/lit/ - Literature

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>Unironically teach me Senpai.
kek. no senpais here amigo, i'm as confused as you are.

>What comes after Pomo?
this is the great question. there are a lot of possibilities, one of which is exactly that Kali-Yuga Winter Phase suggested in various forms by Heidegger, Spengler, Guenon, Baudrillard, Marty Glass and others. the whole idea of postmodernity is that *nothing* comes after it, which is precisely the lesson it can teach us. historically these are the times and contexts in which new things *do* in fact happen - there's room for Hegel here, after all - but they are almost never what we expect them to be, altho in hindsight they seem to be inevitable. for one i would start with Land, to flush the remaining traces of Jacques Derrida's ghost kingdom out. but you will want to read Derrida and those guys too, such that you have a sense of how it was that postmodernity came to be in the first place, and what it grew out of - mainly the Big Four, Marx/Nietzsche/Darwin/Freud, who in turn are following from Spinoza/Kant/Hegel. and many others. the Wild Ride is long but worth taking. and even Kant himself is produced out of earlier writers. they all connect on Planet Meme.

>What are the underlying changes in the structure of thought that brought us here?
tech. and Revolution, both French and Industrial, and also - in the 20C - German. also globalization and the discovery of mass media, computers, much else. changing roles of the Church, displacement of European power, the self-immolation of European power. a lot happens in the 20C. today the themes are automation and intelligence, things we have very much brought into play ourselves, but do not have easy off-switches. it's man's discovery of his own unconscious as market, but also perhaps the need to understand that there is - what a surprise! - more to life than the hardest of hard materialisms. this is not Land's sense, and he is who he is because he detests all things Hegel. and Land should be read, like Deleuze, and many others, but not only just to double down on everything he says. also to raise the possibility of life after this, in a sense.

>Who do I read about this?
basically, everyone. that's the bad news. the good news is that you will have the time of your life doing so. you will fall in love with multiple writers multiple times, and cry, and moan, and drink yourself senseless, and hate everything, and occasionally wonder what the fuck you are doing. but i think that's pretty much what they did too. personally i'm a big fan of Girard, Land obv, but Heidegger too, Eastern/Traditionalists, and all those annoying French and German fucks. don't forget the Greeks.

ya gotta collect 'em all, in other words. it's a tortuous process sometimes, but eventually if you keep at it you will get there. and seriously, there is nothing quite like those Aha! moments when somebody really, really clicks with you. who that will be for you is anybody's guess. but guaranteed someone will do it.