/lit/ - Literature

>>12377587
i have a twitter account but i don't use it, i prefer schizoposting here. there are a couple of accounts on twitter that i check regularly but nothing i would call mimetic theory. just Land and a bunch of peeps who talk about theory, a couple of other things.

>There's just something contagious about avid Girard readers.
yeah, maybe. i think it's the Dark Power of continental theory, more than anything. you just get sucked into it. at first you read it just because you want to know what the fuck is going on and who these guys are, and then eventually you realize that they were just unusually sane human beings, or have the power to put some of your most mysterious and arcane feels into words, and they did this, like, fifty years ago. but it still holds up. or maybe it's all unconscious brainwashing, i don't really know. the jargon eventually becomes like a kind of a second language.

but it really all comes from this kind of collective alchemy. heidegger opens a lot of doors. deleuze opens a lot of doors. Uncle Nick opens a lot of doors. eventually you realize that a lot of people honestly have no fucking idea what they're talking about, and whatever the fuck it is that is causing things to happen is happening amidst a lot of contingency and a lot of bullshit. that's when religion starts to get a lot more appealing. but it's also i think why i have such an axe to grind with socialism, because it's kind of like knowing the Matrix is the Matrix and still needing to keep the blinders on anyways. which makes sense, of course, because the alternative is the wasteland...but anyways. better to work on the city within, i think.

>>12141989
>What is Constitutionalism, rule of law, and so on if not the ancestor of this? The whole point is a rejection of human judgement in favor of procedural government and rule-following.
you are not wrong sir. that fits very well with how i understand him also. Artificial Kantian Time and such.

>I don't know what this means.
just that he likes the idea of crypto-locking the future in favor of more AI. he tweeted it somewhere, that BTC was the ultimate bootloader for AI (although he said unironic time-travel, IIRC). BTC as Wintermute, or whatever it was that Wintermute signified, mainly machine intelligenesis.

as for the other reference, i've been brooding about the FF games of late but i find XV's theme of kings sacrificing themselves to preserve crystals and financial districts all at once pretty interesting. i have Things To Say about FF6, FF7 and FF15 and so on, just kind of boring schizo-ramble about culture &c. basically just that temporalization and finance become issues for cultures that restructure themselves accordingly in appropriately gothic ways.