/lit/ - Literature

>>11257538
obviously yes

>>11238356
he does but i find them kind of weak. tastes vary, of course. but it's the same with the CCRU stuff. necessary i guess as a part of his gestation
>gestation, eww
>that feel when you start thinking about starcraft and the Overmind
>maybe it's the right word tho

but his philosophical stuff is just so good.

>Templexity is indistinguishable from unbounded real recursion, so it cannot be lucidly anticipated independently of a historical completion – or ‘closure’ (apprehended in the multitudinous sense noted in the text to follow). There could only have been a beginning – a prolegomenon to the rigorous formulation of templexity as a question – and the topic itself retracts this, even before its proposal. The real process is not the resolution of the problem at the level it appears – dramatically – to have been initially posed, but its re-absorption into the alien cognitive matrix which inherits it. ‘Templexity’ – as a sign – marks the suspicion that, if we are waiting for this to happen, we still understand nothing.

>For over a century (but less than two) Shanghai Capitalism – despite dramatic interruption – has been building a real time machine, which Rian Johnson, among many others, stumbled into, and tangentially fictionalized. Although the detailed workings of this machine still escape public comprehension, its intrinsic self-reflexion ensures its promotion, as an object of complex natural science, of spectacular dramatization, and of multi-leveled commercialization. It enthralls East and West in an elaborate exploration of futuristic myth. At its most superficial, where it daubs the edges of the mind with its neon-streaked intoxication, it appears as a vague but indissoluble destiny. What it is becoming remains to be recalled.

source:
https://socialecologies.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/nick-land-on-time-teleoplexy-templexity/

it's part of why i love land so fucking much. he just *moved the plot forward in so many ways.* in so many different ways that his head exploded (and now many other heads come to explode as well when they start to follow him out into those weird vistas). he says a lot of weird and cringy things now sometimes in his Venerable Crusty Old Bitter Guy phase but he found something to love and be fascinated by. even if it was capital and horror. i'm weirdly envious of the man.