/lit/ - Literature

>>15664267
Hein ?

He transformed me into a depressed Marxist alcoholic. Lots of cultural products don't move me as much as they used to. Not sure if I recommend reading him.
>>13926500
Reading The Fall during high school made me much more empathetic and forgiving for some reason.

Debord

>>12354978
>keep its revolutionary potential down
how reactionary

>>12131757
Boomers won't like this, but I think the answer is modernity and capitalism, which are soul-crushing to the core.
We currently have the productive infrastructure for transforming cities into giant DIY labs, where we could all work part-time very comfortably and party with people outside in something more interesting than overpriced normie clubs, have the time to read difficult books or whatever, but instead we need to cling to wageslavery under the constant pressure to lose everything and become homeless. We work more than medieval peasants for God's sake.
Humanity doesn't live up its potential IMO, and that's why Nick Land appeals to a humanist leftist like me: his "capital - i.e. darwinian dynamics - is only selecting for intelligence" schtick can explain why humans would go through such painful motions to just sustain themselves.
All these human games get confusing and tiresome after a while. Sometimes I just want to end it all and go on with the inevitable. Today I'm in a good mood though, so I will just blog on,/lit/, remind myself that Durkheim was right when he analyzed suicide as a sociological phenomenon, go to sleep and then to my job tomorrow morning, where I will have to justify myself for the last hours I spent in the office last Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ms9ip08xRg

>[Wageslaves] share poverties and humiliations from all the past systems of exploitation without sharing in the revolts against those systems. [...] They are herded into cramped habitations that are gloomy, ugly and unhealthy; ill-nourished with tasteless and adulterated food; poorly treated for their constantly recurring illnesses; under constant petty surveillance; and maintained in the modernized illiteracy and spectacular superstitions that reinforce the power of their masters. For the convenience of present-day industry they are transplanted far from their own neighborhoods or regions and concentrated into new and hostile environments. They are nothing but numbers on charts drawn up by idiots.

>They die in droves on the freeways, and in each flu epidemic and each heat wave, and with each mistake of those who adulterate their food, and each technical innovation profitable to the numerous entrepreneurs for whose environmental developments they serve as guinea pigs. Their nerve-racking conditions of existence produce physical, intellectual, and psychological degeneration. They are always spoken to like obedient children — always willing to do what they’re told as long as they’re told that they “must” do it. But above all they are treated like retarded children, forced to accept the delirious gibberish of dozens of recently concocted paternalistic specializations, which one day tell them one thing and the next day perhaps the very opposite.

>Separated from each other by the general loss of any language capable of describing reality (a loss which prevents any real dialogue), separated by their relentless competition in the conspicuous consumption of nothingness and thus by the most groundless and eternally frustrated envy, they are even separated from their own children, who in previous eras were the only property of those possessing nothing. Control of these children is taken from them at an early age — these children who are already their rivals, who laugh at their parents’ blatant failure and no longer listen to their simple-minded opinions.
>Understandably despising their origin, they feel more like offspring of the reigning spectacle than of the particular servants of the spectacle who happen to have begotten them, and think of themselves as only half-castes of such slaves. Behind the façade of simulated rapture among these couples and their progeny there is nothing but looks of hatred.

>They have to hire themselves out on an open market without owning the instruments of their labor. They need money to buy commodities, because things have been so arranged that they have no enduring access to anything that has not been commodified.

This guy would fucking kill himself if he was alive rn too

>>10959427
based

>>10142912
Hey, that's my meme!

>>10081313
Spectacular.

>>5232453
>>5232564
Samefag pls.

>mon visage quand this fag realizes that I wrote my undergrad thesis on Kant and Bores