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What if capitalism were a dead end?
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Readymade Flea Market
A simulated “ancestor” reality—framed through Bostrom-style world-simulation theory and rendered as a collapsing 3D graphic space—becomes an allegory for post-liberal political nihilism and the systemic overheating of late-capitalist economies. Anthropomorphic panic-buyers, empty shelves mediated by televisions, and Kruger’s consumerist dictum converge with Korean silk-painting lineage to critique information-age spectacle, neoliberal subject formation, and an eternalized state of emergency where violence and commodity-fetishism appear as normalized social logics.
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Styles and Customs in the 2020s
Speculative vignettes stage the 2020s as an accelerationist collapse of modern distinctions—public/private, art/life, human/tech—where platform capitalism, data extraction, and privatization reorganize subjectivity into quantified affect, curated identity, and engineered desire amid ecological crisis. Post-ironic lifestyle aesthetics, Afrofuturist and queer biohacker counter-myths, and the end of authorship/appropriation converge into a critique of neoliberal governance and microfascist “props,” imagining culture as distributed operations and curation-as-power while exposing utopian freedom as a managed, content-producing enclosure.
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Notes on the Inorganic, Part I: Accelerations
Capitalism is figured as an inhuman, ecophagic process whose imperative of infinite growth structurally entails depletion, extinction, and a drift toward the inorganic—allegorized through nanotechnology’s “grey goo” as a fantasy-form that displaces already-active eliminations. Against pragmatic “pre-emptive design” that normalizes post-extraction ruin, the text probes accelerationist aesthetics as a risky tactic: intensifying capital’s dissipative logic to induce glitches, mutations, and new critical morphologies beyond anthropocentric frameworks.
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True Red
Capitalist branding is framed as a vampiric apparatus that gentrifies radical aesthetics—co-opting the avant-garde’s red/black iconography and historical fiction to convert subcultural desire into commodity power. Through metamorphic animation linking sneaker, bat, oil, castle, and factory labor, the work mobilizes postcolonial and Marxian critiques of advertising’s production of subjectivity, corporate extraction, and coerced assimilation within global supply chains.
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