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Pt2 'revenge arc' 復讐編 is a vast improvement over pt1

Finally, a light read

Comparatively at least

Pretty good so far

Book of revelation type shit

Finished part 3

It got weirdly serene, like a Fosse novel

Finished pt2

Idk if i enjoy this or not. Nevertheless i feel compelled to see what's next. Madness

Oh god. OH GOD.

Sensed a big plot point coming so I decided I'd stop for now and finish it up tomorrow - but so far this has been very beautiful, making me feel really hard

Pg 206 - mention of autopoesis
Here is a fictional academic work that theorizes the possibility of a 'mind without life'
Not sure what this has to do with the story but it's super interesting and everything's been a page-turner so far

Kinda realizing that this has Donnie Darko vibes, both in the general mood and some of the strange esoteric stuff that's obliquely referenced here and there

Had this on my shelf for at least 2 or 3 years i think.. but after watching Weapons, I kinda got the feel for finally startibg it..

Well I guess I'm reading gore now

Up to ch2 - the way Muñoz takes up Derrida's hauntology reminds me of Mark Fisher, but I have yet to really read the latter in detail to understand the difference in the approaches here. Also reminds me of Harry Harootunian's rereading of Marx to think the relationship between past/present/future differently

don't feel like continuing this lol

it's interesting but also reading it is a bit of a pain, somehow

feel like right now I want to prioritize having more fun instead rather than going through the kind of sadomasochistic I used to put myself through

Incest

「…さきの恐怖にみあうほどの至福の思いが湧いて、かれは小便を洩らすほどであったのである」(46)

"Occultures" was pretty cool
"Qabbalah 101" goes kinda hard
But what kind of bullshit went into writing "Introduction to Qwernomics"

"Mechanomics" is such an incomprehensible pile of doodoo despite seeming to have something interesting to say about numbers

Ok uh I guess this is the fictional theory zone

"Meltdown" was a pretty lucid section but everything else was more like speculative stuff I guess

I liked this one line:
438 matter as the intensity of the circuit, not the adequacy of the representation

Ok, this is where he loses his mind

Circuitries: thinking schizophrenia with cybernetics
Machinic Desire: thinking with Freud's BPP
Cybergothic: thinking with cyberpunk fiction

There are dry parts, but also wet (pleasurable) ones.
166 - man as the ugly animal. How do we understand Land's obsession with the white male as such a horrific violent subject? Is this a self-fulfilling prophecy - the inevitability of white man as fascist?
167-168 art inspires the further creation of art (Nietzche) - a proliferation, accretion, like an eldritch force insinuating itself into reality (through us)

Skipped the intro (will leave it for later)
Essay on Kant is kinda sweeping but nonetheless interesting
Now reading him reading Heidegger reading Trakl - to think recurrence in a way other than narcissism (self-identity). The notion of ancient Greeks thinking that mushrooms came from lightning is super cool

91-binary involves a transcendent
92 - autobiography as life hemorrhaeged in writing (tensions between negentropies?)
94 - communication = a sort of we are a mindless swarm/legion
95 - repetition wrecks an ouevre
101 - will to power as genealogy
102 recurrence=abortion of transcendence
The labyrinth (on space)
117 scale/accretion

It gets REALLY good here
75 - Nick Land here champions the sea as the site of annihilation
81: despair is the absence of hope/lure
87 - on the digital (binary)
88 "Phallus is the great security of male-dominated culture, and beyond it lies an ocean of loss as desolate as zero."
89 - the skeleton - it is transmissible, preservible vs the decaying flesh
91 - binary and a transcendent vs immanence ala bataille

ch4 some 'theory-fiction' thing
ch5 on death
58 how despair differs from doubt
ch6 on time
64 what is the diff between the One and zero?
68 on synchronicity // God
72 annihilation is not agency but cessation of agency

Similar idea to earlier chapters on Bataille's general economy view overall
Also possible to see how Fisher's gothic flatline idea was conceived

ch3 trangression = the base, surrender (not agency)
45 law as discontinuity, isolation as quantiative (??)
47 - the privileged elite is inclined to waste their riches on war - why? (is this just a historical observation?)
49 - scopophilia's complicity with representation (=ontology)
(I would call this the digital ala Galloway on Laruelle)
50 - Kantianism = our philosophical actuality

// Fisher's gothic flatline

ch2 20-39
Bataille solar/general economy
23 - mimicry?
24-25 scholarship as sport?
25 thrust (to engender riddles)
26-30 entropy as baseline, 'ontologies' as negentropies (quantifications of energy)
30-32 reinterpreting Nietzche and Freud ala libidinal energetics
35 - communicative vs isolative tendencies
36 - organisms produce more energy than necessary to survival
36-38 // marx, labour power
39 capital=anti-culture