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I'm writing a short story about an ambiguous unorganized political movement (like occupy Wall St and all that shit) that inspires a beverage company who releases a tv spot vaguely oriented to the demonstrations. Stuff happens and, in order to keep its target, the beverage company ends up becoming a vanguard party.
What does /lit/ think?
Sounds interesting, the commercialization of ideology is a theme i personally haven't heard a lot being written about (then again, maybe I just read shit books).
Excerpt?
i would read it if all i had to go on was the blurb and the vague notion that the author isn't complete trash.
Interesting idea.
It should be a satire on the stupidity of identity politics and how capitalism tricks stupid leftists into thinking they actually changed things by consuming products
'Ugh, I hate Catcher in the Rye! Holden was so whiny.'
>>7407713
"1984 literally describes what the future could be like. Orwell was only off by like 40 years."
>>7407713
>"Pynchon is bad"
>"Postmodernism is bad"
>"Story is all that matters"
>"Literature is useless"
Seriously, fuck people who think any of these.
>>7407713
"This might not be what you're looking for, but may I recommend A Song of Ice and Fire?"
Would Judith Butler say there's no difference between breast milk and infant formula? I'm trying to understand...if gender is purely maintained through performance, which is largely linguistic, how could breast milk qualify as breast milk? Judith Butler doesn't think penis and vagina exist outside of language. So how could breast milk exist outside of language?
She seems too radical and I keep assuming it must be some rhetorical device but nope, she's for real.
>>7407630
>Judith Butler doesn't think penis and vagina exist outside of language.
I'm not familiar with her, and I'm currently lost in the territory of Poe's law.
Is that for real?
>misreading butler this hard
woah
>>7407630
Language must arrive from something. It can not perform itself only through itself.
I'm not sure what she would say to this though.
Is it possible to become an author if you only have a College Education?
of fiction? yes
of non-fiction? yes
of anything academic or technical, beyond the pop understanding of the field? unlikely
>>7407600
I make six figures and I dropped out of university.So did Bill Gates.You can do anything if you care enough; if you can find an endless supply of motivation, you'll succeed regardless. Usually this only happens when you find your "true calling". For me, that's writing code. I can never imagine a time when I won't be writing code. I've been doing it for 20 years.
Unless it's textbooks and medical journals of course.
What are some good books for getting educated on political topics? I want to be more intelligent/informed in this area... About the most "political" books I've read are 1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, and The Communist Manifesto...
Yeah, pretty pathetic.
check out "The Moral Landscape" by Sam Harris
>>7407586
>posting the same bait in multiple threads
get some self respect.
>>7407582
That's kinda tricky since politics touches a lot of academic subjects (economics, psychology, philosophy, and history off the top of my head).
Since you've read The Communist Manifesto I'd recommend Manufacturing Consent, Understanding Power, and How the World Works by Noam Chomsky.
always start with the greeks
I don't understand this meme. The greeks were horribly wrong about a lot of things and had fundamental misconceptions about the nature of the world.
That's like telling someone who wants to study chemistry to start with the alchemists.
>>7407447
jesus fuck
>>7407448
This isn't an answer.
Santa Claus here. What books does /lit/ want for Christmas?
>>7407398
all of them tbH
>>7407398
I'd like this among others.
>>7407398
>borges' ficciones pls
Anything I need to read before reading this?
The greeks.
Hamlet, The Brothers Karamazov, Gravity's Rainbow, White Noise, Wittgenstein's Mistress and E Unibus Pluram.
You need to read Infinite Jest.
The first reading is just a gearing-up for the second.
Maybe not exactly /lit/ related but how many of you journal? Do you use a certain method of journaling? What pens and journals do you use on a daily basis? 99% of videos about journaling are done by women and it makes me wonder why men are less inclined to journal.
I find journaling to be a good practice for staying focused on my goals by keeping a daily log of what I've done and intend to do. I also use it to jot down notes about books I'm reading or quotes I think are important. Sometimes I write down new words I really like. I rarely use it as a "diary"...
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Journal is a noun you fucking cunt
>>7407288
What do you have against verbing nouns, anon? It seems seriously to impact you.
>>7407288
Journalers btfo
OP on suicide watch
>tfw you're slow at reading
I could do it fairly well, but I wouldn't read an entire book like that. You miss out on some details.
>>7407186
I can do it if I don't subvocalize. Then of course tone and voice is lost. This is great for a trashy romance novel.
>>7407191
but this is slow
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Wow. Just finished this and I have to say, what a book! It really blew me away in parts and I have to say the scenes with the inspector were really great! It rreally reminded me of Professor Snape the kind of suspense around whose the good guy and all that. I was wondering if you could recommend me any similar classic books because I want some more murder mysteries but first of all I just wanted to start off by asking why do you think he killed the old woman?
>constance garnett
yeah...I hate to break it to you but you haven't read dostoevsky.
Try again.
>>7407125
Just because he submitted that pic it doesn't mean that he read that version.
But what translation would you recommend?
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>>7407146
This one lol
This is my first year at uni. I study a Humanities degree, so I expected it to be full of hipsters, snobs and people that may be ellitist motherfuckers, but with the same (or similar) interests in movies, literature... as me.
>tfw im surrounded by GoT/genre shit readers, redditcore listeners, guys with encyclopedical knowledge of Hollywood movies (ONLY Hollywood), LoL players, anime fans...
What went wrong?
>>7406988
You went to a shit uni.
>>7406989
Word is bond.
About a quarter of those retards will drop out after the first year or transfer. A bunch more will change their majors. By your second year, you'll be taking 200/300 level classes and you'll like your classmates a bit more. It keeps getting better as you take better classes. Also, in most classes there's a couple assholes that always give their retarded opinions, but rest assured that you're not the only one that hates them (even the teacher might).
What are some good books to read for someone who's lacking a father figure in his life?
Diary of Malcom X
>>7406961
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius & Discourses by Epictetus. Stoicism is a bretty gud substitute for fatherly advice.
Epictetus
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What the public opinion on using e-readers in public?
Ive had a kindle for like 4 or 5 years and ive always been too scared to use it in public, but I just moved into a house with a lot of roomates, and have been going to a library to read, would people kek at me?
The library is mostly old people and some homeless
>>7406923
Why do you care what other people think?
>>7406923
Where do you live in that you'd be scared to use an e-reader (of all things one that no thugs anywhere would be interested in) in public?
>>7406960
I mean will it make me look like a pretentious starbucks drinker?
Tbqh all the free books I have gotten on it have made it well worth the price
What does /lit/ think of Houellebecq's new novel? My thoughts are mainly positive. In fact, I think it is likely his greatest achievement.
>>7406851
It's shit. Been said before, been done before, and references to JK Huysmans and Bloy don't bring Hollaback closer to them by a iota. Like everything else he's ever written, it perspires laziness, preconceived ideas and a pathological reluctance to any form of beauty
>>7406868
>Been said before, been done before.
Source?
>>7406886
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decline_of_the_West
Houellebecq seriously needs to get over his >muh depression if he really wants to contribute anything worthwile to literature one day. Some french novelists were alreaedy ahead of him 100 years ago. Most french novelists are a millenium ahead of him today (Michon, Quignard, Echenoz, Bon,...)
