/lit/ - Literature

>>11597494
well, the girard-thiel bromance is one of the more interesting stories to read about.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/godfather-like-button-dead-long-live-his-work-arnaud-auger
https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/08/02/mimesis-and-violence-part-1-peter-thiels-french-connection/
https://www.businessinsider.com/peter-thiel-on-rene-girards-influence-2014-11

now personally, i hate facebook and like-chasing in general. i think it commodifies human interactions in all kinds of horrible ways, and zuckerberg-ism is a gross ideology which is symptomatic of our world's general decline into the reign of quantity. maybe someday we will see that, in retrospect, a positive channel for mimesis turned out to be a good (if annoying) thing. but - given that is one random anon's rather crusty disaffection - nobody gives a shit, and that's not the point anyways.

the point is, rather, that theology and certain forms of venture capital actually do have power to reshape the world in ways that really are positive, and are by no means mutually exclusive either. extensive meditation on capitalism tends to dovetail fairly well with theology. justin murphy, for instance (who has been interviewing a number of figures on the acceleration twittersphere) seems to be trying to make catholic acceleration a thing. he's a little weird vince garton has written some terrific stuff about the role of catholicism and late capital/modernity also.

https://twitter.com/jmrphy
https://twitter.com/goodtheoryguy
https://vincentgarton.com/2018/07/23/the-limit-of-modernity-at-the-horizon-of-myth/
https://jacobitemag.com/2018/07/05/catholicism-and-the-gravity-of-horror/
http://jmrphy.net/blog/2017/04/11/on-turning-left-into-darkness/

going back into the past a little,a number of great or insightful commentators on technology are religious in one form or another: teilhard de chardin, marshall mcluhan, and i'll include heidegger, although with a fairly sizeable asterisk.

http://philosophy.avemaria.edu/post/37187209894/heidegger-and-catholicism-some-very-introductory

anyways. things like this.