/lit/ - Literature

the next stuff i have lined up is from pic rel. in many ways, it follows from the mad love given to Alfred North Whitehead in Cosmotech 4. the stuff i have bloc-quoted is mainly about why quantum entanglement is a better look than Foucault-derived metaphysics of power & so on. it's more my own way of trying to pry philosophy from the Clutchy Fingers of maximally-triggered postmodern theory, which is what gives me the stomach ulcer and the twitchy eye.

in general tho this is all part of the plan for Cosmotech, which is finding a way through the Forest of Suspicion. again, land to my mind serves up the blackpill which > both the blue and red pills, but the black pill will burn you out. the story of burnout is told by both Marty Glass in Yuga, by Baudrillard's voyages into Max Simulation, by byung-chul han's diagnostics of psychopolitics, and elsewhere. YH matters because he is re-synthesizing the technological stuff back into a world of Cosmotech, which is planetary but not necessarily 'global' in the sense that it has become associated with neoliberalism, and for which land has supplied imho a pretty good reason to secede.

and yet the problem then becomes how one gets off of Nick Land's Wild Ride, which is where we are now. and for that in a sense there are, as i have suggested - and rather boringly and pedantically - no end of spiritual adventures to be taken. in terms of speculative philosophy, Whitehead is very, very cool, and it is because he doesn't take his cues from nietzsche, marx, or freud. and whiteheadian process philosophy is also right next door to process theology, if that kind of stuff blows your hair back.

so Cosmotech inasmuch as it is White Hat Acceleration is told varyingly through all of these different authors, adorno as much as mumford, marx, ellul, baudrillard, and all the other guys glass references in Yuga. and many others along with them - including Ken Wilber, whose early books - Atman Project, Up From Eden - are also very much to my liking, inasmuch as they are telling the story of history as the *search for consciousness.* and not exclusively as either the story of politics, or economics, or technology.

i made a thread a while back with some greentext from UfE, if anyone is interested in reading that also.
>>/lit/thread/S11073345

to my mind all of these things a part of a single story, ultimately. or at least that is my hope. but yeah, adorno is cool and you should read him also.