/lit/ - Literature

>>18089090
moldbug has a twitter? news to me

>>18089067
moldbug's writing on neo-cameralism is political literature, questionably so

>>15235301
After that go on to Patchwork

>>11832937
Read this it will change your life

>>11088295
cheers. i have read moldbug, got this about two weeks ago. the idea of dissolving everything into patchwork is a very interesting idea. it's even reminiscent of things that zizek talks about, in a weird way, about what True Communism would look like: that is, it wouldn't be the communist international presided over by stalin, but would actually be a whole bunch of people/states just sort of doing their own thing for their own various reasons. even resembles the ideal taoist/anarchist commune in a way.

Big Statism seems be the thing that repeatedly bites us in the ass and in that sense i agree with MM: dissolve that, decentralize, and let things sort themselves out in that way. and very particularly what he (and land) say about the desire for *security* over all else. and this in a way i think really defines one of the basic views w/r/t economics: a *libidinal* economy doesn't necessarily mean an affirmative/deleuzian/w/e view, predicated on jouissance. beyond a certain horizon it's entirely possible that we cross a kind of rubicon and start building a *phobic* economy instead: i don't really want more more moar, i really just want some consistent balance of having *enough* and so on. and my economic thinking comes in turn to inflect my political thinking and so on in this way. as it always has, of course.

>>11088305
>I’m skeptical of accelerationism, I’m definitely more on the pro-tech, automation is good, side of the left, but I don’t really see how accelerating helps us in the long run.

i'm pretty much with you on most of this. it's more that acceleration itself just seems to come first anyways - in a way, it's sort of like an arms race, but it's technology's own race with itself, fed by human interest. everybody knows that we are hurtling forward into this like it's the new space program, and it really can't be stopped. but what drives it is at the bottom consumerism (i would say). that's what makes political relations so schizoid, in a way. everybody wants their respective nations to have a better and more prosperous life, and this is what requires us to develop more risky technologies and so on.

good article here if you're interested.

https://www.rand.org/blog/articles/2018/05/can-humans-survive-a-faster-future.html?adbsc=social_Security2040_20180502_2319381&adbid=991520910824824832&adbpl=tw&adbpr=22545453

>t seems like something that is always going to be confined to grad students, and never can be translated into something politically larger

maybe the task of the grad students is just to try and describe what is happening slightly ahead of the curve so that responsibility for describing the actual story doesn't fall squarely on Wolf Blitzer or Sean Hannity to translate into Marvel Comics Universe stupidity for easy and rapid consumption.

there's no really functional news channel for talking about the Scary Dark Outside that acceleration is preoccupied with.