/lit/ - Literature

>>9644286
Just to follow on from this: to me at least the history of philosophy is a kind of incredible story, full of these twists and turns - what's capital going to do next? Who or what is The Subject, The Logos, and so on. Advances in philosophy are frequently made by people proclaiming the ends of things. Land adds a kind of unbelievable time-travel twist of his own in Circuitries:

>Schizoanalysis was only possible because we are hurtling into the first globally integrated insanity: politics is obsolete. Capitalism and Schizophrenia hacked into a future that programs it down to its punctuation, connecting with the imminent inevitability of viral revolution, soft fusion. No longer infections threatening the integrity of organisms, but immunopolitical relics obstructing the integration of Global Viro-Control. Life is being phased-out into something new, and if we think this can be stopped we are even more stupid than we seem.

There are a lot of great thinkers of the meaning of technology and time and the unconscious. In many ways Land's enlightened paranoia simultaneously suggests both an end and a beginning for philosophy again, the thinking of the inhuman, alien spaces, the Outside and so on. These are scary and depressing as hell, but also kind of weird and liberating as well. He's skeptical about the power of mass movements to fix things but in the end it's enough to just not be a meme. Because all those memes feed the big database. But there's something New with him. And the New is always welcome.

And if you just like cyberpunk or science fiction, well. Who knows, maybe he'd have been happier just being a cyberpunk writer. Could be.