/lit/ - Literature

Dhalgren
The Worm Ouruburous
Solider in the Mist

It's ok but please try and read the greeks on your own before assuming nietzsche is right about everything.

>>14942233
Socrates was married and no doubt likely had sex outside either before or during. What if OP is a Diotima or Hypatia? Presume not to judge.

>>14941900
This.

As AOS says:

>"For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality."

>>14942153
Ya. I have trouble choosing favorites. That's why I reposted here: >>14942102 . Five of each seemed like a better number...

But I may very well be a loud asshole. Idk.

Yes, Jung is great. In fact, I am reading the Red Book now. But...

Read Wouter Hanegraaf!!!

The man singlehandedly invented Western Esotericism as an academic study...

Admittedly, he may rile some feathers on this board for calling the Guenonian and Eliadean approaches too essentializing but I think that actually allows him to go further than most uncritical scholars trying to fit everything into neat boxes.

Dictionary of Gnosis and Esotericism is an amazing resource as are really all his specialized work in Western Esoteric Studies.

The place to start would be his Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed. Great history and overview.

You can also find Hermes in the Academy (a book of the establishment of esoteric studies in amsterdam) online for free as a pdf as well as many of his lectures on youtube.

Also, check out the scholars he works with. Godwin, Broeck, Faivre, etc. -- all are also luminaries of the field.


For your questions, I would suggest his book Western Esotericism and the Science of Religion.

>borges, cortazar, eco, blake, rimbaud, baudelaire, rilke, hesse, calasso, mallarme, goethe, shakespeare, carroll
>uzdavinys, hadot, sloterdijk, foucault, agamben, deleuze, nietzsche, hegel, schelling, kant, leibniz, spinoza, descartes, plotinus, aristotle, plato, parmenides, empedocles, heraclitus

Eros is the sex drive. Aporia is psychedelic mindfuck. Plato was a mystery initiate. The mysteries unite the high and the low. Neoplatonists and christians both criticized dualism and asceticism. The goal is not to leave the body but divinize the entirety of the lived experience. Theurgy is the transformation of life into a work of art. I would post my email for a neoplatonic gf but I feel this is bait. Please post feet and picture of neoplatonic texts if real, OP.

abhinava gupta + iamblichus + andrew chumbley + deleuze + guitar = 24/7 samadhi

Theory Talk

>>12867895
Cybernetics is crazy. My life changed after buying Bateson on a psychedelic whim. Does Land deal with the notion of sovreignty and the state of exception? That book blew me away recently. I wonder if an AI would be a sovereign... or if AI would be a state of exception... or both? The notions he'a bringing up here remind me of some of the legalistic notion of governance as not superstructure but relation between individuals and law. Idk. Hard to type full thoughts on my phone. Plugs in nicely to cybernetics tho. Gods I wish i were a polymath. But I suppose I am still young.
>>12867904
The glass bead game waits for no one.

>>12867861
Who's in the middle? Kojeve? Adorno?

>>12867736
Read The Dark Enlightenment:
http://www.thedarkenlightenment.com/the-dark-enlightenment-by-nick-land/
>(what if the enlightenment was bad?)

>>12867775
>marx and nietzsche
Don't forget freud and darwin!

>>12865819
Good point. Ya. It seems hyperstitions are more anthropogenic or socially constructed. Though of course there is an element of randomness too. A good example would be the qwertyuiop qabalism (and normal qabalistic gematria too). Something something douglas adams quote about cricket and astrology and strange and interesting emergentism for rulesets.
>>12865856
I need to read Realist Magic but I don't think it has stolen any of my ideas yet thankfully. Ya. Magical thinking is interesting. Bad when used in an uncritical / stupid / naive way but let us bit throw out the baby with the bathwater. I think from the perspective of pure nature there is something real about hyperstition and impure nature imputes something synchronistically. And then there are parallels to signatures and correspondences and sympathies and mana and gifts and living ontology both ways... heady stuff!
>>12866091
I think trying to attain full communion with the real results in delusion. Take it easy. Read some comfy books on philosophy as a way of life and the quest for enlightenment and learn to live with the fact that tho it is an eternal uphill struggle you are already on the journey and that is half the battle. Maybe also sort out your finances and employment and stuff as that often contributes to breakdowns.
>>12867637
Deleuze challenges the identarian roots of western philosophy. Have you ever thought that western philosophy was an exercise in stupidity? What if the primary metaphysical drive or force in the world's becoming is not similarity and form but pure difference? In such a vein, he also has a lot of unique and almost eastern insights into impermanence and interdependence and illusion and delusion as well as taking up the mantle of nietzsche and his challenges to the idealist tradition. A good materialist and scientist and atheist too if that appeals. No appeals to a platonic overarching brahma superform monad. Which can be scary but liberating. Accelerationism is all that plus a bag of potato chips. Usually trying to accelerate contradictions in capitalism to lead to the emergence of a hopefully superior system.

>>12865768
>his line of flight from suffocating was out a window, that's all
Lol.
>define synchronicity a little bit
Synchronicity is some magical thinking jungianism. Meaningful coincidences. I guess technically could refer to anything like a providential notion of fate. Usually fueled by mania, drugs, sense, affect, narcissism, religion.
>space taoism? very suspicious of it's efficacy. eastern religions have tended towards a potent mode of capitalist cope since the 60's.
Glad someone else is thinking it (tho I do love me dao and tantra a lil still)

>>12865694
For some reason some people claim it was an accident or something. I am agnostic.

>>12865588
I think hyperstition is more interesting than synchronicity but also they can coexist separately. Such is my current magical understanding. I think there is value in Bataille and Mauss tho. As well as Levy-Bruhl and Fraser. As a schizophrenic I find the supernatural interesting tho as mentioned I try to be more empirical nowadays.

>>12865607
>cosmic animal
Sounds comfy
>stellar void
Sounds metal
Can I be comfy and metal?
>>12865588
I'm working on Intelligence and Spirit. And a buncha other crap. Sloterdijk is good. Idk if I buy the Clamour of Being. Being and Event is mind-blowing tho. Metapolitics, Ethics, Theory of the Subject is crazy too. Philosophy in the Present is light-hearted fun with Zizzy to boot. Byung-Chul Han is a fun weaver of theory as you rightfully recommended. The Dash is a good work I've been exploring. Badiou has an untimely meditation on German Philosophy as well. Pocket Pantheon is qt as fucc binding. Ummm... Popomomo.
>>12865618
Deleuze is more metaphysician than Zizek. But not only that but ethically and aesthetically he is simply more satisfying to read IMO. Idk. Johnston's work supposedly examines such metaphysical implications in Zizek but I have not examined them yet. Idk. Kinda sick of perverse kernels and foundations of universalisms much less things kept hidden since world foundations seem to not appeal. My episteme is scientific. In a way that is both mystical and material but non-supernatural. I actually have been itching to read some science lately hence revisiting and delving into D&R as well as Virtual Science and Intensive Philosophy.

>>12865488
I call it being myself

>>12865514
Literature and philosophy are lifetime journeys. You don't need to study pre-biblical sumerian legend or even read the entire bible extensively to appreciate paradise lost, for example... then again, that might be one of the vectors you approach toward understanding and appreciating it more fully perhaps also with the guidance of secondary works or tertiary works.
>>12865429
Eschaton stands for end history and to the stars.
>>12865541
Blasphemy!

>>12865503
Meant to reply to: >>12865150 and >>12865491

>>12865146
They should be read concurrently. They are mutually foundational. And also read Debord's Commentary and Knabb's SI Anthology.

>2019
>not being an overmedicated overeducated ur-fascist pomo commie chaote schizo-occult deleuzean nietzschean lacanian hegelian catholic hermeticist traditionalist entheogenic shaman