/lit/ - Literature

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one (provisional) tenet of pinball metaphysics:
>the Spectacle you know to be a Spectacle neither is, nor is not, Spectacle.

but life proceeds from this multilayered understanding, that beyond each deconstruction only ever lies a further phenomenon to be deconstructed, until eventually you have the dim intimation that in fact you are not purely and solely a pinball, but a human being in fact actually in control of the flippers and the paddles. and you are in fact playing a game. whether you continue to play the same game, play a different game, leave the arcade, whatever the fuck - all of this is up to you. but first of all we have to basically de-Matricize ourselves with this understanding, that we are in fact 'thrown into existence' much like Heidegger says, and caught up with being a pinball unaware they are in fact a pinball, and this long before we have even the slightest idea that in fact there is a machine going on we are inseparably bound up with.

also that Breaking The Machine is really not going to solve the problems of being a pinball, because the point of the pinball is only to be what it is. what frustrates us - as in so many other things - is forgetting the relationship between the pinball and the player, their mutual relation to the machine, and the fact that they are in fact in control of this process, although they perhaps have never really thought about it all that much. after all, if all you see are other pinballs crashing around, and if all of this only seems to be the workings of an a priori reality...right?

i'm not really giving any advice, i'm more basically just trying to articulate by way of this metaphor how it was that i came to find myself thinking this metaphor works, and with a view to my own theory of postmodernity and reading of continental philosophy.