/lit/ - Literature

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like find a flaw in this. that's fucking brilliant. that's Young ultraleftist-to-the-point-of-insanity Nick, who was shortly thereafter sucked into a black hole and wound up having tea with Bataille on Rl'yeh and returned later on as NRx shitlord. NRx was pretty fascinating too. Land has been a part of darkly fascinating stuff most of his life.

that is a great post, one of the better summations of all of this stuff. and that is part of the message of Marxist critique as well. neomarxism-as-deconstruction became completely wedded to postmodernity (as much as feminism became wedded to neoliberalism, and rendered the economic critique of capital itself impossible). all of these things happen in the 1990s, there is this delirious and confusing mashup of ideologies new and old that particularly acute writers were aware of, and which manifest as new forms of ideology today which, as always, we fail to see as soon as we take them as Reality, and begin asking very bad questions, like, Are We On The Right Side Of History Now?

fascism and communism always work by abandoning philosophy, and neoliberalism allows for this by refusing to ask these questions of itself. it can't, there are too many jobs on the line. it's like subways in China. there's too many people who have to get to work, you can't just stop the system and call for a blank slate. if a couple of people get crushed to death, it all becomes a part of the cost of doing business. the spice must flow and the trains must run.

and that's it, that's what Land was keying in on, that this autonomous process begins to run itself - and shit, maybe it only works so much the better when it can co-opt the methodology of old-school Marxism to do so (and which the best possible form of which is the detached analysis). but how do you arrive at a fully detached view of the human? CCRU witchcraft is one way.

Fanged Noumena is fucking great. it is an awesome text. and it's not even that *complicated!* and it opens up about 20m new questions that actually do need to get asked - about tech, and AI, tons of other shit. nobody has to go as mental as Land does, but not going a little bit mental with that stuff basically dooms one to play really stupid language games and engage in really stupid arguments that you are going to lose precisely because the perspective gets lost in terminal and terminally stupid modes of relativism. there's a much bigger and more interesting story in progress, and the real catastrophe is the loss of that one. that's the actual tragedy of it all, the corrosion of philosophy by total banality.