Genuinely curious here, /lit/. Is there any merit to reading Karl Marx?
I was curious because I remember studying him during sociology classes in college and recently, in the UK, due to the success of Jeremy Corbyn, Marx's books have been selling more frequently.
I was just wondering, /lit/: what is your experience with the theorist? Do you agree with him, do you strongly disagree, or are you on the fence? Also I was wondering does anyone strongly disagree with him but still somewhat admire some of his ideas?
CWITBNITRW
Marx is unbelievably important. I am not a Marxist at all, and I think anyone who wants to understand Western intellectual development since the 19th century absolutely needs to understand not only Marx but Marxist thought in general.
People have taken varying aspects and levels of his ideas and created entire, incredibly influential schools with the inspiration. It's not just Marxists. A shock of Marxism runs through the last hundred fifty years of European humanities and social sciences.
>>7331229
historically marx, through his philosophically minded social theory, provided a way in for psychoanalysts, philosophers, and critical theorists to describe sociological phenomena using their particular discourse. marx, freud, and nietzsche have come together to form a 'master theory' of semiotics—anything can be read as a manifestation or repression of desire-social production-will to power. so in that sense the merit to reading marx is that he makes it very easy, if you understand him (or his students) you can churn out a lot of academic writing. on the other hand, if you happen to think that this kind of thinking is the precise kind of bourgeois groupthink that constitutes the grandest betrayal of both marx and nietzsche, perpetuated because of a freudian unconscious that loves to be repressed, then understanding marx is crucial so that you can undermine the prevailing dogma from within. just as deleuze wanted to escape hegel, it's time for someone with the courage to escape marx.
What exactly is New Sincerity and how does it manifest itself in DFW's writing?
Also general DFW thread, I guess
Which is your favourite work of his?
Was he underrated as a journalist?
BumpOP be cry
Search the archive you fucking cunt.
Sage. Hidden.
>>7331194
It's bullshit. Even if people are less sincere these days, there's no need for a 'new' sincerity. It would look exactly like 'old' sincerity, which really didn't go anywhere. It's just a posturing, egotistical hack wanting the prestige of having started a new movement.
Are you honest, anon? Are you being sincere?
Don'tlie to me.
>>7331168
I'm sincerely ironic
>>7331168
I'm ironically sincere
>>7331168
I'm sincerely shirking the responsibility of becoming sincere
How the fuck do I send out a screenplay? How do I get it made into a movie?
>>7331152
Have you had your Bar Mitzvah yet?
>>7331152
Go to hollywood, develop a drug habit, become a whore to fuel your drug habit, live half a decade, and hope it'll be picked up eventually.
If not then make a shitty memoir of your life and cast some up-and-coming actor who can make herself seem all grown up by playing you.
>>7331190
Severely underrated
I'm a high school graduate (now 20) and I got Ds in every English class I ever took. I didn't hate writing, I just hated school. Anyway, I want to get better at reading and writing so I'm a little more prepared for college.
Where should I start? Where can I learn and practice writing?
Don't worry bout your writing so much. Focus on reading as much as possible of the sort of texts you expect to have to read at college. Getting the right level of comprehension is key.
>>7331132
Read a lot. Keep a diary.
>>7331132
>>7331149
This. If you don't have a job then you should be finishing a novel at least every 3 days or so. Read like a monster, write every SINGLE day (essays, short stories, novel, poetry, ANYTHING).
Even in the span of a single summer, that discipline will net you 40 novels and 120 pages of material.
ITT: Post what you consider to be the greatest line of prose ever written
My choice: great
granite rocks the foam flying up in the
light of the lighthouse and the wind-gauge
spinning like a propellor, clear to 1ne at last
that the dark I have always struggled to
keep under is in reality my most-
from Krapp's Last Play
>>7331037
but that's shit
My whole life I've been a fraud.
O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space -- were it not that I have bad dreams
ITT books women can not understand
>>7331023
>>/r9k/
>>/pol/
Anything pertaining to ethics.
Jonathan Green, born roughly 1950 - 1990 BPH (before post-humanism), was an pre-techwar American public intellectual and writer. While only fragments of his work survive, modern scholars unanimously place him among the greatest writers of the pre-transhuman era. After long debate, scholarship now generally accepts Green as the author of the work known as "Cancer Girl".
Sources suggest that while Green was principally known for his writing, he also performed sermons on the "YouTube" sector of the internet, just fifty years before the medium was destroyed. His teachings included bizarre comparisons of women to cereal, postulations on the mind-spirit connection of adolescents whom he believed "more pure" than adults, and cryptic communications with his alter ego, Hank. His listeners, now commonly regarded as members of his cult of personality, were known as "nerdfighters". The etymology of this word remains unknown.
Greenism is now universally regarded as the de facto religion on pre-tech war Earth. Every spring, the time of Earth's adolescence, they sacrifice the cancer ridden to their God. The Cult of Green builds vast palaces out of paper, where they worship the Green One. The Cult of Green condemns women, comparing them to boxes of cereal that are meant to be consumed by men.
>>7330871
Kek
listen "anonymous" enough with your trolls. I put a tracker on your ip adress. I know you are coming from /pol. I am a big invester in 4chan's stock I personally know Michio Kaku the CEO of 4chan!!!. So I suggest you stop messing around before you get a letter from the 4chan legal department and big fat perma ban!!!
you went too far and blew it
>tfw reading a good book
>tfw didn't accomplish anything and shitposted instead
>tfw reading any book
I can only enjoy literature in retrospect
the act of reading itself takes immense mental strength
it's like doing a squat the whole time you want to read
and its my only hobby
>those few books that give a weird pleasant feel for some days after finishing them
I just started reading this. What should I expect?
Ghastly Rigamorole
You should expect to encounter the greatest friend of all time, Dmitri Razumikhin.
just read the fucking book
Itt: books reddit tricked you into watching
should I bother with the sequels?
>>7330783
>watching a book
I also read a sandwich today, because myspace said so.
>>7330787
Yes, Count Zero is the better book, and Mona Lisa overdrive isn't that bad either.
Where were you when Dan and Phil dropped the modern day Ulysses?
Mysisterhas this book. I took a peak at it and it looked like pure trash.
There's even a pepe in it, if I recall correctly.
>>7330780
I think you mean you took a "peek" at it.
>>7330780
This page, senpai?
Any fiction books that feature incestuous relationships?
>>7330658
Ada or Ardor
>>7330658
uhh whats going on in this picture?
>>7330658
I only watched the movie because I'm illiterate, but Gone with the Wind. But my understanding is that the incestuous couple were miserable because Scarlett was constantly wanting Ashley's dick.
I am looking for most edgy, psychotic and mad book, i would love it would coitain some travel and theft/criminal moral shit. Sort of, De Sade, American Psycho, On the Road, Bukowski, mixed up.
>>7330615
bump
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
>>7330589
>think this poem is candid, folksy, and cute
>read frost's commentary on it
>apparently it's acshually ironic fatalism: teh poem
>now i hate it
>people actually think this is better than Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
