/lit/ - Literature

>>16119395
>The clear pill does say you’re in a dome. It says nothing about the real world outside that dome, only that you know nothing about that world—just some facts. It does not even challenge any of those facts. It is made from pure philosophy and contains no jet fuel or steel beams.

>>14797777
The clear pill does say you’re in a dome. It says nothing about the real world outside that dome, only that you know nothing about that world—just some facts. It does not even challenge any of those facts. It is made from pure philosophy and contains no jet fuel or steel beams.

>>14675506
>non-human intelligences emerging and taking over
>he thinks it will produce non-human intelligence
NeoSophistry arrives from the Patchwork.

>>14644359
>coherent politics presently
His politics is literally Viva Las BioDome, and you think he's any different from the virologists?

>>14096313
Nice try, accfag.

>>13871478
>nature so scary and evil
Time Darwinism commoditised by the Bio-Dome.

>>13813998
>not looking forward to the self-immunizing World-BioDome
Cheer up, weepy genes!
>With all of this doom and gloom, you may not suspect your humble author of being a hot-blooded synbio booster. But I believe this field could be the greatest boon to humanity in all of history. Advances resulting from research in synthetic biology could heal our bodies, our planet, and our often-brutal relationships with other creatures—and that’s just the start.

>I’ll add that time is on our side, for now. The most virulent dangers are years away. The worst could-be perpetrators may not be born yet. The darkness that led to Columbine and Newtown is exceedingly rare in humanity, and those it afflicts should always be outnumbered millions-to-one.

>Our deliverance lies in synbio’s own Promethean labs. And in the spirit of biomimicry, we should use its tools to start building an immune system—one for the entire biosphere. I sketch the rawest outline of such a system toward the end of my talk (starting at 13:04). And while my “ghost story” may stick in more minds, the actual message is one of empowerment and optimism.

>>13432537
it's the ultimate reddit cope
>you thought it was bad?
>lmao imagine how hilarious it would be if it were even worse?

I propose a hyperpatchwork of tertiary self-selecting biodomes.

>>11999317
Jump right into Nietzsche & Philosophy and work from there. Have some pasta:


Deleuze is a matter of quantity in the sense that you want as much information on him as possible for things to make sense. Reading him, no matter how well read you may be philosophically, is not enough, but you can read or listen to others (such as DeLanda for D's connections to science and maths) to get a more complete picture.

A decent short summary / intro to D&G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EHnrE3j9kg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lajsoQJ0V6A

A lot of the stuff here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4CtHPqv6eKr8pYqe8qEoEA/videos?disable_polymer=1

Everything by Manuel DeLanda:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=manuel+delanda

A bit more on the Nietzsche-Deleuze relation through Klossowski (who dedicated his book about Nietzsche to Deleuze):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7l7ZAKZZZU

More on the Deleuze-Nietzsche relation (the entire series is fascinating if you're into Nietzsche):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFFxnf92XqY


The Deleuze for the Desperate series:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS35vUMhww4

Derrida's lecture about Deleuze (mistitled, it's about Stupidity not Forgiveness):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_r-gr3ccik

There's probably a lot more, there are Vimeo videos as well which don't feature on Youtube.

Pirate Deleuze's Abecedaire (it should have English subtitles) as I can't find it streamed in full online anywhere.

As for the books, start with the essay and interview collections (in no particular order): Dialogues, Negotiations, Desert Islands, Two Regimes of Madness, Essays Critical and Clinical. "Letter to a Harsh Critic" in Negotiations is short (about 7 pages) and tells you how to read his texts. As for the books, start with Nietzsche and Philosophy (read the intro to the English translation by Michael Hardt even if you don't read the book in English). Deleuze's courses are also pretty accessible and translated in several languages: https://www.webdeleuze.com/


A decent bibliography:
https://immanentterrain.wordpress.com/biblio/

>XF seizes alienation as an impetus to generate new worlds. We are all alienated – but have we ever been otherwise? It is through, and not despite, our alienated condition that we can free ourselves from the muck of immediacy. Freedom is not a given–and it’s certainly not given by anything ‘natural’. The construction of freedom involves not less but more alienation; alienation is the labour of freedom’s construction. Nothing should be accepted as fixed, permanent, or ‘given’–neither material conditions nor social forms. XF mutates, navigates and probes every horizon. Anyone who’s been deemed ‘unnatural’ in the face of reigning biological norms, anyone who’s experienced injustices wrought in the name of natural order, will realize that the glorification of ‘nature’ has nothing to offer us–the queer and trans among us, the differently-abled, as well as those who have suffered discrimination due to pregnancy or duties connected to child-rearing. XF is vehemently anti-naturalist. Essentialist naturalism reeks of theology–the sooner it is exorcised, the better.

>dood just like give in to the cuntish question of the technocosmos and detourne yourself lmao

>>11808850
"I Am that I Am."

>mfw accelerationists still don't realise that they are larping as marxist devalorisation

>>11675114
This theory was actually created by Camatte, who understood Marx better than anyone.
Land is just post-ironically larping as a fully capitalised subject in feedback runaway. And considering his girlfriend's leftism I wouldn't be surprised if he was aware of Camatte.
You're simply reading it through the lens of the labour theory of value, but real subsumption - especially when read through the Fragment on the Machines - gives us a very different picture of what Marx was saying about capital valorisation.

"In the era of its real domination, capital has run away (as the cyberneticians put it), it has escaped. [7] It is no longer controlled by human beings. (Human beings in the form of proletarians might, at least passively, represent a barrier to capital.) It is no longer limited by nature. Some production processes carried out over periods of time lead to clashes with natural barriers: increase in the number of human beings, destruction of nature, pollution. But these barriers cannot be theoretically regarded as barriers which capital cannot supersede. At present there are three possible courses for the capitalist mode of production (in addition to the destruction of humanity - a hypothesis that cannot be ignored):

complete autonomy of capital: a mechanistic utopia where human beings become simple accessories of an automated system, though still retaining an executive role;
mutation of the human being, or rather a change of the species: production of a perfectly programmable being which has lost all the characteristics of the species Homo sapiens. This would not require an automatized system, since this perfect human being would be made to do whatever is required;
generalized lunacy: in the place of human beings, and on the basis of their present limitations, capital realizes everything they desire (normal or abnormal), but human beings cannot find themselves and enjoyment continually lies in the future. The human being is carried off in the run-away of capital, and keeps it going."