/lit/ - Literature

>>11933369
sorry, it's not in the book. it's in this interview:
http://www.sacredweb.com/online_articles/sw26_sotillos.pdf

>>11933330
my pleasure. building some Signal Coherency in the story is what it's all about.

i think for land he bataille cements a lot of things that land was already thinking about the nature of academic/political leftism, that it was only so much protestant/transcendental miserabilist LARPing. but bataille's theories of the accursed share, or about how the sacred is produced only through loss have extensions that go beyond land. and again, the point of calling this thing Cosmotech is so that not every story ends with him.

land is in many ways a crowbar: good for getting under the roots of the political mimetics, and his black pill > the red and blue pills. but the black pill will in the end fuck you up much the same, if not worse. and so now what is required, perhaps, is to cook up something that takes the edge off of that a little also, which is...well, it's mysticism, of a kind, but it's not a straight diet of mysticism either. and YH has enough of a pedigree that i feel okay putting a few of my own eggs in that basket. but there is room for the Traditionalists as well. it's all part of changing trajectories away from a kind of marxism and its cultural variants that land more or less has diagnosed in full. but in becoming what he became bataille was both a Virgil on the way to hell and some of that hell itself, it seems.

anyways. he's fascinating with or without land.

>11933333
>The problem with taking Land alone is that he drives the bus onto the edge of a cliff and says: "Now what?" and walks out, leaving all the children aboard to reason with the great machine's transmission.
i agree. this is what puts people off his work (and that includes me too, sometimes!)

and so here we are. again, Marty Glass has also described the view from the Matrix post-feeding tube. and it's not pretty, but it is the one land also sees. so i'm hoping that the Cosmotech perspective will bring a little cheer in. no miracles will be promised, as soteriology is a bad scene and the buddha does say everyone must work out their own salvation with diligence. but it is nice to maybe have some philosophy that isn't always out to ruin everyone's day.

and also, those quints! like anybody could dare argue with you now.

okay gents, that's all for me today. catch up with you again soonish! as always, may what is playing you make it to level-2.

>>11933383
>can i get like a summary of the 50 paragraphs and links posted in the thread?
you sure can:

>The story goes like this: Earth is captured by a technocapital singularity as renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into commoditization take-off. Logistically accelerating techno-economic interactivity crumbles social order in auto-sophisticating machine runaway. As markets learn to manufacture intelligence, politics modernizes, upgrades paranoia, and tries to get a grip.