[ExI] Iain M Banks' Culture Novels [WAS Re: Usages of the term libertarianism]

[Stefano Vaj]

On 20 May 2011 18:01, Richard Loosemore <rpwl at lightlink.com> wrote:
> I find Banks' Culture to be an excellent vision of the only stable society
> of the future, if what we want is a future in which we don't live in log
> cabins, spending every minute of our time collecting tolls from anyone who
> comes within breathing distance.  Frankly, I choose starships over log
> cabins.

Interesting.

I find the Culture an abherrant positive spin on a Brave-New-Worldish
scenario projected on a galaxy scale...

(Controlled, enslaved) technology at the service of stagnation and
uniformity is much more of a threat for indefinite becoming and
diverse posthuman change than any neoluddite dreams.

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Stefano Vaj