/lit/ - Literature

so a little Confucianism, a little Taoism, a little Buddhism - the Vinegar tasters, mixed in with some Freud/Lacan, some tortured neo-Augustinian stuff (Girard), Heidegger for a grammar of time and affect, plus Baudrillard, Deleuze and Land to present their portraits of the matrix, and i wind up something with Break Glass in Case of Mimetic Emergency. in the evenings Byung-Chul Han goes hunting for Foucaultian troublemakers and maybe carves a big H into their chests with his rapier, to let them know what's what and to stop fucking around with neoliberalism, because it's gahbage.

it's like a Matrix/Wasteland survival kit, or maybe like one of those fully-equipped doomsday shelters you hope to find if you're a post-apocalyptic traveler. ultimately there are no answers; or, put another way, the answers are exactly what you always thought they were going to be, and at best all that is required is an occasional reminder. one of the things i had planned to talk about in this thread was some kind of reckoning with Bataille, and not - perish the thought - because i want to BTFO him, as this does not happen. rather, you fall in love with him. such are his powers.

but the world today has been kind of in the thrall of waste, expenditure, loss, destruction, BDSM, schizophrenia and much else for a while now. to some degree it's required, to get out from under the iron grip of normativity. these phenomena have been well-documented, it is the fundamental task of critique of ideology itself: Fight Fascism. the only problem is that the excess vigilance to this also produces the same monsters Deleuze talks about, and of course, Nietzsche's own reminder about fighting with monsters. it's not fighting and Revolution that is required, imho: it's just therapy for burned-out philosophers on a burned-out planet. that's why i would probably never refer to myself as a philosopher, patently i'm not. i am a guy way in over his head, more fucked up by philosophy than a philosopher myself.

but an ecological sensibility is quite beautiful for this reason - sustainability, balance, holism, integration, and all the rest. the Green to follow the Black. we are in thrall to technology, hugely. it is, along with capitalism, the planetary cosmotechnics par excellence. and because there is no cure for the IRL Matrix, and no Chosen Ones either, only withdrawal/secession/Exit makes sense. the Desert of the Real is for realsies too. and some nature-appreciation is in order, you can be anti-anthropocentric in ways other than the Wild Ride.

it may just be a rule of the universe that technology does inevitably turn the cosmo-polis (in the globalization sense, rather than my own idealized Cosmo-sense) into the necro-polis, by way of just doubling down on the fundamental circuits, Death - Desire - Capitalism - Repeat. maybe Necroplexy is a term we can talk about also, i don't know. it's certainly poetic. and it animates no small amount of my own 3rd-rate junk spec-fiction.

>>11977488
i'm sure he gets it. and speaking for myself i would say that there's definitely room in Cosmotech for some Level-2 environmentalism also. Deep Ecology is cool stuff too.

>>11977476
this is a good post, anon. thanks for explaining where you're coming from in this a little more clearly. there's a lot in this i agree with also.

bumping one of the best threads on /lit/ in weeks.