/lit/ - Literature

>>12014321
in a way, the point of the Wild Ride is to basically trace out the intellectual journey of Marxism itself from birth to death - and also, as a kind of unholy re-birth or Zombie Unlife, which is basically what Teleoplexy represents viewed in this light. a huge number of convergent currents are brought together in one place in the person of Jacques Lacan, who figuratively if not literally gets tied up in Borromean knots that basically destroy his sanity (a habitual, and familiar occurrence, in the world of the Wild Ride). and Zizek is the inheritor of these knots today. however, the plot moves again with these two guys.

it is important to note that D&G *stay Marxist* throughout their careers, although Guattari winds up in a crippling depression at the end of his life, and Deleuze commits suicide (although not because of the failure of the Soviet Union, and if you are reading this looking for some kind of ammo to prop up your feels for objectivism, these are not the droids you are looking for). as Martin says, the seed is strong. Deleuze's Nietzschean/Bergsonian/Spinozist-Marxism gets transmitted through to Uncle Nick, who applies all of this directly to cybernetics, and writes Meltdown, which contains the iconic passage that starts all of these Cosmotech threads.

but after 2016 it is highly debatable what kind of future Marx has, if any. this is not to say that things end with Uncle Nick. if there is anything to take home from all of this, it is that there is no rest for the wicked. as the tagline says, You Can't Stop Progress. the same thing that animates the Spirit, or that causes Capital to move, or which comes to Uncle Nick in dreams of Skynet and R'lyeh, is still on the move today. in Star Wars parlance, it is The Force. now, if *i* were in charge of the Star Wars franchise, i would make a one-off that removed the Force from the Jedi, and only allowed the Sith to use it - for a while, or at least until there was a Great Filter there on its own to separate those Jedi who only got into being rebels because they liked power, and those who actually believed that there was something greater than themselves at work in the universe. any Sith can use the Force: but it means different things, to different people. and of course the sad thing about the Star Wars universe is that it lacks any sense of ambiguity, there are only Good Guys and Bad Guys. IRL, of course, the world is a much more complicated place. today it is enough to say that NPCs, of any political stripe, are basically destroying everything they touch. they have a reason for existing, there's no question about that; but an anti-NPC computer virus that hilariously overcomplicates any political attempt to grasp the Real in politics is a little more what Cosmotech likes. a process philosophy and a process post-atheism is where it's at.