LEAFBOX on Do Not Research

And yet Nick Land chooses to live in Shanghai… while wealthy Shanghainese send their kids to schools in No Place™ Irvine. Costa Mesa and Santa Ana accelerating around the techno-circle of planned UCI synthetic futures looping into one another. That circle ring like Brasilia and other planned communities always troubled me… If China is the future, why is the elite’s exit node still California? What does it mean when the theorists of acceleration flee to the very engine room the rich are trying to abandon? Is “the future” just a recursive marketing slogan, swapping cosmopolitan Super flat emptiness between sips of boba in Shanghai and Irvine, but always bypassing the human?