/lit/ - Literature

Well, I just noticed the old accelerationist mega library from the Cosmotechnics/Accelerationism threads died (link was: https://mega.nz/#F!lkNUwIYI!cugQ-Yoclk6AEnzWbfMA6Q)) so I decided to try to rebuild it somewhat, but I have no idea of all the things the folder contained (which was around 23gb) so I ask /lit/ to post anything accelerationist/ Nick Landish they can find (books, videos, lists, mega folders, anything), anything, from books talking about accelerationism to Theory-Fiction. To start with this, here it is a reading list for Theory Fiction and some books I think are a good addition.
https://thewastedworld.wordpress.com/2018/11/03/a-theory-fiction-reading-list/
http://library.lol/main/63D680E136D936A33EBA7D8A8856E2FD
http://library.lol/main/C24B3FCC349047BF562ED173459439C5
http://library.lol/main/CD527918689C827A376319D428AAC4D9
http://library.lol/main/1C57504577623D2FFD6E4BDAED155A17
http://library.lol/main/E578B9A24B0F96D2F9D2AC067A09C35C

Thinking After Meltdown

>How then is the West going to save itself, to sublate the contradiction of the unhappy consciousness? Reaction, like fascism, doesn’t tell the truth, but only allows people to express themselves. Trump’s victory is more or less a victory of reactionary and right-wing thinking, which do not provide a worthier analysis of the situation but rather appeal to the emotions, as Ernst Bloch once said about the situation in Germany. Commentators have tried to suggest, based on the relation between Thiel and Girard, that Trump and tech entrepreneurs are comparable to scapegoats; like the pharmakos in ancient Greece or the King described by Sir James Frazer in The Golden Bough, their sacrifice puts an end to social and political crisis. However, the figure of the scapegoat is analogous to the “red pill”: it is only a rhetorical tactic that justifies its reactionary tendency as a covert truth. The sacrifice of the scapegoat is a redefinition of friend and enemy, which is rather clear in Trump’s position on China-US-Russia relations. To maintain an uneven globalization and avoid the expense of war, real scapegoats are going to be sacrificed, since they are the vessels for hiding the truth in favor of populist movements. In other words, how can the West maintain unilateral globalization to preserve its privilege and supremacy? This question is not asked by Land, who simply mobilizes the neoreactionaries as a means of advancing his own bionic agenda. However, no matter how unwilling one is, we cannot deny the fact that today’s world can no longer maintain the old order; the military modernization of the past century makes this impossible.

>Let us conclude by going back to the Enlightenment and its world process. Philosophy is fundamental to revolutions, affirmed Condorcet, since it changes at a single stroke the basic principles of politics, society, morality, education, religion, international relations, and legislation. Such a notion of philosophy has to be turned towards the question of thinking for a new world history. Maybe we should grant to thinking a task opposite the one given to it by Enlightenment philosophy: to fragment the world according to difference instead of universalizing through the same; to induce the same through difference, instead of deducing difference from the same. A new world-historical thinking has to emerge in the face of the meltdown of the world.

—Yuk Hui

>moar YH:
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/81/125815/on-the-unhappy-consciousness-of-neoreactionaries/
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/superhumanity/179224/on-automation-and-free-time/
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