/lit/ - Literature

>>12517503
so yeah. personally, philosophy has more or less carved out a role for me as itinerant wasteland bard, forever trying to sing one song about the history of Marxism, how we learn to produce reality, and wind up getting stuck in a time-loop of reification. it's a compelling one, and Land is a major chapter in it. acceleration is an episode of postmodernity, and maybe they both collapse together in the end in total exhaustion. very possible.

but it's just ridiculous to dismiss Land as some kind nonentity or pseud. it makes no sense. true, it doesn't make a lot of sense to *start* with him either, any more than if you want to understand postmodernity or deconstruction to start with Derrida (which i did, by the way, and i am urging you not to do this).
>so you're into Derrida and Land? two of the worst pseuds ever?
>well i think they should both be read inner self
>you do understand that By Their Powers Combined makes you a true incarnation of pointless pseudery, yes?
>well obviously inner self
>and you do this...why, exactly?
>because i wanted to know inner self. it's like gazing into the Palantir
>except the Palantir is the underside of Derrida's fucking scrotum
>yes
>okay. just so that we have you on record
>Derrida actually is interesting tho, if you look at things through a technological lens
>nope. not going there
>but he knew, he was actually underrated
>next you're going to say something nice about Foucault
>...
>god i hate you. i hate you so much

this is what i think: i think continental theory is a language, and it should be de-mystified, like a deconstruction of deconstruction, having no relation whatsoever to reality, history, or politics. it like a toolset, a story told about history, which can remain a story, but the real Black Magic begins once you start confusing theory with reality. it would be better, i think, if a lot of philosophy was crypto-locked in a place where it could not get out, where we somehow prevented all of its sorcery from turning us into 20C ideologues over and over.

that is my real wish: the Boxed Set. all of these terms and ideas, deactivated from being weapons, and being made into harmless *toys,* that do not get out of hand. i don't know how this is to be done, but if it is to be done at all, it has to be done historically, so that we can see how new ideas are formed and shaped, without becoming disintegrated into formless and shapeless replicants.

>and probably so that we can start the whole thing aaaaaaaaaalll over again, like New Game+.