/lit/ - Literature

>>12004422
oh yeah, and fucking pic rel. supremely interesting, imho. the fact that there is a history of romance between speculative market capital and landed sovereign/territorial interest informs a very large part of how i look at things. this one absolutely.

>>11310673
i'm as big a homer for nick land as you will find anywhere on this board, and i find all things acceleration incredibly fascinating, though depressing. but withdrawing from the extreme fringes and going back to a kind of older model of looking at cultural phenomena is like of like a salve on some part of my soul that has become completely gangrenous with accelerationist neurotoxin. i'm discovering that i am ultimately, if reluctantly, a kind of boring middle-of-the-road guy, and maybe that's the best place to be (which is super-lame). understanding postmodern departures from old-school marxism goes a long way towards preventing me from becoming trigged by them, or proposing solutions in terms of the problem, which is really reactivity and mimesis exacerbated by any number of factors: technology, media, cultural developments and so on.

i don't really know what universities or academia is supposed to do anymore, and i sometimes wonder about philosophy itself as we plunge ahead into cybernetics and other things. but then i read some stuff by a less radical writer, like jameson, and remind myself, okay, so, this really isn't as mysterious as all that. critique as jameson does it kind of suggests to me that left intellectuals are kind of bound to social democracy and economic liberalism like a shotgun wedding. extremist forms of postmodernism, or reaction, are cultural aspects of economic phenomena that are only the prisoners flirting with the guards, and vice versa. again, even i am inclined to view acceleration, technology + finance capital, as being the real story today.

that postmodernism is a kind of fatal collaboration with an infernal process that simultaneously condemns and liberates it is fascinating to me, and helps me process better the various things i see on the news and elsewhere, which mostly strike me as being species and sub-species of reaction to a process we really have no control over, even as we produce and reproduce them. i've read arrighi's book also and it's quite good.

so, to answer your question, i guess the answer is, i'm really not sure. but i thought i would share it anyways on the off-chance that other anons found it interesting or wanted to discuss it also. you never know what these things will percolate.

>>11310740
>Whichever one is the least efficient gets discarded. Not complicated
perhaps not, but the question is whether or not these things just repeat themselves infinitely, and what one does (if anything) with that knowledge.