/lit/ - Literature

>>9630295
>Even more perverse, technology has a fairly clear trajectory or replacing all human capacities through automation, robotics, genetic engineer, artificial intelligence. So if Capital is an End in and of itself, it might be an end that doesn't include us.
Yeah. I mean it's not even like we have to wait for Skynet to do it: we already do it to ourselves, so if Skynet wakes up and concludes that it can do this even better...right? It's just doing what we taught it, Frankenstein's monster 2.0.

As you've indicated, technology does replace all of these human capacities. Which is why I find it interesting to look into the one part of this stuff that I actually can understand, the unconscious, the will, the desires, aesthetics and so on. Everything that we feed Technology (or Capital, which in a cultural sense is really the same devouring boogeyman that frightened Heidegger and other early 20C Germans, together with the same right-wing reactions) we bring out of ourselves and we know it. Or perhaps, as Girard says, we meme it off of each other. Even Sloterdijk only thought that capital was an accelerator of cultural processes and not much more, so it's sort of like a Cursed Holodeck that gives us both more and less than what we want.

How we think technology, as something independent of us or wired in and so on seems right up there with suicide as one of philosophy's great contemporary questions, it informs everything else. I was majorly stuck on Heidegger for a long time...and it's tempting to go back there sometimes, since he accords so well with Eastern stuff too. Even if I think his great contribution lies more in existential psychotherapy as much as with critique of technology proper. Although spec-real guys like Harman and Bryant are apparently following from Heidegger now, so maybe he's back on the table again...

How or whether or not we become posthuman is probably going to require the painful unearthing of a lot of old symbolic territory. You can see it in the new right aesthetics too, the split between the pastoralists and the NRx'rs, whether the future means going backwards or forwards...

I don't know. I probably spend too much time dwelling on this stuff. I just wanted to write a fucking story about dragons and wizards. I didn't think it was actually going to be *this* complicated or batshit insane.