/lit/ - Literature

>>11195094
underrated post. i'm going to have to check out death and life of great american cities. good stuff anon. thanks for keeping it thematic.

wasn't it thiel who says in one of his interviews that cities are basically immortal? i can't remember which one it is but he definitely says something like this, that most of the major cities that were ever founded are still here now. i'm sure he's aware that some of them have gone, but that the big ones today we would imagine will be there for a long time yet.

pretty cool. and indeed these teleoplectic burners
(and shredders).

>>11218666
can into some of this. that communists befriend progressive elites, sure. this is what leads to whatever monster we have today which goes by the name of neoliberalism or neomarxism, depending on who you ask. whatever it is it's appropriative perversion of the ideals of that which it isn't. the proverbial worst of both worlds.

can't buy that deleuze was a psyop tho. he was just a quiet literary genius from france who was best buds with another genius from france. in a time that seemed to have cranked out a whole bunch of geniuses.

>>11218760
>I've grown a bit tired of the lionization of China by people who hate their own societies as a result of Progressivism.

yep, fair point. i thought i signaled enough of that in those posts but you're not wrong to point it out. china's definitely in a weird place of its own and if history has taught us anything it's not to bet against the west. we're like michael myers like that.

i guess part of my interest in china is just a kind of mysterious romance with any kind of national optimism and futuristic thinking that *doesn't* immediately require me to think of the nazis/soviets et al. you know what i mean? it's like a star trek fantasy, that people are working for the national good in non-horrible ways. but no doubt china is a very fragile superpower atm and the story is very much still in the unfolding.

i just saw black panther too, so maybe some of that is rubbing off on me. i really liked that film. even if i thought killmonger slow-played the villainy. he should have stolen every scene. minor gripe tho, the rest of it was great fun.

>>11218821
yeah. he really was a pretty awesome guy. i wasn't following his writing when he was alive, but on those old blogs you can see i think that he was really i think an important interlocutor for land. i don't know. but he seems like the kind of guy who would kind of get you to work harder at your opinions like that. everything i've read of him tells me he was a pretty rare and beautiful soul like that.

i think philosophers do well in buddies and teams. maybe like rock bands do. i don't know. but you kind of get that those guys played off each other well like that. regardless of politics. i think it's just human to do that. maybe the philosophical tag-team is the way to go.