/lit/ - Literature

pic rel is another guy who matters. JB is one of the Cosmotech all-stars, along with BC Han, with whom he shares a mysterious psychic link that cannot be explained in other than metempsychotic terms. before there was Uncle Nick, there was Grandpa Jean, and Based Han is very much in his mold. and before there was anything like the Matrix to make this all visual for us, there was Symbolic Exchange and Death, which you should read yesterday if you haven't already.

everything that Uncle Nick had to say about the relation of culture, capital and technology was already being sussed out in full by Baudrillard through the 70s to the 90s, and he remains relevant today. of all of the generation of post-structural all-stars, Baudrillard is the guy who has the most in common with acceleration in all its variants today. and, again, the object-goal of Cosmotech is not to tell you which political brand of acceleration is right for you: there isn't one. there is l/acc, r/acc, u/acc and z/acc, and they all have their charms. Fuck Yeah Space Taoism makes the most sense, and Zen Acceleration has some meme potential also, but ultimately the real thing to do here is just to establish some signal coherence among 20C thinkers so that when you *do* leave the End of Time, you will leave through the door that is most right for you.

the End of Time is where we hang out. there's really nothing to do here except read and wander around and look at the stars. politically the End of Time has no real purpose. it is the Outside, in a way, or at least near to it, but it's not an alternative to the Real world, nor can one stay in it forever. it is only a brief lateral step Outside to get one's bearings, or to hobnob with other time-travelers and to exchange schematics for time-machines, alchemical drawings, fragments of whispered conversations, or whatever else you feel like bringing to the eschatological potlatch. it's not a substitute for the Matrix, and we all have to go back to the Matrix eventually, which pretty much *stays* the Matrix.

the story of how the Matrix Matricized, and what it portends, is what i spend most of my time thinking about. there aren't political solutions to it; that's not the idea. it's more about a brief episode of sanity in what is otherwise a swarm-torrent of meme bullshit that drives and animates politics every stripe. because sanity is a good scene. most of the 20C is an encounter with the horrifyingly destructive power of bourgeois normativity, which would be great if it wasn't for the continual need for mass exterminations - whether in Germany, Russia, or China, or in the curious inability for mass-movement politics to support itself without the threat of nuclear war, or its apparently built-in need to engender terrorism, and so on.

the future is hard to predict, and the past also. but there are enough common threads in how we got here that just some signal coherence will be enough. and for that, flow charts are imho a very good idea...

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a kind of history of What Happened to Karl Marx, or a tarnas-style Passion of the Postmodern Mind would be something it be nice to have, i think. just chronicling and detailing all the divergent and overlapping paths between, say, nietzsche to derrida, or the wider and larger circuit, the one that (imho) leads from hegel to land.

and good old JB is a pretty cool Virgil-style figure in both of these narratives. if we are coming to the end of a certain era in some sense, and a major planetary relocation or transformation of Geist just a road map of how we got from there to here would be useful.

but of course, i would say that. such is one of the many various aims of Cosmotech, being the hermeneutics of time-travel. a sort of repair shop/garage for busted time machines and a flophouse for damaged time-travelers wondering how we got into this mess.

none of this shit matters. we're in a simulation that will be shut down eventually.

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Nope nope nope, the proliferation of signs and society of simulations that dominate Baudrillard's subject are not "of the self."

Baudrillard.

How do i get into Baudrillard?

What is her most representative work?