/lit/ - Literature

>>12367431
that said, Space Taoism is really the creation of Aminom Marvin, who arrived at it through Whitehead and other sources, like Principia Discordia and other stuff. i never quite got around to explaining Zen Acceleration and other stuff i was building in the Cosmotech threads.

the thing about Land is that he really does mount a completely brilliant attack on Hegelian Marxism, which is at the root of the current Rage Virus that is making people lose their minds today. Landian capital is a retardedly brilliant innovation. as i'm working my way through Negarestani's book i also think he's taking the conversation into a place which doesn't necessarily have to shred your psyche in the way that Land's stuff does. Reza's plan for philosophy is kind of next door to a lot of Land's work, but without some of the animus about leftism in general. he's saying similar things about the nature of mind and computation that are truly fascinating, and that don't really have the same politics either.

but in terms of how you comport yourself to all of this intellectual chaos? Taoism is always a good look like that. it's better than rage, cynicism, and paranoia, that's for sure. it's Cosmic and psychedelic, agreeably apolitical, and not completely blind to the realities of human civilization in the 21C. you can't make a mass movement out of it; you also can't escape from mass movements.

i feel like 'deconstruction for schizos' isn't the worst possible characterization either. you and the other guy are both trapped in the same hallucination, in the end. so might as well take the open hand rather than the closed fist.

>>12150787
I want to read it. This scheme I found in /x/ peaked my interest on it.

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>>11407364
He was broadly correct, with some exceptions. the vast majority of animals do not have a well enough developed cerebrum to really visualize themselves in time or abstractly conceptualize the future. In fact, the number of animals capable of complex abstractions at all can be counted on 2 hands, and half of them are closely related to us. As a higher understanding of the fact that one is engaging in mental processes is a vital component of being conscious (though not an explanation of why we experience existence since we're composed of independently inanimate matter) it is not unfair to claim that, in comparison to humans, 99% of animals don't feel in a truly meaningful sense.

t. biologist