/lit/ - Literature

>>12218210
that was my impression. and it made sense too. part of what makes Uncle Nick who he is is that he sets a kind of interesting new model: the Right Marxist. i usually find myself juxtaposing this to another equally paradoxical, and yet IRL completely familiar being: the Left Nietzschean (the paradigmatic case of which is Foucault). reclaiming a version of Marx compatible or at least comprehensible for thinkers inclined to the right seems weird at first and then very quickly turns into A Really Good Idea.

>That is what lifework of LvM is essentially.
interesting. i guess maybe i would be more inclined to read him if i had a good exegesis first, but really, this is basically what Land is in my experience (or at least that is the story i'm telling myself these days). i am obviously a frothing Uncle Nick devotee but it's never inclined me to read Mises really charitably. BTC and Philosophy was mos def the book i was waiting for for a long time and mostly i think in order to understand aspects of Kantian philosophy i probably never would have wanted to think about precisely because, you know, why think about that when Capital > all? but this is what Uncle Nick does. speaking of which, i should probably check ufblog to see if there's been a new update today

>>12218220
Marx is no meme.

>>12218229
>With the Austrians you get inevitability and spontaneity. Economics is emergent, and trying to guide it from above, or to somehow evade its consequences leads to disaster. This is the basic Austrian thrust, and I think it fits in with Land nicely.
aye. and very well said.

>As for Austrians being boring, I don't think so. The writings are certainly dry, but the ideas are fascinating--dealing as they do with auto-generation and calamitous intervention--among other things.
100% no doubt. i know they aren't really boring, it just takes a while to come around sometimes to appreciate how much pants-on-head retardedly interesting shit is going on under the hood of the otherwise dry prose. you're absolutely right about this mos def.

and i think you know this is one of the things that would be nice to see happen: now that we're all completely fucking burned-out to the nth degree on romanticism, to find the charm of philosophy and theory in less revolutionary-romantic places. especially once we can start wiring up those theses to places where Land really wants to move the conversation, v/intelligence and theory of machines and so on.

so yeah. no arguments there senpai.