/lit/ - Literature

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a first jump-off question would be: how to reimagine the process of capital itself without becoming disintegrated into something that resembles Judith Butler 2.0. i frequently find myself thinking about these things when i play something like FTL, for example - which is not only a game that i think would delight Land's heart, but also because it suggests a multiplicity of currencies and fungible properties that nevertheless are required for something other than teleoplexy.

i wonder, for example, what it might be like to think about Landian stuff in a context where he was *not* constantly in the shadow of his own disappointment. Alain Badiou, for example, loves writing about the genius of Mao, and yet - afaik - he's never actually been to China, and this may be partly because he is enjoying riding out the cachet that comes with being the greatest Maoist in France (and having been on the barricades in 1968, and so on).

where is the *post-singularity Nick?* what does he look like? how might we conceive space as being something other than either
a) a total fucking nightmare, or
b) a lost horizon we are continually doomed to mourn because any possibility of ever getting there is always pre-emptively torpedoed either by our Protestant sentimentalism or our (inversely Protestant) hyperstitial sensibilities. both are bad.

once again, i want to say this too: China is producing exactly the kind of heroic science fiction NRx guys are dreaming about all the time. i don't know what this means, but i can say that i don't even need to put a gun to my head to choose between Space-Age China or Race-Age Nick.

The Wandering Earth: trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLcghUzzQCg

meme metapolitics sucks the hairiest ones. there are too many interesting questions and conversations to be had about these things before we fling up our hands in despair and start blaming each other for why we can't have nice things, i think. but maybe that's just me.