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>>9819880
all of this is to repeat politics, and metaphysics > politics. we can't do much more than sketch things or sort of theorize about what an Enlightened Capitalism would look like, but it sure wouldn't be one tribe of bloodthirsty apes clubbing another tribe of bloodthirsty apes to death in a parking lot over a bucketful of crude oil.

it's a living, breathing, glowing world out there.
>the spice must glow
it really is. and we live in interesting times like that. maybe on the threshold of something really fucking cool even. because it is One World Under Capital now and that is scary as fuck but also means you can think *all kinds of interesting stuff now.* you really can. there's crazier shit happening right now than in most other times of human history. with even more in play. it's a good time to Dream Big, in other words. not necessarily social dreams. but because if you go looking for reasons to think really really small - well, other than the fact that excessively large dreams will destroy your psyche and render you jobless, i mean - you won't find them. it's one big immanent world now.

also you were so right about music & aesthetics. been listening to that stuff now and it is 149% the sound/effect i was looking for. it hadn't clicked for me yet. it clicks now.

and honestly OP i haven't even nearly done justice to the stuff you were raising in that first post. i'm very glad that the second iteration of this thread made it through & we got to have this discussion. post-post-philosophy or w/ev is where it's at. so excuse the rambling tone; this stuff is just cooler than cool to me.

the djinn is smiling on the inside. maybe he doesn't look like it. hell, maybe he knows your guy in the OP. anyways. w/ev.

>>9818381
i sincerely wish to talk about the *djinn* but i do not want to become a meme, nor do i wish to turn /lit/ into either a blog or a soapbox. so only briefly here.

lacan says quite a lot about the sphinx & in this way can do things undreamed of to one's neurotic or repressed psyche. the sphinx is the perfect image of hysteria: it continually asks a question to which every answer is *wrong* and for which the punishment is *death.* being Lacan, he accomplished a minor miracle and realized what was going on: the sphinx was calling for a master, and knowing this, it could realize itself. and disappear.

well, here's a thing worth thinking about then: what would lacan have made of a *djinn?* a being wish wants to *grant wishes* - which is possessed of an incredible *wish-granting power* - but finds these wishes unworthy, or *cannot properly understand what is being said to it,* or -

right? baudrillard loves to talk about the age of sorcery, deleuze will talk about the body without organs; there is room, i am saying, for a *close and serious analysis of fantastic symbolism in the age of late capital.*

look how unhappy *this* djinn looks. interesting to think about. and from what i understand no small amount of middle-eastern/islamic philosophy of mind has to do with the theory of djinns
>dat genieology of spirit
>ffs ok srsly kys for real this time
>tfw

and their relationship to the unconscious.

i would hate to become a meme, or a hysteric. but i literally find this shit so pants-on-head retarded interesting and *none* of it i would be able to come up with on my own.

we live in a collaborative, profoundly squishy, mimetic world and it is *cool as fuck.*

so i am going to take a self-imposed time out b/c i do not want to sound crazy. but holy shit. holy fucking shitballs, this place, sometimes. the things it makes me want to think about.

god love ya, /lit/ mimetosphere. i'll be back later.

>djinns tho
>djinns and sphinxes & psychoanalysis
>fucking shit