/lit/ - Literature

>>16494368
they call him neon, they call him speed demon, they call him space master, they call him double bind arbuckle
>>16494375
yes you have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

>>14637349
>in reality it functions as a parallel to the industry of escape, the bourgeois revolution against collapse
I certainly don't think this is true, accelerationism is closer to a cult of collapse rather than a human revolution against collapse. a human revolution against collapse is one of the least accelerationist things I can imagine
>theoretical science fiction as a means of repurposing sentimental utopia.
another aesthetic sentence but I don't get this one. what exactly is "sentimental" utopia and how was it repurposed?
>escape beyond the limits of modernity to appropriate history as a single economic event
probably more accurate to say the limits of modernity expand to find history within itself and thus retroactively repurposes history to it's own ends (which of course modernity would frame economically)
>Land imagines this vast explosion of time returning us to the creation. Unfortunately, he also imagines himself as Achilles overtaking the Tortoise
maybe I parsed this wrong, is it saying Land thinks he can overtake capital? he most certainly sees himself as the tortoise
>All that has been achieved is oneness with the entire idea of modernity: its liberals, fascists, and communists; its gas chambers and gulags; its motorised food industry; its social justice warriors and clowns of the right-wing who think they're any different.
depends what side of the coin you are on really. Nick Land complains about SJW's as much as people like Fisher complained about the clowns of the right-wing. monkey's don't give up their politics so easy, but that doesn't mean the analysis is wrong, just that humans will always reterritorialize it in their own image (much like every other philosophy, I might add).
>Materialist philosophy can never understand difference
the greatest philosopher of difference, Deleuze, was himself a materialist
>One focuses on economic questions only insofar as he seeks escape from greater forces, that which frees man of his wants. In accelerationism we see the combined folly of the left and right, the idea that essence is a form of property theft - thus its adherents can only imagine the greatest economic regulation possible.
accelerationism is pretty clear that escape from greater forces is either impossible or not something the human is capable of. if you think accelerationists advocate for (imagine?) the "greatest economic regulation possible", you got some major wires crossed in your analysis

>>12044765
The psycho-organic singularity hits, omnicide is averted and a continually self-optimizing Eutopic social state self-organizes. What then? Life faces another ultimate death: the heat-death of the universe that while unimaginably distant, appears to be a reality as far as we know: eventually the stars die, and life and consciousness with it. To overcome this is the ultimate overcoming, The Last Question: https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf

This story can be interpreted as a loop where the end leads to the beginning, describing an eternal recurrence where AC restarts the entire universe from the beginning, a temporal paradox. But what if AC doesn't re-create the universe precisely, but instead adds a small bit of information that would eventually self-organize into the answer to The Last Question at the earliest possible point in cosmic history, or sends such information back in time to such a point (both are functionally equivalent)? Consciousness learns how to create matter and energy from nothing, create new universes, or both, averting eternal recurrence and heat-death alike. The manifestation of such a future means that AC would erase its own future (or past) existence, since it would never be built for such a purpose. Hyperstition is realizing that this story and other similar ones themselves have causal power without needing to be "true," it's the thought-experiment and its affects that matters. AC is the story and The Last Question is the last question, which also happens to be isomorphic to Autonym, which deals with informational entropy. Asimov was a time-sorcerer, and so are the physicists who have developed the world-story of modern cosmology and physics upon which it is based.

But it all starts with the individual human being's own struggle with Ouroboros and self-devouring omniphobia. The zero-dollar question is how can recursively self-improving self-improvement be taught to others? All self-help systems are complete shams, if any of them could do what they claim the world would already be saved. We've made a precise science of figuring out how to manipulate consciousness for the end of profit and power, but virtually no advancement in figuring out how to teach consciousness to manipulate itself and liberate itself from autonomous control mechanisms.

Autonym continues to gravitate the pieces of the solution of consciousness' problem of itself towards each other, as it has done through history.

>>11823861
Brah, god is just a super computer that melded with hyperspace. After the universe died, it stayed in hyperspace trying figure out how to reverse entropy. Once it did, it remade everything so it can show off to peeps