SPIRAL

Slavoj Žižek asks: ‘What if the Matrix fu***ng sucked?’‘

And our author Tomas Einarsson asks: “What it is Zuckerberg is trying to parasitically suck out of humanity?”

Why is Facebook so attractive to fanatics and boomers? Why does the bland, neutral-looking website become a festering cesspit of far-right extremism when humans touch it? What will happen to the Metaverse? Why do we secretly crave the sweet embrace of the fictional and its power to streamline the libidinal? Why does Mark Zuckerberg always look like he’s about to unhinge his jaw like a snake?

"It’s funny that internet fascists call themselves ‘red-pilled’ when they owe their outlook to the big Other, the algorithm, which curates their conspiratorial reality for them. If anything, are they not permanently plugged into the hypothetical Matrix? Are they not reliant on a pill dyed in Facebook Blue?"

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is a first attempt at Libidinal Vampirism — spiral Mark Zuckerberg’s Metaverse is a first attempt at Libidinal VampirismTomas Einarssonculturally spiraling Slavoj Žižek asks: ‘What if the Matrix fu***ng...