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Bernal broached the question of what it meant to be a citizen of science and a citizen as a scientist.

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===Introduction by McKenzie Wark===

Bernal was what we would now call an accelerationist. He was an Irish landowner and had a "precocious identification with the cause of Sinn Fein"

<pre>Bernal broached the question of what it meant to be a citizen of science and a citizen as a scientist.</pre>

<pre>for Bernal, utopian thought ought to replace religion as a way of feeling out the relation of present to future. In place of heaven or apocalypse, he offered a kind of writing that finds the conditions of the possible in language itself.</pre>

<pre>evolutiona matter of perversion and a perversion of matter... Nature itself is perverse or in today's language—queer</pre>

<pre>desire itself has to evolve. Bernal is not a rationalist</pre>

The idea of evolving from personal to social desires sounds so potentially dangerous, religious, repressive.

<pre>how can the unconscious also become productive?</pre>

Eww no fuck off my conscious is already too productive leave me alone.

<pre>perhaps the true society will grow tired of development and, out or of freedom, leave possibilities unused, instead of storming under a confused compulsion to the conquest of strange stars.</pre>

Adorno, Minima Moralia. I don't know if I can imagine doing this as an individual but I see why it's appealling.

Further reading: paol Corno, a grammar of the multitude. Theodore Adorno, the culture industry, Bernal the social function of science.

<pre>perhaps social struggles cannot be effectively fight by politics, philosophy, social science and the arts without attention to their scientific and technical components.</pre>

<pre>man will not untimely be content to be parasitic on the stars but will invade them and organise them for his own purposes.</pre>

Bernal says we should form "small" communities of 20–30,000 people inside man made exoplanets. "There would probably be no more need for government than in a modern hotel" and "the inhabitants can be divided into the personnel or crew, and the citizens or passengers. With the first ... we need not be concerned" 😬 what about a movie where there is a revolution in one of these globes, also the movie could just be called revolution? Do these globes spin maybe not.

Hes kind of right the way he says parasitic in a negative way though, would it be better to be less vampiric. More symbiotic. More in tune with the oneness of the universe.

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