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Dialectical Materialism

Is the most important mode of analysis in our toolkit and can be applied to any system to better understand cause and effect. If you do not start from understanding materialist frameworks then you’ve already established that you have an aesthetic, non-factual basis of analysis, i.e. a liberal... read more

Fahrenheit 451

Just finished this book and my god it's good. A bit of a slow burner but it's low-key scary how we're not too far away from this screen addicted dystopia. 8/10 and I would rebel by reading a book if it were that simple lol

Seasonal dystopia

You are what you eat?

What are your favourite book reads from 2025? Here's mine...

📚🤓❓️ 1. Tales from Outer Suburbia, Shaun Tan (graphic novel/ picture book) 2. Poor Things, Alistair Gray (Literary fantasy) 3. Prophet Song, Paul Lynch (Booker Prize winning dystopia) 4. Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Literary fantasy) 5. Fingersmith, Sarah Waters (LGBT Historical Romance)

The more I keep living in this ongoing dystopia I start to wish I was actually in the universe of Cyberpunk 2077.

Are we on a Snow Crash speed run?

Reading Snow Crash in 2025 hits different when you realize we’re speed-running the cyberpunk dystopia but forgot to include any of the cool parts. We got the corporate overlords and brain-melting info-viruses, just none of the katanas or an actually compelling metaverse. America read ‘dystopian... read more