/lit/ - Literature

And so, continued Girardfag,
>tho only after shamelessly plugging his own post about Kant/Holden >>9644948
>and with a much nicer picture from The Thirteenth Floor to contribute to another cool Land thread with such based anons

- Baudrillard kind of offers an interesting gateway into Nick Land territory. And perhaps from that into Girard territory also. Because we are basically situated in this place of *covetousness* - we want to own the image. Images become capital and capital becomes imagery: that's the age of simulation.

But all of this is, as Girard indicates, a Theatre of Envy. In which it is difficult to tell the difference between the actors and the spectators and the stage.

We want stuff but increasingly we make less and less. Amazon, Facebook and Google just supply us with our wants. They facilitate a universal process of *envy* that makes the whole world turn. And we want nothing more than ourselves, in the end, perhaps reified as objects on display, perhaps not. Shakespeare understood this. So did Melville, Stendhal and others.

As the image because simulacral capital does also. And to consume all of this, in a certain sense, so do we. All that is solid melts into digits.

>inb4 kys girardfag
>that which has no life tho
>use valyrian steel then or something

The narrative tho, lads. The biography of illusion. So fucking cool.

Hey /lit/
Do you guys know some books about time travel?