/lit/ - Literature

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there is a freedom in the world i think that fucks even with Hegel. Hegel's cool and all and i like him. i like the Hegel-Lacan bromance very much. but i am ever-bothered by the prospect if that Land is right about the things that he is right about that there is some part i am missing which really persuades me that the talking cure is the answer. in some sense it is, and there is a line that has been with me for a few days about this, since i read a really great book on Lacan:
>the concrete pieces of death that we cling to
and i am finding myself being very cozy indeed once again in the world of analysis, and thinking that there is something unironically useful in the continental tradition when it comes to dealing with anxiety and deeply stuck-in shit that we accumulate that ruins our lives.

with Land tho i think he's tapped into something that i would prefer not always to necessarily have to see in the darkest possible sense, such that he always becomes a caricature of himself or the only thing we ever take away from reading him is the absolutely claustrophobic nightmare fuel that he engenders. and partly i think it's because there is something in his thought which is actually unusually good for destroying a kind of Marxism which has become completely moribund and necromantic - the undead gods dreaming and so on, all of the rest of it. i think that somewhere out there there is an alternate universe version of Nick that takes to sea and becomes a pirate because in some sense this is actually the right way to deal with necro-capitalism going on elsewhere. the Enlightenment understood in this way suggests to me something other than a tired old pinata to be teed off on by critical theorists, or even as something completely finished by Hegel, if by 2019 there is something in Marxism that turns everything good in the world into Land's horrible death sandwich.

i really want to imagine a version of Land who has a purpose for being who and what he is, which is to be much more anti-hero than anything. i know this is projection, i don't care. but the wide-open sea, in some sense, is a good look precisely because it might call upon us to use a kind of rationalism about our conditions that can't always just become Capitalism Devours Everything Aaaaaaaaahh.

i know this probably makes no fucking sense at all and that's fine, i suspect i will return to this theme in subsequent schizoramble shitpost.