Awesome work. Between this, the Cybersyn documentary, and your talks about cybernetics on the Pill Pod, you've opened me up to some absolutely gripping material to look into.
You should beware of consuming philosophy and culture just because it interests you. As a follower of Debord I can give two reasons for this: 1. Philosophy conceives of "man" in the abstract. It does not see you but a representation of you. This is the root of its failure - its inability to talk directly to anybody but itself. It's a failure of typography in general. But you are not abstract. You are a man with a time and place. You must never lose sight of this. 2. Culture preserves the unusable ideology of the past while also allowing for the dissemination of false representations of life. The latter is what Debord named 'the spectacle'. Culture destroys common language as it talks, usually, in the language of no one from nowhere. We have become used to this on the internet. People becoming one with the Internet represents the culmination of the neo-liberalist economic ideal going back centuries. Human beings have been accumulated into a mass spectacle where they merely consume. Remember: when culture detaches from the real, that is when it becomes dangerous.You must try to focus on when and where you are.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Why should I believe you? How do I know that you’ve read Debord? How do I know that your even real? I’ve heard of bots. I better check the likes under your post. But wait- how can I know if those likes are real? I better not post this. I heard that an algorithm is siloing the information I’m exposed to, subtly shaping my desires. And besides, my keystrokes are probably being logged anyway. Wait, I’m not using a keyboard... And what if they don’t like my response? What if they don’t get it? Will that make my beliefs less valid? I guess that if a lot of them like it, it means my thoughts are valid… But that’s wrong. I’m not my likes, am I? But who ARE they? WHO AM I WRITING THIS TO? ANSWER ME! WHY AM I WRITING THIS? WHY CANT I SEE THEM? WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SCREEN? WHY CAN’T I SEE THROUGH IT? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?? I WANT OUT. I WANT OUT. I WANT THE TRUTH! I WANT OUT! WHAT IS THE TRUTH? *IS IT ON THE SCREEN? IS THE SCREEN THE TRUTH????*
@@MGSVxBreakpoint at some point i have to agree with you, although there's a certain point that I've not capture into my frame thoughts so far. Consider the Cybersyn documentary for example. Is it informative? Not quite, but as an introductory purposes, Pills made a great work for us to be able to look into that material. Why? I've been thinking after listening his Cybersyn docs podcast, there's an agreement about the irony of military intervention there, even though the economical success of Chile at Aliende's time is merely thin to be brought as a foundation of long-term cybernetics + socialism ideology triumph. The idea behind is quite decent (Virilio and Baudrillard mostly, and for that I've just look his first 20 pages of Information Bomb because it's too much grim), but as you've said we should not take it as granted or added too much salt into the material references like Virilio for example (as i did before). Solid material to reconsider but don't forget add a few of salt for the healthy purposes
Dropping this to be engagement for the UA-cam real-time. Let this green dot show that the content was well-received. It precisely and efficiently fits the specific interest-groups that comprise me. All is well on UA-cam's war screens, the internet yields much satisfaction and educational value.
Have any of his videos actually changed your or anybody's lives? Culture reproduced in the abstract could never accomplish such a task. You and I are just walking around the museums of philosophy, nothing more than consumers in an age of the Baroque. We consume the past at the expense of our own presents.
Absolutely fantastic. Topics which are some of my favorite, presented in the most engaging way possible. Your video editing has really come along. Keep it up, bro.
It has gotten a lot better, which I hope doesn't sound like a brag, it's just that it used to be comically bad. The downside is that it takes a lot longer to do something well than to do something half-assed so the frequency goes down as quality goes up. I'm glad it's not just me who's willing to take that tradeoff, thank you
sobering and absolutely terrifying. well produced as always. your thoughts on this massive information system recently have been very thought-provoking and topical given global currents surrounding the web nowadays.
Hyper-reality means what is 'more real than real'. It denotes something that seems more real because it corresponds more to your concept of reality than what is actually real. If you get all your facts from the TV, for instance, you may be apt to not accept what you see in reality because your map of reality has become warped by information. How that relates to the Gulf War is that soldiers who fought there began to see the TV narrative as the truth of the war... even though they participated in it. Their real experiences and memories were retroactively warped by the hyper-real.
I love how you included CNN and Wolf Blitzer's grotesque situation room at the end. I've read and engaged with Baudrillard but I've not had any experience with Virilio before, so thanks for the reading list addition!
I know this video won't be about Baudrillard, but the title reminded me of something I read about him. Apparently, during the run-up to the Gulf War, a French newspaper contacted him and offered him a job covering the war. He accepted, but gave them a bewildering condition: he would cover the Gulf War but not in Iraq. He would cover it from the TV in his Paris hotel room. Baudrillard believed that the real war would take place within the spectacle; the false reality inside our screens. As we now know, the man was 100% completely correct. The Gulf War never happened.
Nice! I saw the title and assumed it was gonna be a rehash if Rick Rodericks lecture series on the post modern. Much better than I assumed. I would lover piece on Roberto Esposito’s “Immunitas” “Communitas” and or “Bios”
Oh this explains a lot about the sort of conversations I was born in the middle of. Thank you! Like the closest I had been informed about this was that one of my middle school substitute teachers was like the gulf war's media coverage was like watching an action movie every night & OMG the winning. But I didn't realize how severely that was. Like this experience obviously influenced the USA "We're #1" mentality after the fall of USSR in the 1990s. Thank you again for this videoessay!
Last night I came home, and PBS (emphasis on the BS) was doing a memorial piece about Colin Powell, practically drooling over his accomplishments..... Can you guess how much time they spent on him lying to congress and the Iraq war? One whole sentence where he said it was his least proud moment of his career, or something to that effect..... This video is 1000 times better, more interesting, more informative, more entertaining, and simply more truthful than what millions of dollars of funding can come up with in legacy media! Keep it up man! ✌
This is interesting, as my recent readings have been about this same phenomenon from another perspective. So here are some thoughts; I hope they reach you. The disciplinary and control regimes, as they operate, attempt to gain absolute knowledge, and thus control. But like the sorcerers apprentice, they also summon forces that exceed their grasp. The same productive systems used to manufacture enemies folds back upon itself as a paranoiac production has resulted in various segments of the info consuming public seeing different narrative streams that appear almost through autopoisis; Qanon was certainly not a desired outcome of the military apparatus. But beyond that, the machines seem to increasingly challenge the enlightenment "man" birthed from the desire for detail as every stable identity or binary implodes upon itself. Bib: Sadie Plant - Ones and Zeros Reza Negarestani - The Labor of the Inhuman Vincent Garton -Leviathan Rots
Amazing video as always! I recommend looking at Heidegger’s “Questions regarding modern technology” and Albert Borgmann’s “Focal things and practices” as a potential topic for a future video!
15:30 all that would be needed today is a few zingers and rhetoric; graphics, disclosure of action plans and Barney-level walkthroughs no longer necessary.
The rendering of all beings legible by technical logistics is itself the bomb, not for merely its accidents in the aims of ulterior motives and military logistics, but the re-prioritization itself will syphon all resources towards these ends. If everything is governed by the control apparatus, there are no accidents. Internal combustion engines themselves have harmful byproducts. Imagining this planetary sensing apparatus as having additionally harmful byproducts is itself no accident. They are necessary for its function.
I dont know who he was/is, but if my footage source was correct then his wife and kids were killed in the Amiriyah Shelter Bombing, where 400 civilians turned to mush when an F-117 dropped a laser guided bomb into an the air shaft of the bomb shelter they were hiding in. The families sued Bush and Cheney for war crimes, but they were dismissed.
On the other hand, Cybernetics and information didn't exactly yield the kind of results the Pentagon wanted in Afghanistan recently (assuming US Intelligence was acting in good faith). This always comes down to Laplace's fallacy- that the outcome is computable given all the information. It appears to be, until it isn't.
Somehow from this vids I've got an idea about digging on what big tech corporations did for us as their consumer and at the same time they want to keep our trust but not not happy if we ask our right (to repair for example, go check mkbhd's vids on right to repair). Surveillance (if we want to criticize from non-conspiratorial thoughts) is a big deal to rethinking on how far they (big corp tech) can get and what we (as almost impotent consumers at least) can struggle for
As usual, so good. I will say for no reason in particular, Marx himself of course eventually noted this dangerous potential for technology to completely capture and mediate our material conditions away from the historical materialist inevitability of being _"...at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind"_ as was initially declared in the manifesto, and instead toward an insulated virtual ontology that cements that potential for the _"common ruin of the contending classes"_ toward the service of perpetuating the callous belligerent machine of capital accumulation solely for its own sake and at quite literally all other costs. _“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”_ - “The Fragment on Machines” in The Grundrisse
Wtf is going on? I wanted to enable notifications for this content since I missed and only now saw your new releases since the Cybersyn documentary, but it doesn't allow me to enable them, claiming your channel is "content for children" which does not allow for notifications. Amazing work, btw, both production value and actual content communicated to us is amazing in your videos.
I'm not sure if I agree with speed as the ultimate advantage or tool of warfare, while it is certainly important it has never won a war on it's own the way the simple might of production has decided almost every war. In most of my study in this area I have tended to land on stuff like economics, doctrine, iniative, discipline, bravery, communication, and intelligence as being decisive factors instead that most generals and doctrine cite. And the way I see it is mostly those last two factors that have lead to the modern battlefield, as warfare became mechanized the human strengths became less important and winning battles became extremely costly and might against might couldn't do the trick against machines. The only way to counter this was the decentralization of the army in order to enable ever smaller units to operate on their own and be able to out maneuver and out think machines, this was enabled by communication technologies like the radio and increasingly intelligence which let you not get outmaneuvered yourself. You can see modern warfare growing directly out of what the Allies did during WWII with the importance placed on intelligence by them during a war giving an often decisive edge and the focus on highly reactive forms of organization (like RAF command) that could quickly pass around information to enable the most economical use of force. The CIA literally grew out of the laughable American Special Services during the war and the US had clearly learned it's lesson, the decisive advantages communication and intelligence showed themselves to have in the war would become the blueprint for all modern armies. The warfare we see now is therefore not a result of speed but a result of industrialized warfare placing a central focus on something that used to be barely a thing, most countries didn't even have an intelligence network until the late 19th century. In warfare just being able to support an army used to be a struggle on it's own so intelligence was rarely ever thought about but with industrial production everyone can create armies of millions so now this is where the advantage lies. I don't really disagree with any of the rest of the video but I do feel like this point is not really congruent with the history of war. We arrive at the same conclusion so that is fine but I think it is actually very important for us leftists to seriously study war including the theory of people who we fundamentally disagree with and to take this seriously because in my humble opinion war is the root of all of this.
Virilio is an interesting dude, I finished his quick little “politics of the very worst” the other day, and grabbed Steve redhead’s “virilio reader.” The next deep dive after all these Deleuze and Guattari texts, and their subsequent interviews and compilation texts, and then guattari’s papers on anti-odeipus
Phone posted before I could finish but...that rabbit hole is taking too much mental energy, yet virilio is very clear and concise, and also very interesting to read. Highly recommend the guy; especially the notion that the ship invented the ship wreck, etc...the accident as concept is fascinating.
This content is COURAGEOUS and terrifying. Thank for your efforts making these videos. I hope the almighty god, Algorithm, turn its generous side on you.
Damn, this hits hard, especially now with the Ukraine-Russia war we're seeing now. What we're seeing on social media, from live drone bombings to the aftermath of missile salvos, its crazy what we're gazing upon daily. At the end of the day, its just more content for the public.
Yo this is crazy. I'm a reporter and got an opportunity to see soldiers training on AR facilities -- fucking nuts what they can do now. They were literally plopped down in a generation of real maps of Poland at the second they were training. There were humvee set ups and also fools with gaming controllers, at least two dozen in this long room. Felt so surreal, and this was two years ago.
extremely interesting topic although could a war that has physical repercussions and results to physical death therefore outside the cyberspace be truly considered as cyberwar?
thats the whole point human casualties have nothing to do with the war thats why schools dont teach the atrocity america has commited its not apart of the gulf war.
Much of what you cover, Ahriman-Dajjal timeline, energy applies to. Whether this is a cycle Humanity runs through because of natural progression or an entity that moves through the population directing traffic.... The cyclical nature seems apparent looking at the rise and fall, oral traditions and texts.... The ages of man reduced from golden years to dark ages as Technology is developed...then split and reset. Needless to say, this type of "war" is right out of 1984. The unreal presentation of Big Brother is absolutely possible in the MSM and nwo we now find ourselves surrounded by. Mahe Ohna, ✌️ Favour ALL
Getting better and better... cheers bro.
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Awesome work. Between this, the Cybersyn documentary, and your talks about cybernetics on the Pill Pod, you've opened me up to some absolutely gripping material to look into.
You should beware of consuming philosophy and culture just because it interests you. As a follower of Debord I can give two reasons for this:
1. Philosophy conceives of "man" in the abstract. It does not see you but a representation of you. This is the root of its failure - its inability to talk directly to anybody but itself. It's a failure of typography in general. But you are not abstract. You are a man with a time and place. You must never lose sight of this.
2. Culture preserves the unusable ideology of the past while also allowing for the dissemination of false representations of life. The latter is what Debord named 'the spectacle'. Culture destroys common language as it talks, usually, in the language of no one from nowhere. We have become used to this on the internet. People becoming one with the Internet represents the culmination of the neo-liberalist economic ideal going back centuries. Human beings have been accumulated into a mass spectacle where they merely consume.
Remember: when culture detaches from the real, that is when it becomes dangerous.You must try to focus on when and where you are.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint Why should I believe you? How do I know that you’ve read Debord? How do I know that your even real? I’ve heard of bots. I better check the likes under your post. But wait- how can I know if those likes are real? I better not post this. I heard that an algorithm is siloing the information I’m exposed to, subtly shaping my desires. And besides, my keystrokes are probably being logged anyway. Wait, I’m not using a keyboard... And what if they don’t like my response? What if they don’t get it? Will that make my beliefs less valid? I guess that if a lot of them like it, it means my thoughts are valid… But that’s wrong. I’m not my likes, am I? But who ARE they? WHO AM I WRITING THIS TO? ANSWER ME! WHY AM I WRITING THIS? WHY CANT I SEE THEM? WHAT’S ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SCREEN? WHY CAN’T I SEE THROUGH IT? WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?? I WANT OUT. I WANT OUT. I WANT THE TRUTH! I WANT OUT! WHAT IS THE TRUTH? *IS IT ON THE SCREEN? IS THE SCREEN THE TRUTH????*
@@MGSVxBreakpoint at some point i have to agree with you, although there's a certain point that I've not capture into my frame thoughts so far. Consider the Cybersyn documentary for example. Is it informative? Not quite, but as an introductory purposes, Pills made a great work for us to be able to look into that material. Why? I've been thinking after listening his Cybersyn docs podcast, there's an agreement about the irony of military intervention there, even though the economical success of Chile at Aliende's time is merely thin to be brought as a foundation of long-term cybernetics + socialism ideology triumph. The idea behind is quite decent (Virilio and Baudrillard mostly, and for that I've just look his first 20 pages of Information Bomb because it's too much grim), but as you've said we should not take it as granted or added too much salt into the material references like Virilio for example (as i did before). Solid material to reconsider but don't forget add a few of salt for the healthy purposes
@@dethkon Find Jesus
@@MGSVxBreakpoint I’d rather speak to the CEO than management, if you can get with that.
After the recent conflicts this video is more relevant than ever
Dropping this to be engagement for the UA-cam real-time. Let this green dot show that the content was well-received. It precisely and efficiently fits the specific interest-groups that comprise me. All is well on UA-cam's war screens, the internet yields much satisfaction and educational value.
Pills hits me like no other. Thank you. Gonna share this with anyone I care about.
Have any of his videos actually changed your or anybody's lives? Culture reproduced in the abstract could never accomplish such a task. You and I are just walking around the museums of philosophy, nothing more than consumers in an age of the Baroque. We consume the past at the expense of our own presents.
@@MGSVxBreakpoint No material revolt occurred without discourses shaping it.
@@gannonapoliticalteen9694 It‘s the relevance of internet discourse that increasingly concerns me
Absolutely fantastic. Topics which are some of my favorite, presented in the most engaging way possible. Your video editing has really come along. Keep it up, bro.
It has gotten a lot better, which I hope doesn't sound like a brag, it's just that it used to be comically bad. The downside is that it takes a lot longer to do something well than to do something half-assed so the frequency goes down as quality goes up. I'm glad it's not just me who's willing to take that tradeoff, thank you
As others have said, your videos just keep getting better. This one made me feel sick with dread.
I can't believe this channel doesn't have more subscribers. The quality is so high consistently.
sobering and absolutely terrifying. well produced as always. your thoughts on this massive information system recently have been very thought-provoking and topical given global currents surrounding the web nowadays.
This came out at the same time I finished teaching a class on cybersemiotics. Good video-essay as always.
You have now convinced me to pick up Paul Virilio. Awesome video, your video editing has been wild lately. Stellar script writing, too.
Open Sky is where I would start
@@splatterjim8202 Thanks!
First YT channel I ever subscribed to by payment and felt it would be worth it. It is.
the idea of hyperreality is scary but fascinating, can't wait to see this video and one day read Baudrillard's book
Hyper-reality means what is 'more real than real'. It denotes something that seems more real because it corresponds more to your concept of reality than what is actually real. If you get all your facts from the TV, for instance, you may be apt to not accept what you see in reality because your map of reality has become warped by information.
How that relates to the Gulf War is that soldiers who fought there began to see the TV narrative as the truth of the war... even though they participated in it. Their real experiences and memories were retroactively warped by the hyper-real.
great video, your work quality has skyrocketed, congratulations
You are officially the first UA-camr I've ever supported via the monthly membership thing.
Damn. This is my first introduction to this kind of content.
Thank you, Plastic Pill!
This is really, really good. Your videos keep getting better and better, where will this end?
see 2:39
just wanted to thank you for your work
Rarely I want to share videos right away, all of Pills videos demand for me to share them. Great work as always.
Perfect speech speed, x2 is so smoothly quick but not overwhelming, its a consistent speed throughout
I love how you included CNN and Wolf Blitzer's grotesque situation room at the end.
I've read and engaged with Baudrillard but I've not had any experience with Virilio before, so thanks for the reading list addition!
istg your content keeps getting better and better
you are reaching the next level
So excited for all your projects but especially this one
My final thought, "holy shit".
I may not be smart but when I come here I always feel excited to learn something new!
I know this video won't be about Baudrillard, but the title reminded me of something I read about him. Apparently, during the run-up to the Gulf War, a French newspaper contacted him and offered him a job covering the war. He accepted, but gave them a bewildering condition: he would cover the Gulf War but not in Iraq. He would cover it from the TV in his Paris hotel room. Baudrillard believed that the real war would take place within the spectacle; the false reality inside our screens.
As we now know, the man was 100% completely correct. The Gulf War never happened.
I mean, he specifically referenced the essay collection that resulted from that coverage, and even named the video after it...
Go back to binge watching Jordan Peterson self-help videos.
@@derekanderson706 lmao fr bro doesent know baudrillards magnum opus
bro thats the whole point lmao
"Never before had war been waged with the screen itself." - Eyewar
Terrifying and thought-provoking. Thank you pills, you’re one of a kind and I really enjoy your great, relevant content.
Great work! You keep delivering quality content to this channel. As always, thanks!
Great video, does anybody know the name of the background track starting at 14:32?
It's called "final boss" by Myuu.
Nice! I saw the title and assumed it was gonna be a rehash if Rick Rodericks lecture series on the post modern. Much better than I assumed. I would lover piece on Roberto Esposito’s “Immunitas” “Communitas” and or “Bios”
Oh this explains a lot about the sort of conversations I was born in the middle of. Thank you!
Like the closest I had been informed about this was that one of my middle school substitute teachers was like the gulf war's media coverage was like watching an action movie every night & OMG the winning. But I didn't realize how severely that was.
Like this experience obviously influenced the USA "We're #1" mentality after the fall of USSR in the 1990s. Thank you again for this videoessay!
This stuff is amazing and the graphics are insanely good
Also: The way you plugged the Patreon Content in the end is also very well done
this is a phenomenal video. great work!
haha the captions on the news programs are so good
I am addicted to Plastic Pills!!!
Last night I came home, and PBS (emphasis on the BS) was doing a memorial piece about Colin Powell, practically drooling over his accomplishments.....
Can you guess how much time they spent on him lying to congress and the Iraq war?
One whole sentence where he said it was his least proud moment of his career, or something to that effect.....
This video is 1000 times better, more interesting, more informative, more entertaining, and simply more truthful than what millions of dollars of funding can come up with in legacy media!
Keep it up man! ✌
Amazing job Pills!
This is interesting, as my recent readings have been about this same phenomenon from another perspective. So here are some thoughts; I hope they reach you.
The disciplinary and control regimes, as they operate, attempt to gain absolute knowledge, and thus control. But like the sorcerers apprentice, they also summon forces that exceed their grasp. The same productive systems used to manufacture enemies folds back upon itself as a paranoiac production has resulted in various segments of the info consuming public seeing different narrative streams that appear almost through autopoisis; Qanon was certainly not a desired outcome of the military apparatus. But beyond that, the machines seem to increasingly challenge the enlightenment "man" birthed from the desire for detail as every stable identity or binary implodes upon itself.
Bib:
Sadie Plant - Ones and Zeros
Reza Negarestani - The Labor of the Inhuman
Vincent Garton -Leviathan Rots
I love how the adverts just become part of your content. It totally disempowers the advertiser.
Shhhhhh......🤫
this video is really well made! glad to see the channel getting better and better
Love the edit 💛 and the video ofc but very cool edit
another great piece. thank you
This is good information harvested from the information swamp
Amazing content Pills, thanks for this and imma go read a lot on this stuff
Amazing video as always! I recommend looking at Heidegger’s “Questions regarding modern technology” and Albert Borgmann’s “Focal things and practices” as a potential topic for a future video!
Thank you for using such definitive language with my computer...i hope it learns something
15:30 all that would be needed today is a few zingers and rhetoric; graphics, disclosure of action plans and Barney-level walkthroughs no longer necessary.
Pax Romana had gladiatorial matches.
Pax Americana has drone strikes.
The rendering of all beings legible by technical logistics is itself the bomb, not for merely its accidents in the aims of ulterior motives and military logistics, but the re-prioritization itself will syphon all resources towards these ends.
If everything is governed by the control apparatus, there are no accidents. Internal combustion engines themselves have harmful byproducts. Imagining this planetary sensing apparatus as having additionally harmful byproducts is itself no accident. They are necessary for its function.
Yes yes yes! Haha thanks for another awesome doc. GUYS we need to keep an eye on pills he is definitely on a list after these two videos 🤣
We need to protect this man at all costs
Is there any record of who the man captured by camera speaking of losing his wife and children is?
I dont know who he was/is, but if my footage source was correct then his wife and kids were killed in the Amiriyah Shelter Bombing, where 400 civilians turned to mush when an F-117 dropped a laser guided bomb into an the air shaft of the bomb shelter they were hiding in. The families sued Bush and Cheney for war crimes, but they were dismissed.
Great video! Wish I could have watched it in real time tho
best video of this channel
You are only gettin better at this.
On the other hand, Cybernetics and information didn't exactly yield the kind of results the Pentagon wanted in Afghanistan recently (assuming US Intelligence was acting in good faith). This always comes down to Laplace's fallacy- that the outcome is computable given all the information. It appears to be, until it isn't.
This is some great quality stuff
Somehow from this vids I've got an idea about digging on what big tech corporations did for us as their consumer and at the same time they want to keep our trust but not not happy if we ask our right (to repair for example, go check mkbhd's vids on right to repair). Surveillance (if we want to criticize from non-conspiratorial thoughts) is a big deal to rethinking on how far they (big corp tech) can get and what we (as almost impotent consumers at least) can struggle for
excellent content as always
As someone who teaches that stuff at Uni: Great work!
in love with your work, keep it up mate!
As usual, so good.
I will say for no reason in particular, Marx himself of course eventually noted this dangerous potential for technology to completely capture and mediate our material conditions away from the historical materialist inevitability of being _"...at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind"_ as was initially declared in the manifesto, and instead toward an insulated virtual ontology that cements that potential for the _"common ruin of the contending classes"_ toward the service of perpetuating the callous belligerent machine of capital accumulation solely for its own sake and at quite literally all other costs.
_“Once adopted into the production process of capital, the means of labour passes through different metamorphoses, whose culmination is the… automatic system of machinery… set in motion by an automaton, a moving power that moves itself; this automaton consisting of numerous mechanical and intellectual organs, so that the workers themselves are cast merely as its conscious linkages.”_ - “The Fragment on Machines” in The Grundrisse
Thank u pillz, and hi again!
Well, that was terrifying
Philosophers RISE UP
Wtf is going on? I wanted to enable notifications for this content since I missed and only now saw your new releases since the Cybersyn documentary, but it doesn't allow me to enable them, claiming your channel is "content for children" which does not allow for notifications.
Amazing work, btw, both production value and actual content communicated to us is amazing in your videos.
You're getting better at this, thank you for being dynamic and ever-evolving.
Ideally, I'd like this channel's content to make COMPLETE SENSE while viewed under the influence of pills.
I'm not sure if I agree with speed as the ultimate advantage or tool of warfare, while it is certainly important it has never won a war on it's own the way the simple might of production has decided almost every war. In most of my study in this area I have tended to land on stuff like economics, doctrine, iniative, discipline, bravery, communication, and intelligence as being decisive factors instead that most generals and doctrine cite. And the way I see it is mostly those last two factors that have lead to the modern battlefield, as warfare became mechanized the human strengths became less important and winning battles became extremely costly and might against might couldn't do the trick against machines. The only way to counter this was the decentralization of the army in order to enable ever smaller units to operate on their own and be able to out maneuver and out think machines, this was enabled by communication technologies like the radio and increasingly intelligence which let you not get outmaneuvered yourself. You can see modern warfare growing directly out of what the Allies did during WWII with the importance placed on intelligence by them during a war giving an often decisive edge and the focus on highly reactive forms of organization (like RAF command) that could quickly pass around information to enable the most economical use of force. The CIA literally grew out of the laughable American Special Services during the war and the US had clearly learned it's lesson, the decisive advantages communication and intelligence showed themselves to have in the war would become the blueprint for all modern armies. The warfare we see now is therefore not a result of speed but a result of industrialized warfare placing a central focus on something that used to be barely a thing, most countries didn't even have an intelligence network until the late 19th century. In warfare just being able to support an army used to be a struggle on it's own so intelligence was rarely ever thought about but with industrial production everyone can create armies of millions so now this is where the advantage lies.
I don't really disagree with any of the rest of the video but I do feel like this point is not really congruent with the history of war. We arrive at the same conclusion so that is fine but I think it is actually very important for us leftists to seriously study war including the theory of people who we fundamentally disagree with and to take this seriously because in my humble opinion war is the root of all of this.
The human individual is crumbling away beneath its dividual informatic double, in the same way the territory crumbled away beneath Boudrillard's map.
Good stuff broo
Perfect!
What is that song at the end with Wolf Blitzer?
Wow sobering! Very well done
Virilio is an interesting dude, I finished his quick little “politics of the very worst” the other day, and grabbed Steve redhead’s “virilio reader.” The next deep dive after all these Deleuze and Guattari texts, and their subsequent interviews and compilation texts, and then guattari’s papers on anti-odeipus
Phone posted before I could finish but...that rabbit hole is taking too much mental energy, yet virilio is very clear and concise, and also very interesting to read. Highly recommend the guy; especially the notion that the ship invented the ship wreck, etc...the accident as concept is fascinating.
Awesome!
This content is COURAGEOUS and terrifying. Thank for your efforts making these videos. I hope the almighty god, Algorithm, turn its generous side on you.
Glorious Art!
Brilliant video! Vivid, concise call mom open ended and appropriately disturbing.
This video is awesome
Damn, this hits hard, especially now with the Ukraine-Russia war we're seeing now. What we're seeing on social media, from live drone bombings to the aftermath of missile salvos, its crazy what we're gazing upon daily. At the end of the day, its just more content for the public.
Amazing!
Yo this is crazy. I'm a reporter and got an opportunity to see soldiers training on AR facilities -- fucking nuts what they can do now. They were literally plopped down in a generation of real maps of Poland at the second they were training. There were humvee set ups and also fools with gaming controllers, at least two dozen in this long room. Felt so surreal, and this was two years ago.
Not to mention the AR tank teams.
"Reconfigurable Virtual Collective Trainers"
@@enmac500 Nintendo soldiers they were called in the Gulf. Those people forget sometimes they ever WENT to war.
relevant video
Ciao PlasticPills, fan form Italy here. Since I'm a newbie which books do you think are fundamental in the spectrum of cybernetics and politics?
My number one takeaway is that I am really annoyed by Wolf Blitzer.
It the left side of the plastic pill was a little more orange, it would look like a 70mg Vyvanse
My boy Virilio!
extremely interesting topic although could a war that has physical repercussions and results to physical death therefore outside the cyberspace be truly considered as cyberwar?
thats the whole point human casualties have nothing to do with the war thats why schools dont teach the atrocity america has commited its not apart of the gulf war.
got dang my guy
Watching this while Ukraine/Russia happening really hits different
that is its own video topic
The funny thing is even though we (military) can see everything through drones and satellites, we are still there. We will always be there.
Roads were developed for military logistics too. Thanks Rome.
Drones are the future of our dead...
Concepts and theory are functional inventions capable of accidents too
banger
Well, that was the biggest black pill in a while. Red triangles unite!
Much of what you cover, Ahriman-Dajjal timeline, energy applies to. Whether this is a cycle Humanity runs through because of natural progression or an entity that moves through the population directing traffic.... The cyclical nature seems apparent looking at the rise and fall, oral traditions and texts....
The ages of man reduced from golden years to dark ages as Technology is developed...then split and reset.
Needless to say, this type of "war" is right out of 1984. The unreal presentation of Big Brother is absolutely possible in the MSM and nwo we now find ourselves surrounded by.
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