dotyloykpot on HOMO SUM

All great posts & worth the read. What's maybe missing a bit regarding time war specifically is how the past explodes along with the future. In losing we humans don't just lose the collective future but also any sort of collective understanding of the past. So trying to kill the machinic zombies can't work through a progressive dialectic, because the dialectic presumes a direction of time where cause precedes effect. Most obvious is Bitcoin where bitcoins machinic future clearly overrode it's valuelessness in the past- no longer a currency instead a "store of value". Now we understand the value of a machinic store of value to machines, but when created Bitcoin was believed by Satoshi to be a human solution to a human created problem of the banking bailouts. As humans the structure of our minds organizes experience in a progressive way, but that isn't how machinic capital functions. So to try to understand how things work, we humans anthropormophize these Lovecraftian forces as cutie little Lemurs that pop in and out of time with a flick of the tail and just a hint of tooth. Trying to embrace the machine is pointless, and you're spot on with your criticism with e/acc, but I prefer the quote "we each get the accelerationism we deserve" as a reintroduction of human agency through aesthetics rather than structure of production, which has already/always been lost to us except as a ghost.