> I can’t resist mentioning once again the moronic theory that depicts productive forces “ripening” until they “give rise to” or “make possible” the “transition to a new social form.” Such “productive forces” do not exist apart from the “social form.” The artifices are integral parts of the artificial worm, they are nothing but its attributes. The technologies are the claws and fangs of the Leviathan. Silver mines and later water wheels do not give rise to the Islamic Leviathan; It gives rise to them. The types of technologies developed by a Leviathan depend primarily on the type of Leviathan in question, not on the “state of developmednt of global productive forces” cited by artifice fetishists. The Phoenicians developed, near the very dawn of Civilization, a maritime technology that would be unmatched until the appearance of a Leviathan with similarly extended tentacles.
Is Fredy right about this? It seems evident, that the social form does influence technology, and its progress. But is he right about it not happening the other way around? New technology cannot change the social form?
10 posts omitted.>>3889Perlman lacked vision and presight. the fore and the for. He fell into the pseudo-reactionary trap as much as he attempted to go further - there can be no RETVRN. there can only be forward momentum, through progress and through collapse. ultimately we are not in control of the process, but the sentient We of which no one is in awareness of. Perlman idealizes a truly idyllic life insofar as he maintained some belief that it could be returned to. His realization that it could not be so sent him insane, alone, and he secluded himself.
cyberspace has truly proven the worst fears of Perlman, Situationists, and all others who grasped at It but couldnt quite get it.