/lit/ - Literature

>>12011983
anon you are 100% correct.

>The consequences of this infection are not immediately obvious, although you may find yourself beginning to think fleetingly of certain subcultural terms, such as CYBERPUNK and NEW EDGE, which may in turn compel you to think of NEOGNOSTICISM and MEMETICS: the whispered fragments perhaps of some overheard conversation.

well how about that.

>Please abandon all hope of either cure or escape; you have no thought that is not already our own.

if these guys weren't the good guys, or at least Chaotic Neutral i would be worried. anon this is a fascinating document, ty so much. it's funny, you know; that's exactly the kind of language i would use if i were trying to characterize some villainous ideologue in my own junk-tier writing. and yet the power of meme-magic can be used for good as well as for evil.

anyways you are right. Autonym is the word. it's true that the 90s are over, and that Uncle Nick is very much a product of them. and yet the Hacker Ethos remains an enduringly beautiful thing. i cherish no great hopes of social change, really; i think i'm just anti-NPC and pro-Satori. after that everyone's free to wear sunscreen
>and watch Kurosawa films

>>12012026
so there is a Spengler quote for this, of course:

>Time does not suffer itself to be halted; there is no question of prudent retreat or wise renunciation. Only dreamers believe that there is a way out. Optimism is cowardice.

>We are born into this time and must bravely follow the path to the destined end. There is no other way. Our duty is to hold on to the lost position, without hope, without rescue, like that Roman soldier whose bones were found in front of a door in Pompeii, who, during the eruption of Vesuvius, died at his post because they forgot to relieve him. That is greatness. That is what it means to be a thoroughbred. The honourable end is the one thing that can not be taken from a man.

but there are other quotes also. and in terms of what those are i prefer Laozi to Spengler, especially when i'm feeling super-depressed. but i know that feel anon. it indeed sucks.

>>12012129
i mean Heidegger is right in the sense that if you want to do particle physics, you need a particle accelerator, and since you can't build one of those in your backyard, you are signing up for a whole world of other things that allow for scientific instrumentation. my own sense is that i would be pro-scientific method and pro-engineering, bearing in mind that the nature of teleoplexy itself is mainly predicated on human obsolescence if it doesn't keep up with the Joneses - which is a key aspect of the tragicomic Wild Ride.

the best answer for this is in Negarestani, and which probably deserves an extended greentext adventure in either this thread or the next.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59920/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59893/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/