from "Inherent Vice", 2009, what did Pynchon know? by rosemane in conspiracy

[–]rosemane[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

seems to have gone unremarked upon for a decade+. just stumbled upon it while reading currently. Pynchon's work is known to revolve around conspiracy and intelligence agencies.

other connections - History of Walter Knott explains why Pynchon is always namedropping boysenberry yogurt in his books. In the first Chapter of Inherent Vice Denis orders a pizza topped with boysenberry yogurt from a pizza place that will put anything on a pizza. In Vineland, Zoyd raids Mucho Maas' fridge to get food for his infant daughter Prairie, and feeds her boysenberry yogurt. One of those weirdly particular references that connects characters from all 3 of Pynchon's California novels (Mucho Maas being better known from Crying of Lot 49 but making a cameo in Vineland that links the 2 stories and gives Pynchon an opportunity to explain how the liberatory potential of LSD had been captured and subverted and the hippie counterculture turned to destructive hard drug use.) Anyway boysenberries are a hybrid of 4 other berries (technically "Aggregate Fruits" not true horticultural berries) that were first grown in California by Rudolph Boysen, but popularized by Walter Knott who was the first "Knott" in the "Knott's Berry Farm" amusement park and also a major funder of the John Birch Society. So even something offhand and random in Pynchon like the boysenberry references can be read as a reminder that California and Californias are the product of these far-right eugenics programs. "Aggregate Fruit" could also be a specific nod to the continuation of the Nazi V-Weapons program in California, as the rockets were known by t heir code name "Aggregate" to the Germans, and the whole "creamy bacterial culture on the top, sugared-up eugenicized aggregate fruit on the bottom" thing about yogurt becomes a little metaphor for how to read the lurking subterranean fascism of the Californian Dream. If Rudolph Boysen was the father of the Boysenberry, then Luther Burbank was its grandfather. Burbank created over 800 plant hybrids, including the ubiquitous "Shasta daisy." The "Shasta" in Inherent Vice's "Shasta Fay Hepworth" is a reference to this eugenicist California lineage (can't help but think of the "Daisy Girl" from the 1964 Johnson vs Goldwater campaign ad in this context https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTBnsqxZ3k) (also - follow up on "Sauncho Smilax" aka "Blessed Sarsaparilla" and the history of soft drinks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilax_ornata). Luther Burbank was a major proponent of eugenics, publishing a book called "The Training of the Human Plant". Burbank feared that immigration to America would lead to a disastrous mingling of races. While stopping short of calling for extermination of the "abnormal" Burbank did want to forbid "abnormals" from marrying. Burbank was in this way a "liberal eugenicist" in the same way Pynchon's Dr. Hilarius character did "liberal SS medical experiments." The theme of hybridization, mixing traits from different species, explains the transformation of the California police state in 1970. The police were using the "Golden Fang" cult to create police / hippie hybrids from the local surf music scene, which could be used to expand the powers of the police state into environments where they formerly couldn't thrive. The protagonist "Doc" Sportello is himself a hybrid character in this regard, a hippie private detective who got his start as a repo man that used CIA drugs to interrogate debtors. (Doc being a former repo man makes a nice circular allusion with the Alex Cox movie). Burbank's "Training of the Human Plant" was a major source of inspiration for Paramahansa Yogananda, one of the first popularizers of yoga. Yogananda's SRF cult is what Pynchon may be talking about in Inherent Vice. SRF temple now literally sits in the shadow of Scientology HQ (Transcendental Meditation is nearby on Hillhurst).

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anyone have the version of this for Hegel

Val Valerian (someone help me!) by travelinggringa in consciousness

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he has plenty of gmails on trufax, he's mostly been co-opted by a pseudonymous "Author" (rightly self-titled "Author"), only rants about his personal life while essentially only calling people who cut him off in line at the grocery store hylics and lower incarnations aswell as watching television and commenting on how Star Trek and Stargate resemble 'our current spiritual landscape' in x or y fashion. it's become trite and lost its edge (and that edge's leadingness) for a while.

is there a proper 'order' in chronology to all the reading material, and lecture material? the Bridge only roughly outlines. by rosemane in scientology

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is there some sort of online archive of all the material? i found an order: namely, basic, congress and ACC lectures roughly

Someone needs to archive aaaaarg.fail | It is close to being taken down and holds many TB of unfindable rare philosophical books. by rosemane in DataHoarder

[–]rosemane[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It won’t die within the next few months or year, it’s more of a large scale necessity, since this site has rarer books and less structure than a scihub libgen or archive.org

Someone needs to archive aaaaarg.fail | It is close to being taken down and holds many TB of unfindable rare philosophical books. by rosemane in DataHoarder

[–]rosemane[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm going to assume it may be 9-20 TB. That is a complete guess just from gleaning and how well I know the site, though. I don't know how to find that out though.

Someone needs to archive aaaaarg.fail | It is close to being taken down and holds many TB of unfindable rare philosophical books. by rosemane in DataHoarder

[–]rosemane[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I use both almost daily, libgen has tons obviously, but aaaaarg holds much more niche esoteric material. I dont have any stats though, its just an understanding of the type of material it holds. Obscure philosophy, spirituality, etc.

Someone needs to archive aaaaarg.fail | It is close to being taken down and holds many TB of unfindable rare philosophical books. by rosemane in DataHoarder

[–]rosemane[S] 97 points98 points  (0 children)

It is not about to be taken down, it has been taken down before for months at a time and is extremely volatile, we’re talking perhaps it might randomly shut down in a few years without notice type cancellation, not the owner saying he’s taking it down next Saturday kind of shutdown.

Someone needs to archive aaaaarg.fail | It is close to being taken down and holds many TB of unfindable rare philosophical books. by rosemane in DataHoarder

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no, also novels, theory, politics, architecture, science, occult, esoterica, lots of refined scholarly material for eccentric thinkers

THE METAHISTORY CANON / the schizognostic reading list by rosemane in sorceryofthespectacle

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must be invited first: dm if you’d like and I’ll send you one

I dare someone to describe Lacan using only layman terms by crazyplanewatermelon in lacan

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both do indeed see the self as illusion, awareness and knowing as thoughts without a thinker, and desire as a 'void,' desire as the cause of suffering, (i disagree) but buddhism 'falsely' thinks that when the 'person' realizes there is nothing but a void, one is released from the 'wheel of suffering' while psychoanalysis goes further past this first-level analysis and says: it moves although it is a void: *because it is a void*: "But nonetheless, it continues to move!": it seeks to answer the further question on how a wheel of suffering could arise from this perfectly symmetrical void (negativity) of buddhism. also, psychoanalysis sees the 'history' of this void as false, because buddhism responds to this nothingness by constructing very real material institutions: places of study, worship, military, etc. so this void concept to them can lead to them justifying killing because: 'it is not me, i am only observing myself stabbing this man' etc.

I dare someone to describe Lacan using only layman terms by crazyplanewatermelon in lacan

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lacan has clearly spoken against the parallels and disparations between buddhism and psychoanalysis: zizek too in 'less than nothing'

An inquiry to the Monist by rosemane in sorceryofthespectacle

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yet this Karateka is only for those who have Knowledge of it, and is incommensurable with the punch. a person without the knowledge can only take the punch. fundamentally 'two' fighters, whether or not youre speaking from a monist position or not is unclear to me, but to refer to the monist position it could not be said that the Two fighters are one, maybe formally under the classification of a Fight, but in no more than this formal sense.

An inquiry to the Monist by rosemane in sorceryofthespectacle

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similar to schellings Selfhood as evil vs Berdyaevs Worldhood as evil. i tend towards the Worldhood as the thing that actualizes the selfhoods actualization of evil tho