/lit/ - Literature

>Today’s society is no longer Foucault’s disciplinary world of hospitals, madhouses, prisons, barracks, and factories. It has long been replaced by another regime, namely a society of fitness studios, office towers, banks, airports, shopping malls, and genetic laboratories. Twenty-first-century society is no longer a disciplinary society, but rather an achievement society [Leistungsgesellschaft]. Also, its inhabitants are no longer “obedience-subjects” but “achievement-subjects.” They are entrepreneurs of themselves.

>>17945085
gets refuted by a 60 page pamphlet

wow. just wow. no book has ever made me less enthusiastic about living in the city, in this smothering society, and more enthusiastic about moving to the smallest town i can find and just become a farmer, lumberjack or rancher. The modern world really is a non-stop rat race

>>15501788
Internet turned to shit over the last 15 years.

Also pic related is interesting - switch from discipline society to achievement society has been shitty for most.

thoughts?

>>12481259
>Haven't actually read Land although you and others mention it a lot.
i think i screwed up the context. the guy i was referring to was Byung-Chul Han. this and/or Psychopolitics are both pretty good. nothing you will not have read about before, if you have gotten into theory (or even if you haven't). which brings me to another thing:

part of what makes these threads the rather unusual mash-up that they are is a chaotic combination of two forces: one, the manic creative joy that comes with delirium (and which is, imho, absolutely crucial for getting the most out of philosopher), and the other, the absolute fucking burnout, depression, hangovers and misery that are a part of it. it's not one or the other, it's both. that's what makes these things what they are - shipwrecks, of a kind, which are nevertheless capable of building smaller boats, are themselves perhaps already built out of larger earlier ones, and all amidst rather stormy and unpredictable weather...that i have a kind of enduring love for post-apoc scenarios (or Christian eschatology) isn't really all that surprising. it's where i think, as strange as this sounds, there is actually a kind of equilibrium in ruination.

after the bombs go off, fascism and socialism and neoliberalism continue, but deprived of their terrible power to control or name the future, or the past. as they are today, i think a lot of things secretly prey on our feelings about utopia, on a tacitly Protestant feeling that we should always be Moving Forward, always bringing about the Greater Good, and this really fucks with us. that we have evolved Woke Capital as a highly complex workaround for solving the grief that comes with capitalism (after all, it's not pro-capitalism, it's anti-racism!) and that that in turn spawned the renascent far right (after all, we're not *really* the far right, but look, have you seen what the Progressives did, &c, &c). all scapegoating, all mimesis, all hysteria.

the saddest thing in the world is that torture really works. it does work. we know that we can beat people hard enough, or scare them enough, that they will confess or say anything. Ernst Junger talks about it in TFP, about a torture device that underlies all metaphysical thinking. i don't think he's wrong about that in the slightest. and Junger really matters, because he walked through fire in two world wars for the losing side without ever losing his soul, or committing all the way to what the fascists wanted. but he didn't drop out completely, either. Spengler too; there was a guy who you might look at and say, well, if *anyone* would have fallen in love with the Nazis, it would have been him. but it was not so; he turned them down. why? probably because he knew that they were full of fucking shit. and they were. they weren't lacking in their capacity to unleash apocalyptic violence on the world, but they were lacking in their ability to explain why that was necessary in the first place.

(cont'd)