/lit/ - Literature

I'm going alone to a club to get laid. Any /lit/ tips?

>>11596231
>capital *includes* the culture industry
what i meant to say here was, it includes the *critique* of culture. and in a very negative sense: that, in a nutshell, is what is meant by the Cathedral: an alliance between academic, media, entertainment and government interests. there is today, as you can see by watching mainstream news, a terrible conformism now unfolding in what used to be the frankfurt school-mode of critique: it's the Bloody Neo-Marxism that JBP talks about. partly, i would say, this has to do with the fact that neoliberal capital is the uncanny doppelganger of second-wave feminism, which was what actually dealt the killing blow to orthodox marxism in the 70s, and paved the way for Foucault Uber Alles and much else that followed. and where we are today. the point is that, mysteriously, the idea of criticizing capitalism has disappeared, while identity politics become everything.

and so acceleration basically jettisons the whole enchilada in favor of inhumanism. it's never perfect, however, since we wind up in this eerie, cryptic psychic waltz with capitalism in this way, feeling as though we are all being pulled towards the future by a technological singularity that captures all of our desires and returns them back to us in teleoplectic circuitry. maybe even a little like pic rel except that what truman finds when he opens that door is not ed harris.
>although ed harris seems for whatever reason to be the guy we like to see playing that role, since he did it again in snowpiercer

anyways. acceleration and late 20C/early 21C intellectual history. always interesting stuff.

>>11596301
he belongs to that story, is what i mean. everything grows out of everything else.