jan hendrik brueggemeier via nettime-l on Thu, 3 Apr 2025 07:00:11 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> At Doge, AI faith has fully fused with Christian Nationalism 

Hi -
I came across an article by Cody Wilson, the 3d-printed gun guy from Defense Distributed, and he seems to personify a tech bro gone christian. Not sure how much this is an outlier or actually a thing ... In case anyone is interested. 

> https://agorist.xyz/

II — PUNKS (CYPHERPUNK, SOLARPUNK, LUNARPUNK), 2023
Our second issue combines an exploration of crypto’s redemption through solarpunk and lunarpunk praxis with two meditations on crypto’s relationship with death. 
Contributors
Cody Wilson, Wassim Z. Alsindi, Rachel-Rose O’Leary, Kevin Owocki, Pavol Luptak, LunarDAO and anonymous authors. 

jan

On 2/4/2025 06:05, Ryan Griffis via nettime-l wrote:

I had not heard of the Collins family… whoa. Thanks for that… I think :)
For anyone else who hadn’t heard of them:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/03/simone-collins-pronatalist-pennsylvania-candidate

Ryan


www.natalism.org<http://www.natalism.org/>
Ryan, you are absolutely right. The natalist movement is points for Felix.
The venn diagram is at full intersect,  and these folks are curious (at least among the so-called intellectuals in the movement). You have Catholic integralists, CNs from the Claremont Institute, Trad Wives (lots of feminist apostates come to testify), and the TBs. They just had their big conference in Austin, so you can get a helpful list of the players at the site given above. I especially want to draw your attention to Malcom and Simone Collins. They are from the Techno-Puritan faction. They want to be CNs, but without the spiritual stuff. Peter Thiel acolytes. They also are big believers in technological intervention to enhance the reproduction of leaders and innovators.

In case we are getting way too obscure: For all attendees of the conference the underlying concern is that the leadership class (white people) is not reproducing fast enough for economic growth and innovation to continue at ever increasing rates. Essentially, it is a conference on positive eugenics. At this point natalism is not in the mainstream of conservatism, but it's on its way.

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