Cybernetic Gardens of Earthly Delights — LUXURY: In the Latin, luxury can mean two things: either ‘luxus’, meaning ‘excess’, or ‘luxuria’, meaning ‘offensiveness’. Therefore luxury could be defined as something crass, excessive, fundamentally unnecessary. In French the word transformed into ‘luxe’, which came to be associated with wealth and thus of status, whereas in Elizabethan England the…

(This is a preliminary article towards a — hopefully — more robust analysis of Capital as Demon. The research for this analysis is ongoing, this article will outline certain ideas I will expound upon in greater detail at a later date.) Human beings have, since our first blind attempts to…

This is a response to https://cutenoumena.medium.com/the-capitalist-realism-of-evangelion-31f4a8163113 Cute_Noumena’s article The Capitalist Realism of Evangelion begins to analyse an often overlooked theme of the show, that being the interplay between human social structures (the bureaucratic state, transnational institutions, etc) and the invasion of human reality by world-ending forces, that a response so…