Mary Harrington in the Cyborg Theocracy | Part One

Standing Reserve

Mary Harrington is a web nerd and besotted mother of one from a small market town in the English countryside. She also happens to be a rising star of the dissident literary underground.

She calls herself a “reactionary feminist,” and if that combination of terms reads like “firefighting arsonist” to you then I suggest you see how she reconciles them in her new book Feminism Against Progress - “FAP” for short.

Something I like about Mary is her use of playful terms to describe contemporary phenomena. She invented “swarmism” to describe a new form of unaccountable network power, “meat lego Gnosticism” refers to a disembodied, dehumanising perspective that reduces human bodies to interchangeable parts, and “human centipede culture” is the endless stream of remakes, sequels, and imitations, the culture industry insists on force-feeding us. When she started using “Cyborg Theocracy” to describe our current moral paradigm, I had to learn more.

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I’ve split our discussion into two parts. In part one (above), we attempt to describe the Cyborg Theocracy and some of its implications. In part two (below), Mary and I look at the saints and priestesses of Cyborg Theocracy.

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