/lit/ - Literature

>In contrast to the common understanding, according to which the postmodern, dating to the late twentieth century indicates the end of modernity, I would rather say that modernity only comes to an end at this moment in the twenty-first century, almost forty years after Jean-Francois Lyotard’s announcement of the advent of the postmodern, since it seems that only at this stage do we come to appreciate our technological consciousness. In fact, not only Latour and Lyotard, but also many others who wrote on technology, such as Jacques Ellul and Gilbert Simondon, had raised the problem of the lack of awareness and misunderstanding of technology. For example, in On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, Simondon characterises it as an ignorance and misunderstanding of technics, and tries to render visible or raise awareness of technical objects. Jacques Ellul, in turn, took up Simondon’s analysis of technical objects and technical ensembles and extended it to the global technological system that is in the process of becoming a totalising force. It is this effort at rendering conscious that of which we are unaware, but which largely constitutes our everyday life, that really constitutes the 'end of modernity.’

>However, let us step back and ask: What do we mean by the word ‘end’? It doesn't mean that modernity suddenly stops, but rather that, as a project, it has to confront its limit, and in doing so, will be transformed. Therefore, by ‘end of modernity’, we surely do not mean that modernity ceases to affect us, but rather that we see and know that it is coming to its end. Nevertheless it still remains for us to overcome it, to overcome the effects that it has produced on and in us— and this will undoubtedly take much longer than we might imagine, just as Heidegger tells us that the end of metaphysics doesn’t mean that metaphysics no longer exists and has ceased to affect us, but rather that we are witnessing its completion and waiting for something else to take over, whether a new thinking of Being, or an even more speculative metaphysics. Furthermore, like the end of metaphysics, the end of modernity proceeds at a different pace in Asia than in Europe, precisely in so far as, firstly, their philosophical systems do not perfectly match each other, and, secondly, the propagation of a concept from one system to another is always a deferment and a transformation.

>>11852026
awesome.

well thus far the D&G/whitehead/leibniz trifecta is beating the brakes off of hegel/marx/freud. and i like that posse as well but every now and again you have to change the conversation. i am ready to start making full and unironic apologias for the ars combinatoria, alchemy and quasi-hermetic magic now like a genuine theurge of the baroque.

but it was because of /lit/ that i found out about stengers and now the party continueth with leibniz. onward for dark enlightenment theodicy!
>maybe not so dark tho
>maybe just enlightenment
>would be nice to not feel so crusty & miserable all the time
>kind of did that
>didn't feel so great

is cyber-theodicy > cyberpunk/nomad/war-machine? tune in next time for more

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