Contents of this week’s readings were unique in many ways compared to concepts we have engaged so far, and required quite a shift into political discourse I’m not instantly familiar with. But I liked how they connected to some earlier readings as well, such as Nooney’s Prehistories of the Personal. Before, we studied the parallelism of collaborative development and technological advancements and now the discussion shifts into consequences of neglecting that parallelism, such as technological utopianism. One of my struggles was in analyzing the seasteading philosophy. The language of the seasteading community is loaded with buzzwords pretending to be sound arguments, buzzwords whose deeper meaning is rarely employed or visible in the discourse itself, which made it hard to really grasp the concept and therefore critique it using insights from the readings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coincidentally, the current state of the US is starting to reflect the very concepts we are studying. The capitalistic dreaming that birthed technological utopianism and the illusions of safety and structural integrity of the US, now goes into overdrive with political reforms that simultaneously dismantle the very structures that were sustaining it. I feel this is a good example of said reformers’ “paralyzed understanding of the present” as we discussed in class. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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