/lit/ - Literature

>>12617218
>I think there are also threads of this same tension in Deleuze as well. I think it simply might be impossible to overcome Hegel; after all, what is Hegel but the logic of overcoming?
i've now read enough of Land and Deleuze (and Nietzsche, and Bergson, and Spinoza...clearly having decided to completely squander my life) to feel much more okay with Hegel now than i used to, because i think he really does make a lot of sense from the psychoanalytic perspective - that there is a thing in people, a thing that may well be a Phenomenology of Spirit trying to get out, a thing that does not take no for an answer...and i very much like the idea of being a kind of a part of that, in some sense, even just by talking with people about stuff.

it's a beautiful vision, in many ways. Landian stuff is dark as hell, but...i don't know, i find there's a horizon beyond which you can't *root* for the darkness. i understand why, perhaps, Deleuze loathed Hegel - perhaps we hate social justice inquisitions (or *any* kind of inquisition) in the same way today. this to me is completely understandable.

Landian capital strikes me as being the logic of psychic disorder. not that there's anything wrong with Land himslf, or capital, but the nightmare components. and again, Bataille here does *incredible* work in blowing up anything that wants to give itself the impression of being sacred, of combining petit-bourgeois sensibilities with industrial desperation, scapegoating, all kinds of other ideological modernism that ruins so many lives in the 20C. and today we find ourselves where we are, in Fallout mode.

but more ideology for me cannot be the fix. it can only be found through understanding, through grappling with one's own fantasies and desires. Land of course does not i think really give a fuck about any of this, he is kind of rooting for the collapse because Woke Protestantism bothers him so much. but i'm a lot more of a softie and a sentimentalist than he is. i share his total disgust for a few things, and i have also had a very powerful sense that something is profoundly fucked up with postmodernity, i had this even before i read him...

but wat do? wat do. it can't be more anger, it can't be more despair...it just can't be. Land is the fucking jam when it comes to being the Revenant, the brutal nemesis of postmodernity, Revenge of Modernity/Forgot About Unironic Marx Did You - but there is a horizon beyond which the open hand must be preferred to the closed fist. that's my own sense, anyways. and come on, romanticism is fucking great. it looks good in black, no doubt. but it looks good in other colors too.

>>12617222
you're very welcome! well done! i liked it.