Ion Dumitrescu

"Pre" studies. Black HyperBox contributor. Into cave metaphysics, and affect genesis . Theoretical precursors developer. Coordinator of Future Nuggets label.

[Balkan & Beyond @BalkanAndBeyond]

There is one magazine so influential that it sparked a technological revolution in the 1980s, without ever being backed by a corporate giant.
That magazine was "Galaksija"- a Yugoslav science and Sci-Fi phenomenon published throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
When imports of Western computers were impossible, Galaksija published the blueprints for a home computer (the "Galaksija") in a special DIY edition.
The result?
Thousands of people soldered their own boards. Most computers had no case, so they lived in cigar boxes, wooden crates, or custom metal frames. "Naked" computing at its finest.
Before the internet, radio shows like Belgrade's Ventilator 202 broadcast software straight over the airwaves. You simply held a cassette recorder to the speaker, recorded the static, and there was your new program.
Beyond the tech, the magazine was a visual trip. Its covers were legendary, often featuring surreal, striking sci-fi art blending space-age dreams with bold graphic design.

🫡A salute to the late visionary Zoran Modli. As a man of two skies, both as a radio host and a Boeing 737 pilot, he famously broadcast computer code over Ventilator 202, turning radio signals into a makeshift 1980s internet ❤️

#Galaksija #RetroComputing #Yugoslavia

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

The spectre of the Iron Sheik is haunting the US reality-ruse. The oriental nemesis of the Reaganite/Neocon perimeter is clashing again with Sgt. Slaughter (the ultimate patriot-marine-boogaloo), outwit by Sheik's outernational M.O. e.g. famous camel-clutch. #ormuz #IranWar‌

[sentient gloomberg...here and there🦋 @TironStefan]

@turingcop Hauntology conviently glides & skips over a lot of interesting and mutating currents & counter currents, polymorphous modular musical developments, outside of Fisher's perspective Robin James talks about. Manele, trapanele & all future nuggets of Balkans.
https://t.co/GJi7Hbgam3

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#sciencefiction #darkzomia #capitalism #elonmusk #starlink #asimov #tech #oligarchy

Fortress Futurism - the new façade of monopoly capital: Muskism (in Romanian)

my article on the margins of a talk by Slobodian & Tarnoff in Berlin published in CA (thx F Poenaru)

link below

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#putrescience #putrescience #decay #decomposition

With the help of Cristian D - managed to publish a Romanian version of #Putrescientia Manifesto, have been working on an improved EN ver (with feedback from Melt Yours Books and others). Thx Indecis also.

https://t.co/N9932hY0xx

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

Cognitive abstinence.

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content excreator

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Fungoid Rock Art. The first shaman was a mushroom. As featured in Tassili n'Ajjer Cave (Algeria, 10000-7000BCE)

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Essential article by Bezna friend @IonD.

For anyone interested in balkanibalism, orks, wedding sound systems, transnational
#music and acknowledging neo-Lăutarism from Cantemir to the future.
A #mustread.
👇🏾
https://t.co/rXyJt8mCu3

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

Ghost Dance (as meta-ritual) - from "Lame Deer - Seeker Of Visions" by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes (1972). full here: https://t.co/M4lPDcm7sU

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

@evgenymorozov I remember how Timothy Leary would publicly say that through psychedelics they are proposing another perspective than that of "whiskey drinking generals".

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#mustwatch #petrofiction #romania

Eruption (1957) directed by Romanian director Liviu Ciulei.

An exceptional sexomarxist noir melodrama movie about workers and their families dependence on a local oil well. Location: the Mud Volcanoes.

https://t.co/Ajvt1hu1OD

Many thx @IonD

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

The On-Going Performance of Metaphysics - the transcendental incorporated through routine.

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Not so much Romanian para-academics as pariah academics :) to quote my fellow crypto theorist @IonD

Here the full dialogue by Mihnea Bâlici and Mihai Țapu:

https://t.co/zaYwrNtNvy

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

Elections are now a referendum on reality itself.

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The disorder that looms in any temporary order. The distortion that threatens any clarity, the blur that lurks in any sharpness. #affect #i-#logistics #pre #perimeter #meaning

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

Bezna letter. Early nineties guitar-based dark oriental from RO. Involuntary nostalgia alienation. Untraceable aesthetics as residues of a never-ending transition. Video-sonic tremors in the night of the unknown. #pre #Balkan #ballad #buried https://t.co/LRK0p0yYSB

[Ansgar Allen @AnsgarAllen]

Wondering where you'll get your next dose of anal surrealism? Well... MASTODON is available to pre-order https://t.co/S1dfLWFYDT @AnalSurrealism

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

The golden age of empty promises.

[Ion Dumitrescu @IonD]

The Roman empire was an erectocracy. Discriminating not between men and women or homosexuals and heterosexuals, but between passives and actives. No passive (bottom) and implicitly no women, could become a senator or hold any position in the state admin.