/lit/ - Literature

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>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.
>The body count climbs through a series of globewars. Emergent Planetary Commercium trashes the Holy Roman Empire, the Napoleonic Continental System, the Second and Third Reich, and the Soviet International, cranking-up world disorder through compressing phases. Deregulation and the state arms-race each other into cyberspace.
>By the time soft-engineering slithers out of its box into yours, human security is lurching into crisis. Cloning, lateral genodata transfer, transversal replication, and cyberotics, flood in amongst a relapse onto bacterial sex.
hey look, it's fucking genius. all of this shit happened. all of it. how about that. thirty years ago and still crispy fresh like it was hot out of the oven. but this is Young Nick. not Old Nick, who is just shitty and choking on anger. you haven't felt shitty and choked on anger? i often feel shitty and choked on anger. but there is a point that always goes missing, which people overlook:
>and tries to get a grip.
that one. that is the line to pay closest attention to: Get A Grip. if there is one part of this text to salvage and take with you it is that one. if capitalism is a fucking fun house that amplifies and magnifies all of your desires, cranks them up to eleven and turns you into a sex-crazed, media-addicted degenerate, who's fault is this really? what the 1960s began the 1980s continued and the 2000s perfected: how to give you what you wanted. desire, pleasure, stimulus, interconnection, a hundred billion substitutes for tragedy and loneliness. it worked, it all worked. everything fucking works. why aren't you happy? why indeed.

and so Land is arguably the most maximally burned-out philosopher continental theory has produced. NRx is dead and probably so is /acc too. what's next? nobody fucking knows. but to dismiss it is to encourage a kind of intellectual historical deafness. continental theory is a meta-narrative, a really big one, that actually has some pretty sophisticated on tools for retracing What Happened To Hegelian Marxism. and it may also be the case that it is in fact *too early* to say what happens next, if so much of what you see on the MSM is just still more ripples and waves and reactions. techno-futurism is hardly dead, it's alive and well. in the West it is hilariously beholden to Woke Capital, and in China it becomes deeply entangled with the CCP.

personally i'm divided. part of me wants to stay on the Wild Ride and keep watching it unfold, part of me wants to forget it all completely, but i just never found a substitute for it.

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