/lit/ - Literature

>>11993763
i'm alive, i've been schizo-rambling in this thing like a mofo since the first installment. this afternoon i drank too much coffee and this evening i drank too much alcohol, and i feel stupid now and also i remember why i don't drink beer. but Cosmotech #3 aside i've been the OP for all of them. 'tis the Wild Ride.

>>11993776
yeah, sometimes it just takes a while to figure out why things obsess you. and part of the beauty of /lit/ is that often it's actually when you luck into other people putting things into words things clearly or concisely that you would have circled around forever (this was never my gift, i basically have to go dynamite fishing in my own head.) but there's been a couple of those posts for me at least in this thread, the anon anime-posting from Blame! (i think?) in the earlier thread and Space Taoism also. but even i don't really understand all of why i get obsessed with these things either.

>I feel like topic in question is what leads to a Butlerian Jihad, but I really still have no idea.
me neither.

>>11993886
it's baudrillard's best book but it's sort of hard to categorize, and it's been a while since i've read it in depth. but basically - kind of weird, now that i think about it - he's decoupling himself from Marx and from psychoanalysis by injecting anthropology (Mauss) and solar economy (Bataille) into the mix. kind of like Land, in a way. it has an absolute shit-ton of other continental thinkers referenced in it too, and it is JB writing fairly clearly, unlike his later work. if you are looking for a pretty outstanding example of why continental theory *isn't* a bunch of complete hogwash, you could do a lot worse than to read that one. it convinced me that everything he wrote afterwards, as stylized as it became, was ultimately founded on a deep engagement with the theory at one point. plus early notes on the orders of simulation and other stuff.

and yet the thing that i find myself wondering is, for all of the guys who Break With Marx &c, the fact is that they really haven't. all that happens is that the Marxist view increasingly comes to expand over time to include various other theories of psychoanalysis, literature, media, and so on...and yet nobody really decisively breaks with the idea of Capital itself.

argh, i fucking hate alcohol. it's like i can actually see myself being like 25% stupider and just making mouth-sounds. ugh. back tomorrow or maybe Sunday, most like, there's a bunch of stuff about time and aesthetics and anxiety i still haven't posted yet, and i'm in a cranky mood tonight because i want to stay up and schizo-ramble but i feel like the interesting parts of my brain are snowed in by shitty beer.