/lit/ - Literature

You have not forgotten that you're living in a lie, right?

>>12000913
>In capital and it's society of spectacle God the process was abstracted from needing a mascot into a pure process that self-imposes itself on the world; capitalism is the decapitated corpse of Jahweh who accelerates humanity towards omnicide, the ultimate manifestation of God's nihilism as total annihilation. Even if theism and religion were to magically vanish from reality, God the process would live on in capital - as it has after the death of God the being as the center of human organization.

there was probably a time when i would have taken a pass on this, and that time is not now.

>The thrill of The Wild Ride is knowing that neither outcome is certain and the stakes are ultimate, that every human on Earth is a part of this struggle older than human history, a struggle of human creativity over the weaponization of creativity against itself.

>This is the "great filter" of speculation regarding cosmic civilizations, the parasitic nihilism of God the process never makes it out of its originating solar system alive.

same.

the thing that Uncle Nick did, imho, and it is a priceless gift, is that he made philosophy great again. up until him - ofc i have to project my own sense onto this- Derrida had the belt. he really did. and in a way it wasn't even all that bad, all great philosophers have good intentions. Derrida's came from being a product of both Heidegger and Levinas, which you wouldn't think would be possible, except Doomsday Jacques *made* it possible by causing reality to disappear. and he did so, i believe, because he understood well the dangers of the signifier. and so he produced a sort of Ghost Kingdom, which i find quite fascinating...

and yet Uncle Nick applied the defibrillators, like the time-traveling psycho-guerrilla he truly was, and brought with him visions of R'lyeh that even Derrida's Ghost Magic could not resist. and now the Western world is waking up, or partly trapped, in an incredible nightmare that results from this failing system. i shit you not, if somebody could compress the story of 20C continental philosophy into a sci-fi action blockbuster it would be the greatest thing ever. it *could* have been what the Matrix was all about, and wasn't, but the Matrix was close. some other writer will have to do the rest of it. but just the saga of how we get from Hegel to Land is like Game of Thrones if you look at it from a particular view. Derrida wasn't a bad guy, he was the last philosopher of an old order, and Uncle Nick is one of the first ones of the new system, imho.

>astral travel
in a way, i like this too. it's the plane of immanence, in some sense, and yet updated with a caveat: contra Deleuze, most of us are far more similar than different, and technology is increasing and accelerating this process. the internet really made it possible for some conversations that just weren't possible (or necessary, or even thinkable) in ages previous.

Why do people see him as a fraud?

Did Derrida really rip-off UC Irvine for trying to investigate sexual harrassment claims of his coworker by refusing to allow them to scan his manuscripts after they had invested tens of thousands in archival technology to document rare Derrida texts?

Why the fuck is this rape apologist still taught on campus?

this one's for you, nick

>>7207100
Why couldn't the ancients do something besides writing about deconstruction?

>>6787650
Worse mémé!

>>6652617
Life is pseudo-philosophical rubbish for me. Ergo Proxy best represents that.

what are deconstructionists trying to do? what is the aim of what they do?

Is there any philosophical or literary standpoint to refer to a state of "self-defeating nihilism".

In other words, a belief that everything is uncertain, including the belief that everything is uncertain.

You can always try to study at École Normale Supérieure.

>>6070005
Well, this will be very commonplace, but...

"There is nothing outside the text."

>>6066542
Derrida, tho
Sexy Heiddeger?

Post-modernism is something you like if you are nice bored.

Modernism is something if you like if you are not nice bored.

Define them relative to youself.