/lit/ - Literature

>>18698562
I read that as /pol/ kek

>>12673960
I'm unironically interested in the fact that progressives have Russia Today as one of their main platforms, but I don't find it convincing that some very popular social democratic measures which are pretty common in Europe will lead to some great collapse.

>>12673939
I can kind of agree with the immigration part, there are leftist arguments against illegal immigration (that it undercuts and undervalues legal work and leads to exploitation). And welfare is a compromise of the current world order, ideally you'd want people working for a living wage so that state intervention of this kind is not needed. But a lot of the stuff that has happened in the US and is happening in Europe today related to how capital shifts globally leaving behind unemployed desperate people is because of corporations and kissing their ass further hoping they'll come to their senses is humiliating to say the least.

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>>12233069
Good thread, lots of discussion with much insight.

>>11691684

>>11578421
Also, if you're into Leibniz, DO NOT start with Deleuze's book on Leibniz. It's his last published book and it's Deleuze's equivalent of being on speed, crack and meth at the same time.

>>11345410
> the news to me only seems to confirm and reconfirm how right he was in those insights he had in the late 80s/early 90s

Interesting. Could you elaborate on this? From the little of Land that I know, at least the way demands for autonomy are framed, such as in the recent Catalonia crisis, do reflect his conception of fragmentation (I believe it's called Singaporization of the world or something like that) since the demands feature a heavily capitalist component ("Catalonia is a rich province, Madrid is taking away all our money"). Of course there's also an authoritarian component to Singapore as far as I know, which also fits in this narrative. Zizek himself admits this openly, that weird authoritarian figures (like an open secret such as Stalin's "democratic" rule that nobody was allowed to question) are emerging everywhere (Erdogan, Putin, Duterte, Trump, Orban, etc.) . I'm asking because maybe you had something more or something else in mind.

I do understand the appeal of Land, but I fear that it's a bit like those provocative passages in Nietzsche which basically say "do whatever, the species will prosper even if you perish since it got rid of the weak". For example, it's recently been on the news that BitCoin's peak growth was the result of fraud. Not only that, but there were countless other scandals associated with it (drug trade, money laundering, etc.) which would require a truly different world to function properly (as in not to represent simply decay or danger). We are however already stuck in a kind of technophilia (Franco Berardi's term) and the next step is technognosticism (Zizek's term) and somewhere in between accelerationism will probably come in. Nietzsche's Overman, for which man will be an embarrassment like the apes are to man, will know (technognosticism) his desire perfectly, his libido (with its subjective states and thresholds) cannot take him by surprise and he will be able perhaps to live in such a new world, unless of course his knowledge transforms it even more so that even anarchism does not apply to it.

There is something Franco Berardi mentioned that stuck with me despite being very simple, namely that Cyberpunk connects the decayed body of punk and the possibilities of the future of the cyber.

https://youtu.be/uXfmwqM6YT0?t=18m59s

>>10876461
> We wrote Anti-Oedipus together. As each of us was several, it was quite a crowd

> Theology is very strict on the following point: there are no werewolves.

> It is not the pervert, nor even the autistic person, who escapes psychoanalysis; the whole of psychoanalysis is an immense perversion, a drug, a radical break with reality, starting with the reality of desire; it is a narcissism, a monstrous autism: the
characteristic autism and the intrinsic perversion of the machine of capital. At its most autistic, psychoanalysis is no longer measured against any reality, it no longer opens to any outside, but becomes itself the test of reality and the guarantor of its own test: reality as the lack to which the inside and the outside, departure and arrival, are reduced.
tl;dr psychoanalysts are autists

> Say that it's Oedipus, or you'll get a slap in the face.


For what it's worth, D&G invented shitposting.

I have a friend who reads a lot, but only reads the plebbiest of fiction like the Warcraft books, TV related series like Dexter and Star Wars, athlete autobibliographies and other nonesense. He recently bought an ereader and is taking suggestions. What's a good non-pleb book which can still keep his attention if he's used to reading trash?