{"id":5591,"date":"2025-04-05T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5591"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T23:56:08","slug":"bitterness-a-manifesto-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/?p=5591","title":{"rendered":"Bitterness: A Manifesto (excerpt)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bitterness: A Manifesto\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1091955012?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>An excerpt from a short <em>speculative<\/em> meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like <strong>Reza Negarestani<\/strong> and <strong>Michel Foucault<\/strong>. The video explores how \u201cbitterness\u201d signifies resistance, transformation, and meta-awareness. Chocolate becomes a cyborg, a ghost, a neural ritual\u2014less a treat, more a dark theory of mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short speculative meditation on dark chocolate, engaging with Japanese animist traditions and philosophical ideas from thinkers like Reza Negarestani and Michel Foucault. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,126,40],"tags":[393,394,204,274,386],"class_list":["post-5591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-excerpt","category-fiction","category-poetry","category-speculations","tag-chocolate","tag-philosophy","tag-poetry","tag-speculative","tag-theory-fiction"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5601,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5591\/revisions\/5601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thememorexe.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}