/lit/ - Literature

This aint half bad

pic rel somehow filters lit harder than laruelle

prob this gay ass book

>>18655998
Yea, losing my dick up your sisters arse

>>18310183
Anyone actually read this shit? What the fuck does it all mean?

Whats going on here?

Is this a meme? Why is it so long and has so much effort put into it if it's a meme? I don't get it.

wtf was the point of this?
seriously

What the fuck is it about and should I buy it?

>>15184767
Jokes on you, that's (kind of) already a thing, and its pretty interesting, too.

>>15160710
>The other is a Danny Brown rap album which I can't imagine is great
I won't lie to you, it's actually pretty damn good. I'm not a hip-hop fan but it has a definite experimental edge, lots of post-punk samples and abrasive (meme word but applicable) production choices. Give it a try.

>>15159865
Honestly, just read more Ballard. He really is one of the most unique voices of the 20th century, there isn't anyone like him, imo.

And once you've read plenty of Ballard, give pic related a try too, if you're feeling bold. it brings together a lot of Ballard's ideas (especially the recapitulation stuff in TAE) into a really bizarre theory about the development of the central nervous system and the death drive

>>15043319
>the higher races crave meaning and explanations because of a hazardous surplus of consciousness
It's not a massively original idea, no. If you're interested in a speculative approach to an idea similar to this, check out Spinal Catastrophism by Thomas Moynihan. He argues that cognition of the brain is in effect an evolutionary augmentation of the central nervous system, but he argues that it isn't technically an advantage because it heightens our sensitivity to suffering. He takes Schopenhauer's claim that "reality is nervous stimulation", and extends it to the field of mind, arguing that consciousness is, in effect, just an extension of the torture-chamber that is our nervous system.

The more conscious we become, the more exposed we are to existential ideas of depression, mortality, horror, despair, etc., such that life becomes increasingly unbearable. Basically the idea is that organic matter wants nothing more to return to the inorganic exteriority from which it came from, and the more we develop consciously, the more that materialistic death-drive becomes apparent to us.

>>14797183
Actually, there is no god, there is only the universe learning to simulate the agony of existence in ever more excruciating detail until it drives the organism towards total annihilation in order to escape the narrow torture-chamber of the mind, and return to the inorganic exteriority from whence it came.

First you had rudimentary single-celled sensors, receptive to light, heat and so on. Then came the CNS, modelling the universe through nervous stimulation (IE. physical pain). Then, as our posture evolved over time, becoming bipedal, vertical and cognisant, the mind augmented that pain by attempting to exteriorise its own interiority through cognitive simulation. The trouble is the more conscious we become, the more acutely sensitive we are to the trauma that brought us into being. physical ailments of the spine recapitulate the accumulation of rarified accidents in our ancient genetic (and cosmological) history that resulted in us becoming self-aware, until our brains are swimming in the recapitulated traumas of deep time. The more we learn about where we come from, the more we strive to tear out our parasitical CNS from the brain stem down, to do away with the interminable pain of existence once and for all.

>>14794329
My original post was entirely derived from a book that actually exists, see pic related. I’d have hoped if you were the truly the greatest intellectual you might’ve encountered it, but you’ve unfortunately let me down. And you still seem to think that “goal-orientated processes” can exist without intentionality, which simply doesn’t make sense imo.

Explain to me right the fuck now what the fuck is spinal catastrophism. NOW

>>14744288
Read Schopenhauer and pic related, all we can reasonably claim about our bodies is that there is nervous stimulation present, so why bother trying to improve your body? The mind is just the body's way of augmenting the sensitivity of our CNS through the torture-chamber of cognition. Pain is the least of it– becoming conscious leads to jealousy, depression and despair. The universe WANTS us to kill ourselves. Bipedalism was a mistake, the vitruvian man is a fucking joke

philosophy is dea-

>>14438996
got a book for u bruv

Holy fuck. Anyone else read this?

Best philosophy book of the decade? Pic related...

>>14268842

Anyone read this yet? It really struck me as to how well-researched it is, given its speculative/quasi-fictional elements. I know the claim that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" has been often rejected in recent years, but the way in which Moynihan builds his case doesn't hinge on a literal interpretation of the claim, instead using the analogy between the processes to superimpose a diagrammatic overlay over both of them, only to begin to smash it apart as he reformulates his theory in terms of trauma ("trauma is a body"), memory as geological depth (the spinal column is a fossil record of our ancient ontogenetic legacy), and the erect posture of featherless bipeds tending towards the "externalisation" of intelligence and/or simulated reality.

When did you finally give up on the difference between analytic and continental philosophy, /lit/?

Has anyone read this yet? I found Negarestani's Cyclonopedia interesting so I'm wondering whether to get this too. Any thoughts or recommendations for theory fiction?

Nearly everything Urbanomic publishes is exactly up that alley of weird, vaguely continental philosophy, vaguely occult inspired, but this one (not even yet published) really exemplifies that.