/lit/ - Literature

>>13002697
now that i think about it, i guess there are a couple more threads that spring to mind.

apparently this one attracted the eye of Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/thelastpsychiatrist/comments/8iq0bv/a_discussion_of_girard/
>>/lit/thread/S11096035

some more greentexting of Girard stuff:
>>/lit/thread/S11659130

Wilber on sacrifice and other things:
>>/lit/thread/S11073345

and i almost forgot! this was a short thing i posted after reading some Deleuze stuff and realizing that it explained some interesting stuff in my fave game, perhaps the moment when i really knew GD was for realsies.
>>/lit/thread/S9768566

alright. that should be enough continental philosophy for anyone! how on earth could anyone have this much to say, and yet be so completely confused at the same time? it boggles the mind. some people, you know? some people.

>>12580651
>Accelerationism is pure spectacle, prove me wrong.
that's a weird way to begin a conversation tho. put another way, this is a Chinese restaurant. we don't do sushi. you can compare our food to sushi all you like, and you will always be disappointed. we are the world's shittiest sushi restaurant. not even the faintest attempt at preparing sushi has been made here. you can search the place up and down - some of the staff hasn't even *heard* of sushi before. you see where i'm going with this.

>Instead of going out with your buddies and creating based situations with random people in the streets to stir them out of the dull mindset instilled in all of us by neoliberal capitalist ideology, you just shitpost on Twitter™ about how theoretical inhumanism is so cool and rad with other fundamentally limited humans and feel good about yourself while doing nothing else than to engage with the West-Coast authoritarian online apparatus. All of that to please an edgy boomer social media account (and btw there used to be a distinction between Outsideness and Urban Future 2.0, which sadly disappeared since @Damn_Jehu got banned).
so...are you looking for situationism? Merry Pranksters are fine and all but personally i'm more interested in wondering about what *isn't* in the end going to be a joke. maybe nothing is. if so then what?

>Don't get me wrong, I think the rediscovery of Nick Land is the best thing that happened to the amateur milieu of political philosophy during this decade, but I'm getting tired of "unconditional" wankery.
see >>12580664. this isn't u/acc. tomorrow i have a feeling i will be talking about bloat and disaster and ruin, things like this. very little is unconditional here. wankery yes, not so much u/wank.

>>12580730
>You are right, but I see no other thread where I can express this opinion and expect a thoughtful response.
that's fine, and you're welcome to express whatever opinions you like, obviously. certainly i'm not going to stop you. but how thoughtful a response can you really expect when you lead with
>U/Acc is Spectacle
when obviously u/acc is not what we are talking about, and
>prove me wrong
when even if we could, we probably wouldn't, because all that does is lead to rounds of douchey and boring and cynical one-upmanship. the Spectacle is for realsies, and so is capital. so too is a lot of /acc stuff, but that's the thing - nobody fucking knows where things are headed now. NRx is dead, Woke Capital is in, Land is mostly writing about BTC, Murphy just lost his uni gig...everything is quite fucked up atm. that's a good speculative opportunity, but bad if you're looking for something that looks like a new orthodoxy.

tomorrow (or the next day) i'm hoping to write a bunch of pretentious dopey bullshit about ruins and wastelands, and i hope to be roundly mocked and called a pseud for this. i desire this! perhaps this will satisfy your craving. not by getting it, but by seeing what it doesn't look like...

>>12084022
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>>12084093

the thing is, really, *what's after /acc* my feel is, *nothing.* after postmodernity comes *Burnout.* it's After Meltdown. that's my thing. it really is. there will be other things, of course. there will be technological increase, things like this. but as far as reaching Maximum Darkness? as far as i'm concerned, we're there. after Ben Woodward and Eugene Thacker and Nyx and whoever else, there's nothing else, there's nowhere else to go, except Recovery and Rehab. in a World of Ruin.

that's where i think it goes. i could be wrong, no question. but that's my feel. and as works of art go, FF6 just has *everything* for me. all of it. maybe this is relevant, maybe not. hell even Aminom prompted me to think about the Warring Triad/Vinegar Tasters relation, and Kefka, and Doomsday Clowns, and other things.

The Passion of the Postmodern Mind. that's the Wild Ride, basically, and it terminates in Burnout. those are my feels today, and things i'd want to talk about. i don't know what comes after cyberpunk except burnout, i don't know how much Edgier things can get. i'll have to wait and see what Uncle Nick says about BTC, and how those ideas are received, of course...but part of the impetus towards Cosmotech and away from pure /acc is from YH, from After Meltdown as a concept. what produced Meltdown? what is Meltdown? why couldn't it be stopped?
>kefka knows, and that is why he is who he is.

and other stuff. those are the things that really interest me. and what does this say about the human condition? Stiegler/Sloterdijk were talking about it too, like in the Anthropocene, problems with energy, growth, all the rest. so, things like this. some of the things i'm thinking about today. Rehab after the Age of Excess, why the Excess was necessary, what Cosmotechnics really means, YH, lots of other stuff.