Prometheus and Atlas

kek i had no idea what i was getting into when i cracked open this book. this is either completely insane or brilliant or both

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ya, i think that's called theory

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i just finished the intro. i feel dizzy guys, this book scares me and i don’t know if i want to keep reading. this shit is either totally diabolical or profoundly revelatory.

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You know what to do, user.

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It is pure reality

hello raul

Odd way to spell delusional

Just read it. I don't agree with what I read, but I think it's more interesting than pretty much any academic garbage coming out.

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What is it about? I read the book summary on Amazon and I still don't get it.

he did a video interview on the book, check youtube

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Without even knowing anything else about the book or author, just the fact that he decided to have a title of the names of two famous Greek Gods means either:

A.) this is a great, ground-breaking, historical monument of a book which is definitely worth such a title
or
B.) he’s an arrogant, boring hack who chose an overly bombastic title

I know it sounds extreme, but that’s how it is.

As the user who is reading the book and posting screencaps, I still haven't figured out if it's A or B. All I know is this book kind of scares the shit out of me

Well, I will say it is a Heideggarian/Aristotelian understanding of technology combined with a misreading of the myths. Unfortunately, the Greeks have been plundered to add weight to liberalist data-mining, and if you don't understand the myths you probably shouldn't be giving your book their names.
Whether or not you accept the Heideggarian view of technology would be much more difficult to get into, but would also clarify which of the two options he resides in.
Nonetheless, in his defense, I will say that I don't think he is boring or a hack. Such ideas are extremely difficult, and very few have understood them after the Greeks. Combine this with the problem that hardly anyone understands our own time and we are left with a huge void. Perhaps two or three people have come close to grasping an understanding of our own world through a Greek or ancient gaze.

Since you say very few people have understood our time, that leads me to believe that you believe yourself to have a correct understanding of our time, otherwise how could you reliably make that judgement? So, what is the correct understanding and which authors have it?

That we live in an age of political survival against a dying God, and humans have aligned with unknown forces as an all new territory has been laid out before them. Our political theology has developed as a struggle of dominion over this contested territory.
Schmitt and Junger have come closest to this. I have a feeling that Holderlin will be there as well, although I have just begun to investigate him and if his thinking was similar. A few obscure Russians, and some of the writers of early modernity also had a great sense of the modern form and its spiritual struggle.

>Our political theology
as well as technology. Contrasted to Jorjani, I would say that our technology is total hubris against Prometheus. And rather than a direct transposition of the myth, the atomic age is a theft of the runes and blocking up of the passageways leading to Orcus and Tartarus. Such hubris has unleashed the earthly force into the very being of technology itself. Those greater gods than Zeus are now preparing our punishment.
We have descended beyond the Iron Age into an age of degrading, depleting dust. The coldness and cruelty of the Olympians will be nothing before this.