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By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on November 15, 2020November 15, 2020

China, Outer Space and the Arctic’s melting point

As a cold, dark, dangerous place, the Arctic is often compared to Outer Space. It is a remote, barren land, mostly unknown, and cannot even be reliably penetrated without the … Continue reading China, Outer Space and the Arctic’s melting point

Tags: america, china, cosmopolitics, geopolitics, russia
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on October 8, 2020December 8, 2020

The Peloponnesian Paradigm, and why Central Asia matters

The Spartan-Athenian rivalry is a useful memetic framework for the discussion of biopolitics, as we have seen in the past few weeks. The archetypal attitudes towards women and feminity found … Continue reading The Peloponnesian Paradigm, and why Central Asia matters

Tags: america, china, classics, geopolitics, russia, turkey
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on August 16, 2020

Mediatic facts and controlled demolitions from across the Rubicon

Conflict is deeply ingrained in the human mind. Like a cloud of electrically charged particles, it remains potential and shapeless, in an ideal resting state. When it is given ideological … Continue reading Mediatic facts and controlled demolitions from across the Rubicon

Tags: china, coronavirus, futurism, geopolitics, memetics, russia, turkey
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on August 9, 2020

The worst thing to come out of 2020

If one thing can be said of George Friedman’s book “The Next 100 Years: a forecast for the 21st century”: it is that it’s provocative. It was published in 2009, … Continue reading The worst thing to come out of 2020

Tags: china, coronavirus, geopolitics, intermarium, poland, russia, turkey
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on August 3, 2020August 3, 2020

The friendzoning of the West

The Gross Domestic Product of the People’s Republic of China was worth 14,342.90 billion USD in 2019, according to official data from the World Bank and projections from Trading Economics: … Continue reading The friendzoning of the West

Tags: acceleration, china, communism, geopolitics
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on July 11, 2020January 12, 2021

Veblen, the leisure class, techno-conspirators and the leftovers

As an interpretation somewhat removed from mainstream Marxism, the natural synergies between Communism and Capitalism are a favorite topic of this blog. This trait was best recognized by no other … Continue reading Veblen, the leisure class, techno-conspirators and the leftovers

Tags: acceleration, bourgeois, china, geopolitics, memetics, russia, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 28, 2020July 26, 2020

Liquefying the Heartland: an experiment in wild geopolitical speculation

The Great Game, an expression popularized by Rudyard Kipling, was the geopolitical competition which existed between the British and Russian Empires over Central Asia during much of the 19th century. … Continue reading Liquefying the Heartland: an experiment in wild geopolitical speculation

Tags: china, geopolitics, russia
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 11, 2020July 26, 2020

Geopolitical Change Denialism

As we’ve explained before, when a conflict arises, the possible positions to be taken in regards to it, its memetic frame, is previous to the choice of sides by the … Continue reading Geopolitical Change Denialism

Tags: accelerationism, china, communism, futurism, geopolitics, memetics
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on May 1, 2020July 26, 2020

Revolution defanged: Bourgeois Conservative Socialism

In the last posts we talked about Reactionary Socialism and its three variants. Marx and Engels were somewhat appreciative of the critic posed by the reactionaries to the Bourgeois State. … Continue reading Revolution defanged: Bourgeois Conservative Socialism

Tags: bourgeois, china, communism, futurism, memetics, socialism
By Cornelius Stahlblau Posted on April 23, 2020July 26, 2020

The Anti-Socialist Load

In the last article published here at The Outpost, we discussed a critical assertion implied by the Communist Manifesto’s: that capitalism and communism are two sides of the same coin. … Continue reading The Anti-Socialist Load

Tags: acceleration, accelerationism, china, communism, coronavirus, geopolitics, socialism

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