> my freakin eyes are bolting through the ceiling. Dwayne, are they just being
> hiply ironic?
I thought it was a joke at first also, a sort of mocking transference of elementary-school divisions onto the Internet. But they (k-punk, larval subjects, Harman, mostly) are very serious, as they continually refer to the distinctions as if they really existed. Harman even calls it a "full-blown ethical theory."... Standards these days.
> not to take away from kpunk because i've generally enjoyed the blog, but
> still: the fuck?!
I also think k-punk's generally okay, but the grey vampire/troll (I refuse to capitalize) cosmology is just silly, a bad, John Hughes-like sociology. Actually, it's even more nefarious than that: it actively creates hierarchies -- k-punk is obviously a fan, not a GV or troll -- and labels that can be applied to people you want to exclude or who ask uncomfortable questions or make criticisms you don't like (i.e., can't answer). Fans are definitely the cool kids at the lunch table.
> i was also lost through some of it. what's a project?
That's what they call their philosophical/critical endeavors. As far as I can tell, "project" is just a neoliberal, immaterial word for commodity. How many people have the title project manager these days? Though maybe territory is more like it, as a project's boundaries must be protected from outside incursions and its sovereignty maintained.
The specific project is this thing called Speculative Realism. Most of the people who associate themselves with it are affable and open to questioning and inquiry, but Harman and Larval Subjects treat it like a brand. And like all intellectual property, it has to be defended, and they have both resorted to some really nasty behavior against people who have questioned them.