/lit/ - Literature

>>11874168
agreed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo

i was somewhat nervous, in fact, about Stopping before We Got Enough. but not nearly enough love has been given to lewis mumford, who has supplied enough money greentext to take this thread the rest of the way to the magic number 300, and is one of the true patron saints of Cosmotech. i've been reading both volumes of the myth of the machine, from which the following excerpts are taken, but ofc pic rel is worth looking into also.

what Cosmotech is is the history of technology mixed in with landian hyperstition, plus a little new-age visionary flakiness on the side to balance out the paranoia. mingled new-age, eastern/nondual and catholic stuff. but in doing all of this reading i don't know how i overlooked mumford before, as he's very much a guy after my own heart and the epilogue to part 2 of Myth of the Machine is line-for-line perfect, imho. a lot of the things that land says (or, rather, that anna greenspan says about land) are echoed in mumford as well, particularly the role played by the benedictines and other medieval monastics in the formulation of our modern sense of time and technology. but one of the things most interesting about land -
>land again?
>yes, again. he's a fucking genius
is his understanding of *cyclicity.* and automation. of course he's not the only one intimating these things, but he is intimating them *now* and the intimations that he does have are interestingly consistent. which is, basically, one of the ways you can tell if a philosopher is serious about something...

anyways i have a word document opened with a truly huge list of interesting quotes from mumford that i think are pretty gnarly, and i'm looking forward to sharing them. i won't get them all in, as that would be ridiculous, and as i said, at this point my hope is just to get to 300 and then this thing can die unless any anons want to keep the conversation going. it warrants mentioning also that the point of these threads isn't to just post one wave of stuff after another like a complete lunatic. so if a conversation opens up or you guys want to discuss stuff or share w/ev related stuff of your own, you're welcome to do so! please do!

without further ado, we shall let the mumfording begin.