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#AltWoke Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal
"#AltWoke Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal" belongs to Negarestani's inhumanist line, where reason, construction, and revision replace both romantic anti-humanism and simple celebration of the outside.
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Core idea
These pages argue that the human is not a fixed essence but a revisable construct. Inhumanism names a demanding project of reconstructing the human through reason, labor, and conceptual intervention rather than abandoning it to finitude or nihilistic ruin.
The mechanism is revisionary and constructive. Concepts, rational procedures, and philosophical engineering are used to treat the human as something to be rebuilt through norms, navigation, and intervention.
That matters because Negarestani's post-CCRU importance lies partly in this break with easy anti-humanism. The archive needs these pages to show how the inhuman can become an ethical and rational demand rather than a cult of the outside.
How to read this text
Read for how the page defines the human as a constructible hypothesis rather than a natural given. That is the conceptual hinge.
Track where revision and labor replace transgression or collapse as the dominant verbs. That marks Negarestani's distinctive departure from earlier CCRU atmospheres.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 7
&&& What Is #AltWoke? #AltWoke is: The Catalytic Left. Post-Landian Left-Accelerationism. Team Reza Negarestani.
Definition · paragraph 7
Post-Landian Left-Accelerationism. Team Reza Negarestani. ‘The Dark Insurrection.’ Direct action hacktivism.
Definition · paragraph 17
#AltWoke Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/[9/22/2017 11:28:34 PM] solidified its stranglehold on structural power. Right Accelerationism is several steps ahead of its Leftist counterpart. In America, the GOP is imploding and the Alt-Right is slowly replacing this obsolete party.
Definition · paragraph 14
#AltWoke Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/[9/22/2017 11:28:34 PM] It’s become apparent that capitalism is reaching its limits, and it can’t sustain itself any longer. The marriage of capitalism and democracy has been a powerful roadblock in the Left’s struggle to combat structural power.
Definition · paragraph 13
#AltWoke Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/[9/22/2017 11:28:34 PM] 1. Theoria AltWoke is a new awakening for the post-modern Left to navigate the protean digital era. Altwoke can be categorized as the new New Left.
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Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.