/lit/ - Literature

>>14542255
Anhedonia is a common post-depression effect. It wears off over time. Eventually you might build up some momentum towards some worthwhile end.

>>14390274
Posters in this thread are underestimating the importance of the phrase "bring about their own reality". This doesn't imply simple 'self-fulfilling prophecy'. In the context of Land's ideas about time and Marxist materiality it implies both the structural formulae that are embedded within existence that innately drive certain outcomes AND the real impact of ideational forms.

Land performs the Heideggerian manouvre of collapsing a binary, but in two places. He argues that all 'times' are present and relevant, and, that the 'emergent' and 'that which is emerged from' are of the same unit.

Viewed from this perspective, Land (perhaps accidentally) validates previous philosophical suggestions that the examination of of a part of reality can inform our knowledge of the whole. But more importantly, draws our attention to a radically present 'future' and demands that we recognize that both the 'future' and the 'present' make unsettling implications about each other.

Against this background the 'hyperstitional object' shares some qualities (and some inverted qualities) with a 'shibboleth' - to use a vulgar metaphor; the human mind is not a womb that nurtures new possibilities but rather a birth canal that, voluntarily or otherwise, participates in the effusive act of creation. Therefore the term 'conjured' is perfectly apt.