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God and the Machine

A Materialist Pamphlet Against Two Apocalypses §1. The Configuration Two movements have captured the executive branch of the United States. They share a vehicle, the Republican Party. They share an enemy, the procedural friction of liberal democratic governance. They do not share a vision of the future. The first is the techno-capital wing. Its ideologues are Nick Land, Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen. Its instruments are Palantir, Anduril, Andreessen Horowitz, the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency, the Title 50 contractor archipelago. Its mass base does not exist. Its theory of human meaning is that meaning is to be extracted from the human and relocated to the machine. ...

May 8, 2026 · 20 min · 4145 words
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Palantir and Fascism

Accelerationist CEOs and the tech-state-corporate fusion Previously published on LinkedIn April 29, 2026 Palantir’s 22-point manifesto is being debated as either technofascism or corporate cringe. Both readings miss what the document actually does. Is it fascist? Yes, on Griffin’s palingenetic criterion, Paxton’s mobilizing-passions frame, and most of Eco’s Ur-Fascism checklist. Axis rehabilitation is an unusually explicit tell. The mass-movement base and the Führerprinzip are absent, which is why technofascism, or neoreactionary techno-imperialism, tracks better than 1933 analogies. The intellectual lineage clearly runs Schmitt to Strauss to Thiel to Yarvin. ...

April 29, 2026 · 3 min · 443 words