/lit/ - Literature

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it is. hopefully we attract some of the same shadow cabal commentariat from previous threads! plus, i really wanted to make an Official /lit/-style Thread for once, with the necessary stuff in the OP and so on. and, tbqh, feels good man. it's more professional this way. i too thought i might want to take a break for a bit but i couldn't resist making a new thread with all that fun stuff in it. it's nice to have it more or less in one place so that things don't always feel like everything is in a perpetual state of catching up with everything else.
>which is how it is probably is in reality, but Cosmotech is a species of utopian literature, so the rules are different

i think my first extended Greentext Spree will be probably be selections from YH and Cosmotechnics.

>In his recent article “How the Enlightenment Ends” (The Atlantic, June 2018), Henry Kissinger joins the Gegenaufklärer (as well as the Dark Aufklärer) and announces the end of the Enlightenment in view of the rise of Artificial Intelligence. He proposes that this end demands a new philosophy. However, did the Enlightenment really end? What is the relation between the Enlightenment and technology? What comes after its end? This talk attempts to respond to Kissingner's article by addressing these questions.

source:
https://www.e-flux.com/program/218683/e-flux-lectures-yuk-hui-what-begins-after-the-end-of-enlightenment/

>tfw you weren't there

but yeah. in the previous thread it was asked if maybe we could focus on a particular author, rather than being all over the place, and given that the thread concept is borrowed from YH and the last spree of greentexting was about gilbert simondon, i figure another dose of YH will be where i proceed from. Cosmotech is YH's term anyways, i've just sort of lopped off the end of it - not unlike a crude sawed-off shotgun - for effect.

Cosmotech is a far smaller and newer thing than either cyberpunk or acceleration, but i have to come to realize that it is really where my own philosophical heart is. it's what happens when you add a little religion - either new age or Traditional - to Nick Land's Wild Ride. but, as you will see, YH is actually encountering a lot of the same problems in China that the west has also. modernity fucks everybody up, no matter where you are. and this is really so important: he's not just trying to shit on the West or set up Heidegger as a strawman to score postcolonial points off of. so important. this is a theme i hope to develop, in fact. Not Everything Is The West's Fault. and this isn't about taking a shit on Heidegger either, i love heidegger. and YH also thinks he is a big deal.

but there has to be a change in the plot. land has already said a great deal about this. but there is more to the narrative than the Wild Ride.