/lit/ - Literature

>>11965103
>>11965707
pic rel for you connoisseurs of japanese cephalopod-ophiles

>>11965891
no worries anon

so i've been looking at T&T (2) and it is eminently greentext-able. like, the whole book. Stiegler is a complete boss. the connection is that writing (as technics) becomes memory, and all of this memory becomes technologized, leads into the infinite and auto-perpetuating production of reality.

it's pure Wild Ride, like a second Industrial Revolution carried out at the level of the psyche, and in the human being's relation towards the future, effected through credit, repetition and technology. and it just explains so much in terms of media control, the need to control (mutually exclusive) narratives about The Way Things Are. somewhat hyperbolically, it really does seem to me that you can say the human being is just becoming a testing ground for a production process which requires hominid validation for this ongoing self-experiment: for teleoplexy, for the computerization of life and society.

baudrillard was right, in many ways. if you want to live in that society, you can go all in for pataphysics &c if you like. go nuts with it. but i get this creeping feeling that there really is no joke to be had any longer on The System (surprise, surprise). if anything, the current wave of meme-politics only confirms this. one wing, the Blue Team, basically decided that they would have a monopoly on irony (and criticism), and what cannot be mocked or laughed at within the Assigned Parameters would have an ungodly shitstorm rained down on it. and this in turn produced Trump, who became the living Antichrist for simply refusing to share those sensibilities. yet both of these forces share the same underlying substrate, which is technology. they're both trapped on the same Wild Ride without knowing it: it's the formalization of the human race, it's becoming-programmable, becoming-operable. it comes out of the need to assign discrete beginning and an end to a planetary procress that just doesn't have one, that eludes every attempt at being Named absolutely (unless you want to call this thing, "God" - which would be accurate - surely that will work...)

but i guess where i would disagree with JB would be in the sense of a greater fatalism, a greater irony, a greater simulation and so on. the nature of technology itself can't be humanized in other than YH's Cosmotechnical terms. Land has figured out, at least, what he is interested in: the formalization of auto-catalytic intelligence through capital and technology. and even today, when it seems that the legacy of psychoanalysis has now become absorbed by HR and PR departments for the production of Woke Capital inquisitorial justice, required to keep the wheels of happiness turning...

it's like two movie studios, two production teams, directors, cast, crew and everything, fighting to show the same story. and they keep sabotaging each other, fighting a constant war to edit each other out of the frame.

non-acceleration postmodernity is for weenies.