/lit/ - Literature

sloterdijk writes somewhere about a wish for a hermeneutics of explosion: doesn't this just make sense, in some level? things start with the Big Bang, we wind up with internal combustion, atomic power, we have markets that run on boom/bust cycles, and of course, Causality.

The Matrix: Causality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U24-PF0_Zj4

it's just a firecracker world like that. the world would surely be a poorer and more boring place without Fire!!1!
>fire!
>calm down inner self
>fire will be the judge of all things girardfag
>yes i know inner self
>fire tho. fire

and yet the beautiful stuff doesn't come from the infinite inability to control lightning by blasting it in all directions, but controlling, harnessing, and directing it. again, you don't want to read me on this, read Bataille: Solar Generosity and the fundamental excess of the accursed share was exactly what made him brilliant. in fact, we could probably do an Accursed Share greentexting spree in the next thread, or maybe even this one. we're starting to close in on the image cap tho, so i might want to save that for another time. but that book is without a doubt a hugely important one in the genealogy of the Wild Ride also.

really there's just a lot that is given up when you lose the real meaning of space, the feeling for stars. it's easy to do, and sadly, capitalism is arguably even more interesting. but in the end it destroys your soul. and for a while it's easy to say, well, so much for the soul, then. except that later on, when you actually want to have one, and you realize you miss it. there was some critic who said this, that there was too much humanity being given up for too little fiction. he was right about that, i think.