/lit/ - Literature

>>11840103
i'll clarify this further.

*political* hope is often indistinguishable from utopia, and utopia - immanentizing the eschaton, voegelin-style - is a bad scene. deleuze will juxtapose this with a nietzchean/spinozistic question about *joy,* and in this he has more than a little in common with lacan as well. desire is one thing, but it's not love, and it's not necessarily joy either.

but what happens when desire, and joy, and love, and hope all seem to be extinguished? you get *rage.* and the treatment for this isn't more desire, or happiness, or pleasure: ask JBP about this. or byung-chul han. these are the dilemmas of the burnout society, of people all-too-aware that they have been romanced by a machine. something more than desire needs to be posited, perhaps, and something more than hope understood in exclusively political terms. land, baudrillard and others point us to a pretty good description of the wasteland, the desert of the real, the end of history as hegel understood it.

some new chapter has to begin, eventually.