https://emsenn.net/tags/theory/Recent content in Theory on emsenn.netHugoen-usWed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-09-03-0954-on-zen-fascism-and-californication/Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-09-03-0954-on-zen-fascism-and-californication/<ul> <li> <p>Word Salad</p> </li> <li> <p>Zen fascism</p> </li> <li> <p>californication</p> </li> <li> <p>self as erotic savior-slave in crisis settlerism</p> </li> <li> <p>there are constitutive contradictions in liberalism</p> <ul> <li>i.e. universalism and individualism</li> <li>stress (i.e. crisis, Collapse) exposes them</li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>this creates the Liberalism Legitimacy Crisis:</p> <ul> <li>as these contradictions intensify, liberalism loses credibility|validity as an ideological system. <ul> <li>it can&rsquo;t produce the resolutions it promises</li> <li>so it shifts to promising regulation</li> <li>see Foucault</li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p>California as projection zone: California Gold Rush, Misiones Californianas (the Patronato Real of California), psychedelic revolution, Hollywood, Esalen Institute, techno-utopianism</p>https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-08-29-1912-lineage-of-californication/Fri, 29 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://emsenn.net/blog/2025-08-29-1912-lineage-of-californication/<p>I have this lineage of theory that goes roughly:</p> <ul> <li>liberal ontologizing induces genring induces ontogenring <ul> <li>attributing is an ontogenric act</li> <li>attributing induces ontogenric entitlement and ontogenric anticipation</li> </ul> </li> <li>the condition of saturation induces destabilization <ul> <li>ontogenring narrativizes saturation-induced destabilization as collapse</li> </ul> </li> <li>&hellip;Maza has distracted me&hellip;</li> <li>&hellip;something about affect theory</li> <li>&hellip;thus, californication?</li> </ul>