/lit/ - Literature

sorry about the late responses gents, i had a 24-hour ban up.

>>12419725
Kefka. he's the perfect foil for postmodernity, because he sums it up so completely. with /acc stuff, sentient capital et al a new kind of world of philosophy opens up, in a sense, and one which for the time being seems to resist being given its properly mythopoetic treatment. but FF6 basically handles in one beautiful throw of the dice everything i have always been fascinated by and horrified by about postmodernity, and it is because it has the ultimate villain.

him excluded, Edgar. but i can write five thousand words off the top of my head about Kefka, who seems to open up doors in my head to every elemental plane of schizo-ramble that i have. he connects to Nietzsche and Heidegger and Uncle Nick. most importantly, he represents a kind of plateau of philosophy between postmodernity and Uncle Nick. the World of Ruin is our world. and who knows, maybe /acc stuff will turn out in the end to only be a kind of tiny sandcastle, in the end. either way, what it is that Kefka means to that game, and what that game means to art is unaffected. FF6 is a pinnacle for me, and the Doomsday Clown is a major part of why that is so.

>>12420401
my thoughts on modern Platonism? i'm not really sure if have any. Grievance Politics are certainly rooted in the transcendent - the old attraction to master signifiers - but that's not a particularly interesting line of inquiry. i might be inclined to say that the Forms are, like Nirvana, something simply to be sought but not achieved. they are a sort of Grail Quest for the Enlightenment, and stubbornly irreducible to bullshit politics today. Negarestani can give you a far better (and more persuasive) window on this kind of stuff. Intelligence is a goal worth pursuing, but the road today will lead through a thousand Late Humanist conflagrations.

>>12420429
very good

and for truly no joke great great art, this takes the cake. everything else is playing catch-up, imho. has it all. has everything. the bad guys nuke the world and they weren't even bad, they were just experimented on. killing the bbeg doesn't change anything; if anything, it's fucking anticlimactic. world's fucked & full of monsters. heroic resistance a meme. nature spirits are wild but can't be controlled. there is no one true hero.

but you *can* suplex a train. and fly an airship. and go to the opera. and wait for the ninja.

leibniz & the doomsday clown. girard & the apocalypse. heidegger & tech. the whole shebang.

this game was so ahead of the curve it's mcdiculous. i'll have to give ff7 a run-through again soon to see how well it measures up.

anyways, that's enough shitposting for today.