Notes On FitnaPunk

FitnaPunk: high technology and low futuwwa, instantaneous high technology and liquid modernity fused with collapsing soulcraft. Technology itself is forever frozen and ossified as a leveraged form of extrastate craft, but remains unexplored as terrain for mastery and sovereignty. One must pay debts to those who build with silicon. In FitnaPunk, amongst sprawling metropolises and silicon jungles and computational races, we are lost and deformed and just like fitna, there is an acidity to it that dissolves everything all at once - civilizational arson. The Centre is lost, drifting into the abyss without shelter, without refuge. Flames of techno-capital ravaging all around us. Karachi is FitnaPunk. Cairo is FitnaPunk - cesspools with Instagram Shorts blaring out in every street corner and every living thing captured by the GAE Cybernetic State via vectoralist/platform capture. Perhaps the greatest aspect of FitnaPunk is the passivity of it all, the apathy of it all. We're unable to…