/lit/ - Literature

and maybe we should indeed take a Pause That Refreshes here for a bit anyhow. for anyone curious i'm now on page 98 of The Question Concerning Technology in China, which is approximately 1/3 of the way through it. i don't know if you guys are interested in continuing such an intensive close reading of the book the rest of the way, but i'm game if you are. this *is* the book that gives us the title Cosmotech anyways, and i do find it to be pretty freaking fascinating to think about.

the second part of the book is mainly about Chinese thought and metaphysics (unsurprisingly). but the first part is this absolutely terrific meditation on heidegger and greek philosophy also, and i've been glad to kind of refresh myself on a lot of it. YH is a really, really good reader of greek stuff as well as heideggerian stuff, although the main focus of his book isn't actually that, it's the question of tech in china and how that is understood in terms of Qi-Dao relations, and other things. and then in part 3 he goes back to modernity again.

so i can basically slowly go through the whole thing like this, or we can take the occasional detour and talk about whatever else. but it was asked in the previous thread to maybe just pick one book and one author to focus on, so...maybe this is the right way to go?

anyways, sorry about the rant there about the West but it really is a thing i just don't think i can say strongly enough, in the age of anger and rage and mimesis. i don't want to be perceived as a kind of hater. i'm not. championing land is tough, and so is heidegger, and i definitely didn't want to try and look like i was advancing another guy who i would have to apologize for every step of the way. b/c Cosmotech as YH writes it *isn't acceleration* - it's actually going, incredibly, in a different direction - towards a *more* integrated sense of things, a relationship between man and the cosmos in which tech doesn't always necessarily alienate us. and that's a pretty fucking great idea, imho!

so i'll take a break there for now, but i can return with more greentext later today or tomorrow. hope you guys have found some of that illuminating. it's enjoyable for me, at least, because i get to reflect on some of things more closely than usual, but hopefully you guys enjoy this too.

anyways. have a nice chill enso. more Cosmotech greentexting soon.