Tools for Conviviality (Ivan Illich, 1973) -- " institutions are functional when they promote a delicate balance between what people can do for themselves and what tools at the service of anonymous institutions can do for them " do we want to make tools that extend our humanities! as opposed to tools that feed into themselves .... -> " the use of science and technology constantly supports the industrial mode of production, and thereby crowds off the scene all tool shops for independent enterprise. But this is not the necessary result of new scientific discoveries or of their useful application. it is rather the result of a total prejudice in favor of the future expansion of an industrial mode of production. but science can also be used to simplify tools and to enable the layman to shape his immediate environment to his taste " may we appealingly add, his/her immediate governance Ivan Illich describes clearly how tools can reduce or extend our humanities writing in the 1970s he could but imagine the technology that we have in the 2020s I perceive these ideas interwoven with the Spirit of NOSTR among others our humanities are extended when the tools which we use support our pursuit for meaning, enable creative work and use technology to save people time and to have more "timenergy" (David McKerracher, 2023).

Critique of Transcendental Miserabilism - (Nick Land, 2007) Nick Land's critique of the leftist position that no part of capital is desirable, no part of capitalism is good. The popular leftist stance which critiques everything that is a part of capitalism, as stemming from the pure pursuit of growth and things which are not valuable to humans, as all it leads to is alienation. But then what is the left "left" with? There is no actionable economic plan forward there is only a rejection of the current mode of production the alternative proposals are not social plans but merely alternatives of privilege the focus on the politics of identity does not establish an alternative to capitalism in this essay Land's fascination with capitalism is evident, as a truly creative process " Perhaps there will always be a fashionable anticapitalism, but each will become unfashionable, while capitalism – becoming ever more tightly identified with its own self-surpassing – will always, inevitably, be the latest thing. ‘Means’ and ‘relations’ of production have simultaneously emulsified into competitive decentralized networks under numerical control, rendering palaeomarxist hopes of extracting a postcapitalist future from the capitalism machine overtly unimaginable. The machines have sophisticated themselves beyond the possibility of socialist utility, incarnating market mechanics within their nanoassembled interstices and evolving themselves by quasi-darwinian algorithms that build hypercompetition into ‘the infrastructure’. It is no longer just society, but time itself, that has taken the ‘capitalist road’. "