/lit/ - Literature

i'll go one more.

the Hegel-Marx-Land trifecta to me seems more or less self-explanatory, provided that we also throw in the caveat that Land himself would probably take issue with, that being that in some sense teleoplexy loops us back to Hegel again. i don't think it's all that crazy, myself. if tech is going to emerge in the first place, it's going to emerge in those sectors most receptive to it, and i also think even an AI would be interested in the Phenomenology of Spirit. this much we have talked about, but hopefully more to come as well. the Department of Speculative Economics is always open to Hegel/Marx/Land theorizing.

Heidegger is the fundamental ontologist, and phenomenology doesn't slot neatly into this group, although it has a fascinating history of its own. again, Marcuse - who i do not like, personally, but he is a guy - basically posited that Heidegger solved for socialism because the fascist state is an organic unity and totality. this is always why fascism is an enduringly interesting subject for continental philosophers, precisely because Hegel/Marx + Nietzsche in a way gives you a totalitarian operating system not unlike Marx + Confucius over in China. Hegel is at the root of all 20C modernist political experimentation, and Heidegger is right in there.

but Cosmotech's own interest in Heidegger does not proceed from this: rather, the more interesting thing to think about is thinking about the meaning of time in a world in which teleoplexy is for realsies. that's my own sense, and it is encapsulated in the meaning of Heidegger's key phrase, 'metaphysics of production.' it's how you treat hysteria, for one thing: you *listen.* and you create *awareness.* you return analysands to their senses. psychotherapy is as much indebted to Heidegger as Lacan, in this sense. and in an accelerating world there will be plenty of neurosis to come...

but Heidegger also opens the doors to the East, as well, and those broskis hanging around the vinegar cauldron. maybe God works his magic today through technology, and that is where we are required to look. once Nature, then History, and now Tech...perhaps only to go full round again. everything that is Text becomes Code, in order to become the only Fake Real we have...

it's the Wild Ride! none wilder or ride-ier. ah lads, it's such a pleasure. more Cosmotech tomorrow then. sleep well, and dream of large dialectics.