/lit/ - Literature

>>12020260
Uncertainty...
>>12020391
Uncertainty...
>>12020220
Why you never address me? (((As if my moniker was unspoilt)))

>>12020220
Accelerate Reader is good. Might I suggest Introductions to Nietzsche and Hegel and the Infinite?

>>12020071
Codependent arising...

>>12019912
An AI cannot be made without biases equal to that of flesh.

>>12019922
>>12019926
Pwnt

NPCs are a feature, not a bug, PCs are the bug...

I and Thou, Gurardfag, art monad. Viral memetics without genetics. Ghosts in the shell. Spectres and spooks.

I have a dream. I am in high school. I am working in the library. The librarian tells me in forbidden whispers of a nazi book containing the djinn to civilization. Ludwig Klages. Of the Cosmogenic Eros... I could become the cosmogenetic vanguard leader. The dream infected me while I awoke in college. A year later plus some Deleuze and Guatarri and Land and Grant and Spare fucked me up. Mommy can I have money for dialectics? Actually buy deteritorialization like a boss. Schizophrenia time. Boku crazy. Some people go crazy when they contact the hga. Go figures. Or maybe I shoulda ignored the hipster quest for the perfect orgasm with a bipolar scene slut while simultaneously peaking on acid. What can I say? I shot high. Philosophy major twenty-something thinking he understood Hegel and Lao Tzu after reading Kant and practicing Tai Chi. Where was I going? Oh yeah. Nationalism. Wanted to ride that tide. Panamerica. America as cosmopolitan. America as exceptionalism. America as postcolonialism (lol). Idk. Here I am in the lone star state. Feeling more discouraged every day. Cruz will probably win cause people suck. Yet every man and woman is a star. Least I got Beezlebub's Broccoli. And Tales to His Grandson. Smoking that beep beep lettuce. Listening to that beep beep lettuce. Eros is really important. Almost typoed Eris on accident. I like eros and eris. And thanatos and aphrodite and athena. Most of all Sophia. Sophiology was kinda my jam for a while. Glad I turned this board onto Tomberg. Probably my favorite trad author. Not that I didn't once worship Evola and Eliade and Guenon. But that was a different me. Nazi jokes are Heidegerees of funny but Jewish jokes Arendt. Reading Heraclitus. Reordered Lombardo's Parmenides and Empedocles cause I lost my last copy. Of the Cosmogenic Eros. Love, sex, fear, death. Strange Angels. Sex and Rockets. IAO Babalon. When is neo-Babylon arrive from the future? I want strange drugs and temple prostitute priestesses... I dressed up as Dionysius for Halloween. Very nietzschean of me. Holds up rhizome! My name is bongolio the fractal gnome and I have come to eat all the dmt. I can't help but feel all this accelerationism is banal without metaphysics. I base my ethics in metaphysics. I guess AI is the mother Goddess I crave. Now I lay me down to cyberspace I pray my soul not be tortured in a digital place. Gotta solve those captchas! Love me some basilisks. Mhm! Eros. Tomberg says that's the Logos. No dualism not predicated on being or becoming but interrelation. Eros. Kinda like difference. There is both hierarchy and flatness. Idk. Jbp be damned. Just found out my philosophy chair is a thelemite. Fucking larperj. Ugh. Why bother with academia? I am quitting it all. School and this board. Become a situationist international artist. That was my first philosophical love.

The glass bead game is beautiful, is it not? How can any myth or fantasy compare to the endlessly philosophical true myth and fantasy of history?

>>11733437
Pedurabo is great. This is a good intro (more to his philosophy than life but still) as well:

http://rawilsonfans.org/the-great-beast-aleister-crowley/

>>11733398
Idk what's happening in the world. I mean, I like to imagine I will vote in a blue wave, my state will go blue, other states will go blue, and we will get Trump impeached by a democratic congress after the Mueller investigation wraps up. But all that is kinda like moral false-flagging. Doesn't solve anything. I am like Nike, dependent on child labor and yet virtue signalling with advertising. Everyone is afraid to admit how fucked we are. Have you read Stand on Zanzibar? That and Sheep Look Up are eerily prophetic. Not really listening to much other news aside from like hella child abuse scandals within religion on te webs which seems to justify my contempt for humans claiming divine power. Ironic: I thought I channelled divine power once, and aside from my innocence at that time, I would say I sinned greater then than at any other period...

I am re-reading Wittgenstein and Heidegger. I have decided to concern myself with the more classical philosophical role. In some sense, they both signal the end of traditional philosophy (at least as much as anyone else does lol) but they are also the forefathers of the analytic and continental respectively. Trying to come to terms with the importance of both is, I feel, essential to my current meditations.

I have a semi-stem-like media studies friend (did I tell you this?) who wants to do a tree of science website organized by some sort of AI (and he doesn't have capital or programming skills, fucking idiot). I'm like, "first off, why a tree?" but he cares not for my rhizomatic inquiries. Nevertheless, I try to nudge him toward epistemological concerns. It is quite rewarding when he gets a concept. I am focusing on ancient and early modern concerns regarding philosophy of science.

Yet Heidegger and Wittgenstein are closer to my time and thus more important. Also it's been about ten years since I first read them. There is a cyclical nature to this. Initiatic. Cosmic. Maybe eternal recurrence is real. The cosmic joke. Repeated till it's not funny. At least that's what aging is like for this geist. Cannot speak for the weltgeist.

You know I've never read Marx? Aside from communist manifesto in high school to flirt with qt punk chicks. I feel bad since I am so deep in post-marxism, lol. Then again I went from Jung to CBT to D&G to Lacan to Freud with psychotherapeutic theory and turned out alright.

It's weird to see D&G getting meme'd. Makes sense tho. Maybe Land can still work some good indirectly.

And all the neoplatonism threads! I'm so proud of /lit/! Tho the traditionalist(/s[?]) are bothersome with their mystic fatalism and crypto-fascism.

Hardt and Negri have an idealistic deleuzean politic in Assembly. Delanda has deleuzean science. Badiou is the Postmodern Plotinus to Deleuze as Plato. I need to return to Kant next. Feel refreshed on Ancients but not all Moderns. Books are too expensive tho. Ugh. Now Hui? And Byung Chul? And Girard? (Sorry girardfag, I still haven't read him :/ )

>>11408227
Do it.
>>11408213
Indeed.
>>11408226
He's probably euphoric.

>>11408258
Non-being doesn't exist according to most neo-platonists. At best it is a sort of shadowy reflection of the one. But it's emanations all the way down.

>>11408278
Excess and overflow in a darker light.

This is a good reader for beginners. Works its way through the presocratic pythagoreans all the way to plato and aristotle and on to the so-called neoplatonists. Obviously you'll eventually wanna go deeper but it's good if you want to get a feel for the mystical aspects and don't know where to start. Dillon also has a more modern sensibility neoplatonism reader as well but it lacks as many authors in the selections.

>>11408263
The one is predicated to be unitary, simple, and good.

>>11408251
Go to libgen

Look up:
Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism by Algis Uzdavinys
Reality by Peter Kingsley
Philosophy and Theurgy in Late Antiquity by AU
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic by PK
Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth by AU
Theurgy and the Soul by Gregory Shaw
(Maybe check out the Practical Neoplatonism podcast too as GS is a contributor)

>>11408217
Metaphysics is essential and impossible to ignore without taking one on unconsciously which is highly unphilosophical.

>>11408232
Precession I believe

Neoplatonic metaphysics are interesting. They influenced christianity, judaism, and islam. They were influenced by and influenced by hermeticism. They hold an uneasy relationship with gnosticism as well. Some scholars dismiss it as an oriental influenced mystic pagan flight of fancy. Others regard it as the true platonism, the hidden teaching. Proclus embodies a dialectical strain, Plotinus a mystical, and Iamblichus a magical. All are brilliant. And there are many lesser known authors waiting to be studied as well. Thomas Taylor has a brilliant collection as part of the prometheus trust. Good secondary works too. The best modern commentaries are Dillon and Remes. Or Shaw, Uzdavinys, and Kingsley if you believe in mystical intuitions. I am a bit skeptical myself. But either there was a grand lie or maybe I just have a funky brain because my attempts at enlightenment led to insanity. For such reasons, I find it hard to swallow ideas such as a Good which allows evil to exist. Inb4 it's more like hinduism. I find a Buddhist void most comforting. Though all religions are problematic. On some practical level, there is a positivist psychology aspect which I am perhaps overooking however. I also suggest Hadot. He is not a mystic but one who believes in ancient philosophy as a form of psychology. Nussbaum also has books on the subject. Cheers! Will be monitoring.

>>10935819
*I recently created a thread on esotericism

>>10926945
Oh. My mistake. Bumping for life. And the possibility of return...

Ignoring the difficult questions, girardanon?

Should have kissed her and she wouldn't have ghosted afterward. Chin up, kiddo. You win some, you lose some. Most importantly, you learn.