/lit/ - Literature

/pol/ should've tried to redpill Greta bros. they'd have recruited untold legions of tree-loving fascist youth.

I was in the Kafka museum in Prague 2 months ago. Got the impression he persued women at least several times in his life.

If you want famous lifelong virgins, try Kant, Tesla, Newton

>>15481991
>can't even topple Assad
>can't even install a democracy in Iraq
>can't even pressure shithole countries any more like NK or the Philippines
>population is at the brink of a national civil unrest
if the US was a stock, I would be shorting it (buy bitcoin)

>>15259734
Based. Dissipative structures. http://www.dieoff.com/

>>14982481
>Sleep tight porker uwu
Probably Buddhist/Hindu/Jain stuff, idk man, just like ur piggies

What is Zizek doing here?

https://youtu.be/EdyELFwFkSU

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>>14637011
okay, maybe I just am a brainlet, but this critique doesn't really seem to hold much weight. here are a few things I don't understand or have misgivings with:
>"Only in duration does time approach the irrational abyss that brings forth the cosmic event out of itself." Land's entire project can be summed up with a single sentence from Schmitt's analysis of the modern theory of time - which, it is worth noting, appeared a hundred years before those who would turn it into doctrine
First, this doesn't sum up Land's "entire project", second, if you think it matters who said what first, this idea goes back to Heraclitus.
>Incredible levels of destruction indicate transition between eras, their end or beginning - acceleration is really only a return to normalcy, nothing more than an appearance
I think there is something to be said here, as the cyclical nature of empire plays into time loops and the like, but there is something unique about modernity which eludes all previous eras
>Land's broad path only eliminates difference in theory
he was a Deleuzian, his whole theory relies on difference?
>It is really an escape from material reality through immaterial imaginings
literally all that matters in acc is decoding the process, it is by far one the most unapologetically materialist philosophy's out there
>liberal laws of escape, the Human Security System
don't know what calling the HSS a liberal law of escape means. it could be a means to try and inhibit escape of "liberal" (i.e. market) forces? not sure.
>In any case, the beheadings continue and this new class of Acephali lend insight to the modern myth of the Leviathan
this is a very aesthetic sentence; no qualms just wanted to say it's good shit
>Military occupation eliminates the need for work in the Western world, yet its need only increases. This suggests that work has a completely other purpose than the purely economic. [...] The financial markets increase in importance as this process approaches completion, until there is a total disconnect from the economy itself and markets appear as little more than a symbolic industry.
Fisher had some interesting stuff to say about this actually, coming out of Baudrillard. really sounds like Baudrillard actually. he was pretty influential on the early left wing acc theorists. There's a passage I read a while back about the production no longer existing, instead capital only simulates production to hide it's slip into seriality and the like.

Describe this image in your finest prose

>>14211520
>Life is Beautiful
Yikes!
>>14212835
Natalism is THE death cult, boomer.