/lit/ - Literature

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bear in mind also that while Land is not a big fan of Christianity it is ultimately Protestantism-as-defection and ultimately the forerunner of all things "liberal"/secular/progressive/atomized that he really reserves his big rockets for

for me at least it's why i like Girard. the greatest literary critic and diagnostician of memes since Jean Baudrillard. and a Catholic.

land often talks about life in hell, about how hell is the forge of virtue and so on, but for Catholics, well...it's complicated, isn't it?

many of the greatest atheist philosophers in the Western tradition were still fundamentally indebted to Christianity: the Mulhall book explains more. without the Church there's nothing at the centre even for the wildest and most outlandish feats of speculative reason - witness Land's own bete noire of atomization. the more we defect, the more we produce atomization, niche, nuance, difference, the more capital thrives. of course there is a difference between ethically positive and ethically negative difference - in a word, nietzschean/deleuzian joyous affirmation vs. mere simulacral memery/irony/I Got Mine. but you understand all this

nothing more radical today than being a Catholic to my mind. if anything land to me just signals where the alternatives lie

good luck thinking my man

or this tandem mysteriosum