/lit/ - Literature

reminder that post #300 in Cosmotech bread completes the System of German Idealism (again).

there is also fresh Crypto-Current, shyeah boi
http://www.ufblog.net/

>>12026564
kek, beat me to it. nice nice

>>12026589
everybody knows it's him. and he's a fucking Grandmaster of Philosophy at this point. he should be wearing the Purple Sweater by now

>Critique is anti-Archimedean philosophy, and in this strict sense an intrinsic anti-rationalism. It is directed against the pretensions to super-ordinate theoretical leverage which define metaphysics. Every claim to exception from immanence falls prey to it. Its sole empirically exorbitant proposition is that the whole permits no oversight. No ‘view from above’ can be true. Critique thus supplies the schema for that flat epistemology which empiricism requires and fails, itself, to produce. Its historical mission is to make the world safe for empiricism (i.e. techno-science). It can therefore be understood as modernity’s watchdog. Liberal civilization knows no higher principle of security. Its enemies are ‘churches’ with global ambitions, which is to say universalizing abstract-ecclesiastical authorities. When all relevant terms are stripped of encrustation with maximum rigor, critique is accurately characterized as anarchism in philosophy. It is that, alone, which cannot know any higher law. Whatever tries to transcend it can only repeat it, or less. We call this time, which can never be anticipated or out-lasted. Above Temporalization there is nothing. To engage in critique is to think in the name of time.

so this is how Uncle Nick connects his project with Heidegger. he also seems to be saying - this is kind of amazing - that basically to do philosophy at all is to engage with technology at the deepest possible level, which is one (or more) steps beyond anything beyond critique. the real thing i find myself wondering is if my body is not in fact ready for this. at the deepest level, there is probably an insuperable gap between Cosmotechnics and Acceleration, if only because Land is arguing that there is only one thing called modernity, and arguing for it in about the most rigorous and face-fuckingly brilliant way possible.

it's a good *program* for philosophy, and he's going to leave a lot of people gnashing their teeth accordingly. this is going to be absolutely incredible to watch play out. my own sense is that there will never be any reason why you couldn't take what Land is saying and just use to optimize your *own* life rather than fantasize about techno-utopias (or, for that matter, utopias predicated on a kind of wholesale rejection of Land's ideas, in the name of things that cause Peterson to lose sleep over at night).

"Above Temporalization there is nothing." incredible stuff. this is some of the greatest fucking philosophy being written anywhere in the world today. i am absolutely enraptured by what is unfolding on this blog. 100%. Uncle Nick is throwing lightning bolts.