/lit/ - Literature

>>11948487
aw yeah boi

>>11948694
>why support authoritarian policies instead of more benign technocracy?
why indeed? maybe there is just a cycle to these things. i think we can that this is the story of any hegemony. things start out benign, get a taste for power, and become authoritarian as they grow and become interwoven with their milieu. the cultural aspects of this have been chronicled more or less steadily by continental philosophers since the end of WW2: Adorno & Horkheimer, Baudrillard, Foucault, Han, Zizek, and god only knows how many others. it's a lot.

>>11948713
covered by >>11948717. sorry about the page citations.

>>11948729
>There are two sides to this thread really, Girardfag, and those people who take and try to organise what girardfag puts out in his streams of consciousness.
please note: not necessarily in that order! as i have said, i am like the night manager of the hotel where these conversations take place. my own Awesome Opinions are basically the price you pay for my eavesdropping and reporting in on what far more interesting people than me are saying. Girardfag Opinions are more or less a toxic byproduct that result from the philosophical transduction process Book > Image Board. they happen, but can mainly be ignored.

>>11948859
it's such a good word tho. i think it's my favorite word these days.

>Entelechy is the realization of potential. In Aristotle’s thought, soul gives form to matter, thus bringing about the actions necessary for the potential within a thing to come into realization, to be what it is meant to be. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin once said, “Entelechy is inside of you, like the butterfly is inside of the caterpillar…”

Hegel too. Lewis Mumford grills Chardin pretty hard in one of his books, saying his was just so much dangerous romanticism. but still tho, right?

>>11948877
i think it's more that Land *wishes* to this to be so. Eric Weinstein himself works for Thiel and he's basically a liberal/left-leaning dude. and if i'm Thiel i *want* people like this working for me (and maybe, if i'm Eric, i want to work for people like Thiel). ultra-inhumanism makes for fabulous theory but IRL i think we need some of the warm fuzzies or else we go insane.

>>11949318
>Land says no one will be present for that party though.
we may be a part of what happens when the whole thing comes crashing down tho. unfortunately it does seem like ours will be the Interesting Times the chinese warn about.

>>11949700
so smug right now
>thanks anons!

#300 is just around the corner gents. are we doing Cosmotech #7 or what? i've been collating some tumblr art and for greentext i'm thinking maybe stiegler's Technics and Time vol I. it's an important book - one of YH's favorites - but not quite as much fun as Cosmotechnics. maybe i'll start another general and just feed it a couple of greentext logs now and again. i've been meaning to go back and Re-Stieglify myself anyways, now seems as good a time as any i guess.