/lit/ - Literature

>>15123920
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHtvTGaPzF4
>>15123937
pic related

Should I read this or just peruse the 40-page article it was expanded from instead?

why the fuck this book so long!?

>>12075429
who would you rather be re-tweeted by?

a) the Department of the Treasury for your local patch, or
b) L'il B the Based God.

it's a tough question.

>>12075454
the thing is that so much of what Old Nick is saying now is stuff that really was diagnosed, in an earlier form, by Fredric Jameson, who is the guy Peterson *really* needs to meet with at some point, so at least he can understand how this stuff works. postmodernity well and truly is the *cultural logic* of late capitalism, and that is what makes it as crazy as it is. because

a) Nick: Capital itself may very well have a self-propelling, teleoplexic character, but
b) Deleuze: that process itself follows only from a profoundly schizoid unconscious which
c) Derrida: never refers explicitly to what it means, owing to the nature of language, and is torqued by
d) Godel: numbers, and non-Euclidean geometry, as well as
e) Foucault: the nature of discourse itself, contingent on a power/knowledge dyad, and also b/c
f) Baudrillard: the simulation is real.

i could go on and on. but the key takeaway is that split, Culture/Logic. logic is real, and capital does indeed work upon that. and yet of course the linguistic signifier is profoundly promiscuous, until it becomes formalized into metanarrative. and this is exactly what Weinstein has said about contemporary news coverage, in the shift away from facts to narratives, or the shift from intention to impact in other fields...

...it is the cultural logic of late capitalism. now, whatever the cultural logic of Early Level-2 capitalism will be is anyone's guess. it's entirely possible that there may simply not *be* one. there might not be one. there's no Outside to Woke Capital precisely because it is committed to eradicating poverty by means guaranteed to reproduce it.

>>12030382
simulacra of BwO stultifying the stultifera navis, images break out, no more space is left for the sentimental 'egg shell', iconoclasts only want to hide the fact there is no god in the first place, late-stage capitalism fetishes everything, including itself, commodities beget commodities, until there's nothing but the yoke within plastic, within packaging, replacing nature with synthetics, "fimally" the liminal space in which Nature occupied has been replaced with the emergent capitalist production. 'obvious plant,' 'just heat and serve!' or 'i enjoy' are the words of Aristophanes' frog choir cannibalised by dull historicists

>>11507300
I do understand it and it's still gibberish.

Any other analyses/critique of Postmodernism worth reading?

Opinions on this book? I'm almost done and think it's pretty based so far.

A fantastic, informative book for those interested in good criticism.