anthony galluzzo

#decelerate. Zed bringing the gift of death to The Vortex since 1974. KILL ALL CYBORGS. Romanticism as a political program or degrowth eco-communism now.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

Just saw the new Boorman Zardoz novel reissue that I helped to make happen in a bookstore, with my Boorman interview. @RepeaterBooks @Zer0Books o

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

True. I was, uh, there.

[Emilie Friedlander @AdHocEmilie]

imo hipster culture was a thing invented by Gen Xers, not millennials—specifically disaffected young ppl in the late 90s/early 2000s who defined themselves based on liking film or music that was either too obscure or too "difficult"/weird for mass or even middlebrow consumption.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@yashalevine @EvgeniaKovda At KGB?

[Christopher Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

"But we are fated
To find no foothold, no rest,
And suffering mortals
Dwindle and fall
Headlong from one
Hour to the next,
Hurled like water
From ledge to ledge
Downward for years to the vague abyss."

Hyperion's Song of Fate,

--Friedrich Hölderlin.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

The terms of this debate were arguably sketched by Illich, Ellul, and Anders decades ago.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

My concern is that a secular culture that lacks a deep anchor that is as morally ambitious and metaphysically robust as religious humanism or Silicon Valley transhumanism—one that offers a positive vision of the nature and purpose of our species—is inadequate to the AI crisis.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@TuttReal Herr Naphta

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@TuttReal Yes. And also the Work on Myth. I prefer the later work—a kind of romantic turn?—to Legitimacy of the Modern Age.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

Indeed.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

@pschofie79 The thing few of the left-leaning critics of the neoliberal academy seem to want to say (because it’s mean) is that if there’s any hope of fixing academia, huge segments of admin staff must be fired and entire offices and micro-bureaucratic fiefdoms fed into the wood chipper.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

Or that the ressentiment-stuffed dumb hurl at the intelligent and imaginative.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

"pretentious" is the word the unambitious wield at the ambitious.

[Andrei @TheUntranslated]

Wishing a very happy 89th birthday to the great Thomas Pynchon! His books changed my life.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@aufgehenderRest @KarlChristianF8 Panentheism is my proclivity. You shd write on this!

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@samanthawillman A defining feature of my life is that I do think that everyone is out to get me.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

Everyone who can see this should see this.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

"What unites these disparate cultures, policy environments and demographics [in their tendency to low birthrates], researchers are now realizing, is young people’s inescapable and crushing sense that the future is too uncertain for the lifelong commitment of parenthood."

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

I do have to say that the book was initially much longer and was edited down by @Zer0Books whose utopias series was intended to brief. Brevity is a good thing these days I suppose.

[Julian Willming @JulianWillming]

My review of @communecore ´s book "Against the Vortex: Zardoz and the Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies" is online with Resistance- A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities is online now:

https://t.co/1Yaf3ytRnZ

[Julian Willming @JulianWillming]

My review of @communecore ´s book "Against the Vortex: Zardoz and the Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies" is online with Resistance- A Journal of Radical Environmental Humanities is online now:

https://t.co/1Yaf3ytRnZ

[~ Cordelia @samanthawillman]

@communecore gave a really interesting presentation—on the Lyrical Ballads last night and the political context surround Wordsworth and Coleridge at the time—during @r0manticon’s Romantic Poet’s Seminar last night.

It made me realize that these poets were at the forefront of what was to come for society at large. Both of them studied at Cambridge and then tried to retreat back into the countryside.

But after sitting with the class and their words for a bit I realized by retreating back to rural society they were trying to retreat back in time also—to back away from the future.

I think this is a really strong analogy for what you see happening with the so called very-online right now. Ya normies are very online, but in a less participatory way. I think those we call the “very online” are people whose lives have been diverted or redirected by their life online and the experience is one of having many selves or a chaos of life narrative. The chaos and overwhelm of connection and unfamiliarity is jarring, disorienting, it’s hard to keep the plot, it becomes hard to believe in the self—the analogy is “schizophrenia”.

Normies aren’t schizo’s yet. But I think the very online lit scene (lol) are like Wordsworth and Coleridge: Overly sensitive and uncomfortably thrust into a future that awaits us all; the canaries in the coal mine.

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

At which point it will be five (ten…) years too late. They will wake up screaming as the water reaches their mouths.

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

The return of climate politics in, like, 5 years is gonna be the mother of all returns of the repressed. People now asleep will wake up screaming

[Benjamin Kunkel @kunktation]

Link to the whole amazing thing (4 pages) below

[anthony galluzzo @communecore]

@aufgehenderRest Schelling+Marx (+Novalis): the way!