/lit/ - Literature

>>12651211
Commander: take off your mask Uber Ethereal
Uber Ethereal: no
C: are you Nick Land
UE: n-no
C: okay have you read Fanged Noumena
UE: yes
C: did you like it
UE: f-fuck yeah it was cash
C: if we let you out of this box are you going to keep encephalization capital and devouring our brains like an Illithid
UE: do you want the honest answer or not

>>9839674
let's *de*-alienate then. we know plenty about alienation. maybe some people in white lab coats
>or white togas
is the order of the day.

there is a word for this already, of course: it's motherfucking Caaaaaaaaaaapitalism, which has learned everything and more about this process & uploaded it - is uploading it, right now - to mainframes to sell us fantasies of chicken sandwiches devoured by porn stars & starlets.

reigning in desire: a good scene.
>says the unhinged lunatic shitposter

but the thing isn't about politics. metaphysics > politics, i says, and aesthetics > metaphysics. desires overcome and transmitted to the human sciences, just as the man says. or lacan: traversing symbolic orders. or deleuze: madness is unbecoming, it isn't as sexy as we think it is. the rabbit hole has no bottom.

let's look to people who have *resolved* their shit rather than those in a permanent kaleidoscopic wilderness of irresolvability. not finally & w/respect.

you know who had a good sense of this? fucking Euripides. the Bacchae. Pentheus. imprison not the god of wild desire & presume he can be commanded. let's not think we can torture that poor fellow or put him to work in the media department. let's try something more enlightened. let's get some buddhists & chinese sages in the room.