/lit/ - Literature

>>11992226
seconding this. you can always read Adorno, Heidegger et al once more with feeling (or just once). but for specifically cyber-aesthetics? nothing comes to mind. would be interested to read this tho. maybe there's some other visionary cyber-writer out there talking about this stuff nobody knows about.

>>11992333
post-atheism is about the best thing i've read in these threads so far, and there's been a lot of really good posts in it.

post-atheism. just that. he's on to something quite beautiful there.

>>11992402
>Any work of philosophy has one goal, and that's to alter the way that you think about what's real
i like this too. the difference between philosophy and fiction has always been small. it's mainly our own thick skulls that require us to have things put in Capital Letters so that we can understand them, which winds up...making us terribly obedient to the Capital Letters. we're such a funny, and sad, species of monkey.

in general the idea of critical theory and the actual non-fuckface parts of postmodernism was to make you suspicious about your own intentions. there was a kind of paranoia to it which was healthy, in other words, and part of what we could call sound judgment.

today it's morphed into this new fuckery, which is where i am *never* suspicious about you, based on my allegiance to my tribe and you to yours. which would be fine if we could just say, okay, it's tribal warfare now. but a) we don't and b) there's no reason to. at least, that's how i look at it. maybe people have to break the Unity up. after all, life is only really a SMAC simulator. everything we need to know about engineering social reality we have already learned from SMAC.
>i'm fucking joking here
>i mean mostly
>some

>>11992724
why not?

>>11992867
i did but i'm a brainlet also, and i found it kind of hard to follow the plot. it is good tho, and Watts seems like a cool guy too.

>>11992978
yup. you don't have to agree with the Communist Manifesto, and you can read the Austrians too afterwards. Uncle Nick would probably prefer it, in fact. but yeah, you do have to read Marx. i'm quite fond of Jameson's 'Representing Capital' for an intro.

i have a request too. can anybody translate this text?
>it says you have a tiny penis
>ok but still tho