/lit/ - Literature

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YH's love for Simondon follows from (i believe) what he thinks Simondon keyed in on, which was *individuation* and *transduction.* things happen at the level of individuation. as one anon >>12005209 was also saying, there is a very line between *discovery* and *invention* and i also think that is the case. again, you don't have to work very hard to see that there are places where innovation stagnates (but Order rules) and where innovation proliferates (amidst Chaos). it's Orson Welles' old saw about the Italians the Swiss, the Renaissance and the cuckoo clock.

Capital + Tech give you algorithms, standardization, and automation, but they also give you the NPC (and the counter-NPC, for better or for worse). and they give you terrorism to boot. the Cosmotech line on this would be that a) you can't really CTRL for terrorism, in a final or absolute sense. it's what i was getting at in my earlier posts on Yojimbo et al (>>12007284, >>12007345, >>12007414, >>12007432) because the terrorist is also a nomad/Outsider with a very particular relation to the polis which from one perspective he preserves against further incursions of Chaos *or* *accelerates two totalitarian systems to a place of mutual destruction that isn't really terroristic.* that's the meaning of Yojimbo, in a sense. and for an even earlier treatment of the relationship of barbarism to the polis, see pic rel. the meaning of the final sequence of this film (along with every other sequence in it) warrants close consideration, imho. there is a very serious question here being asked by a very serious thinker about the meaning of modernity and its relation to the Outside as the Outside manifests in both the bandits *and* the Ronin, and particularly, Mifune's Kikuchiyo, who is simultaneously *bandit-ronin,* and - well, you should watch it for yourself. it's a justifiable classic for these reasons and for many others.

the problem, ultimately, is in becoming a drone or an NPC. politics *becomes* technological, and you can see this in a psychotherapeutic sense the more that individuals seem to require flow-chart models in order to deal with ambiguity in political discourse. we're being technologized, and our current state of political relations, which come to look ever more like Cold War chess games, is the result.

but YH believes there is a space *between* Heidegger and Deleuze that really matters, and it may even have something that sticks a spanner in the Wild Ride.