/lit/ - Literature

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so in terms of a flow chart, one way you might go about visualizing it is by starting with the immense concrete head of Marx at the centre and working outwards from him. everything, everything, touches on Marx eventually. behind him is Hegel, and ahead of him is Land. of the four Masters of Suspicion/Grandes Cavaleiros do Ateismo, Marx is the biggest one. Nietzsche is arguably the most interesting man who ever set his thoughts down on paper, but without Marx basically the entire structure of 20C continental theory collapses.

people have asked for the destruction of Plato (Nietzsche, Deleuze) and Freudian/Lacanian psychoanalysis (Deleuze, Baudrllard), as well as asking What Darwin Meant By This (Nietzsche) and no end of far-right attempts have been made to Solve For Marx in their own ways, either with explicit reference to Hegel or not (Hitler, Gentile, &c). Land too tried to square the circle by returning to Kant, and more recently Heidegger, and he seems to have settled on the Nakamoto white paper as being some kind of epochal contribution to transcendental philosophy, for which we will have to wait for the BTC book to learn more about.

but it does not seem to me to be an exaggeration that the 20C is mostly a series of responses to Marx either with or without Hegel, in one sense or another. we know how Peterson feels about this, and he is arguably the most popular intellectual in the Western world because he has attempted to buck the trend. interestingly, he pays a daily price for doing so from both the far left *and* the far right. Land himself dwelled at both ends of the political spectrum and his own intellectual trajectory, if it hasn't already reached its completion, is probably pretty close to it: whatever the BTC book is, my guess is that it will be an extended meditation of teleoplexy, which is worth reading. but all good things must end sooner or later.

as regards the flow chart tho, my own sense would be to stick Marx at the centre and work outwards from there. the other Pleiades star-cluster thinkers - Hegel, Heidegger, Deleuze, Uncle Nick - all connect to him at some point. Capital is as YH says *the planetary cosmotechnics par excellence,* and so it makes sense with the guy who made it his whole program. again, the point of this is not to shill for Unironic Communism or Unironic Fascism - only to see how those machines, in turn, all work together.

needless to say, i'm amped for the chart.