/lit/ - Literature

>>12453923
good questions!

if the thread is still up tomorrow i will try to answer these. i think the best reasons are in fact not straight-up pitches for the traditions themselves, but in fact because totalitarianism itself is more feature than bug. nondualism has never been the normative state; it's always a kind of perverse exception to a more general rule, which is cybernetic societies of control, or SoCs for short. Foucault, Zizek, and Land - to name but three - pretty much all of this in common, that you can only go so far left before you wind up almost irresistably falling in love with authoritarianism. in Zizek's case, it comes out as Stalinist in-jokes or how much in his later years he basically can just offer Romance Advice from Jacques Lacan; for Foucault, it's that he represents the ultimate Grand Inquisitor for neoliberalism itself, which really cannot help itself from becoming, ultimately, everything that it hates. it blames capitalism for capitalism itself being what it has always wanted, inasmuch as it offers both desire and the perfect formula for hating desire, such that desire always returns again. it would never allow the Matrix to be shut off, because the Matrix is what it desires most of all (which Zizek knows). it's supreme cultural exponent really will be the transgendered libertarian tech-comm wizard/hedge-fund operator, the perfect ancap double agent (unless it's just Thiel). and Land is writing the code for it, so to speak. i'm sure he wishes that he didn't have to, or that his heart was full of something other than poisonous ice. i relate to him for exactly these reasons.

anyways, dystopian schizoid fuckface shitposting will resume tomorrow, after sleep and perhaps dreaming. although my last memorable dreams were of walking through a flooded shopping mall that over increasingly decrepit foot bridges, until i fell in completely. i remember kind of wondering if this was how it was supposed to work; apparently it was. nobody else could really explain it either, it just...was that way. i'm sure that's a positive sign. until then.

loving this board crossover. the whole mag issue is pretty good, especially for something coming out at this bear moment