/lit/ - Literature

>>12517267
something like this would describe my own stance v/acceleration today. i'm not an accelerationist myself, but i 153% believe that it is a necessary stage to go through if you are interested in making sense of the past. acceleration is the dark truth of postmodernity, as much as postmodernity is the dark truth of Freudo-Marxism. the whole thing is a series of reversals. like a Batesonian cybernetic system, or a Cosmic game of Go...or perhaps the Tao that will not be named.

i was saying earlier than in Tarot the inverted card, the negative, is a more concentrated form of the positive. i think the psyche works very much like this. acceleration is postmodernity in reverse, as much as the Borg were the shadow side of the Federation. things are all fucked up today, we don't seem to be capable of doing anything usefully when we take our cues from Hegel except to walk backwards into nightmares and then say, Never Again. and then we reproduce the opposite, and that's good for a while, and then that too leads to disaster and calamity. and then it repeats.

i think acceleration today is moribund and necrotic, and in being so it reveals precisely how moribund and necrotic postmodernity itself becomes, because it simply becomes Scapegoating: The Ideology. gender-theory privilege is simply Zizekian neuro-Marxism flipped outwards and made Real Simple for third-rate griefmongers angling for a career in politics or corporations, which in turn are forced to hilariously debase themselves for the sake of the market, and wind up producing things like the Gillette ad - hey, if gender is a construct, then what's with the All Men a priori assumptions? but this is how it works. we create the trauma, and then we self-medicate, like fucking moral hypochondriacs. we are fucking ridiculous and addicted to something like philosophical heroin - the Feels. Deleuze had some idea about this and dealt with it cautiously. Land had some idea about this and dealt with it incautiously.

so in terms of an update for acceleration in 2019, i would say, pic rel. this does not preclude a more ironic twist - Let Go *And* Be Dragged. that too may be the case.

fuck it, i want to ramble some more.

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