/lit/ - Literature

>>9672563
>After all, to consume another's body is to inhabit their point of view. Never mind about "minds", because their perspective is a function of their body.
Yes, but the body has biological needs and the mind has psychological ones. There is consumption, there is appropriation, there is mimesis. The friend/enemy distinction happens only *after* the mimetic process plays all the way through to its third act. There's an inherent logic in simulation that is triangular rather than bipolar and unfolds in time. By the time that There Can Only Be One that's true...but there's always a precedent for this injunction. So crisis-politics and so on basically exist in a topsy-turvy world that, for what it's worth, I think is maintained through ill-understood paranoia.

Schmitt can't be argued with because if we begin from a position of emergency powers and sovereignty then absolutism and absolute distinctions are where we absolutely end up. And begin from.

>Choose one! Total destruction followed by self destruction or protracted cold war and entropic aesthetic deterioration (democratic "politics" is very unstylish).
This is why *tragedy* actually serves a civilizational function, I would say. See the shit on stage before it happens in reality, maybe. In theory this can and should be a task for cinema...

Anyways, that's all the memefagging I'll do in this thread. If I want to talk about the boy I'll make a separate thread for it. Let's stay with Land stuff.
>he said to himself, as if everyone else wasn't already perfectly aware of this
>and so on and so on *sniff*

>But cannibalism closes the circle. The enemy is subsumed into one's body. The contradiction between friend and enemy is absorbed. Cannibalism is the final form of government. Too bad "cannibalism" already defines the "act of cannibalism". But maybe the mere act of cannibalism sates the need for government.
Probably. Harsh lesson tho. Would be nice if we didn't always have to learn these things the hard way.

>Land turns away from this "horror", with Exit as the solution. I can't blame him. It's nice in Shanghai.
Yeah.

>>9672579
>The Matrix has mystified the problem by associating it with technological singularities. Simulation (and also accelerationism for other reasons) are not a matter of flying cars or asking 'when does capital achieve intelligence'. No bother waiting for the moment of singularity when it was already passed.
True.

>>9672599
I've thought about this too. There's left-cyberpunk with the heroes as neurotic outsiders and right-cyberpunk where the heroes are fighting terrorists. Motoko Kusanagi is Agent Smith with a conscience.

>he still thinks desires are his own

>it is thus in psychological time—the only time that has meaning—that the issue of recognition or misrecognition can be decided. It is also to be stressed yet again that recognition and misrecognition will take place in every single minute of physical time and that recognition, if it is to happen, will happen physically “now,” in the present, but will enlighten and heal all the preceding, earlier misrecognitions. Here we return to Proust’s insights about the search for lost time and time regained. As for the future, on the psychological level it represents nothing but a projection of the past and an imaginary repetition of memories.

>It is desire that engenders the self and by its movement brings the self to life.
>desire is the origin of the self. the self is therefore in reality a self- of-desire. Another desire, the desire of another model, will bring with it the emergence of a different self, an-other-self-of-an-other-desire.
>a psychological reality is not situated in the tranquil opacity of anyone’s “own body,” contained in the reassuring totality of a “self,” but rather in the mysterious transparency of the interdividual relation.

It's been getting mighty accelerationist in here, how about we take a Pause That Refreshes with a Girard thread. Baudrillard: the sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. The ultimate monkey-wrench for Skynet is going to be a Gauloise cigarette, a peach and a fucking beautiful afternoon with absolutely nothing to do except read Shakespeare.

Is memory a third category to set aside Being and Becoming? Have I lost my goddamned mind? Let's find out.