/lit/ - Literature

>>12041799
>philip glass who made the music for those is marty glass' brother

excuse me a moment while i stare out the window and think about what an outstandingly interesting universe this is and how very sad it would be to watch it go up in flames. the cruffitan liveth &c.

>According to the political scientist Michael Barkun, conspiracy theories rely on the view that the universe is governed by design, and embody three principles: nothing happens by accident, nothing is as it seems, and everything is connected.

isn't this a great planet? it's a great planet. it really lacks for nothing. including atom bombs, the Black Death, and that one thing you were supposed to do today. but you know, there's other stuff. stuff that isn't those things. like the Philip & Marty tag-team.

god, it would suck so bad to be Philip Glass' brother. what are you doing, Marty? writing a book? that's nice. your brother Philip is one of the most acclaimed composers of his generation. anyways

>Maybe we should grant to thinking a task opposite the one given to it by Enlightenment philosophy: to fragment the world according to difference instead of universalizing through the same; to induce the same through difference, instead of deducing difference from the same. A new world-historical thinking has to emerge in the face of the meltdown of the world.

here's another thing. one of the things about the Matrix is that everything in it becomes operational and operationalized. you get this everywhere: The Spice Must Flow, the proto-cybernetics of Hegel, and the very interesting cybernetic implications of Derrida's suggestion that there is nothing outside the text. you don't think of Derrida and Hegel as being cybernetic figures, but this is because the one thing that postmodernity has always struggled with is how to process the meaning of *difference.* and i have tortured my own small grey electro-lump up and down trying to figure this out in my own way. in the end i came up with two workable and interconnected figures, one who wears a white hat and one who wears a black hat (although in the eerie half-light at the End of Time, they might seem to you to be reversed: Girard and Uncle Nick. Land well and truly achieved an Outside perspective on What Did Language Mean By This via his experiments with the CCRU, and Aunt Sadie is to be credited here with helping him. conversely, RG the Don more or less sussed out a position that accounts for Hegel and the dialectic in non-Hegelian terms via a return to anthropology and the Gospel. the result is something like this.

anthropologically speaking, Bernard Stiegler - again, a major reason why YH writes what he writes - makes his own and highly persuasive claims about the origins and meanings of technology itself, along with their transformative effects on culture and vice versa. the anthropological roots of technology themselves matter, and Stiegler would say that the guy to read on this is Leroi-Gourhan. as for how we get from the flinted axe to Ethereum and BTC, that is a story all its own. but clearly it wasn't an accident, and the role it subsequently comes to have on culture and politics is part of what animates my own interest in Cosmotech:

>Cosmotechnics proposes that we reapproach the question of modernity by reinventing the self and technology at the same time, giving priority to the moral and the ethical.

Acceleration alone isn't enough. there is more to life than increasing its speed.

>>12014417
righteous. looking forward to it. diagrams are super-helpful. and everything is iterative. but some visuals would be a fucking godsend in parsing all of this out.