Unpaywalled: Globo Homo Economicus
Renaud Camus and Replacism of the Body
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This week I’ve unlocked part 3 of my series on Renaud Camus and the ideology of replacism. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here.
Over the series I’ve discussed what “replacism” is and is not, expanded the discussion beyond demographics to discuss replacism as ideology and in this part linked the discussion back to my own work on transhumanism and biotech. Comments on the post are still for paying subscribers only, but discussion thread in chat is here.
Without further ado, here’s the link:
Back with a new poast next week…see you in the chat!
Taylorism is a refinement and formalization of industrial economic thinking, which dates back explicitly to at least 100 years earlier and was incubating implicitly centuries before that. It was the discovery of coal as cheap energy which drove the industrial revolution, but already before that the harnessing of wind and water and wood foretold the future: external physical forces can be harnessed to do the work of humans and their domestic animals. In the 18th century came practical steam engines, mostly wood-fired, and then in the 19th century came large-scale coal mining and steel production, followed by petroleum development in the late 19th century. And here we are.
When Cervantes sent his hero Don Quixote out to tilt at windmills in the early 1600s, it was not because Don Quixote mistook them for monsters, but rather because he properly recognized them as monsters who would replace normal human relations with artificial mechanical relations. And Cervantes was correct.
Part 3 is still paywalled.