this does alot towards explicating the network of aporias inherent in the event. so much of the so-called 'political writing' i've seen shys away from the malthusian tradition, put simplistically: a 'republican consumer'and a 'democratic consumer' are both consumers, and the evironmental affect of the human population's multiplicity is every single moment increasing the determination away from multiplicity within the global specie set. Some of the figures you cast point to a kind of computationalism as metaphysics which i appreciate.
with burroughs we identified the viral aspect of language but it is through the prosthetic instrumentality of capital/techne' that the virus of language is able to grow the nodes of teleological desiring machines ie workers. the question you really seem to be asking in my mind is: Can there be 'immanence' within the manifold of humanity, or is humanity's line of flight the destruction of the earth's 'immanence'.. are we "here to go" as Burroughs said, and if so, is the earth just some kind of yolk of raw-material we suck dry before being forced to plunder other worlds just to sustain our omnivorous organizing principles. If this were indeed the plan, we might take the time to try to learn as much as we can from the models already in place here. We destroy more knowledge every day in the rainforest than we generate every year or decade perhaps. some figure would be appropriate. all the themes of the earth's natural immanence are well coded into buddhism, native american religions, the biological and ecological sciences, and yet these memes are nothing compared with the chaotic spell of capital. There are some hints that capital might be used to heal the world, but these tiny efforts at enlightened entrepeneurialism are few and far between instead of the norm. I feel it will be the combination of liberated capital and population which will finally do the earth in. It is becoming more evident every day that we are in the end-times. It may take another thousand years, but the inertia is visible everywhere you look. hopefully though techne has its own immanence which may force new alignments, there seems to be some light with things like open-source and creative commons etc some groups which are bringing models of sustainability. I have grave doubts about these projects though mainly because of the exceptionally far-reaching nature of human ignorance. lq > The Certain Truths > > > _From the viewpoint of the human_: nature is a slaughterhouse. > A certain truth: There is no salvation. > Death is the only arbiter. > Annihilation and meaning are identical. > > From one viewpoint, many. From many viewpoints, one. > Good and evil dissolve. > The stases of objects inhabit the wheels of decay and corrosion. > The coming-together is the pulling-asunder. > Chaos rules, dissolves into noise, noise rules. > The number and quality of truth always loses focus. > My culture is your death. My death is your culture. > Nothing survives violence. > Every creature suffers blindly in the guise of its body. > Pain is of no consequence outside the flesh. > The annihilation of the human race would only prolong the catastrophe. > We live only to destroy in the masquerade of decency. > Other truths evaporate in the face of death. > We live so that we might not die. > We live so that we might die. > I say to you: Your death is my salvation. > Every death is a meal. > Among the humans, the pinnacle of deceit. > Exaltation is a painless death. > There's no end to the end of it. >
