/lit/ - Literature

might as well stick this in here also, it's relevant to the kinds of things we're talking about.

>We’re living ‘after the orgy,’ as Baudrillard puts it. We’ve freed each sphere from its traditional social constraints — political, sexual, economic, unconscious, and artistic, to be pursued by individuals as they see fit. If the 20th century was a frenzied pursuit to overcome these barriers, today any attempt at liberating or transgressing constraints can only appear in the guise of parody or simulation. We already ate our way to the utopia of passions, and stimulation of the transgressive drive decreases on the margin. Who wants to clean up?

>Yet for as long as there has been human evolution there have been vacillating responses to innovation and the cultivation of the new, which threatens the mimetic transmission of established cultural arrangements and pushes the call for change to the margins. With the acceleration imposed by techniques of tertiary transmission — that is, oral, written, and other technologies for transmitting techniques across time and place — humans have had to react to the disruptive force of the new within their lifetimes. Caught between rejection and fascination with innovation, cultures have developed codes of dealing with the new. Luckily or not, there is no return to a golden age of ascetic or innovative tolerance for Sloterdijk, no model that stands above the others to emulate. Instead, starting from the possibilities of the here and now, there’s a call to accept the full price of transformation rather than the comforts of discounted consumer equality.

>The diagnoses of both Dreher and Sloterdijk signal to us that a frictionless society, one in which individual passions are designed to be indulged, is one devoid of meaning. Too much comfort and not enough prohibition, in the one case, or effort and discipline, on the other, lead to decline. But in their opposed prescriptions for how to remedy the ills, they highlight alternative trajectories for fragmentation: sacred collectivities or transformative individuations.

https://jacobitemag.com/2018/09/20/after-the-weirding/

acceleration really can point in at least these two different directions. the only real thing we know is that 'you don't have to go home, but you can't stay here.' be interesting to know which of these turns out to be more popular. it's possible that they loosely can be mirrored on the political spectrum as well, although anything that has to do with politics in its present form is for me at least to be avoided like the plague. i'm already halfway to Full Monastic at this point anyways.