/lit/ - Literature

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what i am interested in is an ontology of lightning bolts. i was reflecting on this about a month ago: the aspiration of Capital towards the status of *electricity:* the Clean Flow, as natural as air.

lightning is gender-neutral. lightning has no political referent. lightning is there at the beginning, and lightning may well be all there at the end. the Heraclitean Fire starts the Wild Ride and it may in all likelihood be what shuts it down at the end. Sloterdijk has already asked for a hermeneutics of explosion, this might as well be it: not a total Destruktion but only a *controlled demolition.* Baudrillard writes of the *implosion* but these are two halves of the same phenomenon to my mind: the desolation of the polis, registered either as post-apoc wasteland (Fallout) or cyberpunk demi-necropolis (Shadowrun). the same thing, through two lenses, reflecting one and the same thing, a process meticulously detailed in its historical form by Hegel in the Phenomenology of Spirit. behind him is Spinoza, ahead is Marx, and aways yonder the continuing story of Uncle Nick Land, whose teleoplexic Wild Ride carries us all.

if civilization is a neural-net process there is more than a little of lightning in this. Goethe too was more than a little intrigued in Light Theory and i think so are we, over here in our junky Cosmotech laboratory, hidden under its bridge, in this seedy part of town, which is bepopulate with its wandering ronin, hermits, mystics, vagabonds, burnouts, doomsday clowns and itinerant wasteland bards.

there is the sound of wild lightning here, on Duane Allman's guitar. there is a divine and infinite spark of being in all things. excess contemplation of this leads to burnout, dementia and confusion. excess *lack* of contemplation of these things leads to giving an unironic shit about meme politics. there is more going on on Planet Meme than this.

Allman Brothers: One Way Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPg1gULbZCs