In this regard it’s worth thinking in shorter historical terms and recalling that just a few decades ago the reactionary fad was not technofetishism but social Darwinism, with the unchecked excess of capitalism justified as “survival of the fittest.” The selection of technology as the analogous process to history as opposed to biology, then, is clearly a substantive cultural move. To some extent it’s just a generational thing, much like using anime characters as your Twitter icon. This is simply the face of eschatology in the decade after cyberpunk, Y2K, The Matrix, and Starcraft. Those
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