/lit/ - Literature

>>11971618
i'd watch that for sure. who knows, maybe he browses /lit/ now and again to see his name dropped and he'll pick up on this

>Hi Justin
>plz gibs Yuk Hui inter-view
>ask him the good ones
>we like it
>thanks fren

>>11971623
there actually is a deceleration movement, although it's even more fringe than acceleration itself.

https://twitter.com/NishikiPrestige

>it hasn't even done a good job of stopping yet
there are no brakes on the Wild Ride amigo. that's the whole point. 'tis what makes the Ride Wild.

>>11971689
i'd be interested to know too.

>>11971844
Land is pretty brilliant but when you read Wiener you can see that really what Land is doing just makes sense and isn't quite as visionary as it appears on first glance: it's Marx for the age of cybernetics, shorn of post-structural anthropo-narcissism/Transcendental Miserabilism. again, it's not like there aren't reasons to be Miserable, surely there are. but there are good ways and bad ways of doing so, and things in academic leftism seem to be trending almost uniformly in the Bad/Stupid direction, which is what Old Nick tends to tweet a lot about (sadly). it's why YH thinks he's basically wasting his time with it or punching down. there are more interesting things to be writing about.

even in the clip above (>>11970429) there's kind of a sense for me of Land's just arguing for the status quo. obviously there is a relation between capital and intelligence, which manifests in machines and robots. nobody would argue this. but if you were once a shit-hot philosopher and you are now basically a venerable old patriarch of a whole school of theory one (read: me) hopes for more than just stating the obvious: that Capital Works.

obviously it does. and i don't blame him for not wanting to set himself a Zizek pace and just grind out one book after another. Templexity was pretty great, and the BTC book will probably be good too. it's possible that he's just written everything he wants to write at this point, and maybe for reasons he couldn't predict. few if anyone on Xenosystems was predicting a Trump win, and NRx may well be dead at this point. how things will play out in China under Xi will is anyone's guess.

at least there's Stiegler and YH. although i haven't greentexted it yet, Technics and Time (2) is really good. in the next thread i'll put in some excerpts from it, probably. it continues the anthropological stuff but it also connects up with the present age, with the industrialization of memory and the technical control of time. stuff that Baudrillard was kind of getting at in his own way, but which he could never be bothered to write about in a kind of rigorous way, because his natural tendency was to be more aphoristic and ironic. and because JB was no Heideggerian.

for a more recent book by Stiegler this is good too. and hopefully YH's book sheds a little more light on these things also.