/lit/ - Literature

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>Land's thought is market liberalism taken to its utmost conclusion. Now, I have a lot of problems with this ideology in that I view its way of looking at the world as fundamentally disingenuous, but it's pretty much what Land "advocates".
Uncle Nick is a complicated man, no one understands him but his woman, &c &c. he utterly, utterly, loathes the left. probably because some tiny piece of him is forever bound up with it. but also because thinking through capital in this way is not only exciting as hell for him philosophically, but also suggests something like a plot change from the current wheels of doom that are left/right retardation. i really can't say i blame him sometimes. and i appreciate his ultra-cold takes on these things also. i don't subscribe to his politics either, but he's got the most incredibly imaginative perspective on capital today, and that's why i check his blogs and twitter feed daily. i can do without the curmudgeonly grumbling, but it's worth it to get a BTC and Philosophy paper, which has more stuff for me to pore over than basically anything else on the internet.

>What does this have to do with FF6 in particular? I've never played past 6.
6 is my all-time all-time favorite game going away, and as time goes on i realize more and more why i like it to much. 6, 7 and 15 form a really interesting story all about cities and machines, and other things as well: Heideggerian Gestell, the hard limits on postmodernity (Doomsday Clowns, the apocalypse, industrial reactors, enemies from the Outside, and by the time you get to 15, you've gone all the way through the baroque, through industrialism/cyberpunk, right up to luxury cars, selfies and shopping districts that are, at least nominally, still 'fantasy.' that is a hell of a para-world to be opening up. i happen to think FF6 is one of the greatest stories ever told, in spite of what people say about the WoR, that Kefka is an AAA villain once and forever, and much else. but they're also long and unusually rich discourses on the city, modernity, and technology as well, which i like to muse on, altho with some degree of continental poetic license. i keep trying to reduce these thoughts down and they keep blowing up on me. at some point i'll have it all sorted out. or not.

basically i think they're terrifically interesting perspectives on modernity and technology, the world of the polis, Deleuze and others. in a purely literary form Journey to the West and LotR are peerless, but the FF developers were definitely on to some pretty fabulous stuff in the 1990s also, which are a crucial turning point both culturally and technologically also. bonus points for not embiggening it either (since that's my job).