/lit/ - Literature

>>13354468
>I think psychologically, g/acc provides a high IQ AGP tranny a framework to reconcile losing oneself to disgusting fetishistic spiral with one's sense of masculine ego.

I think there's quite a bit more to it than merely this, though what you've outlined may be a part of it.

Modernity is a strange place-in-time for pretty much everyone who's living it. Social connections and relations have arguably never been easier to have thanks to communications/translations technology, yet as a result people are having a lot less interactions in the face-to-face, local sphere - at least in the traditional sense (family, local groups, friends you see in person every day, etc.). Combine this with the ubiquitous presence of plastics for decades now - their xenoestrogens seeping into our water, from the clothes we wear in through our skin, from the packages that our foods come in - the stuff is everywhere and it is having a large impact on the endocrine system of the human subject (girls hit puberty faster, boys have plummeting sperm counts year after year and elevated levels of estrogen in their bodies during all phases of development, changing brain chemistry). Combine just these two things and you have a lot of high estrogen boys in an era of instantaneous communication with virtually anyone in the world, at a time when local social relations have never been more strained, where they spend more time dealing with machines than they do dealing with people. Add on top of that the hostile reaction that effeminate boys/trans girls receive, and you can imagine a sort of defensive umbrella philosophy forming around it, sort of out of necessity.

I wouldn't put it down as a fetish cope - I'd look at larger social and environmental factors. Given this frame of reference, G/ACC as a philosophy seems like an inevitable occurrence.

>It has a lot to do with accelerationism and I think Mark Fisher has warned us about it. It's literally a hedonodepression wrapped into hauntology.

Part of why I love Fisher is his overwhelming optimism. After getting ripped apart and excommunicated by the people he was trying to help, perhaps he finally realized how futile his fight was.

>>13113241
Agreed with basically everything you said. Exiting the Vampire's Castle was so poignant and on the nose that the reaction to it (which the essay itself predicts and warns about) got him so cancelled that it basically killed him.

Capitalist Realism is short and very accessible at only around 95 pages. It's probably the best way to jump into Fisher's work and critical theory if you're new to it.