/lit/ - Literature

Is Sunless Sea /lit/ approved?

>>11885322
i've got about twelve tabs open right now on various books, but they're all cosmotech-related things, so it will happen at some point. inasmuch as i have anything to do on this board it's basically to retrace the history of continental philosophy from hegel to land by way of technology and acceleration, but a diet of pure nick land is straight soul-death and the only way around it is by cryptic references to religion and other things.

so no firm or distinct ETA on part 5 atm but it will happen eventually. again, the model is pretty simple: all it is is the history of technology as told by continental philosophy. that's basically all there is to it. virtually everything land writes is worth reading, and it's all pretty much archived at r/theoryfiction. ireland's essay on the poememenon, murphy's interview, the greenspan and overy theses, and you're good to go. for the time being land is imho the most accomplished cosmonaut on earth w/r/t the theory of capitalism, and it doesn't look like anyone's going to take that belt from him anytime soon.

as such, what can be done in the meantime is to go back and retrace the steps of how we got to the point, and that story goes through doors over which are busts of nietzche, marx, and freud. those in turn open into gigantic, collapsing, subterranean archives full of outrageously interesting material. there the floors are crumbling away and beginning to flood, and there are mysterious and spectral voices in the corridors, and things resembling pteranodons have made their nests in the ceiling. the machinery there is old, quasi-victorian, but it still works, and there may be others, in fact, still Down There who have gone to deeper and stranger places yet...

but fundamentally we just have to get a grip on this whole process. the world seems to be in a state of cheerfully and enthusiastically melting down into anarchistic meme-tribes, and tribalism is a bad scene for the Cosmotechnician and astral engineer. we can do better than this. but how was it that gondor and mordor came in the end to resemble each other? that is the whole question.

we gotta hit those books.