/lit/ - Literature

Based Han also scores no end of points for routinely taking shots at Foucault also, which imho is always a bonus. Foucault seems to be his chosen Nemesis and he gets bonus +ATK/DMG in all rolls against. in this book he also takes a few swings at Baudrillard also, which leads into stuff worth quoting here so that this excursus stays thematic:

>The temporal crisis of today is not acceleration. Acceleration in itself is not inherently destructive. Accelerated cell growth can be temporarily useful provided it works to benefit the economy of the entire organism. If acceleration overshoots any useful purpose and takes on a life of its own, it assumes a diabolic form. This sort of accelerated growth is no longer growth but rather an excrescence. True acceleration follows a process that is directed at a goal. What is regarded as acceleration today is actually a rapid increase in entropy, which causes things to run riot and proliferate, generating a saturated, suffocating mass.

>Bacilli destroy their environment not perhaps because they intend to destroy it but because they degenerate into blind, excessive growth. They are blind to the higher entity to which they owe their life and survival. Schnitzler proposes a relationship between bacilli and the human race: “Were we to suppose that the human race represented an illness for some higher organism completely inconceivable to us, within which was to be found the purpose, necessity, and meaning of their existence, but which they also sought to destroy, and indeed would ultimately have to destroy, the more highly developed they became—just so do the race of bacilli strive to annihilate the ‘ailing’ human individual! Even were this supposition to approach the truth—our powers of imagination wouldn’t know what to make of it; for our intellect is only capable of grasping what is downward and deeper, never what is upward and higher; only that which is lower can be relatively known to us, but we can only guess at the higher. Thus, perhaps we can conceive of the history of humanity as its eternal struggle against the divine, which, despite its best resistance, gradually but necessarily is annihilated by the human. In light of the destructive excess growth in many areas of life, Freud’s death drive thesis gains plausibility. The forces that at first glance appeared to be progress and vitality, which represent the hyperactivity of the late modern achievement society, would then be destructive impulses arising from the death drive, ultimately leading to the deadly collapse of the entire system—that is, its burnout.

-- Han/ToV

>*chanting intensifies*
byung-chul
byung-chul
byung-chul

>what do we want?
nothing. maybe relief
>when do we want it?
soon i guess. that would be good