/lit/ - Literature

>>13928582
Take one of these

Ctrl alt delete

Damascius Problems and Solutions Concerning First Principles

>Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.
>With sinister derision, this overproduction is again a means of destroying them: for Indian culture, like all tribal culture, rests on the limitation of the group and the refusal of any "unlimited" increase, as can be seen in Ishi's case. In this way, their demographic "promotion" is just another step toward symbolic extermination
>Ramses does not signify anything for us, only the mummy is of an inestimable worth because it is what guarantees that accumulation has meaning
>Trajectory, energy, calculation, physiology, psychology, environment - nothing can be left to contingencies, this is the total universe of the norm - the Law no longer exists, it is the operational immanence of every detail that is law.
>Such is the watershed of a hyperreal sociality, in which the real is confused with the model, as in the statistical operation, or with the medium, as in the Louds' operation. Such is the last stage of the social relation, ours, which is no longer one of persuasion (the classical age of propaganda, of ideology, of publicity, etc.) but one of deterrence: "YOU are information, you are the social, you are the event, you are involved, you have the word, etc.
>We are no longer in the society of the spectacle, of which the situationists spoke, nor in the specific kinds of alienation and repression that it implied. The medium itself is no longer identifiable as such, and the confusion of the medium and the message (McLuhan)*7 is the first great formula of this new era.

>>13928582
just forget it

tell really nasty below the belt jokes

watch movies with lots of gunfights

crack your head on the mirror

Is it still worth reading if I find French postmodernism to be a detestable ideology of pedophiles?

>>13928776
>Is it still worth reading if [ad hominem]
Yeah probably, he's a smart guy, if more than a little prickly

>>13928582
Fatal strategies, terrorism, investigating things that have been deemed a threat by contemporary society (no, this does not mean clicking /pol/)

>>13928582
Take the landianpill.

>>13929235
French postmodernists being disgusting pedophiles is not an ad hominem.

>>13928582
He's right about everything.

>>13929308
>They're disgusting people, therefore they aren't worth reading
That's literally what this is though. The philosophy has got nothing to do with whether or not you like them personally

>>13928659
Ok, can anyone fucking explain this to me ? This seems as retarded as the Architect dialogue from Matrix Reloaded

>>13928582
I don't want to wrap my head around Marxist mumbo jumbo to figure out if he's worth reading. So just give it to me straight. Is he Ted pilled and anti-tech? Thanks

>>13928659
>their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event.
god why do they write like this

>>13928582
you can't, but you can simulate recovery.

>>13928582
unironically Indian philosophy, reading Baudrillard and Debord aligns great, the spectacle is the reflection of Maya in modern human consumer society. See Marty Glass's book for an exposé of how the Foucault, Adorno etc were all describing the cultural decay of the Kali Yuga

>>13928659
>>Simulation is characterized by a precession of the model, of all the models based on the merest fact - the models come first, their circulation, orbital like that of the bomb, constitutes the genuine magnetic field of the event. The facts no longer have a specific trajectory, they are born at the intersection of models, a single fact can be engendered by all the models at once.
I don't think I could sit down and read this for hours. Maybe this is just a poor translation, but how is a bomb's "circulation" "orbital"?

>>13928582
What's to recover from, exactly?

>>13928582
You either live and die an isolated, alienated, hermit who dwells in truths and objective realities or you embrace the simulation and ride it for all it's worth.

>>13928776
Baudrillard is the only pomo who didn't sign that petition to legalize sex with underage kids.

>>13929752
based, that makes me want to read him, where to start?

>>13929752
Lacan also didn't sign it and even opposed the idea in general (don't recall if he spoke against the particular petition) but common myth is that he did sign it for some reason.

>>13929669
>See Marty Glass's book
I've been meming that book for a couple years now and I'm glad it's finally catching on.

>>13929761
System of Objects

>>13929589
you do not live a full life as it is. your attempt to analyze or break out of life is futile as your very own mental tools are compromised. noumena has won and it does not have to obscure itself with humanistic characteristics anymore. either enjoy the ride as if you are playing video game lame one at that in terms of contents or cope by accepting your position as alienated robot with existential crisis.

>>13929676
My french is terrible but I understood that passage as just fancy way of describing how one would visualize magnetic field by using iron filling i.e. curvatures. STEMlords should be rightfully triggered by such needless description but that's just how some French philosophers appropriate visual images provided by 'scientific experiment for kids'.

>>13928582
It's not possible.

>>13928582
> how do I recover from this?
stop taking communism seriously.