Re: <nettime> At Doge, AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism

[Pit Schultz via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

STATE OF THE WEB: CARNIVAL IN THE ELEVATOR SHAFT

Long before Project 2025 breached mainstream discourse - or flickered on
screens - it festered beneath critical consciousness. Sterling’s megachurch
cyber-colonialism and Palantir’s Weberian power-sqldumps already mapped our
skeletal fate.

Now former 'new economy' apostles spin war rooms chronicling the DOGE coup,
Tesla shares plummeting, raging at a cheese-hatted, Fortnite-emoting
Caesar, while Karp & Thiel saturate panoptic databases.

The demand: tokenize the meltdown, name antagonists, redraw lines
mid-freefall - Coyote sprinting on air. Narrators suture voodoo-puppets of
"the enemy" while gravity tallies shared wreckage.

Negation fractures. Christian nationalism mirrors "wokeness" as malignant
twins - cargo cults blind to successors. The Davos order decays,
radioactive, half-life measured in discourse cycles.

Witness ossification: Harari’s pop anthropology, Doctorow’s hopepunk, Paris
Marx’s TED-fatalism. NGO think tanks metastasize into Jünger-esque war lust
- applauding Gaza’s ruin, itching for Russia, muttering Fukuyama into NPR
totes. Liberate Taiwan next.

Semi-leftists unravel in eschatological navel-gazing as platforms burn.
Transmediale rots; theory-zombies shamble through defunded halls. Biblical
end times override Bildung - critical theory raptured into AI training data.

What remains? Hegelian Aufhebung as farce. Dialectics self-digest in
elevator freefall, clutching coherence-shards. Zeitenwende: not rebirth but
triage. Szepanski’s Baudrillardian static hums; Land’s crypto-Christian
rants premediate neoreaction; CCC-Bach peddles psychedelic German ideology
- AI as divinity while carbon fries.

Categories implode. The New Right’s holy war defies taxonomy - alienated
faces reduced to anime caricatures in the funhouse mirror. Jesus with a
Joker grin; messiah complexes as meme warfare.

Our mailing lists? Digital Thermopylae or collective obituary? We catalog
extinction in plaintext as servers cook. Don’t like the latest climate
data? Blame scientists for fearmongering. The ultimate dialectic:
documenting obsolescence, forwarding the void into itself.

This farce transcends Achilles and the Tortoise - human rationality and AGI
locked in recursive approximation, racing to terminal stupidity. After all
ideas die, history stutters: Western humanism’s fevered afterimage,
authored by a civilization in existential vertigo.

The answer isn’t postmodern husks but technological Aufhebung:
Shenzhen-engineered sublation, Hegel’s ghost reprocessed through Gan Yang’s
three traditions. Wang Hui’s historicism strips Davos to its neoliberal
bones.

CRRU Hegel 2025 maglev rises against gravity - the elevator shaft reborn as
ascent. But first, U.S. stocks go ‘boom,’ self-inflicted wounds of a
culture accelerating into a bouncing boot loop: carnival in freefall,
ascent as collapse.
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