/lit/ - Literature

>>11912556
it's nice to think a little business gets directed urbanomic's way and YH too. true philosophers are rare but he seems like a cool guy. thinking about land is driving me insane anyways, life can be perhaps a little more mellow with Cosmotech.

reza is fascinating too. in a way he's even darker than land is, but the prizes being awarded for Total Darkness also can be of diminishing value. Ben Woodward's book about the ungrounded earth and humanity as only so much slime - NyxLand also identifies as 'slime girl' - i mean, these things come with life after the linguistic turn, postmodernity, and so on. eugene thacker is another guy writing ultra-dark philosophy, and sc hickman talks about this stuff also. horrorcore marxism is a potent combination (not quite as potent as marx + confucius, perhaps) but the point surely cannot be an infinite sequence of episodes from Saw.

and maybe in a certain sense it has to be this way. there is some kind of copernican shift going on, imho. i know i throw that word around a lot, but i don't think it's unwarranted. cybernetic intelligence, robotics, AI and all the rest is the thing. it is the future. even marty glass is diagnosing the view from the end of some kind of adventure. the kali-yuga is not sunny, but it's also the edge and the tipping point. true, both heidegger and spengler will say that the winter phases can last a lot longer than their formative periods, and these are very gothic things to say.

but we don't have to stay with the gothic perspective simply because it is the darkest possible one. clouds must have silver linings in them somewhere because when you shut the doors in people's faces over and over again, eventually they freak out and start militarizing. and when one group militarizes, the guys next door tend to counter-militarize, and then you're off to the races. in 1914 everybody thought the war would be over by christmas...and look where that led. a depression, a second world war worse than the first one, a cold war and then the spectre of nuclear annihilation. and now this! us, here, now, today...

so, i'm bailing out of that ride. land and heidegger have explained technology as well as any continental philosophers ever, but theirs isn't the whole story. YH and reza matter too. i don't think i will ever get as excited about negarestani as i am about YH, but who cares, i'm just one guy with an opinion.

negarestani is interesting tho. i still don't think i really grasp everything he's saying well enough to talk about it, but it would be nice to able to get some greentext from things he's saying. for any anons interested the essay below is very good.

https://www.e-flux.com/journal/52/59920/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-i-human/
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59893/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/

i don't know anything about this band or if they have any bearing on the thread, or anything at all really. just thought this was a cool album cover.