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Published anything recently, /lit/?
currently shortlisted for a short story competition worth a ridiculous CA$2000 and I think I have a good chance considering how few submissions there probably were
(sorry, not gna share the name)
apart from that I'm aiming to finish my first round of literary journal submissions by the 15th
>tfw want to be a writer but barely wrote anything for the nth weekend in a row
>>7756459
a math paper that probably <20 people will read
Nothing atm. Just had a play sort-of-put-on though. Won a contest, prize was $500 and a live reading. Very happy about that
About to start reading, is it worth?
Its good, but way too short.
>>7756078
it's so worth.
Will it make me cry and laugh at the same time?
Reading Jungs collected works on psychological types, I came across this passage where he talks about the three lines of thinking about the ultimate motivating factor in human psyche, as personified by Freud, Adler and himself. Freud identified as the ultimate driving force of the psyche pleasure (or lack of it), Adler power and Jung meaning (which is definitely the least graspable of the three values). I thought that that's a really interesting look at the subject, and one can definitely identify thinkers both in the past and present which form their ideologies according...
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The pleasure derived from the power of finding meaning
If I remember correctly, the three main brain regions correspond to each of those. I'm not sure one is the ultimate motivator, but I think one or two of them can be more dominant in an individual.
>>7755905
It works that way, boyo. You can go all meta and argue, for example, that power is just a means towards attaining pleasure, and thus we're conditioned to find it pleasing itself, or on the other hand that the experience of pleasure originally comes from us manifesting our will to power on the world. You can also argue that the experience of "meaning" is just the pleasant feeling you get from anticipating pleasurable outcome in the future, or that we only find our actions meaningful if they have an...
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I feel like studying Ideology, especially as a way to understand literature and interpret texts. I plan to read from:
Marx, Gramsci, Luckacs, Althusser, Adorno, Lacan, Jameson and Eagleton.
Is there anyone else that is essential, that I should include?
There are two forms of control: overt control (physical) and covert control (mental). Overt control is easy to identify; however, covert control is not. Covert control is often done through ideology. It's about getting people to act in certain ways that they normally wouldn't due to some type of behaviorally embedded ideal.
The thing about this type of control is that someone can be controlling you without you even being aware of it. Better stated: people can make you act in the matter that they wish while you still think that you are acting of your own accord....
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>>7755241
you're so cool and edgy
>>7755246
"the representation of the subject's Imaginary relationship to his or her Real conditions of existence"
- althusser's lacanian definition of ideology.
i've always considered ideology = false
consciousness, to be the definition.
what you're describing is usually considered something to do with a weberian definition of domination, imo
What are good books about our young upper-class intellectuals?
What makes a night out a 'Nietzsche kind of night'?
>>7755097
>>7755109
Eating lots and lots and lots and lots of fruit.
Serious question: Is Tao Lin autistic?
I'm inclined to think that severe social anxiety and drug use have caused him to seem autistic.
I mean, the sorts of drugs he uses are all likely to cause to disassociation/derealization/depersonalization, which seems like a better explanation than autism. Just my 2 cents though.
>>7754961
I can certainly believe autism, though I'd have to actually get a look at him in his normal life to see if he does any other of the common behaviors beyond just being a weirdo.
He's definitely got social anxiety. You might be able to chalk up the rest to being a drugged-out weirdo, but who knows?
Do drugs help with SA?
Can I be a chad?
>>7754998
Yes but if you go down that road you will NEVER learn how to communicate with people when you're sober.
It's not worth it.
should i learn french, russian or spanish?
which one is better for /lit/-related purposes?
Learn Game and spend every free moment you have plowing pussy. That's what I did
>>7754916
Russian if you're serious.
French if you're going to fuck around.
Spanish if you want to go downtown and get a good quality taco.
>>7754925
What are you talking about
Have you read any books when you had basically no interest in doing so, just so you could say you've read it?
im not a faggot so no lol
>>7754648
I've tried, but I don't think I've finished any.
>>7754648
That's what grad school feels like. Sometimes it's good though and I am glad I am doing it.
I've never read anything by David Foster Wallace.
Where should I start?
Just jump into IJ.
>>7754440
I've attempted to read IJ a few times now and every time I try I get a horrible sense of pessimism. Is this just me, or...? DFW seems to me like he was a horrible pessimist.
Start with the Greeks.
Serious question: how can you /lit like this book so much? And most of all, what did you/ make you enjoy it?
>>7753969
i didn't like it. I liked one part, but the rest, I didn't like. I read Ulysses first anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
Shit
The 2nd most pointless book ive read next to "invisible cities"
I just don't get why it seems to be so appreciated here. But we are talking about Joyce, so: what am I missing?
I am an ugly man. I have always been ugly. I remember when I was on a kickball team, and a black kid who was smaller than me grabbed my neck to choke me, and dug his nails into my flesh. I remember laughing. I was bigger than he was. I don't remember what happened before or after, just the pattern of the bright red kickball I never could kick quite far enough. I had a rock in my ear for around four or five years. I had put it in there in class during some boring video, it may have been where the red fern grows, but I could be mixing up memories. I loved picking my ears,...
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>>7753966
this is fucking junk.
>>7754010
I know as well as you do, friend.
>>7753966
eugh, look at all the dirt in the grooves of that ball. disgusting.
I hate geniuses.
Scientists, mathematicians, chess champions, prodigious engineers, prodigious detectives, prodigious economists, astronomers and other technical prodigies have one disappointing trait in common. Earlier when I hadn't met one (or thought that I hadn't), I guessed being in the company of a genius would be riveting, thrilling, exciting etc. Like watching 1978 movie ‘Don’, reading the entertaining excerpts of the novel 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' (by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn), listening to great music etc. I had incorrectly...
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seems like the problem is with u not them
>>7753948
And so you hate them? You've just found out that they're people like everyone else, so despite their high skill or intelligence, this revelation causes you to hate them? You're the one who thinks they're a genius and should be some sort of larger-than-life character, that expectation and failure is your own. To them, they're just a regular person. Stop fantasizing about real people and get over yourself
>>7753964
I am very down to earth, no show off kind of a guy everybody in my family calls me mature. I earn more than an average person from my business(night shift) and now I am in my mid 27.
Well I happen to meet a girl at my cousin's house party where he invited all of his friends with their wives. One of his friend came along with with his sister in law all aswell. It was a taansh (poker) party along with dribks n all which is a ritual in my family during Diwali. Now let me describe about the girl. She is beautiful,...
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What does /lit/ think of this?
Is it any good?
I've been considering reading it
>Inb4 it's actually weebshit and i fell for a meme
It's not even fun to read
>>7753320
everybody here hates it even those who like murakami (who are a minority)
where are you from?
I gave up somewhere in the second book.
If you like Murakami, it's not much of a departure of his usual stuff, just much much slower and drawn out.
I'd instead recommend Kafka On The Shore, or The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. If you still want to go on, read the Sheep Trilogy and Norwegian Wood.
If you then still want to go on, read 1Q84, but IMHO it's by far his weakest, most repetitive work. If I were editor I would have cut it down to one book.
Hello /lit/
I'm not sure if this is discussed much, but I'd like to talk about notebooks/pads. I'm interested in what others use. I'd like to buy one like the one depicted (except a bit shorter), but it doesn't look like National is manufacturing model 81-351 anymore.
I'm sorry for the slightly blurry pictures, but I was in bad lighting when I took them.
who the fuck cares
this is a LITERATURE discussion board
>>7751338
Apparently you cared enough to reply.
While empty bindings aren't "literature" they become so when they are written in
>>7751347
comfy reads, pic related and a hot cup of coffee. post yours.
>>7750439
Poetry.
>>7750449
recommendations?
The Old Man And The Sea is the most boring thing I've ever read. Iceberg theory is a retarded load of shit and Hemingway was a hack.
