Best 3 quotes of Reza Negarestani on MyQuotes

The utilization of power in a decaying system is a necrophilic experience.

To be free one must be a slave to reason. But to be a slave to reason (the very condition of freedom) exposes one to both the revisionary power and the constructive compulsion of reason. This susceptibility is terminally amplified once the commitment to the autonomy of reason and autonomous engagement with discursive practices are sufficiently elaborated. That is to say, when the autonomy of reason is understood as the automation of reason and discursive practices—the philosophical rather than classically symbolic thesis regarding artificial general intelligence.

To put it succinctly: description without prescription is the germ of resignation, and prescription without description is mere whim.