/lit/ - Literature

>>12014229
so along with Hegel/Marx/Land, who are providing the materialist (or perhaps we should say, the engineering components) of the Wild Ride, there is a parallel - and yet overlapping, intertwined, and Heisenberg-double, at every step of the way, like the coils of a serpent - process about metaphysics and the *unconscious.* the guys there are Freud, Lacan, and D&G. and in this way the Weird Fate of 20C Marxism is described both without and within.

there is Hegel (Hegel); there is Marx (Marx); there is Heidegger (Heidegger); there is Hegelian-Marxism (Kojeve); there is Freudo-Marxism, which in its contemporary form is Hegel-Lacanism (Zizek); there is Spinozan-Marxism (D&G); there is Nietzschean Marxism (Baudrillard, until he drops Marx altogether); there is Heideggerian Marxism (Marcuse); there is Deleuzo-Marxism (Uncle Nick); there is post-Heideggerian techno-sort of-Marxism (Stiegler); there is Stieglerism with Chinese Characteristics (YH); and there are itinerant wasteland bards who sing the story of this ridiculous roller coaster ride, and who also preach Fuck Yeah Space Taoism (us).

it's basically like designing an operating system intended to ruin your own mind. and yet it is to be hoped, perhaps, that such a non-ideological or at least skeptically non-aligned view of what is *a process* taking place that through the power of meme-magic comes in time to shape *reality* (Whitehead) is one that can be told, and described, and which in *being* described exorcises perhaps a few lingering ghosts and specters of Marx (Derrida) which still haunt the world in which we live today, because those ghosts inasmuch as they are unrecognized still continue to exert a strange and baleful hold over the world today that winds up triggering everyone who lives in a state of constant burnout (Han) and subsequently oscillating their genders, their commitments to either Unironic Fascism or Unironic Socialism, and so on.

so a flow-chart model of how we got from There to Here will be helpful. but so too will be something like a statement of principles. i've got a few of these in mind, but like everything else, it's entirely open to revision and commentary. one that i don't think is too controversial, however, is that we are anti-NPC and pro-Satori. Fuck Yeah Space Taoism is politically non-denominational in that sense. at any terminus in the chart you are building it is entirely possible to *stop* and become an NPC or a drone. but that is not the point of the Wild Ride. if the dizzying carousel of doom that is the Wild Ride has any positive features at all, it is to show you the absolute futility of NPC political life, and perhaps to Return to Your Original Source (Glass).