/lit/ - Literature

>>11895208
i have some stuff borrowed from mumford and yuk hui to bring in but logistics have been complicating things.
>plus i had to watch ufc 229 last night
>yowza

>>11895268
based

>>11895276
has anybody read zizek's new book yet? i'm really curious to read this one. androids ofc *do* represent the holy grail, in many ways. you can't exploit androids and they don't go on strike. this is why so much of this is the ultimate fantasy: Fully Automated Luxury Communism.

>>11895513
it absolutely does. Yuga is a special book. it's from a guy who really has done his reading and thought about this stuff. there's a guy who really has managed to remove his own matrix feeding-tube and looked at the resultant dystopia and realized how monstrous all of it is.

and there are no ready ideological cures. that is the point. at least, as far as i can tell. i mean, there *are* but that's not the thing i think matters. ofc, anybody can read the state of marxism in 2018 and decide to join whatever tribe or band is offering the Cure, but the Cure in a political sense is, imho, the problem.

anyways. giving some love to marty glass is always a legit move.

>>11895576
i agree with all of this ofc. no doubt. you're completely right. so are >>11895582 and >>11895607. no question. a balanced life of mingling the optimism with the pessimism is the way to go. politically, my attitude is very much like mumford's (as well as land's, or la boetie's, or whoever else): just withdraw and secede, as much as possible. it can't be done forever, b/c going Full Kaczynski is not the way to go. but Thoreau is a pretty good look, as are most schools of meditation.

anyways, >>11895576 gets it, so there's no need to belabor the point. he's/you're right. all of you guys are. there's no question. balance is the deal. what i think is interesting to do on the side is to tell the story of technology through these various sources, and perhaps in such a way that it *doesn't* always produce ideology.

at bottom, retracing continental philosophy's long discourse on time - its meaning, theory and practice - is the final goal.

>>11896007
i think i will probably go on a minor schizo-ramble about Starcraft at some point b/c of the interesting parallels between Kerrigan and Darth Vader. sci-fi myths of power and tragedy for two different generations, but with some really interesting scenarios. in Starcraft, it's a love story between raynor and kerrigan; in star wars, the main narrative is the one of luke and vader. i think there are interesting stories in this.

anyways. sorry about the lull in greentext and other schizoposting, as i said i've been on the road. but thanks kindly to anons who have kept the thread alive in the meantime. i have a file loaded up with some interesting text to share, and i'll post some of that later today. it's possible, in the end, that a lot of this is really only so much commentary on glass' book, but who knows, maybe that's needed.