/lit/ - Literature

>>11361777
my pleasure. enjoy the adventure. if you're interested in acceleration you'll be well-served in reading the various other guys, and if you like reading the other guys you may wind up reading acceleration.

i don't really know why i'm obsessed with land in particular. maybe it's just because i tend to think that the saga of marxism is still the mega-plot in philosophy, like it's the actual war for the dawn and the rest of it is really just the war of the five kings. and so in that sense, land matters. he's kind of a fringe guy otherwise, but if you're really into marxist narrative, filtered as it is through the various figures you meet along the way in 20C continental stuff, he's interesting af.

but it's not like you should plough through the other guys to get to him or anything. D&G will blow the top of your head clean off, especially if you get really into lacan/zizek beforehand. they're absolutely wild and deleuze was a top-tier mega-genius for all time. land isn't really quite as awesome, but he's fucking based in his own right, and continuing the big story. and really the main attraction (well, for me, anyways) comes from dissolving everything that is fucking enervating about 90s/2000s style postmodernism.

and nobody's really postmodern anyways, although we're just sort of finding that out now. 'postmodernity' may only turn out to just have been the name for the mildly restless calm before the storm, if the current trajectories of things are any indication. most of the stuff that baudrillard wrote about at his most hyperbolic seems to be becoming true (reality, where'd you go?). but this isn't the time for hysteria or madness. in spite of how crazy he got, land's push to understand capital even at its most inhuman seems weirdly sane to me. it's a little like pic rel but hey.

anyways. yak yak. enjoy the reading.

>>9599596
So sort of like planetary Taoist capitalism? Let capital take care of itself, harmonize yourself with the great Way?

Moldbug seems to focus more on Great Man theory, the idea of the CEO at the helm of the ship, while Nick Land prefers just to focus on the formal operations of capital itself, which is - at present, anyways - exceeding anything like human potential for governance in the absence of an absolutist sensibility.