/lit/ - Literature

if this said "capitalism" instead of "super nintendo" it would be spot-on.

because capital in the 21C century arguably no longer has anything to do with Marx anymore. i mean it does, it's there. but it also cannot be reduced to the purely semiotic aspects that derrida or baudrillard might talk about. it's true, for example, that a lot of things really just do run on gesture and simulation, and yet at some point people do need a semi-stable currency which is tradeable within systems other than itself. this was the thing i never knew if derrida understood or understood but was content to only explore in terms of literature.

either way land did it better, and massively so. and he took the conversation that heidegger concluded with his note on cybernetics and smashed that together with economics as well as computer technology and most importantly, the internet. combine all that of that for teleoplexy, planetary technocommercium. as the saying goes, now you're playing with power. whether we act like prometheus or like the sorcerer's apprentice, or probably some combination of both, is our call to make.

and what does capital want? maybe the same thing we want: to know why it was called forth into the world, and what it is doing with its life.