/lit/ - Literature

>>12176613
Lady that drinks at the bar I work at had a heavily tattered copy of Infinite Jest, got talking to her about it. Arranged to go to a gig with her.

the really interesting stuff to me is where land and hegel go together.

hegel:
515. Wealth already contains within it the moment of being-for-self. It is not the self-less universal of state power, or the naive inorganic nature of Spirit; it is state power which wills to hold its own against those who would take possession of it for their own enjoyment. But since wealth has merely the form of essence, this one-sided being-for-self which has no intrinsic being of its own, but is rather the cancelling of it, is in its enjoyment the essenceless return of the individual into himself. It therefore itself requires to be ensouled; and the movement of its reflection consists in this, that wealth which is only for itself, develops an intrinsic being of its own, that, instead of being a cancelled essence, it develops an essential being. It thus receives within itself a Spirit of its own.

land:
§ 13. Quasi-finally, the evaluation of teleoplexy is a research program which teleoplexy itself undertakes. The comprehensive value of capital is an emergent estimate, generated automatically by its inherent analytical intelligence, from prices corrected for commercial relativity (in the direction of 'fundamental values') and discounted for historical virtuality (in the direction of reliable risk modelling). The intricacy of these calculations is explosively fractionated by logical problems of self-reference-both familiar and as-yet-unanticipated-as it compounds through dynamics of competitive cognition in artificial time. If modernity has a spontaneous teleoplexic self-awareness, it corresponds to the problem of techonomic naturalism, immanently approached: How much is the world worth? From the perspective of teleoplectic reflexion, there is no final difference between this commercially-formulated question and its technological complement: What can the earth do? There is only self-quantification of teleoplexy or cybernetic intensity, which is what computerized financial markets (in the end) are for. As accelerationism closes upon this circuit of teleoplexic self-evaluation, its theoretical 'position'-or situation relative to its object-becomes increasingly tangled, until it assumes the basic characteristics of a terminal identity crisis.

in many ways teleoplexy is like an incredible re-writing of the phenomenology of spirit from the perspective of the Outside, or whatever you want to call land's POV. it's capital-as-Spirit or Spirit-as-capital. i know of course that to conflate these things changes the meanings of all these terms, and in some cases beyond recognition, but still. it's not like kojeve didn't do this in his day either.