/lit/ - Literature

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kek, too funny. and please, it's girardfag and not Girard.

okay, so, a note on cosmotech. honestly i'm still kind of gassed-out atm from the last one. discovering lewis mumford was a true goldmine, and if you're interested in that stuff and you haven't read this (pic rel is volume 1, the second one is awesome also) then get on it pronto tonto.

in terms of acceleration stuff to read there's certainly plenty of that. and i should probably go and assemble a mega-folder of stuff on my PC that i think is relevant, but that's like a mega-project b/c my books aren't very well sorted and i'd want to have all of those guys and their complete works in there and formatted. it would take some doing. and then i'd have to go back and also put in other history and other things that were also germane. and that means going through a couple of years' worth of unsorted PDFs and other stuff.

the basic idea would be the same, if i'm reading something that is Relevant To Our Interests i'd put in the good stuff + some nice art. again, i can't speak highly enough of mumford at the moment, because of how he links the anthropological aspects of technology up with the modern parts of the story, and he really does repeat a lot of the same ideas that greenspan says about land's work - namely, the crucial moment of the benedictines. land's often hyberbolic remarks about the invention of capitalist time really aren't as crazy as they sound, although being who he is land tends to make otherwise ordinary history seem like black magic. he has a gift for that.

i was definitely starting to feel a little bit tired around #250 of chapter 4, because we had been brooding hermetically on acceleration &c for like a month straight. and while it is definitely awesome fun - there is for me at least nothing awesome-r - sometimes you need to regroup a little as well.

the good news is that i'll be traveling again a little bit next week after canadian thanksgiving, so i'll probably have some time in there to think about what might go into Cosmotech 5. it's honestly pretty cool just to have a clearer idea of what the general goal of this stuff is, after a couple of years of shitposting on /lit/ - it's White Hat Accelerationism. the history of technology is pretty cool stuff, but there has to be more to the story than just Nick Land's Wild Ride, because he makes you want to kill yourself, and it's not polite to kill yourself.

so fret not. Cosmotech will be back. and there's certainly no rule against firing one up in the meantime, it's not like it needs my help. some other anon created #3 and i just did what i usually do in there. #4 was initially about whitehead but invariably i wind up talking about land or whatever else, and so Cosmotech was sort of accidentally born. plus we stole the title from yuk hui (fufufu).

anyways. it will return. #4 was definitely one of my all-time favorite threads on here on /lit/. just have to take the Pause That Refreshes sometimes.