/lit/ - Literature

>>16298799
>history had ended 3 different times

>>16186545
>The university is in ruins: nonfunctional in the social arenas of the market and employment, lacking cultural substance or an end purpose of knowledge.
>It is the justice of the Left that reinjects an idea of justice, the necessity of logic and social morals into a rotten apparatus that is coming undone, which is losing all conscience of its legitimacy and renounces functioning almost of its own volition. It is the Left that secretes and desperately reproduces power, because it wants power, and therefore the Left believes in it and revives it precisely where the system puts an end to it.
>The system puts an end one by one to all its axioms, to all its institutions, and realizes one by one all the objectives of the historical and revolutionary Left that sees itself constrained to revive the wheels of capital in order to lay seige to them one day: from private property to the small business, from the army to national grandeur, from puritan morality to petit bourgeois culture, justice at the university - everything that is disappearing, that the system itself, in its atrocity, certainly, but also in its irreversible impulse, has liquidated, must be conserved.
>Power (or what takes its place) no longer believes in the university. It knows fundamentally that it is only a zone for the shelter and surveillance of a whole class of a certain age, it therefore has only to select - it will find its elite elsewhere, or by other means. Diplomas are worthless: why would it refuse to award them, in any case it is ready to award them to everybody; why this provocative politics, if not in order to crystallize energies on a fictive stake (selection, work, diplomas, etc.), on an already dead and rotting referential?
>All around us there are nothing but dummies of power, but the mechanical illusion of power still rules the social order, behind which grows the absent, illegible, terror of control, the terror of a definitive code, of which we are the minuscule terminals. Attacking representation no longer has much meaning either. One senses quite clearly, for the same reason, that all student conflicts (as is the case, more broadly, on the level of global society) around the representation, the delegation of power are no longer anything but phantom vicissitudes that yet still manage, out of despair, to occupy the forefront of the stage.

>>16187394
>The flip side of this duplicity is, through the bluff on nullity, to force people a contrario to give it all some imponance and credit under the pretext that there is no way it could be so null, that it
must be hiding something. Contemporary art rnakes use of this uncertainty of the impossibility of grounding aesthetic value judgments and speculates on the guilt of those who do not understand it or who have not realized that there is nothing to understand. Another case of insider trading.

>>16193457
>A victim economy, a political economy of misfortune: a positive tradeable stock, which, in all its forms, has substituted itself for the impossible exchange of evil.
>A differential of victimhood that nowhere pays off so well, is nowhere so lucrative today, as in the negotiation of oneself as waste (something magnificently illustrated by contemporary art). Many people's only talent in life is to mobilize this affect and this alternative solution.
Stop wallowing in misery for reparations, fag.

>>16191505
>1. For the anthropo-Marxists, the economic instance is also present and determinant in primitive society, it is merely "hidden", "latent", whereas for us it is manifest. This difference is judged to be secondary, however; the analysis does not stop and passes without meeting any opposition onto its materialist discourse.

>2. For the anthropo-psychoanalysts, the agency of the unconscious is also present and determinant in primitive society; it is simply manifested, externalised, whereas for us it is "latent", "repressed". This difference remains inessential, however, and the analysis continues without disguising its discourse in terms of the unconscious.

BTFO.

>>16019207
Dualist, life as we know it couldn’t sprout from a monad; if it did all we would have are asexual single cell organisms, reproducing to infinity. The resurgence of monism by way of technology and popular science is hilarious

>>15928754
Goddam I love Baudrillard

>>15882432
The whole point is you will never get to reality
>>15882448
Kierkeggard, right? I gotta go back and reread him one day, he’s where I started.

>>15810053
Are you having fun in the realm of the Law? You fear being seduced.
>Perversion supposes a contract that is not a contract, that is, a transaction between two free agents, but a pact upholding
the obsevance of a rule . As such it establishes a duel relation (like a challenge) that excludes all third parties (unlike a contract) and cannot be dissociated into its individual terms. It is this pact, this duel relation, with its web of obligations foreign
to the law, which renders perversion invulnerable to the external world - and impenetrable to analysis in terms of the individual unconscious, and thus to psychoanalysis . For the realm of the rule is not part of psychoanalysis's jurisdiction, which concerns law alone. Perversion, on the other hand, belongs to this other universe.

>Destroy, he said, not deconstruct. Deconstructing is a weak form of thought, the inverse gloss to the constructive structuralism. Nothing is more constructive than deconstruction, which exhausts itself in passing the world through the sieve of the text, going over and over the text and the exegesis with so many inverted commas, italics, parenthesis and so much etymology that there is literally no text left. There are remnants of a forced organization of meaning, a forced literalism of language. Deconstructing is as interminable as psychoanalysis, in which it finds a fitting partner. Deconstruction has something of the homoeopathy of difference about it; it is an analytics of trace elements.

>>15683415
The simulacra that are the will and the ego have created a truy intolerable voluntary servitude which forces the simulacrum of the individual to assume full responsibility over their life. It is quite ironic that the most liberatory and transgressive philosophy also results in the most commonplace self-tyranny.

>Gets Nietzsche right
"Becoming is linked to elementary forms, to natural or mythical beings or to all kinds of elective affinities by the same devolution, the same transference of will. It is by paying this price that we pass from one form to the other, all of which can return. This is the secret meaning of the Eternal Return: all forms are both distinct and singular, but bound together in a chain. And if you manage to place yourself on this cycle of becoming, you can snake back endlessly from the one to the other and have control over them all."

- Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil

>>15319482
Integral reality. As the west continues to be seduced by the illusion of pure integrality and galactical domination, the intelligence of evil and reversibility hold it in check, in the form of malfunctions, viruses, uncertainty, terrorism, inertia, obesity, etc.

>>15322312
>Deconstructing is a weak form of thought, the inverse gloss to constructive structuralism. Nothing is more constructive than deconstruction, which exhausts itself in passing the world through the sieve of the text, going over and over the text and the exegesis with so many inverted commas, italics, parentheses and so much etymology that there is literally no text left. There are only the remnants of a forced organization of meaning, a forced literalism of language. Deconstructing is as interminable as psychoanalysis, in which it finds a fitting partner. Deconstruction has something of the homoeopathy of difference about it; it is an analytics of trace elements.

>He hasn't moved over to the side of the object, become an active nihilist, and pushed all systems to their destruction
Take the baudrillard-pill