/lit/ - Literature

>>10232620
>>JB does not believe in a future, only simulations of all events that might ever occur or not occur. He's an out-right pessimist, a nihilist.
>*fatalist* always seems like a better term for this to me. it's the nietzschean strain in him, the aristocratic disdain for both mass culture *and* the culture of mass revolution - it's that drives his theory and makes his writing fun to read. again, just my impressions. but.

Fatalist is a tricky term to use around JB because of his use of terminology like 'Fatal Strategies'. Also, his specific critique of the simulacrum is that it has no fate or destiny. But, yes, in the common definition, JB is a Fatalist.

>>10232620
>cool. will do! maybe you'll enjoy bataille if/when you get to him (you've probably read him already, given that this is a JB thread). dem aztecs/dat sacrifice/dat symbolic exchange & death.

Bataille is a big influence on my writing and thinking lately, just started re-reading The Accursed Share. I think it's a fairly decent place to begin critiquing Accelerationism from too, which is something I'm working on.