>The spectacle is capital to such a degree of accumulation it becomes an image.
Been obsessed with this for 2 years now. Anyone here read it or have an opinion on situationist theory in general? Any good essays/books that critique its perspective?
The theme of The Society of the Spectacle is that we no longer live in a society, but, rather, a ‘spectacle’ that is mediated by images (i.e., appearances—the way we look, dress, act, talk, etc. around others). In this spectacle, one must assimilate and conform to the status-quo in order to find a social sense of acceptance. In other words, nothing is genuine or real, but simply a façade. The spectacle (i.e., society) is a game of fake and phony rules and courtesies. And we all must play by these socially constructed rules lest we be expelled or expunged by the system itself.
>>7685300
How is this different to any other society at any other stage in history? Courtesy and rituals have always ruled us.
garbage; popular with young mensheviks and future bureaucrats in europe because it is garbage. popular with the lgbt riot pussies in muscowy because it was popular with mensheviks and bureaucrats in the west.
Why does everybody assume that K. was innocent?
My diary tbqh
>What is burden of proof??
Who assumes he was innocent? Noone in the book, surely. Not even K.
Are you suggesting the readers do? Only those who reduce Kafka's entire oeuvre to bureaucratic satire would come up with something so daft.
I think it's quite clear K. is guilty.
We currently live in the decrepit era of the Young-Adult Females. Every book portrays a young independant white individual doing acts of violence, destroying the right idols and somehow changing the world through murder.
My question is what comes next?
These writers are not receiving their fat movie adaptations anymore. The genre has become stale as literature and exhausting as anything else. Yet their target market grows hungry yet again thanks to easily accessible eBooks.
How can we conquer these 14 years old fanfiction-reading girls with something that...
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>>7693983
the hyper-novel is the future. the concept of 'literarture' is the product of outdated modes of text distribution... YA and shit like buzzfeed, the meme industrial complex are actually light years ahead of any 'literary' text content creators, they have managed to adapt to a post-print system before anyone else.
>>7693983
Read Soumission
Cyberislam is the future. think technosufic singuarity and the jihadi archetype as urban mystic/gangsta/cyberpunk hacker, terrorism as avant performance art
I watch a lot of movies /lit/. I'm looking for good books about cinema. I've read neither Bergman nor Ebert books and I mention them because I know they're popular.
Give me some recommendations /lit/. I'm looking for technical, biographical and historical books.
>>7693370
Cinema was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. clearly a juvenile author.
>>7693370
Tarkovsky's "Sculpting in Time"
"Film as Subversive Art"
>>7693390
Thanks anon. I love Tarkovsky and I'm definitely reading it.
>I listen to Beethoven while reading/writing
Listening to any complex music that requires the full attention of the listener for complete appreciation whilst reading is waste. Neither you appreciate the book fully, nor you notice the subtleties, for example as in OP, Beethoven.
>>7692577
How about for writing?
>>7692573
I listen to music that I've heard a million times before this ranges from folk to Rachmaninoff. I need that beautiful white noise to separate my ears from the outside world so my eyes can focus on the page and not on the world around me.
>see a cute nurse on the Western Front in World War I
>get to know her
>get to really, really know her
>decide you're definitely going to marry this beautiful nurse
>get sent home, you've done your duty
>she calls off the engagement abruptly
>she's marrying an Italian instead
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That's the beauty of Hemingway anon
You have to simultaneously love and hate someone to an immense degree.
>I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect… Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.
Last was high jacked by trollfags. Honest critique. I'll bump with a few of my own shitty poems.
>>7688137
Kiss Me
And tell Me you love me
Let me taste your secrets
And let passion
Guide the night
Away
>>7688140
Time passes slowly
Sitting down without you here
Seconds feel like years
I see you, now time is fast
Slipping away, please come back
>>7688152
Have you ever seen
Someone beautiful like you
I don't think I have
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssPnkdAI2QQ
Jeez.
>>7686503
>16 year old faggot
not surprised desu senpai
who the fuck cares seriously
>>7686503
>HOW TO READ A JOHN GREEN BOOK
Step 1. You don't.
Last one hit limit. Now it's official! Any type of writing is welcome. Pastebins, google drives, anything. Rate, give advice and critique to have people do the same with your writing.
http://pastebin.com/
heres an easy format for beginners to use.
Asi fue como salio de mi boca un tren de saliva seguido de una cara en llamas, sentado bajo mi reflejo luminoso en la silla del inodoro apreciaba esa bella figura.
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One day, somehow, someway, there appeared a stain
But it was no smear, it was a splatter of red paint of the dark shade
That shade of red found after the slice of a sharp blade
And it cut deep and brought shame everyday
People claim time alleviates all pain but how can it soothe this rotten stain
...
Later the pre-existing paint fades away and turns a shade of grey
That shade of grey found after a loved one passes away
That shade grey found when love is just a hopeless aspiration
That shade of grey found after a...
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Their split whispers float into the night like ember. Outlines of tangled hair strangled with bands, the teeth behind the kisses. The car lurches, a trauma subsides into their bellies and they laugh with their heads cocked. The trees pass alike in the shortly illuminated dark and a nameless song plays on the radio. Absent is the dust from summer, bringing forth commodious air. It’s winter and it’s cold, always cold.
How do I into Faulkner?
>>7693802
As I lay dying first
>>7693806
I've tried to read it twice and I'm about to start over again. I'm pretty new to literature in general, any tips on comprehending everything that goes on here?
Faulkner was a meme author, and had no discernible talent. He was shitposting, and is literally genre tier fiction. Clearly a juvenile author.
Is Othello the first Dindu in the history of literature? He cuckolds Iago before the play begins and makes some untrained young stud his lieutenant. Yet he's taught as some kind of innocent victim with a short fuse. Bizarre!
he a good boy
>>7687328
Go to /pol/ if you want to talk about your obsession with nigger dicks, faggot
>>7687337
>Go to /pol/ if you want to discuss one of the central characters in the western literary tradition
No thanks. Don't get your panties in a twist. Nobody cares that you support Bernie.
So... he's a banal pseud, right?
>boo hoo hoo my life is great but I feel so empty inside
yeah great like I haven't read that shit a million times before
>boo hoo hoo my life is great but I feel so empty inside
That would fit the /lit/ blogposters better
Didn't the protag barely have the rent money while having a ton of mental issues? It's been a while since I read that book
>>7684410
after his father told him to gtfo, but yeah he as a lot o mental issues.
Lol look at these plebs dismissing with Osamu Dazai so easily and foolishly.
This book is FUNNY. Why did no one tell me all my life? Moby Dick is always portrayed as some super serious victorian shit but it's funny as hell, it reminds me of the Coen Brothers a bit.
>dick
kek
>>7684335
Nobody read it here.
/lit/ only knows that it says a lot about whales.
>>7684352
The section that I remember was when he compared certain Whales to particular philosophers. I remember losing my shit, I need to read it again.
Can someone recommend something not depressing? I just read the metamorphosis by franz kafka. What an absolutely empty and painful feeling that book left me with. All I could think about was how depressing life is, I want a book that leaves me feeling empowered and optimistic. Is there a book that's either funny and /or optimistic that is still either disturbing and creepy and deeply philosophical and psychological? I'm looking for something that involves people living very atypical lives, with atypical personalities or something.
You utterly misunderstood the metamorphosis
Read a confederacy of dunces
>>7688135
Book of disquiet
Read Pynchon
What's her name, /lit/?
Moby Dick or Blood Meridian
my diary desu
>>7687854
you didn't write your own diary?