/lit/ - Literature

>>11597781
kek. no, i am not vince garton, or any of those other guys you will find on twitter. and besides, there's something fundamentally wrong about talking about your own writing in the third person. this, a man cannot do.

>>11597768
np senpai, good luck

>>11597780 see >>11597789, that's a good list. Things Hidden is the big one. don't forget The Scapegoat and Battling to the End along the way. girard is very easy to read.

>>11597797
>If taken seriously, isn't Catholicism already accelerationist?
honestly, i'm not sure. it never struck me as being that way, but i suppose that's possible. people come to things for all kinds of different reasons. personally, i'm attracted to what *isn't* political these days: namely, virtue. when i'm feeling maximally spooked by the impossibility of knowing, or about the generally hysterical nature of almost all language, introducing faith into my own programming actually seems like a weirdly rational thing to do, if that makes any sense. i kind of have to train myself to say, look, things may seem mysterious or confusing to me, but i have to trust in something larger and more intelligent than myself. but mostly this is a way making a conscious effort to turn away from the desire to engage in a kind of social engineering, even though i might be inclined to think i'm doing this for good reasons.

in short, it's basically skepticism about the nature of my own desires. you can get away with doing a lot of shitty stuff in the name of philosophy and generally being a selfish and miserable fuck. and certainly, there may not be a reason *not* to. it's something i've been thinking a lot about recently: in a sense, philosophy is almost obliged to help you become *free,* not so much *good.* i used to really expect a lot more from my professors than maybe they were actually capable of providing (and even more than that from philosophers i read). but who says philosophy is about that? if you want morality, go look somewhere else. philosophy - particularly after deleuze - is, and maybe *has* to be about affirmation. well, okay, i'd prefer to affirm with large stacks of cash, or whatever else. but i can't, and i can't be permanently shitted-out all the time because i don't have that either, or whatever else. but, i figure, maybe i should just try being good, or kind, or decent...things that i used to think were easy, or came naturally, or were rewarded by the world (can you believe this naivete?).

anyways, i don't need to give you my whole life story, i suppose. but just that, the idea that if you want to sleep well at night, or feel better...maybe philosophy doesn't do those things. maybe that's not its job. maybe something else has to do that.

>Though, theory aside, it failed to remain true to its eschatology, by territorialization itself so hard in its inception.
when religions become worldly and political, things change. same with capital, btw: read arrighi for the details there.