/lit/ - Literature

>>11157368
it's partly the stuff on wealth that is killing me. i've been contaminated by nick land's neurotoxin and have done my share to propagate acceleration on these boards. i think land is worth reading for those reasons, mainly for dissolving what to me was an absolutely enervating preoccupation with language. when i discovered acceleration it was like, okay, here we go. boots on the ground again.

but that led me into those weird dark places of infinitely echolocating in the darkness and the Outside and so on, the weird black arts and so on. a world of catallaxy - the mind coming under the sway of that alien power that hegel writes about - is where i have been for a while. and it's taken some poking around to figure out why i just wasn't satisfied with all of this, for reasons i couldn't explain.

but, as you've explained (are explaining) there are still these other ways of looking at all of this. chains of questions of reciprocity and mimesis and so on, these kinds of things, infinite loops of irony and simulation...eventually you just don't really want to be a critic, but try to grasp some underlying logic or process behind it. i'm kind of raised on criticism of a society that can run perfectly well on a headless catallaxy in which capital itself does away with its material substrate, but when you want to sort of ask how it is that you could think this in the first place, or how to deal with the consequences of that in other than critical terms...things like this.

i've read some zizek. in part, his constant bewilderment, frustration and grief is what made land more attractive - aren't we always attracted to people who seem sort of less fucked-out or grimly knowing about these things? if capital wins, always wins, then part of you wants to be on the side of that, to ground yourself. but in a great age of mimesis, or in the way that acceleration presents it, you can't really be on the side of capital in this way. it's all just fucking phantasmagorical like this.

ah, but what if this is a kind of phase in the unfolding knowing of these processes? what if viral-mimetic outer space-capitalism is another necessary process? this has all of my attention. the butterflies in my stomach rearrange themselves in funny new patterns for the thought of it.

>the hand that inflicts the wound is the hand that heals it
there's a line in kafka as well about this:
>all that matters is that the wound fit the arrow.

raaaargh. good stuff anon, very very good. posts are extrabased, exactly what i was looking for. going to work on L&E.