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“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in his over-priced apartment, watch television with the sound turned down, and wait for his neighbors to make a mistake… people who were content with their lives in the high-rise, who felt no particular objection to an impersonal steel and concrete landscape, no qualms about the invasion of their privacy by government agencies and data-processing organizations, and if anything welcomed welcomed these inevitable intrusions, using them for their own purposes.” - JG Ballard, High-Rise (1975)
OK everybody always talks about 1984 and BNW whenever the question of "prophetic literature" comes up, what else comes to mind? I've just finished pic related, (and living in Denver, where generic over-priced high-rise apartments/condos are going up like weeds), it really did seem like JGB really was on to something with this book.
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>>8071427
If he was trying to say that apartments breed crime degeneracy then yeah, he had a point.
Seeing as he wrote it in 1975 I'd say it was more observational than prophetic.
>>8071513
>crime degeneracy
crime and degeneracy*
Where to start with hermeneutics? Schleiermacher? Guenon? Barthes? Is a solid base on semiology necessary to learn about this field?
Why don't you ask your professor?
>>8071341
Hermeneutics is a big and old category.
Schleiermacher was important as he was the first to expand hermeneutics from a Theological field to wider Philosophy of Interpretation but I don't think he is essential to read today.
Reading Dilthey and Gadamer will tell you everything you need to know on him, I also suggest you look into Edmund Husserl particularly The Crisis
Read the Stanford Encyclopedia article on it for starters. Schleiermacher is interesting in certain respects, and I have a bias here (he influenced Ranke's historical hermeneutics, which influenced 19th century Geisteswissenschaften) but not really necessary and not a good place to start. You want to have basic background on two things: the actual tradition of textual (especially scriptural) criticism called hermeneutics, and then the vague idealist milieu that hermeneutics in the modern sense grew out of.
Dilthey is where you want to start, but you're better...
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>TFW no horror books set in Puritan times
This is truly on area where Hollywood blows the fuck out of literature.
I didn't get this movie. Why was it scary? I mean I'm generally pretty open to horror that is very subtle and goes more for a 'creepy vibe' than anything else, or to horror that is plain experimental, but I found this movie to be neither of those things. I'm considering a re-watch, but would like to know what made it scary.
>>8071349
its a meme you dipshit.
>>8071349
It's a shit movie viraled by a couple of people on 4chins and reddit. It has no redeeming qualities.
Horror is a shit genre that mostly (if not always) has no literary merit.
Unpopular /lit/ opinions thread.
I think audiobooks read by the authors of those books are the superior way to consume literature. They allow stress to be put on words in exactly the intended way and do not require you to carry around a large book with you in order to read it, and do not require any trees to be cut down for paper. Unlike books or e-books, they do not present any possible eye strain. You can listen to an audiobook while driving, while going for a morning jog, while fishing, while lifting weights, while doing work, or while having a text-based conversation,...
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bait
>>8071327
it sounds like a pretty legitimate opinion desu
Reading fiction has no worth, doesn't make you smarter or more empathetic and is simply entertainment on the level of film or video games.
1. Why do we start with the Greeks and not the Mesopotamians?
2. Where does one go after the Greeks? The Romans?
>>8071241
1) Mesopotamians were still attached to a "mythos" kind of philosophy. The western philosophy as we know it now was born 2500 years ago in the greek colonies.
2) Yes, continue with roman Epicureism and Stoicism, directly through the Medieval Era.
>>8071250
Who said I was talking about philosophy?
>>8071241
It's a general suggestion. How much of the Mesopotamians, and the surrounding cultures of that age, still exist is disappointing.
You go to where you want.
>Start with the Greek
>Be yourself/Read what you want
Is your writing up to professional standards? Give me one descriptive paragraph about a sports game.
I'll do it if you pay me, faggot.
Do your own homework.
