be post-Kantian it might behoove you to do something about the idealism other than play marquis de sade.