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Something with this aesthetic?

VOTING EDITION:
>Monthly Reading for November >https://www.strawpoll.me/16761289

FANTASY
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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SF&F author listing with ratings and summaries:
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>My question is, must we frame the conversation around AI in such dire terms? If we negate the 'social construct' of Anthropocentrism, why can't we take a more open Jungian approach and seek individuation and peace for Nature and Technology? If we are to take AI as having a psyche, then is not therapy possible?
honestly, anon, i’d like nothing more. peace for nature and technology is the grail. you get intimations of this with both hegel and spinoza. JBP has his flaws, no doubt, but he’s absolutely right to detect in late marxism a pathology, an attempt to cure existential problems by way of political participation mystique and vice-versa.

and it’s so easy to understand. continental theory is one of the great archives for exploring the hermeneutics of the self, for seeing what amorous, anxiety-ridden meatbags we are. deleuzian stuff in particular is very persuasive, especially if you’ve done the deep dive into lacan. the desiring-machine, the BwO, the unconscious not as repressive theatre but as *factory-network.* things that make the hair on your arm stand up.

what’s the beautiful thing about therapy? *the absence of No.* it makes me think about the monkey king as well, cured of being inwardly driven by his awesome libidinal power not by being forcibly smashed into a hierarchy, but by enlightenment (and delivered by no one less than the buddha himself). the monkey king is given *the right task* and it is that by which he becomes a boddhisatva, and the painful band around his head a symbol of his accomplishments.

>Or is that all too flowers and butterflies…
flowers and butterflies are beautiful things, tho. and a real one goes for a lot in rick deckard’s universe.

anyways. i could go on and on much longer, but beyond a certain horizon it’s not really that constructive. i really didn’t intend this to turn into some kind of humongous rant, just that you asked some really interesting questions i wanted to talk about in a more than superficial kind of way.

it warrants mentioning that i really don’t know anything, and this is all pretty much just speculation derived from the arrangements of butterflies in a stomach. but hopefully it will provoke for you some of the same kind of reflection that your post did for me. it took me a couple of hours today to collate this schizo-ramble down into a slightly more readable or hopefully interesting response. posting really long-winded stuff on /lit/ seems to irritate people here sometimes. but, i figure, if you find something in it to take away from in your own field research it’s all worth it.

so, in summa, thanks very kindly for the thoughtful post. thinking through it and writing this long demented ramble will have been the best part of my day. hope it will do as much for you. stay sane, and mind the curves.

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