Influences

Final prophet, Quran, Islamic civilization foundation

Seek knowledge even if it be in China.

Deconstruction, différance, trace, logocentrism critique

The trace is not a presence but the simulacrum of a presence.

Rhizome theory, multiplicities, immanence, Anti-Oedipus

The rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle.

Power/knowledge, governmentality, biopolitics

Power is not held but exercised through networks.

Historical materialism, critique of capitalism, class struggle

The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.

Cultural hegemony, organic intellectuals, war of position

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.

Ideology critique, parallax view, event philosophy

The true ethical act is to do the impossible.

Unconscious, drives, interpretation of dreams

The ego is not master in its own house.

Mirror stage, Real/Symbolic/Imaginary, desire of the Other

The unconscious is structured like a language.

Will to power, eternal return, perspectivism

Beyond good and evil lies the transvaluation of all values.

Being and Time, Dasein, technology critique

Technology as enframing challenges Being.

Dialectics, Absolute Spirit, master-slave dialectic

The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of dusk.

Ideological State Apparatuses, interpellation, overdetermination

Ideology represents the imaginary relationship to real conditions.

Substance monism, Ethics, conatus, God as Nature

Deus sive Natura — God, or Nature. All is one substance.

Simulacra and simulation, hyperreality

We live in the age of simulation where the map precedes the territory.

Schizoanalysis, desiring-machines, ecosophy

DAOs are desiring-machines: assemblages without a central subject.

Society of the Spectacle, détournement, psychogeography

The spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relation.

The Ego and Its Own, critique of ideology, individual sovereignty

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.

Industrial Society and Its Future, technology critique

The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster.

Individualist anarchism, nihilism, poetic revolt

I am not a man, I am dynamite.

CCRU, hyperstition, accelerationism, dark enlightenment

The outside is already here, leaking through the cracks of capital.

Intelligence & Spirit, inhumanism, rational agency

To be human is to be open to revision by inhuman reason.

Information entropy, digital circuits, cryptography foundations

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.

Divine Comedy, vernacular poetry, allegory

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

The Prince, realpolitik, statecraft

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Tractatus, language games, private language argument

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Phenomenological reduction, intentionality, lifeworld

To the things themselves—bracketing the natural attitude.

Leap of faith, anxiety, stages of existence

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Nationalism studies, Turkish right-wing analysis, Birikim journal

Nationalism is an ideology, but it is not merely an ideology.

East-West synthesis, intellectual history, cultural criticism

You cannot understand the East without knowing the West.

Labor theory of value, comparative advantage, rent theory

Labour is the foundation of all value.

The Return of the Real, postmodern art criticism

Art must be critically engaged with its social conditions.

Against Method, epistemological anarchism

Anything goes—the only principle that does not inhibit progress.

General economy, expenditure, sovereignty

Proof-of-work as sacrificial expenditure—energy burned for consensus.

Ethics as first philosophy, the Other, infinity

In trustless systems, we encounter the Other without mediation.

The Postmodern Condition, metanarratives critique

Blockchain trusts mathematics, not institutions.

Structural linguistics, signifier/signified, langue/parole

In language there are only differences without positive terms.

Science fiction, technological imagination, adventure

Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.

Autonomism, Empire, multitude, constituent power

Empire is the political subject that regulates global exchanges.

Élan vital, duration, intuition, creative evolution

The universe is a machine for making gods.