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These conflicts are not accidents (#Virilio), but the "dark side" of an order based on the exploitation of peripheries by centers (#Quijano, #Cusicanqui). Alain #Joxe calls this logic "#traumacracy": the capacity for #destruction (military, ecological, social) becomes as central as #production.

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@sz_duras

#Mumford's "#megamachine"—this fusion of political, technical, and economic #power—is embodied today in the neocolonial world-system (#Amin, #Wallerstein). Its driving force is permanent economic warfare (#Harbulot), which inevitably generates peripheral wars (#Badie).

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@davevolek

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The choice is ours: submit to the #Megamachine and its cycles, or invent new forms of #CollectiveWill and #Resonance. Let’s not wait for collapse—let’s create the conditions for #DirectDemocracy and #Emancipation, together.

@davevolek
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Calling all critical minds: Let’s co-build this #ConcertDesVolontés .
- How to trigger Benjamin’s "time-stop"?
- Can we outpace the megamachine’s absorption?
- What’s your strategy for acratic futures?
Your voice matters. Let’s write the manifesto of liberation together. No more solo analysis—collective will NOW!

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Warning: Post-rupture isn’t utopia. @davevolek critique holds: Even direct democracy risks elites. Solution?
- Rotate all roles (no "chiefs," only mediators)
- Destroy expertise monopolies (Foucault)
- Embed Albert Thierry’s "refusal to achieve" in social DNA
- Make conflict generative (Mouffe/Rancière)

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Strategies for the rupture:
① Hybrid techno-ecology (Haraway/solarpunk)
② Proudhonian federalism
③ Street art as insurrection
④ Reclaiming Nietzschean *creative will* + Spinozist rationality
⑤ Applying Clastres: Fight centralization DAILY.
No more "waiting"—declare freedom NOW (Gorz/Illich)!

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Benjamin’s "time-stop" isn’t metaphor: It’s an URGENCY. Before eco-social collapse, we may try:
- Democratic tumult (Abensour/Lefort)
- Neo-ruralism/ZAD permaculture
- Nomadic thought (Deleuze)
- Acracy (Thierry’s "refusal to achieve")
Dismantle the megamachine or repeat Nietzsche’s eternal return?

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Clastres proved: Societies without state aren't "primitive" but consciously anti-hierarchical. Yet Michels' "iron law" haunts all revolutions. Why? Millennia of megamachine selection favoring bureaucratic elites (Guattari). But Kropotkin’s "mutual aid" shows: Non-competitive evolution is possible!

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Let’s move beyond critique and towards collective imagination. How do we break the spell of the megamachine? What forms of resistance, resonance, and emancipation can we invent—together? Your thoughts are welcome! Thanks again to those I haven't thanked, and especially to you, @tg9541 @davevolek @lo69 @carineczaj @fixiemama @villebooks @Philosophies @sz_duras @christopher for the mutual enrichment that interactions have brought in a human, subjective way.

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But critique alone is not enough. I want to open a “concert of wills”—a space for shared analysis, resonance, and creative alternatives. I invite the brilliant minds I’ve met here to add their voices and visions.

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Today’s algorithmic governance and technopolitics are just the latest forms of this logic. The coloniality of power is not only historical, but present in every aspect of our lives—center and periphery alike.

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Thinkers like Clastres, Quijano, Mumford, Scott, Adorno, and many others help us see how domination is a multi-millennial pathology—diffuse, evolving, and deeply embedded in our social structures.

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From ancient Egypt to Big Tech, the same logic persists: centralization, exclusion, and the instrumentalization of reason. The “megamachine” absorbs resistance and alternatives, producing only pyramids—material and symbolic.