/lit/ - Literature

i am. been trying for a while. have produced a couple of drafts & manuscripts previously but they were all worse than garbage. too didactic & obvious. interesting ideas but the style was terrible.

i'm liking the current iteration tho. it's really the setting that i'm interested in: a big liminal world with a lot of monsters & intrigue & paranoia. sort of like nick land's middle-earth, if that makes any sense. or maybe alpha centauri crossed with final fantasy. the characters are mainly in it just to take a tour of the place i think. i'm about 60K in atm & it's flowing reasonably well. just backstory mostly. got the MC, antagonist, beginning/middle/end all worked out.

it's intended to be cheesy pulp fun and not heavy.

>more rec would be greatly appreciated
then sir you shall have it. more stuff for history/philosophy of tech & modernity and so on:

Marx, works
Heidegger, works
Deleuze, works
Baudrillard, works
Virilio, works
>others i am forgetting

McLuhan, Understanding Media & Gutenberg Galaxy
Giedion, Mechanization Takes Command
Chardin, the Phenomenon of Man
Mumford, Technics & Civilization
Ellul, the Technological Society
Land, Fanged Noumena
Simondon, Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
Althusser, Reproduction of Capital
&c
&c

Links:

Giedion:
http://biopolitics.kom.uni.st/Siegfried%20Giedion/Mechanization%20Takes%20Command_%20A%20Contribution%20to%20Anonymous%20History%20(143)/Mechanization%20Takes%20Command_%20A%20Contributio%20-%20Siegfried%20Giedion.pdf

Chardin:
https://archive.org/stream/ThePhenomenonOfMan/phenomenon-of-man-pierre-teilhard-de-chardin_djvu.txt

Ellul:
https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Ellul_Jacques_The_Technological_Society.pdf

Land:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/406213/42bdb859549f609953a0ca61aca0bee3.pdf

Lewis:
https://monoskop.org/images/f/fa/Mumford_Lewis_Technics_and_Civilization.pdf

Althusser:
https://libcom.org/files/louis-althusser-on-the-reproduction-of-capitalism.compressed.pdf

So there you go. How's that? Many diving boards for plunging into the technonomic weirdness. Much more besides this, but all of this is cool. I don't recommend plunging in the way I did, because you will later on struggle with de-plunging yourself and trying to reassemble the fragments of your exploded head, put your thoughts in order, sort yourself out, clean room &c. It is better to start with - and, arguably, return to - the Greeks.
>the good, the beautiful, and the true > capitalism

But ultimately it does all make sense, if you're prepared to absorb enough steamrollers to the head. Capitalism unites everything and we wind up being chased by what we have unleashed on the world in the form of modernity, economics & tech. If only it weren't so darn interesting. One big beautiful meme city to meme in.

>also do you use secondary sources for most philosophers? in conjunction? after reading? before reading?
when required. after a while the jargon doesn't seem like jargon anymore. everybody reads & references the same guys. secondary sources are ok but in general you want the primary guys as much as you can (until, sadly, they die). then secondaries.

in general go to the source as much as possible, imho.

>>9679991
>wtf girardfag jesus christ control yourself
>sorry

Of course difference doesn't *have* to be grounded in anything. This is why D&G are awesome. It's possible that by trying *to* "ground" difference - that is, the fascoid impulse - you get the only possible answer: Capital. Capital annuls difference very well, and this is what sounds the death-knell for the metaphysics of difference. Land does brilliant readings of Kant and Marx and Deleuze - especially Deleuze.

So Land's apocalyptic car-wreck journey is one that I think is worth taking a look at, forensics-wise.

tl;dr i'm a spergy retard