/lit/ - Literature

>>19070986
It refers to a style
>>19071120
Yeah yeah. Most of it isn’t very good.

>An order-word machine overcodes language, a faciality machine and overcodes the body and even the head, a machine of enslavement overcodes or axiomatizes the earth: these are in no way illusions, but real machinic effects.

>We can no longer place the assemblages on a quantitative scale measuring how close or far they are from the plane of consistency.

>There are different types of abstract machines that overlap in their operations and qualify the assemblages: abstract machines of consistency, singular and mutant, with multiplied connections; abstract machines of stratification that surround the plane 5 of consistency with another plane; and axiomatic or overcoding and abstract machines that perform totalizations, homogenizations, conjunctions of closure.

>Every abstract machine is linked to other abstract machines, not only because they are inseparably political, economic, scientific, artistic, ecological, cosmic — perceptive, affective, active, thinking, physical, and semiotic — but because their various types are as intertwined as their operations are convergent.

>Mechanosphere.

roger wilco

>>15983514
>have to get out more rambleposting aaaaargh
>the old devil whiskey

in a certain sense, Deleuze can set you free with a single, incredible, spectacular word - *difference*. differences - transcendental movement, the whole Grand Factorio all to the way to the bottom - just like that. i believe this is true, that something of this is just baked fundamentally into both the great cosmic pie and the way we see it. the clinamen, the swerve of atoms, relativism, relativity, and all of it. this done, we are left in stupefying wonder, awe, and majesty at a world endlessly and infinitely in motion. okey-doke.

a Taoist perspective on things is, comparatively, conservative. at least that is how it seems to me. you just become a witness to it all. this is the Buddhist perspective, in some sense also: become the witness of your own thoughts, know that - in the Mahamudra sense - the mind cannot evaluate itself perfectly, because in doing so it takes itself to be objective reality, which is precisely the reason why you have found yourself in the middle of Tibet and staring at the deep blue sky.

but what inevitably happens is that these differences come into relation, organize and co-organize each other - whether we know this as de/re-territorializing, or a Whiteheadian process, or yin/yang dance makes no difference. it *does* make a difference, i think, to split off aesthetics from politics at that point, and to leave them completely separate. that is, to me, the course of real wisdom. but it's not necessary. Land will call it capitalism, and be extremely sulky if it doesn't produce icy-cold cyberpunk corporations and a lot of secure Bitcoin protocol. but that's him. in a way, he has re-Hegelianized things in an incredibly creative fashion, and the whole journey from Hegel to Land is worth anyone's time.

so in a sense, Taoism has that going on too: it is the means by which you can study the history - the incredible adventure story of dynasties, chaos and mercantile glory - without having your face melt completely from staring at it. from the disaster of wanting to *own* it, to *have* it. the ability to appreciate stories without endings...