/lit/ - Literature

>>20905289
Are you ready to ascend?

>>20716843
This is the book you're looking for.

>>12929867
King of ths thread.

>>12178251
A text-to-speech mp3 file of the kindle version of pic related

>>11888665
i mean if you want true continental ultraviolence, proceed directly to Fanged Noumena and begin there. go straight to meltdown and enjoy Ye Olde Wilde Ride. but mumford has a historical perspective that is crucial to understanding why the Outside infected Uncle Nick.

>In so far as the universal religions, and not a few more primitive cults and myths, have had some sense of the all-enveloping cosmic process as more significant than anything that is immediately visible and intelligible on the stage, they have had a firmer hold on reality than those delimited, factual descriptions that remain unaware of the wonder and mystery of the whole performance. Cosmodrama, biodrama, technodrama, politodrama, autodrama—to use Patrick Geddes’s terms—provide the scenario and setting of human existence. And if in this study of ‘The Myth of the Machine’ I have emphasized the technodrama, it is not because I have accepted the technocratic belief that the command of nature is man’s most important task, but because I regard technology as a formative part of human culture as a whole. As such, technics has been deeply modified at every stage of its development by dreams, wishes, impulses, religious motives that spring directly, not from the practical needs of daily life, but from the recesses of man’s unconscious. It is in the human mind that these dramas take form; and it is there that they culminate from time to time in flashes that suddenly light up the wide landscape of human existence.

lewis my man this is 100% how i feel also! what else you got?

>So far, nonetheless, these activating manifestations of mind arc the ultimate witnesses to the cosmos itself—whose potentialities remained invisible and undetectable for billions of years until man himself, through the massive growth of his brain, achieved his greatest technological triumph: the invention of symbols and complex symbolic structures that enhance consciousness. For it was initially through the fabrications of the
mind, through dream and symbol, not alone through the cunning of his hands, that man learned to command his own bodily organs, to communicate and cooperate with his kind, and to master so much of the natural environment as would serve his actual needs and ideal purposes.

>The effort to eliminate the formative role of the mind, making the artifact more important than the artificer, reduces mystery to absurdity; and that affirmation of absurdity is the life-heresy of the present generation.

so again, mumford is our boy for history. land is the guy for theory. but in his sensibilities, and i think why he writes what he does, i find myself agreeing almost line for line with a lot of what LM is saying. for sheer mindfucking, you want land and not him; but we also want to know why some people, like land, choose to fuck their minds as they do.

>>11844725
Renaissance rationalization and capitalism took off and created a self-perpetuating highly effective fascist prison-mind-state which is not bound to any territory but rather to amorphous deterrotorialized capital constantly altering reality retroactively to give a sense of time or progression since its inception.

Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

>go to dark enlightenment school
>they tell me to start with the Nick's

Can someone give me a quick rundown on Nick Land? I think I understand his general philosophy but what about the whole drug-quelled alt-right lapse? Is that over or what? It's really hard to find any information on the guy

>>11721608
do it

now seriously, read her the hobbit

What am I in for?

How far did you get before giving up?

reddit

Looks like something my 9 yo niece would have drawn.

>>11000508

just bought this. what am i in for lads?

>>10639970
good luck wasting your time

>>10513735
Nick Land = only honest libertarian. fuck off with your pastoral neo-jeffersonian fantasies, worn and tired already in the early days of the American Republic. Either you are for full technocapital meltdown or you are fro nothing at all.

>>10350358
This is not the most influential, widely read work of philosophical thought published in the past quarter century. Let's try to change that

>Cursed Books

Reading Fanged Noumena helped me accept planetary scale artificial death, that is, the terminal productive outcome of human history as a machinic process. I surrender myself to the inevitable realization of an inhuman futurity and the catastrophic extinctions that accompany our ultimate evacuation from meat-space.

Will I like it?