Peter Khan

Yes totally

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

Cybernetics is german Idealism plus electrification of the whole country.

[IPA @IPAonline]

On the birthday of Jacques Lacan (Paris, April 13, 1901 .

Even if the sum total of analytic experience allows us to isolate some general forms, an analysis proceeds only from the particular to the particular.– Écrits, 386

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@jaketapper Civilization really is "dual use" if you think about it, isn’t it?

[verzettler @theoriebarbaren]

Kluge, Alexander / Luhmann, Niklas (2004): Vorsicht vor zu raschem Verstehen. Niklas Luhmann im Fernsehgespräch mit Alexander Kluge

https://t.co/r4ywYffweY

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@AshleyAFrawley The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to pay off politicians, share state secrets and trade stocks and securities based on nonpublic information.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@varnvlog Throughout time, between a wolf and a shepherd, who do you think has killed more sheep?

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@ccutrone1970 @TuttReal I’m seeing a lot of moral hysteria and conspiracy paranoia on the timeline. It’s awful. It’s evil and it’s corrupting everything! And I wonder if it’s not exactly organic, if you know what I mean…

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@TheSwoletariat_ @bowbowbao @DougLain @kvshlvk Not at all, no.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@bowbowbao @DougLain @kvshlvk @TheSwoletariat_ Horkheimer’s “rackets” imply a regression towards pre bourgeois forms of domination. Habermas’ “colonization of the life world” does too, and implies some sort of neo serfdom, where consumption and reproduction are spheres of direct domination.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@bowbowbao @DougLain @kvshlvk @TheSwoletariat_ Well, Adorno’s “administrated world” can be understood as an “elimination of the market”. He also says, that people are becoming increasingly superfluous, which points towards an “elimination of variable costs”.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@DougLain @kvshlvk @TheSwoletariat_ I think you’re the one, who’s dogmatically refusing the debate. For what it’s worth, the idea of something like “neofeudalism” is already present in the discourse of some of your prophets, namely Frankfurt, isn’t it?

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@CantEverDie If society presents itself as an immense accumulation of commodities, can “activism” appear as anything other than a specific mode of consumerism?

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@dialecticjawn @varnvlog Why can’t there be a chimpanzee in this discourse? Why can’t there be an dromedary in this discourse? Why can’t there be an aye-aye in this discourse?

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@BMStudebaker Which means that we’re living in a time of loss of differentiation, loss of complexity, loss of professionalism - and seemingly have for some time.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@BMStudebaker It must feel good to smugly shrug off the whole situation as some kind of moral hysteria. But it would be wrong. The whole affair confirms the “racket” theory of power, which means that modernization has reached a limit, and parallel structures have formed.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@jailespleen oder so zu denken und zu leben, dass er es jederzeit für möglich halte, dass ein Mensch, ein Subjekt von jetzt auf gleich zersplittern werde. Er habe sich für das Zweite entschieden und sei Systemtheoretiker geworden.“

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@jailespleen - und auf einmal sei der enge Freund nicht mehr an seiner Seite gewesen, sondern in tausend Teile zersplittert. Und da habe er […] sich vor der Alternative gesehen, entweder verrückt zu werden

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@Iyxon We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own content. And while you're scrolling—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new content, which you can view too, and that's how the timeline will sort out.

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@kvshlvk @bowbowbao @BMStudebaker Gamification then is the appearance freedom, and it’s only a problem if it’s used to disguise unfreedom as freedom (e.G. gamification of labor).

[Peter Khan @realPeterKhan]

@kvshlvk @bowbowbao @BMStudebaker If freedom is the capacity to submit to norms one imposes on oneself, then he’s clearly wrong, no? Because that’s play. You can’t play a game without being devoted to its rules, there can’t be a dichotomy between play and devotion.