/lit/ - Literature

>>11991101
>Care to elaborate on what that thorn is, and maybe how you think what you're doing will remove it?

the Thorn is death and desire. the Thorn is not the pharmakon itself, but your power of belief in the pharmakon, that it will actually cure you. that is how a pharmakon works: whatever magic it has all proceeds from whatever it is that you project onto it.

later in this thread i will probably start talking about my own form of Cure for political woes, which is unironically magical. but it's basically because the only real magic is *time,* time, Time, and more time. Time is the thing. Time is all of the thing. it is Time now, Time later, and Time on the side. technology is the time that you can touch, as both theory and praxis, the sheet music and the grand piano. Heidegger was not even in the teeny-tiniest way wrong about any of this, and there is a deep oceanic cable that connects him to Uncle Nick, although it runs across the Atlantic (or Pacific?) sea floor, and the water there is full of Deleuzian rhizomes, Lovecraftian squid-gods, and probably a couple of breathtakingly handsome Nietzschean sea-fowl swooping around on the surface and doing what they do. it is all beautiful cosmology up there, and the craziness and hilarity and wonderful-osity of ecology goes a long way in terms of making the case for Nietzsche, Spinoza, Deleuze, and others.

for Uncle Nick, capital in the 21C has a Darwinian aspect. we're not in the 19C anymore. Uncle Nick's feel for social Darwinism takes place entirely at the level of virtuality, tech, simulation, and computers. technocapital under modernity selects for itself. now i am - this warrants mentioning - not actually interested in promulgating the Gospel of Nick any further than this. we are (hopefully!) coming to the end of one phase of the Wild Ride in that sense. Teleoplexy is a point of speculative departure, not a prescriptive recipe for ideology in and of itself. Capitalism is an absolute motherfucker on this, but that is why these threads are here: to *get a grip.*