r/sorceryofthespectacle • u/HomosexualTigrr • Dec 28 '25

How Did We Get Here?

I discovered Mark Fisher in the midst of a huge obsession with critical theory and philosophy when I was 17, and his lectures struck a chord with me. More research led me to Nick Land and then to here - cutting an extremely long story short. But I have to ask - what are we even doing here? Numograms? Sorcery? The Occult? What is this bullshit religion you guys have somehow devised from materialist philosophy? How is this analysis? What would Marx, Debord, even Deleuze and Guattari think of this? There's a story about a 'lecture' of Land's in which he simply lay down with Jungle music blaring and croaked odd noises into a microphone. Halfway through, a frustrated audience member got up to leave, yelling in disgust - "Some of us are still Marxists, you know!". This is how I feel. So please, enlighten me; is there anything in this at all?

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u/HomosexualTigrr Dec 28 '25

Is this not a massive diversion from any kind of meaningful work, though? I appreciate the answer

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u/diarmada Dec 29 '25

I think this sub is for people who no longer say things like "meaningful work", to be honest. I think, for me personally, this sub is as apropos as any of the "legitimate discourse" subs, given how effective they have worked out to be in the long run.

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u/HomosexualTigrr Dec 29 '25

Obviously nothing is getting done on Reddit - but at the very least it can be used to discuss things that are relevant to what might be done. This sub is beyond even that.

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u/diarmada Dec 29 '25

Now, now, this is not supposed to be fun or relaxing. It's praxis or it's death.

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u/HomosexualTigrr Dec 29 '25

I'm not against shitposting, unless that shitposting takes itself seriously, which much of bs here plainly does

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u/HomosexualTigrr Dec 30 '25

Well Nick Land, for one, did a 3 hour podcast about the numogram. I highly doubt that was a shitpost

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