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'''Tartaria''' (or "Great Tartary") was a real geographic term on European maps from the 16th–19th centuries denoting the vast, poorly-mapped region of Central and Northern Asia — Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia. In the 2010s it became the name of a conspiracy theory claiming a global "Tartarian Empire" whose advanced architecture (world's fair buildings, ornate pre-1900 structures) was destroyed and its history erased.
'''Tartaria''' appears in Infrared discourse on two levels: the real historical geography and the meme.


== The conspiracy ==
== The meme ==
* Claims that mud-flood catastrophes, "culture laundering," and deliberate demolition hid a technologically advanced civilization.
In the Infrawoke bit, Haz parodies wokespeak by claiming "people of Tartaria" as an oppressed identity: "Woke 1.0 was revealed to be deeply rooted in problematic structures of anti-Tartarian Atlantis supremacy and other forms of discrimination against people of Tartaria... that's a deeply Islamophobic framing rooted in anti-Tartarian discrimination" ([https://infrared-transcripts.pages.dev/en/kick/infrared/007a6ff2-3861-4c00-af25-e5aff3e9d04c/ COMMUNISM WINNING | INFRAWOKE stream]). The joke works because it exposes the '''form''' of liberal moral discourse — infinite regress of problematic structures, invented victim groups, "deeply problematic" as content-free verdict — by filling it with absurd referents.
* Treats architectural styles (Second Empire, Beaux-Arts) as evidence of lost technology; orphan trains as evidence of population replacement.
* Explains nothing but expresses something: distrust of official history among people alienated from institutional authority.


== Infrared treatment ==
== The underlying point ==
Infrared has discussed Tartaria as a case study in how historical nihilism fills the vacuum left by the collapse of popular historical consciousness — and occasionally with ironic sympathy for its underlying intuition: that the standard narrative of Western development conceals real erasures (the commons, non-Western civilizational achievements). Haz's line: the answer to fake hidden history is real suppressed history — primitive accumulation, enclosure, colonial plunder.
Haz's serious critique of conspiracy culture (Tartaria-as-hidden-empire being a staple of the online right) is the same method he applies everywhere: don't mock the energy, redirect it. The Tartaria audience is people who already distrust official history; the communist task is to give them '''real suppressed history''' enclosure, primitive accumulation, colonial plunder — instead of mudflood fantasy.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Cosmism]]
* [[Infrawoke]]
* [[Anglo Box]]


== References ==
== References ==
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Revision as of 09:44, 21 August 2026

Tartaria appears in Infrared discourse on two levels: the real historical geography and the meme.

The meme

In the Infrawoke bit, Haz parodies wokespeak by claiming "people of Tartaria" as an oppressed identity: "Woke 1.0 was revealed to be deeply rooted in problematic structures of anti-Tartarian Atlantis supremacy and other forms of discrimination against people of Tartaria... that's a deeply Islamophobic framing rooted in anti-Tartarian discrimination" (COMMUNISM WINNING | INFRAWOKE stream). The joke works because it exposes the form of liberal moral discourse — infinite regress of problematic structures, invented victim groups, "deeply problematic" as content-free verdict — by filling it with absurd referents.

The underlying point

Haz's serious critique of conspiracy culture (Tartaria-as-hidden-empire being a staple of the online right) is the same method he applies everywhere: don't mock the energy, redirect it. The Tartaria audience is people who already distrust official history; the communist task is to give them real suppressed history — enclosure, primitive accumulation, colonial plunder — instead of mudflood fantasy.

See also

References