/lit/ - Literature

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this is the kind of shit that makes /acc fascinating, because this process of being transformed into a species co-dependent on images and images themselves co-dependent on the hilariously gullible meatbags who have produced them begins to resolve itself into an entirely new world in which the old hermeneutics of suspicion just seem like so much antiquated baggage. the suspicion about that which is *not* an illusion becomes oh-so-quickly only a bit of old anthropocentric quietism that the new world will not allow. you're already a part of the ride, and the ride needs you. it needs to be needed and you know it needs to be needed too.

this process has no upper limits and no brakes. this is what is perhaps implied by the encephalization of capital, the sense that we become so good at simulating and predicting our own patterns of behaviour that we can no longer tell the difference between the simulated and the simulator. it is driven, fully and completely, by petit-bourgeois fantasies of joy and bliss, danger and romance, adventure and seduction, and these are among the subtlest of human emotions. a free or liberal society has absolutely no reason to shut these out; it is fantasies of a Jetsons-style life that drive all libertarian fantasies.

but the gaze, memory, and touch will only become more and more crucial to all of this. you already have facial recognition software over passwords, that much is fine. but the whole thing will hook you by the eyes and by the pleasure centers. the ad you don't know is an ad, the film you don't know is a film, the game you don't know is a game all refer back to the same need to bind and hold the gaze long enough to understand it and solve all potential riddles therein. as long as you have money or secrets you'll be interesting enough.

race? Esper. transexuality? no thanks, try transhistorical. there are already no ways to undo that which has been absolutely conflated into a rich stew of raw data for computers with a very keen interest in knowing exactly what makes you tick, because it is what makes them tick also. this is why trans is the norm and race is a spook. what matters is whether or not you can play a game more interesting than the game can play with you. we'll all be magical on the other side.

just seeding this thread with atmospherics and aesthetics.

Air: La Femme d'Argent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4U19zwFENs