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Move over TESCREAL, R9PRESENTATIONALism is here. (archive.is)
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As found by @gerikson here, more from the anti anti TESCREAL crowd. How the antis are actually R9PRESENTATIONALism. Ottokar expanded on their idea in a blog post.

Original link.

I have not read the bigger blog post yet btw, just assumed it would be sneerable and posted it here for everyone's amusement. Learn about your own true motives today. (This could be a troll of course, boy does he drop a lot of names and thinks that is enough to link things).

E: alternative title: Ideological Turing Test, a critical failure

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[-] zogwarg@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago

the oldest elements of TESCREAL appear to date back to cyberpunk science fiction in the 1980s

Nitpick: Cosmism was birthed in 19th century Russia, complete with "Death is the enemy" "Let's ressurect everyone" (using science) "Let's conquer the universe" and proto-eugnenics of the "common project of humanity as transforming all into great men".

[-] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 8 points 5 days ago

I think Russian cosmism is part of the deep history there, but the modern incarnation is still pretty heavily integrated with the 1990-2009 era through guys like this. I'm not an expert in the history or philosophy here, but I think there's definitely room to treat it as a separate modern revival that fits in the same kind of mold.

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