/lit/ - Literature

>>11216993
this. the dissolution of orthodox marxism is the story of modern academia. and mark fisher knew why:

>The disaster of Cultural Studies lay in its ethnicizing of the 'working class', its paeans to the 'dignity' of WC life: the real libidinal impulse behind the Cult Studs Difference Industry is a desperate attempt to shore up the belief that there are Others who can still believe.
>Cultural Studies assimilated Marxism into identity politics, & so undermined the basis of Marxism, which is better described as a *disidentity* politics, not the empirical destruction of identity/ethnicity but a collectivity organized on the basis of an indifference to difference
>The idea that race - or broader, "identity" - rather than class struggle, is the Real of social antagonism has suited neoliberalism well: because it naturalises social differences, because it blocks off any possibility of universality, because it shatters class solidarity.

source:
https://twitter.com/k_punk_unlife

whether it's from fisher, deleuze (D&R) or the trumpocalypse people should probably learn and none too soon that identity politics is the sword with no handle.

meanwhile, in that other part of the earth:

>As part of China’s plan to dominate and rule AI, China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued 28-page document with a “Three-year Action Plan for the Development of a New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Industry (2018-2020).” The English translation of the plan can be found here. The 3-year plan outlined Chinese government’s aggressive plan to treat A.I. like its own version of the Apollo 11 lunar mission, in an effort that could incite national pride and spark agenda-setting technology breakthroughs. Part of the plan also include the need to “speed up personnel training,” which calls for the implementation of “Guidelines for the Development of Manufacturing Talents” and deepen the reform of the talent system and mechanisms. To achieve this objective, Chinese government wants to attract and train high-end talent for AI and innovative entrepreneurship in a variety of ways, and support the growth of a group of leading talent and top-notch young talents.

source:
https://techstartups.com/2018/05/08/the-chinese-government-is-adding-artificial-intelligence-into-the-high-school-curriculum-unveils-mandated-high-school-ai-textbook/

inb4 everything in the above textbook is stolen, &c.

i'm skeptical about Solidarity!!! and i don't have a *constant* boner for the CCP, but seriously. you can barely even see the wall for all the handwriting on it.

also i really wish this was on libgen, like, today.