/lit/ - Literature

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and i wish to comment on this slightly further also.

the West is b-b-b-b-b-based. it is so fucking stupidly based that it has BTFO'd time and space. and indeed the only thing that has ever really been a threat to it is its own Promethean capabilities, which by the year 2018 extend not ironically to the at least theoretical bending of time and space (although in a less Wild and Crazy sense, this is what *architecture* has always done, since the beginning.)

i don't know why i feel the need to keep saying this - correct me if i am wrong - but i have this particular sense of needing to want to avoid misrepresnting either myself or this particular author i am greentexting. *the point is not to shit on the West.* not remotely, and not by half. this is not the point. no postcolonial points are to be scored in this thread. and indeed, one of the reasons to embiggen heidegger is to recognize that with him is a *consummately* Western philosopher - nietzsche also - who in his time recognizes that things are now beginning to trend in a whole new direction that he is not particularly enthusiastic about.

it is the same thing with land. land commits academic heresy by siding *with capital* against culture. and then some. land is a profoundly nihilistic philosopher, and yet even he is going to say that he would prefer that it be some other way. the connections between land and heidegger are not that hard to draw: the metaphysics of production as diagnosed by heidegger, and a great many other things, are very much related to the teleoplexy and acceleration that land writes about. they are describing one and the same phenomenon, in many ways, through from different perspectives and with different intellectual genealogies.

and so what YH is doing is looking at this phenomenon, and i think he can cover *both* of those guys without reducing or diminishing either. but this is not all setting you up to say, Therefore China > The West, the West Sucks, and so on. that is not the point. China has a different trajectory than the West does, and things are not readily or easily reversible, one into the other. YH *will* say lots of interesting things about chinese metaphysical-technological thought, and he will be correct. but this is not to say - i hope this is clear - that somehow Everything Is The West's Fault. it just isn't. postmodernity and late capital, all of the other shit that makes land sweat (and peterson too)...the point of this is not to just shit on the West. nor are their ready cures on hand in China - and YH writes about that too.

i felt this warranted mentioning. and i can stop, too, if i feel this has been made clear. It's Not All About The West Fucking Up The World. China Too Has Problems. they also have some really fascinating stuff. but everybody's got problems, and everybody's got charms.