Ken MacLeod: Red Futures in the Gutter

From The Dark Forest

This is MacLeod’s great refusal: no radiant tomorrows, no shining cities in orbit, no anarchist communes beyond corruption. Every faction is cracked. Every ideology is compromised. Every rebellion curdles into dogma, every revolution ossifies into bureaucracy, every insurgency becomes indistinguishable from the power it once opposed. And yet it never stops. People still fight, because they cannot not fight. Ideas still mutate, because they cannot die. The wheel of ideology keeps turning, grinding flesh beneath it, even when all that’s left is rubble.

Claude Guillon: 1952-2023

January 20, 2023
by CIRA

Salut Claude!

On January 19, 2023, our friend Claude Guillon bowed out.

It was cancer that got the better of him at the age of 70 (he was born in Paris on September 17, 1952). He kept us informed of the progress of his disease on his blog. His regular health bulletins were reserved for "those who really care!"

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