/lit/ - Literature

Long post inbound.

>>9668301
Also, all that is emancipating about difference in C&S is horribly annulled if we think of dystopia-Capital as being a sort of Last Man's version of the eternal recurrence of the same...the McNugget lives, Windows upgrades to its next iteration and everyone else grinds out their existence waiting for the rain. If the future keeps up on this trajectory it may not even be the Pikettian Sense and Sensibility future but something more like ancient Egypt.

Basically, the one thing continental theory teaches you is that just when you think you're really depressed, there's always a way to feel even worse. But beyond a certain horizon you have to just laugh, I guess. It can ultimately all become so unbelievably hideous that you can't help it.

Future Egypt is also a dope setting. Looks kind of like Tron...and Egyptian motifs were popular in Art Deco too, the last time we fabulously wealthy people right before the shit hit the fan...
>yer mind is like a teeny canoe
>what does that mean internal self
>it's small and shallow and too flimsy for them winds
>right ok i see that

>>9668387
>Essentially, can Acceleration of Technology be divorced from Capitalism.
The question that basically splits the left from the right, no? Once Land thought yes, now not so much. Fascinating question too, culturally. But now that he's in China he's following a new narrative over there now, I think. Right/left doesn't seem to work as much in Shanghai. Or so we're told, I suppose.

>But I'm thinking the general process can be seen as early as Christ.
This ought to be good. Explain? Abstract clock-time in the pre-modern West might begin with the Benedictine calendar, so...but where does Christ fit in?

>And of course, Virilio takes the process back to a prehistoric age, when a differentiation of labor and gender roles created the 'Woman of Burden' as the first domesticated animal, so that men were lightened and able to hunt with weapons.
Yep. Where and when Time Began is a pretty big question. I think the Weber/Land theses make a lot of sense. But of course the frame is always enlarging.

>>9668390
Yeah, this is required reading.
>It is Marx, along with Land, who remains the paradigmatic accelerationist thinker.
You have to admit that's rarefied air for the political left. In case anyone was wondering if Land was being oversold.

>>9668411
That's it. Have you read Klaus Theweleit? Male Fantasies is required reading for fascist cultural anthropology.