/lit/ - Literature

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Kefka Palazzo gives you everything you want to know about postmodernity about eight ways from sunday, and he's quite interesting looked at through Heideggerian, Nietzschean, and Deleuzian angles. he - and his story - fit with all three of these. and as a story you can't ask for much more, if that is the Ballad of Postmodernism for you, and where Max Irony winds up: that is, total ruination. even Deleuze makes a promising case for the Baroque, which is exactly in FF6's style. Kefka is kinda-sorta like Sun Wukong in the absence of the Buddha.

and after that, all eco-friendly Heidegger-Lite themes aside, it transitions into FF7, a new era, and new sensibilities to go with. similar themes, the Gestell/Mako, but with a continual exploration of similar themes: another enemy which plays upon the metaphysics of difference (Jenova) and another tragic villain (Sephiroth) victimized by tech-process and Man's Urge To Know. and much else. 20m drekky papers have been written on this already, so i won't go into too much detail here. as usual, i'm wildly late to that party. but it is enough to see that the collective unconscious responded very well to these themes: and, as in the case of Kefka, there is no easy way to Solve For Jenova, metaphysical difference being the issue that it is for all things PoMo. and, as usual, with apocalyptic ruination in store.

with FFXV, a much gloomier work begins, super-heavy, and curiously founded on sacrifice. to preserve a dreaming city (Insomnia, no less), The King Must Die...which is quite an about face, given that he is sacrificing himself to preserve that very force of modernization which produced Kefka twenty years ago. but it both is and is not the same world, i think. all discourses on virtuality and religion...fascinating stuff for schizo-ramblers like me. and Deleuze also has interesting things to say about crystals and time...the FF games were always a lot more experimental than the DQ games, which are conservative and right now are getting a little more shine. but FF hits on themes that are pretty cool too. oh yeah and there was cool art that suggests the plane of immanence in FF6 and other stuff and-

anyways, those are just some thoughts i've had. but i don't want to colonize this thread with meme rambles. we must praise Uncle Nick here! and so let him be praised.