/lit/ - Literature

>>11683205
>Land pretty much sounds like he’s saying “yes, you’re right, and that’s good.”

yeah. and, i mean, it's why i sometimes feel like i get squished into this weird place on /lit/ sometimes, defending an already insanely contrarian philosopher and then saying, at the end, but hey, wait, there's always Being! guys? guys?

in my dream world, we go back to doing modernism heidegger-style: more authenticity, and a mutual concern with. but better. more coherence, and less tech-phobia. lots of other things. i've been reading a bunch of stuff on him recently and it's the same thing: he says some things that are to me not only heart-rendingly beautiful, they're completely true, but you have to separate these from the stuff that is less awesome. and who knows, maybe all that is to misread him. but i like to tell myself that if i misread someone in a positive or constructive sense it's forgiveable. who knows.

i know this image is from tolkien, but i kind of think there is a secret connection between heidegger and tolkien as well: that, basically, tolkien provides a kind of perfect artistic representation of what is most stirring in heidegger's thought. but that is a whole other conversation, i suppose.

>>11683223
i think he's just referring to the hegemonic power of the Cathedral, which is wedding the potentially explosive power of capital/intelligenesis to social ends, which for land is a sort of betrayal of its possibilities. he simply loathes leftism.

http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008891.html

acceleration is basically critique of what marxism *became* - a purely cultural analysis wholly divorced from economic structural analysis. with land that economic structural analysis returns with a vengeance, and includes the entire project of cultural studies under the banner of transcendental miserabilism.