/lit/ - Literature

>Yo, Guattari, you know Hegel?
>Ye
>Well, what if like, we wrote something even more obfuscated than that
>OK...
>But without any real content
>*Marijuana joint falls out of mouth agape with awe*

>>11018015
>the door opens and an impenetrable mass of marajuana smoke spills from the room into the hall
>stumbling through the smoke, two shabby shapes reeking of bongwater emerge
>pic related is held aloft by one of the men as several unshaven hippy french girls, nude save for flimsy veils tied low about their waists and showing mounds of unwashed pubic hair ripe with pthirus pubis, crowd with narcotic idiocy about their ankles and take lazy drags from the remaining roaches
>"we've done it, groovy G!" wheezes the man with the more putrid fingernails as the weed haze languidly disperses
>"*cough cough* we've *hits bong again* saved western philosophy!"
>a gimp-suit wearing, aids-riddled Foucault appears and congratulates the two intrepid french thinkers
>somewhere, Lacan is giving his dick, shriveled by age and impotence, a final and thorough tugging before a crowd of baguette wielding students and communist card carrying intelligentsia who all give an enthusiastic applause that stretches into a hollow perpetuity, erupting into the final simulacrum of sound the World would ever know before its descent into cosmic schizophrenia

>the door opens and an impenetrable mass of marajuana smoke spills from the room into the hall
>stumbling through the smoke, two shabby shapes reeking of bongwater emerge
>pic related is held aloft by one of the men as several unshaven hippy french girls, nude save for flimsy veils tied low about their waists and showing mounds of unwashed pubic hair ripe with pthirus pubis, crowd with narcotic idiocy about their ankles and take lazy drags from the remaining roaches
>"we've done it, groovy G!" wheezes the man with the more putrid fingernails as the weed haze languidly disperses
>"*cough cough* we've *hits bong again* saved western philosophy!"
>a gimp-suit wearing, aids-riddled Foucault appears and congratulates the two intrepid french thinkers
>somewhere, Lacan is giving his dick, shriveled by age and impotence, a final and thorough tugging before a crowd of baguette wielding students and communist card carrying intelligentsia who all give an enthusiastic yet appropriately sardonic applause that stretches into a hollow perpetuity, erupting into the final simulacrum of sound the World would ever know before its descent into cosmic schizophrenia

>the door opens and an impenetrable mass of marajuana smoke spills from the room into the hall
>stumbling through the smoke, two shabby shapes reeking of bongwater emerge
>pic related is held aloft by one of the men as several unshaven hippy french girls, nude save for flimsy veils tied low about their waists and showing mounds of unwashed pubic hair, crowd with narcotic idiocy about their ankles and take lazy drags from the remaining roaches
>"we've done it, groovy G!" declares the one with the more putrid fingernails as the weed haze languidly disperses
>"*cough cough* we've *hits bong again* saved western philosophy!"
>a gimp-suit wearing Foucault appears and congratulates the two intrepid french thinkers
>somewhere, Lacan is giving his dick, shriveled by age and impotence, a final and thorough rubbing before a crowd of baguette wielding students and communist card carrying intelligentsia who all give an enthusiastic applause that stretches into a hollow perpetuity, becoming the final sound the World would ever know

>bruh, guattari, you know hegel?
>ye
>well, what if like, we wrote something even more obfuscated than that
>ok...
>but without any real content
>*marijuana joint falls out of mouth agape with awe*

Wtf

>>9913249
What's it about? And why does it have the same picture as Capitalism and Schizophrenia?

What am I in for?

>>9625647
>So is the endgame, at least according to Land's line of thinking, that eventually capital will supplant humanity? I believe I read somewhere that Land said humanity is currently capitals host, not its master, which implies eventually humanity will be overthrown?
Basically yes. We are hosting capital right now via consumption (and banking, which is why NL is so hip to the idea of bitcoin and what it potentially represents also, I believe, because it won't be tied to fiat currency and gold reserves, which will skew a lot of narratives).

>If that is the case, the only sensible timeline where this happens is through some kind of self-replicating AI, yes?
Entirely possible. Or post/transhuman ubermenschen. Whether this means Multiplicity starring Peter Thiel or CRISPR babies in China or Elon Musk and Ray Kurzweil uploading themselves or the Age of Em or Skynet nobody knows. But whatever it is it's all happening through capital.

>Are humans just thrown aside like trash to decay on our own, or would this new technogod actively seek to destroy humanity?
Nick Bostrom is very concerned about this. So is Sam Harris. A lot of people are. On top of that there's this idea of an intelligence revolution realizing that it can do away with all of humanity in a microsecond. Maybe it destroys us out of some horrible sense of mercy. Anything is possible. But we're rapidly building our way towards finding out. Every Chicken McNugget gets us closer.

>I like reading Land and his colleagues but there is so much jargon that I am unfamiliar with (I haven't studied much continental philosophy) that I often feel like my understanding is hardly even surface level
This is /lit/. Nobody knows anything here. Just read what you like and ask questions you're interested in.

>>9625661
>Where does Land talk about what capital is? Like where does he define it. Saying it's identical to singularity or death are characterizations but the literal connection isn't explained.

He doesn't define it so much because he's following from these guys. This is the book you need to read. It should basically just be understood as the prolegomena for all Land threads. Capital is a kind of deterritorializing/reterritorializing power fundamentally built into our minds. All of the time-warp/unconscious stuff you need to know is in here. The difference is that Land isn't a revolutionary in the same way that Deleuze & Guattari are. The whole idea here is to think capital in this new way: it's not anti-Marxist but it's not classically Marxist either. Capital is this process of mechanic assembly and reassembly that is just part of who we are and how we think about things. Which is why it's damn near impossible to understand how it works. Much in the same way for Oedipus. It's wired into us and tied to our minds.

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>>9442478

Other than Marx what should I know before starting this?

Has anyone here read this? I've been in and out of psych wards for the past 6 months and it's been a godsend for defending myself from the psychiatrists and the infringement of my rights in the mental health courts.