/lit/ - Literature

>>9680079
Can we get a Nick Land version of this picture?

You never actually own a Deadly Killer Time Squid That Lives In Your Soul. You merely look after it for the next generation.

>The way ads work is they transmit and create a aspirational (not representational of anything) image that finds its way to the narcissistic fantasies of the self. The product itself sometimes is not mentioned, it's superfluous even, to the goal of installing this image, which if it works, will keep people in the vicious circle of buying and buying (whatever the product is), since nothing 'gets it right' or the new version gets it right-er.
There it is. The magic of weaponized and self-improving aesthetics. Ex Machina, yo.

>you do it to yourself, you do
>and that's what really hurts
>is you do it to yourself, just you
>you and no-one else
>you do it to yourself
>you do it to yourself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIFLtNYI3Ls

>>8843705

That's very kind, anon. And I'm glad to think that you've found something insightful in all this. I'm aware of the fact that some of this is a bit longform for /lit/. So it's good for filthy casuals like me, but you're right.

I like /lit/ a lot because it helps me work some of this stuff out. This thread is a good example of that, since there's been some very sharp cookies here and that really is what makes the difference, because it's really other people who prompt stuff. The single and solitary art critic is really just the next step removed from the single and solitary art-*maker.* It's why I think these things are best done collectively. Like that African proverb says: go fast alone, go far together.

Pic not related but there's something I relate to in it that I can't quite describe. It more or less describes where I'm at. If I had a blog this would probably be my avatar.

I'll give it some thought.