/lit/ - Literature

https://jacobitemag.com/2019/04/03/primordial-abstraction/

new land piece. frankly I think it's really bad compared to his past jacobite stuff, but they are an extremely high bar to clear. I was just "yea duh" the entire time, but I'm fairly interested in both competive chess and Land, so maybe I'm just not the target audience.

Books on biosemiotics? Any friends doing a degree taking courses on it?

Obscure jargon reporting in

>>12678457
Pretty much. Despite the approach being philosophical (metaphysical), the conclusions are very similar to today's mainstream cognitive-behavioural therapy. It's not just a matter of reminding yourself, but rather of treating every connection as distinct so for example someone can get good at pushing through a depressive state by blocking the thoughts that arise in such a state (even though the feeling doesn't go away by itself necessarily) yet still be unable to control their anger or procrastination. This might seem like a failure overall, but in fact it is only a partial failure because the connections themselves are individual and only secondarily part of the "project" of reminding yourself. Of course Deleuze sees this as more than merely a method of control, he wants it to be an affirmation and he quotes Henry Miller iirc by saying that you must learn to get drunk on cold water.

Also it's not just a matter of thinking, every assemblage has many aspects and severing some connections can help with controlling others which is why for example it's important to keep addicts away from their typical environment at least until they can strengthen some helpful connections. I remember an interview with some CBT psychologist who recommended that a fit of anger should immediately be treated with a completely different response (such as listening to calming music) rather than encouraged (which was also considered a viable approach, a release so to speak, for a time).