/lit/ - Literature

>>11596046
the irony is that the culture industry produced a generation (and more) of individuals who derived their sense of identity entirely from the proposition that the culture industry itself had no identity. and so identity was produced: generation critique.

there are parallels, but they're through-the-looking-glass parallels. r/acc in particular basically is the critique of culture for that culture which was raised on the critique of culture, and is now hegemonic: the Cathedral. even trump is now discovering that being the POTUS does not mean you have authority over 500+ years of entrenched leftward drift.

so >>11596115 gets it. it's not really that landian capital 'absorbs nothing.' it certainly absorbs intelligence and raw data, converting this into technocommerce, and that technocommerce both is and is driven by culture to some degree. it is more that it is selecting for something. the thing is that capital *includes* the culture industry in a far more radical sense today. in a sense, it is true that it always did, but the later chapters of FN are testament to land attempting to 'deterritorialize' himself (occasionally, that word is mildly ridiculous) that he would find someplace in his own brain not always-already possessed by capital, and more or less failing. his long strange plunge into bataille-land seals the deal, and out of this he emerges much later on as a very different man with different political sensibilities (or were they just the same ones he always had, but he had to drill down far enough to reach this? who knows?)

anyways. relative comparisons between adorno and land are tempting, and in a sense acceleration is a kind of marxism updated for the 21C, but it's rinsed through deleuzian metaphysics, and that changes everything. capital is in a sense more modernist than adorno ever would have been.

on a personal note: i still don't think acceleration is actually a cure for existential dread (in case anyone was actually still feeling that anymore...), but it is a genuinely new and wide-open chapter in the history of continental marxism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, post-postmodernism and so on. and i think land is maybe the best exegete of the meaning of cyberpunk and aesthetics, ever, why it happened, what it meant, all that. in a different world he absolutely could have made a sort of zizekian Guide To Culture. maybe somebody will, someday.