Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn't Ours
by Askr Svarte
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Artificial Intelligence, cyberpunk cinema, Virtual Reality goggles, and the smartphone in your pocket are not just passing fads and mere gadgets. They are visions of a future that does not belong to us. The QR-coded Matrix of Technological Singularity and the “Great Reset” is already upon us — an imminent future in which “us” and “the world” become a problem for troubleshooting. How did we arrive at the abyss of technological dystopia? What is technology? Who are we?
Available only in private circulation until now, Askr Svarte’s Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn’t Ours has been called “the most dangerous book in the world” because it poses these questions and exposes their nerves to the extreme at the last minute. The very idea of “progress” is shattered, the concealed nature of technology is exposed, and apocalyptic landscapes are charted through a cutting-edge hermeneutics between the ancient worlds of Myth and the Postmodern “reality” of screens and cyborgs.
Tradition and Future Shock is a finale for the last humans, an awakening right before midnight, a last sacrifice for the sake of a new beginning…
Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn't Ours
by Askr Svarte
***
Artificial Intelligence, cyberpunk cinema, Virtual Reality goggles, and the smartphone in your pocket are not just passing fads and mere gadgets. They are visions of a future that does not belong to us. The QR-coded Matrix of Technological Singularity and the “Great Reset” is already upon us — an imminent future in which “us” and “the world” become a problem for troubleshooting. How did we arrive at the abyss of technological dystopia? What is technology? Who are we?
Available only in private circulation until now, Askr Svarte’s Tradition and Future Shock: Visions of a Future that Isn’t Ours has been called “the most dangerous book in the world” because it poses these questions and exposes their nerves to the extreme at the last minute. The very idea of “progress” is shattered, the concealed nature of technology is exposed, and apocalyptic landscapes are charted through a cutting-edge hermeneutics between the ancient worlds of Myth and the Postmodern “reality” of screens and cyborgs.
Tradition and Future Shock is a finale for the last humans, an awakening right before midnight, a last sacrifice for the sake of a new beginning…
Pavel Durov, Telegram's CEO, is known as "the Russian Mark Zuckerberg," for co-founding VKontakte, which is Russian for "in touch," a Facebook imitator that became the country's most popular social networking site. The War on Fakes channel has repeatedly attempted to push conspiracies that footage from Ukraine is somehow being falsified. One post on the channel from February 24 claimed without evidence that a widely viewed photo of a Ukrainian woman injured in an airstrike in the city of Chuhuiv was doctored and that the woman was seen in a different photo days later without injuries. The post, which has over 600,000 views, also baselessly claimed that the woman's blood was actually makeup or grape juice. On Telegram’s website, it says that Pavel Durov “supports Telegram financially and ideologically while Nikolai (Duvov)’s input is technological.” Currently, the Telegram team is based in Dubai, having moved around from Berlin, London and Singapore after departing Russia. Meanwhile, the company which owns Telegram is registered in the British Virgin Islands. Meanwhile, a completely redesigned attachment menu appears when sending multiple photos or vides. Users can tap "X selected" (X being the number of items) at the top of the panel to preview how the album will look in the chat when it's sent, as well as rearrange or remove selected media. DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries.
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