Was "The Prince" satire?
No, but your life is.
No. Machiavelli was just an anti-liberal faggot
No, it was a job application.
I don't mean some hemingway or jack Donovan meme shit, I mean more like hardening the fuck up and doing what needs to be done, working hard, stiff upper lip, persevering, stuff. I've always read a lot of camus and whiney "what is le point" trash, but recently read The Doctor Stories by William Carlos Williams and had my mind blown. Give me more stuff like that.
>>7400902
yukio mishima - sun and steel
Epictetus - discourses and handbook
Get a girlfriend. Seriously.
Pop Culture and Philosophy:
Is it /lit/-approved?
*cruises in on a segway with pokemon stickers on it* Yes
There's certainly a place for it. Kind of strange that it's themed around specific brands though. If the philosophy were first and foremost it wouldn't be themed, there would just be a smattering of examples from multiple reaches of pop culture that would illustrate the philosophical ideas. When it's themed you know it's mostly about the brand, not the philosophy.
It was a shit book. They made George look like a total and complete loser in life in the book. George was my favorite character and I thought he was the most complex of the gang. He was the lovable fool, the book paints him to be a thumb-sucking loser who wets the bed at age 40.
who is the best writer in the spanish language?
Pynchon
>>7400851
If you mean native spanish speaker.
Cervantes
Bolano
Ruiz Zafon
>>7400851
Tu Mama
Why does is say Paradife loft?
A marvel of imagination and poetic granduer
Also kinda boring and gay teebeeaych familia
Long 's' used to look like an 'f'
Typo.
Is he the most reddit author there is? Muh old ones
>basing your view of an authors work on his retarded fanbase
leave this shit on /mu/
>>7400883
But Lovecraft actually is shit, reddit aside
>>7400895
I don't like Lovecraft either but your still a faggot with shit opinions for even having to use "reddit" as a signifier of your dislike of someone's work
ayo /lit/
is cyberpunk dead?
Yes, and with good reason. It was a shit sub-genre.
>>7400785
Welcome to 30 years ago.
well, it basically happened already
Philosopher Robert Nozick proposed the following thought experiment:
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, pre-programming your life's experiences?... Of course, while in the tank, you won't know that you're there; you'll think it's all actually happening. . . . Would you plug in? What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
So /lit/, would you?
in a heartbeat
criticisms of the experience machine are retarded
>>7400782
if the machine could stimulate or manipulate the brain and our memories in such a way that you forget you ever entered/heard about the machine then yes
>Pynchon isn't cannon
How the fuck is it fedora to declare that Pynchon, a male author, is not a
>large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare.
>>7400731
700 page tomes about eating scat, parabolas, and penises are not really canonical in my book.
pynchon is clearly a rocket you dunce
Is this the height of early 21st century philosophy?
>>7400717
I love that picture.
And her name is Analia.
>In 2005, he married 26-year-old Argentine model Analia Hounie in a celebrity wedding heavily covered by the international news media. It has been reported that Hounie is the daughter of Lacanian psychoanalysts, that she has read and understands quite competently Žižek’s difficult and voluminous works, and (depending on the report) that she either is or is not a genius.
>Argentinian model
>daughter of Lacanian psychoanalysts
>Analia
>read and understands quite competently Žižek’s works
>pic related
Why is Slavoj so alpha?
>>7400953
He gets Hegel, that's why.
Do you take notes when you read, and if so how?
Do you have some system of symbols (or, god forbid, highlighter colors) to denote particular things? What do you write in the margins?
It's merely ocd.
>>7400702
No no and no.
Pic related looks like something an insane man would do.
Every single time I pick up a used book that ends up having notes in it, the notes stop after 10 pages.
Why is the plural of "status" "statuses" and not "stati"?
>>7400695
Why is the plural of 'walrus' 'walruses' and not 'walri'?
Some masculine Latinate words use the Latin plural, most don't. It's language evolution. There is no concerted logic behind it.
>>7400720
"walruses" sounds wrong too. The -ses ending always sounds wrong.
Fuck I procrastinated a bit too much. I'll be fine but I forget how bad the anxiety is for a couple of days, but maybe it's worth it. I'm working on the paper that I actually care about and will try to publish and present at conferences in the future, so today isn't terrible, but I'm just dreading tomorrow, when I work on the final paper for my other class. I have to incorporate too many books and too many theoretical articles, so I feel like the end product is going to be really bogged down on useless details. Maybe this is silly and no big deal. I have to present a ten page "conference version" on Wednesday, and though I haven't started writing it, I'll probably be fine. It's just stressful because it's about a topic that I don't want to continue looking into at the doctorate level. I'm going to make some offbeat argument about how current postcolonial studies is flawed, but my heart's just not in it.
Anybody else stressing about term papers?
>not graduated
>2015
Have fun w your diploma mill diploma pal.
>>7400647
MA program getting paid to do it, so why not?
>>7400660
Britbong spacetime waster wow.
Post mandatory books.
I'm thinking of picking up some classic literature, like Don Quixote or Dostoyvesky, but I'm not sure if I'm smart enough to understand them. I'm 18 and have only been reading for about 2 years, I have pretty much only read Lovecraft and George R.R Martin. I have only read one "patrician" tier book and that is Of Mice and Men and I found it boring.
So will I enjoy novels that I mentioned in the beginning of my post or should I just stick to living like a plebe?
>>7400533
>like Don Quixote or Dostoyvesk
>I'm 18 and have only been reading for about 2 years
>I have pretty much only read Lovecraft and George R.R Martin
>"patrician" tier book and that is Of Mice and Men
>I found it boring.
This is god tier bait. The bait flows from each sentence-- each CLAUSE-- reinforcing itself into one sheer miasma of baitgasm. Bravo.
If bait, 8/10
If not, stick to reddit
>>7400533
You'll be fine. There is not really much that one can derive from 'classic literature' anyway. If you have any questions just refer to a synopsis or SparkNotes.
>So will I enjoy novels that I mentioned in the beginning of my post
Yes.
