/lit/ - Literature

Regardless of how it performs temporality - self-fashioning is necessarily always-already occurring. An ethics that differentiates between whether cause precedes or proceeds action is only doing so in order to create a transtemporal passageway in which psycho-spiritual energy can be laundered. God functions as a Light against which is created a Dark in which obscene-destructive impulses can traffic. Monothesim gives us the dislocation between heaven and earth - and allows us a certain idea of what our accountability will be like. Marx's (and subsequent Marxs (plural)) extends this dislocation to labor and value - which did two things. One is establish a moral accountabiltiy beyond a single human lifetime, based on the new religious revelation of "labour" and "capital". The second was that in order to be willing to endure the pain of this new ethics, a new eschatology was born in the form of capitalism's death at the hands of the working class (of which Singulatarianism is an inversion - Land innovation is that he places Capitalism's catastrophe in the past, as opposed to the future). Both are just applications of the same basic folding-technique against which the psycho-spiritual energies of man can be made to flow discontiunously (any low-level topologists in here? I'm basically talking about folding a piece of paper so that an ant can crawl from one side of the paper to the other in an instant).

It is only within time that we can call someone a hypocrite. "Says one thing and does another". Parse this down. "acts one way, and then acts another way". There is a schizm in their behavior. What happened was that they walked from one point on the map to the other. It's so much a fault of perception, but that morality-space is neither euclidean nor closed. These discontinuities in intellectual space-time (splittings of causality) act as rifts within which we hide our emotional baggage.

because starting from D&G means no hegel, no freud, no lacan.