/lit/ - Literature

I wonder if the reason Land reduces everything to immanence is because the method of consumption of bodies that capitalism undertakes in order to occupy the point of view of the other means that the future AI will be an amalgamation of everything that we have lost. Our displaced future will be transformed into an embryonic cthulu-like being of pure primordial potentiality. Deleuzanism abstracts away from that and renders it sterile through metaphor. Land re-purposes D&G into horror but stops right before declaring it, because he doesn't posit the transcendent, instead relegating it to the theory-fiction part of his oeuvre. In the back of our minds, it's "just" a literary device. Cannibal metaphysics makes it real. The question of what drove the Amerindians to take care of their captives then ritually kill and eat (sound familiar?) them cannot just be mere social convention, but motivated by an underlying difference in metaphysical perspective.