/lit/ - Literature

>>12620475
that's a good one! if we're including games it's a whole new world, i doubt there is a bigger homer for FF6 to be found on this board. Planescape: Torment deserves all the hype it gets also.

>>12426478
this is what desolation looks like. true desolation cannot be fixed. if you are looking for a hard kernel of the Will, it can be found there, in the figure of a jester-turned-angel, a sheer proliferation of signs, which ultimately masks a bottomless desolation. it will be very hard to shake loose the temptation to think of the world in Hegelian terms. Lacan hought that he had succeeded, at last, in identifying the fundamental structure of Being on the psychoanalytic plane, as the Borromean knot; he might even have been right. then along came D&G, who found within this knot a window onto Spinoza. more recently, Land has taken this and applied it directly to the forehead of Capital, a Capital which wants *in* to our world as much as the psychoanalytic symptom of old wants *out.*

i think, personally, that there is in fact a secret subterranean elective affinity between these. in some deep sense, both of these things are true. the more we fight, as Deleuze says, as stubbornly for our servitude as for our freedom, the more the tendency towards Landian thinking will grow. Capital teleoplexy provides *exactly the stabilizing fiction required for neoliberalism to thrive.* it works because ressentiment works, and ressentiment works because nihilism works. postmodernity dissolves the genuine angst of modernity into irony, and from irony into capitalist positivism, and from positivism into acceleration and Landian horror. it all makes sense.

we want a reason. we want a purpose. this is what the Master does. for Lacan, of course, the Sphinx *thinks* it wants a master more than it really does: when it finds one, the master - Oedipus - goes directly to the core of the process and says, ‘you want me to tell you what to *do,* but i am going to tell you what you *are.*’ and what the Sphinx is, of course, is *a Sphinx.* and, as such, the game is up. the Sphinx knows that this is true, and that its Sphinx-riddles and language games *are* Sphinx-riddles and language games. *the Game you know to be a Game is no longer a Game.* the capital letters are removed, and an awesome demythologization takes place. you are no longer under the CTRL of the Law. the spell is broken. but then what? now what?

>Why do people rebuild things that they know are going to be destroyed? Why do people cling to life when they know they can't live forever?