/lit/ - Literature

just posting this also, so as to keep the storyline intact.

>>11932809
a *supremely* based list, and ranked in tiers like an absolute patrician. thank you very kindly anon. i'll be using this in any future editions of Cosmotech there may be to balance out the philosophy end of things. this is exactly what i was hoping for!

i've also read, like...two of these? Neuromancer and PKD/Androids. something else of Gibson's way back when that was good too. some of Mirrorshades, but nothing that really stuck with me.

anyways this is a fucking awesome list anon, greatly appreciated. and i imagine many others anons ITT will be pleased with it also. never thought i would be into cyberpunk back when, it was always fantasy for me. didn't really like SF either. but here we are.

>The fiction elucidates because it's detached from the pretensions of academics.
also this. and it's worth nothing. land's own stuff wanders far afield as it becomes increasingly theory-fiction and less theory: that is basically what you see happening Fanged Noumena, which is basically a Fall from Kant/Capital all the way to the later essays, which are completely demented. i've never been bothered to read the truly weird stuff in great detail, the more conventional analyses of things are more than rich enough for me.

but what makes land special is that even his theory-fiction mashups are full of little jewels as well. i don't think it's necessary to lose one's mind completely to be interesting, but i kind of subscribe to the Auteur Theory of philosophy: whatever an Auteur writes is going to be good, because some people are just like that. and land is unquestionably such a one to my mind.

detachment from the pretensions of academics in general seems like a good scene. as the great sage says:

>>11932865
kek. i don't know about the other guys but i don't think i do. and no wizardry here anon, just good old-fashioned Continental Fuckery (that is, navel-gazing to the point of self-induced hypnosis). and believe me, you can do it too. it is not so hard to be a functionally paranoid theorist of capitalism. it is so easy, in fact, that the university system is currently mostly collapsing into fire and ruin from the excess use of post-structural Blood Magic...which is why we are having our conversation here and not there.
>and toasting our cyber-marshmallows
>and kind of hoping that, you know, This Too Will Pass

have fun at the library my man.