how come all tv shows make fun of patrician book readers like lit is a joke
>tfw no aristocrat russian gf
Because they want their viewers to stay viewers and not become readers. TV viewers are dumber and easier to manipulate, therefore worth a lot more money.
>>7528449
hmm. illuminati confirmed?
>2013 - Randposting
>2014 - Marxposting
>early 2015 - Christposting
>late 2015 - IJposting
What will this year be?
Landposting as we descend further into chaos
>>7527380
What is IJ?
>>7527380
ariosto-posting
What is it about H.P. Lovecraft that prevents his stories from being turned into commercially successful films?
the fact that he's unbearably plebiane
He was an anti semite, and the jews run hollywood.
the fact that he doesn't describe the horrors because they're 'too horrible.' That doesn't translate well into visual media.
They actually deem that type of storytelling (or lack thereof) as Lovecraftian.
Is it really common for people to misinterpret Plato? I was talking to a friend attending a liberal arts college and he says everyone dislikes Plato there because "the philosopher king isn't practical" but thats the entire point of the philosopher king; Plato knew it wasnt possible. These are the sort of people who read something and complain when all the answers arn't made as obvious as possible.
In fact most of the people I've met that disagree with Plato don't cite anything from the Republic and offer no counter argument besides something along the lines of "there is no truth" and leave it at that. Theres so much that Plato says and I think that if these people truly understood it they would have a hard time disagreeing.
Also this: https://medium.com/@kmikeym/is-this-a-sandwich-50b1317eb3f5#.sqe422lp4
I'm barely even on my first read through of Plato and I see the clusterfuck of misinterpretation here,
". The socratic method is deceptively simple: it’s a dialectical method entailing the relentless questioning of your interlocutor in order to critically interrogate a point they’re making, usually with the goal of proving that there is no such thing as objective truth or whatever."
Like what how can you possibly read Plato and gather that conclusion?
It is practical and it has been practised for nearly 2000 years. The Pope is the Philosopher King of the Catholic Church.
People are dumb. Welcome to Earth.
Whoever wrote that misinterpretation ought to read Socrates' midwifery speech
How come /lit/ never talks about Proust?
they don't have the attention span to get past combray
and proust isnt very conducive to meme discussion
>>7527181
He masturbated to dead rats when he was a child. He's not altogether unconducive.
/lit/ doesn't actually read.
i attempted the moncrieff translation several times and found it exhausting. i just started the davis and it's a world of difference.
Was it rape?
>>7524906
I have never read the book, but after 4 years in college I can safely say that yes it was almost probably rape.
>>7524909
"rape"
I don't know where people got rape from. It could be just as likely it could have been a horrible murder so violent even the narrator, who's been fine with describing all the previous atrocities in the book, couldn't explain it.
What books should i begin with if i wanted to start learning theology? After the bible of course.
>>7512487
You don't need any books after the bible. You just have to look in your heart.
Read a selection of writings from Anselm, Aquinas, and Augustine. Penguin has a selection for Aquinas. Oxford has a selection for Anselm. Augustine's "Confessions" should suffice.
>>7512487
Read the bible over and over again, then Augustine. Come back after you do city of god and confessions.
New purchases thread.
non-fictions book with subtitles are shit, invitation to a beheading is some of the worse nabokov, the short story compilation looks good tho
Currently reading the Electric Kool Aid Acid Test. Which book should I read when I'm finished?
I got the Loeb Enneads, and some Heidegger lectures.
How pleb am I in french /lit/?
Read:
> Some Diderot (2 books)
> Montesquieu's Persan Letters
> Some Voltaire (about 6-7 books)
> Some Molière (about 11-12 plays)
> Some Bantam Star Wars
> A play by Muset
Depends. Did you read these in the original French?
not too pleb just kinda meh. read more prose
You'll always be a plen until you read the complete works of France's greatest writer, Alexandre Dumas.
/lit/ can a hardcore joycer explain why these covers make sense?
God mode: don't say "just read the book"
Isn't the Ulysses one meant to highlight the final phrase in the novel?
>we want the john green audience
>>7528479
>Portrait of as a the Artist Young Man
What are some books about cute girls being detectives?
>>7528398
Godard made a movie about what was basically a female deconstruction of a hard-boiled detective AND it was based on a novel. The movie in question was "Made in U.S.A.", but I don't remember the name of the novel.
>>7528468
>Made in U.S.A is a 1966 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. It stars Anna Karina, Jean-Pierre Léaud, László Szabó and Yves Afonso. It was inspired by the Howard Hawks film The Big Sleep and unofficially based on the novel The Jugger, by Richard Stark (a.k.a. Donald E. Westlake).
But I doubt there's moe in it like in japanese stuff.
>>7528489
No, you'll have to look to Japan if you want the pedophilic stuff
I've never seen a sociology thread on /lit/ so I have no idea if this will be a bust, so I felt like just throwing out a few things.
Who else here is into sociology or social theory, or studies it professionally? I stopped studying it after it became endless data analysis and quant with really boring basic theory.
Once a prof. told me we all had to decide if we followed Marx, or Weber, and all sociology can be traced back to one or the other and gave different conclusions. We had to pick a team. What would you pick?
-Who is at the forefront of sociology currently?
-Who is at the avant-garde of sociology?
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I was considering teaching myself the whole field. My proposed reading list in brief:
-Marx and Weber
- althusser,braverman, mills
-symbolic interactionism/phenomenological sociology
- berger/luckmann, garfinkle, goffman
- blumer, cooley
-ethnomethodology, social constuctionism
structiual/poststructuralism
- levi-strauss, foucault
post-modernism
-baudrillard, lyotard
-Actor-network theory
- Latour
>sociology
>>7528314
Bump for curiosity.
You probably won't find anything here. A significant number of this site's users despise the discipline.
What are your resolutions this year, /lit/? Are they something you actually go through with?
Mine is to stick to reading non-fiction, namely self improvement books.
>>7528236
Read more philosophy and essays.
>>7528241
Very good, Anon! Anything specific?
Not to fail any subjects
Get at least one friend
Get a job
Get a girlfriend
Nofap for a month
Clear my backlog
mfw plebs think that Russia didn't produce the greatest authors/poets in history
He said, in English.
>>7528176
>mfw you're so insecure about what you genuinely believe yourself that you need validation for your opinion on a Copenhagen paperpooping crunch sheet online
>>7528180
Would reading them in their native language make them any worse?
Hector by far.
Humbert Humbert
>>7528113
Jeremiah Dixon
>>7528141
This.
