I like Haruki Murakami
same
>>7581452
I didnt mean to offend you. Someone told me to let /lit/ know that I liked him. So I did.
Has anyone written on the subject of art? More specefically tried to define it to include good works of such as Beethoven and exclude 50 cent? I'm trying to argue against the moral relativists
on the standard of taste
>>7580861
morality ==//== aesthetics
Yeah there is an ENTIRE philosophy field called Aesthetics.
Lessing - Laocoön
Kant - Critique of Judgement
Schlegel/Mendelssohn write some stuff on it
Adorno - Aesthetics
Deleuze has multiple works on the subject
Looking for literature regarding film making, and analysis. Something that focuses more on the art of film, and cinematography. I've grown a lot of interest in film and would like something that can give me a bit of theoretical knowledge on the subject.
>>7580823
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=2e2ffe93d98d47078732ab725425c096
u mite enjoy it
Deleuze maybe?
bresson's notes on cinematography
some walter benjamin shitCinema 1: The Movement-Image
At this precise moment there are passionate young men sacrificing a life of ease, social conquest and material comfort for the sake of producing great art. How can post-college /lit/ users justify their slow drift towards regret and mediocrity?
As a NEET, I can't imagine the sort of self-hating and masochistic personality that allows a person to submit their will to the demands of other people. To waste their life and any potential they have performing some tedious daily routine for the purpose of making a lot of money for other people.
>>7580513
>As a NEET, I can't imagine
NEETs are usually incapable of understanding the motivations and aspirations of others not exactly like themselves.
There's probably a link between being NEET and being autistic.
Note: I am not saying your life is any worse or any better than anyone else's
>>7580540
>Note: I am not saying your life is any worse or any better than anyone else's
Then you're not really saying much are you kiddo?
>>7580543
I'm saying you might be autistic, "sweetheart"
Read the next 10 pages of your book, come back and report what it was about and post excerpts you enjoyed.
>tfw someone saves a random aesthetic photo you took
You got taste my nigga
Also. Heidegger: "The darkening of the world never reaches to the light of Being".
Surprised how mystical sounding he can be for an existentialist
Kohler is visiting his parents with his wife and kids.
Favorite parts:
"Consciousness, I say, consciousness is what counts. Like the butterfly in the killing jar, he says, consciousness is soon stilled."
"Men are full moons--always--regardless of the phase they're in."
"My mother put her hand on my head/neck/back--tip, tip, tap--lightly like benediction, sanding my skin with glass."
>>7580374
Bump.
As a novice to the hobby, who until recently read not much more than fantasy and history non-fiction. I've become interested in gravity's rainbow purely from the synopsis and it being talked about all the time.
I only started reading some of the more classic literature in the past year, so is there anything I should know/read before diving in to it?
>>7580246
Yeah, it'sshit
>>7580246
Reading is a fucking HOBBY now?
>>7580246
Maybe read some other Pinecone before going into it? I'd recommend the Frying of Latke 49.
Or just go for it, the worst thing that could happen is having a bad time.
/lit/, what book should I read if I am seeking to find redemptive value in evil? To explain more, I am expecting to experience political oppression, and potential systematic extermination in a concentration camp, within a year or so. I say this because my studies of environmental science, have informed me that Earth is actually undergoing the 6th mass extinction, and it is undergoing abrupt climate change. The head of Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Peter Wadhams, has said that Arctic methane emissions, are so severe, that consequent...
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if you're going to shitpost at least learn how to properly use commas FFS
>>7580077
If you're going to post in a book suggestion thread, at least leave a book suggestion.
the satanic bible by anton La Vey
I will start
>The Dunwich Whore
>Black Cock over Her Mouth
>The Cuckold out of time
>Butt Merdian or Evening Redness in the Ass
>The Great Cock Hunt
>>7579981
The Back to Reddit: an inspirational story of your journey to a cancerous place where you should stay.
Hairy Pooter and the half-chub prince
>>7579989
Infinite Jizz
What pronunciations or explanations did your High school English teacher botch the worst?
For me:
"Al-burt kay-muss"
>>7579859
'Neetshee'
>>7579865
"nee-chee"
>>7579859
>camus ever
>camus in an english class
>camus in a high school english class
where the fuck did you go to school, OP? sounds like a garbage experience.
>His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.
>tfw human god
even the gods philosophize...
>>7579790
>Rejects postmodernism
stupid goat
>>7579793
>Accepts postmodernism
stupid david
Has ANYBODY put forward any form of literature worth reading that argues in favor of objective morality in a godless society, that is worth reading?
>>7579703
You're gonna hate me for this but Sam Harris is the guy for you.
>>7579703
richard dawkins
>>7579715
This anon's diary desu
Why did Tristan und Isolde have greater literary merit than it's peers? Why did Romanticism have to be such unsubtle, trite garbage in comparison?
Has there been any literature or music that has better touched the theme of longing better than Tristan und Isolde?
Why are there so many autistic classicists on 4chan?
>>7579566
Where is the classicism in my post?
I want to create a NEW genre! FFFFFFFFFUCK YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I am >> I'm
He is >> He's
They are >> They're
Why the fuck people write shouldn't instead of should'nt? The latter contraction makes more fucking sense
because the missing "o" sound affects pronunciation, not the missing " " sound
>>7579438
>I am >> Iam >> I'm
>He is >> Heis >> He's
They are >> Theyare >> They're
the apostrophe replaces one letter and a space
you, meanwhile, are a fucking retard
>>7579452
wait... fuk
I'm about to start reading the Tanakh.
What should I expect?
>>7579309
delusional nonsense
>>7579313
this
read the god delusion instead
Have you guys read this? What did you think of it? Been wanting to try out Denis Johnson for a bit and I heard this was his best work.
Its a quick read. Well written. Funny in parts, but its about junkies, so dont get too attached to any characters
It's been a number of years since I read it, but I remember enjoying it quite a bit. The prose is sparse in a good way, and the stories go from being funny to tragic, and vice-versa, in the blink of an eye.
>>7579038
In a world of predictable fiction, Jesus' Son is a point-blank godsend.