/lit/ - Literature

>>15679733

you fascinate me the same way a scarab might fascinate an entomologist.

you have my permission to go on.

>>13488182
>CIVILIZATION IS A THERMODYNAMIC TAPEWORM: a tapeworm that, paradoxically, generates the very surplus it consumes,
Great analogy. Anyone with enough investment in "civilization" (usually as a separate form to humanity) eventually becomes a negentropist and ultimately a (now neo/"global") imperialist.
> intelligence is “baked” into nature in just the same way the Leviathan is everywhere-already in virtual suspension, a machine whose parts need only to be “picked up” to be set to its dreadful work again: in this way, the Leviathan is immortal, but immortal only in the way dead things are immortal
Damn, this is so near to some of my favorite passages from UG, and ironically also Sade.
>Zizek: evil is the assertion of the Ground within that which it grounds: the irruption of Void within Logos
Basically, yeah, the formless anxiety of the intrinsic space(s) ["in my fathers house there are many mansions"] of :love:
>evil is the attempt to ground the UNGRUND
Precisely right, evil is the worst action in that it attempts to bring about something that does not exist. This is the root of any effective human sacrifice, by the way, shattering the existing links between person and person (often mother/father and child, forcing the parents to show no emotion lest the demon be disappointed [Inca/Carthage/etc]) and creating a new "pseudo-holy" [evil] Spirit with the remaining links. Land is, as noted, still trying to do this in China.
>that use Love as bait to fish for more Logoi to eat: is not the Leviathan an irruption of the Outside? A cadaverous demon-engine, poised to crack this planet open like a walnut?
Yep, sin is a reverse-Aztec engine: you're tempted to start it with your own blood, and once the process is in motion it demands more and more until you're eternally bound to it ("possessed").
>Spirit is the auto-justification of the Leviathan's dominion over this earth: the dominion of the Idea as omnivore:
He's... a LITTLE more Christic than that, but you've certainly outlined his biggest fault.
>ramified immediacy engineered into the concretion/boostrap vector of THE NIGHT LAND'S WATCHERS.
"Takes one to know one" is here turned into a hermetic phrase: the systematiser no longer exists without the system, or "inverse-simulacra."
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> not the natural superiority of the Evolian king, but the (metastable) superiority of the Hegelian monarch
Crucial distinction. God (in Hegelian terms) is absolutely that old hermetic word who ordered the world by Word and then made himself into a word: God is both the superior artifact and the superior artificer.
>everything hinges on this inversion of Heideggerian Being
If we were being vulgar, we could call it an insemination. But then:
>that occlusion is a womb destined to be inseminated (from the inside) by the false plenum of the Concept
Wait a minute. You know, this is--excuse me--a damn fine cup of coffee.
First comment of a couple, getting jannie-locked for some reason too