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Is there any legitimacy to theory and cultural studies that would make it an academic program worth pursuing (as an undergraduate)?
Would I be better off forgoing theory, getting undergraduate training in, say, analytic philosophy, and reading into sociopolitical affairs, cultural and media studies, film theory, etc. on my own?
Something unrelated I learned today: Chomsky replies to every email he receives so long as it's not complete bait. Go figure.
>>8015893
It's worthless because it's easier to acquire and you don't want to spend the next four years being slowly spoonfed with material you could get on your own in a matter of months. Get a real degree and eventually steal the target courses' bibliographies and syllabi in case you need a starting point.
>>8015893
I'd go two years for a million dollars without internet or tv. How hard would that be? Just take a shitload of books and board games or fuck even some role playing games for fun.
>>8015893
fucking obviously, what the fuck is 2 months for 1 million dollars?
it looks sweet as hell.
What are John Barth's best novels? Where should I start? I rarely see /lit talking about this man.
>>8015804
The Sot-Weed Factor is great fun.
>>8015804
i'm interested in him too, SIlverblatt is a huge fan, and i like his taste.
You should read all of his first seven books in order.
I wanted to write a short love poem for my girlfriend but I forgot I'm shit at poetry. Help a brother out
Let me sing my soul, love.
I'll sing about you, dove.
I can't solve my problems
Or buy you any roses
I'll tell you how I feel.
and how the light you steal.
For it's my heart, my dear,
the one that sings so clear.
I love you, believe it,
so tell me where's your clit.
the old greek told me in a story across time
that way back when
you and i were one
and we rivaled the gods
and them fearing us
tore us in half and forced us to walk separate
how much sweeter it is now that we join, in lip and loin
and our hearts yearn for each other
desparate for the memory of blissful union
love you babycakes
>>8015730
Just steal some better shit than anyone here will write themselves or destroy with memes. "If" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. There ya go OP
Which literary characters best exemplify the concept of the Ubermensch?
>>8015520
Raskolnikov
Conan the Cimmerian
>>8015520
dr manhattan or tom bombadil?
ITT: Describe a book plot in the simplest way possible and anons have to guess what book it is
I'll start:
>some people climb up a tree and refuse to come down
>an amnesiac discovers that his forgotten friend was himself
>>8015435
What
Three brothers share two girls. What could go wrong?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-DnLPfDs8_eKn-y1u7x5P0CVUzuDfAouZLLvKZ99kxc
heres my story for an english project. post yours
lana is so qt :3
>>8015405
Now I know the age old saying goes: 'correlation does not mean causation', but you just gave my grandmother cancer
>>8015405
i didnt understand that shit at all
I wrote some prose poetry, if you're interested in reading it, or calling me an uncultured fag--either works--I'll post it below
>>8015306
Do it. I'll read it and call you an uncultured fag.
>>8015306
You're a fag but not for the reasons stated above You are a fag you couldn't be bothered to find the appropriate topic for your shit poetry.
>>8015306
Who you think you are? I dont want to read poetry by a fag
Do you ever read while drunk?
Drinking is for people who can't controll their emotional state
No, because I am not a filthy disgusting violent smelly druggie degenerate. xXxStraightEdgexXx for life here, you have been pwned.
>>8015232
But it feels good to drink, regardless of how I'm feeling prior.
Any good horror books /lit/ can recommend
Already read
Carrie - Stephen King
Edgar Allan Poe's Collection
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Let Me In - Jona Ajvide
The Vampires Lestat - Anne Rice
Dead Until Dark - Charlaine Harris (gay)
Why are you reading the gayest fucking horror? Try some Shirley Jackson.
>>8015220
>Dead Until Dark
Stookie Stackhouse is good pulp and not gay, you take that back.
Read something by Clive Barker
Ambrose Bierce > Poe
From iwkwipdeia:
H. P. Lovecraft characterized Bierce's fictional work as "grim and savage." Lovecraft goes on to say that nearly all of Bierce's stories are of the horror genre and some shine as great examples of weird fiction.
Gentlemen and "ladies" of /lit/, behold--my shitty compilation of the hardest English novels. Cower before the complexity and the sophistication of these works, and relinquish all hopes of reading them.
>pale fire
lmao
>>8015150
>comic sans
>>8015150
Really no Infinite jest? Are you saying that to make yourself sound smarter or admitting to us you cant read?
Discuss
>>8014847
This seems all sorts of b8
>>8014847
>Marx and Nietzsche so low
>Proudhon so high
Nigga no one knows who the fuck Proudhon is
This has to be bait.
This is a thread for the serious discussion of literature particularly by the famous author J.K. Rolling. She is my favorite author. Who is your favorite author?
fuck your shitty b8, but roll for this gutenberg shiet
I very much enjoy the works of Thomas Pynchon.
don delillo
Hey /lit/. what are some good books challenging that climate change is caused by humans, or anything along the lines of that?
step one: www.google.com
step two: click the box
step three: type "climate change denial books"
step four: castrate self
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Kuhn is a good place to start when attempting to survey any scientific discipline. After that, as long as you have accurate data and evidence you should be able to produce independent evaluations of scientific theories, especially if they're apt to always be wrong.
>15 years and stagnant global temperatures unlike what every climate model predicted
>but climate scientists still receive huge public funding
>the discipline seems just as...
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anyone excited for when he does actually publish his delillo inspired masterpiece ?
don't know who ben rhodes is?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-aspiring-novelist-who-became-obamas-foreign-policy-guru.html
>>8014599
interesting
He's a square. He sold out already. Fuck him.
>>8016375
what do you mean by this? or are you meming?
it seems to me like he's probably going to end up writing a real great american novel. he's right in the thick of things and stays meme free by reading delillo. he can save american literature from the cormacs and tommys
>>8014155
I will fill your mountains with the dead. Your hills, your valleys, and your streams will be filled with people slaughtered by the sword. I will make you desolate forever. Your cities will never be rebuilt. Then you will know that I am God.
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Matthew 10:16
The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded...
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