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Is there something like last.fm only for literature?
>>8290472
kindle
>>8290472
googreads
Gutenberg
How do we save academia, /lit/?
>>8290454
that pic is fucking hilarious.
oh just fuck off academia has never been worth anything
>>8290454
Academia's fine. They just need to be more open to dissenting opinions.
Just a few general questions on anarchy and revolution from a faglord here
I guess technically I should address /pol/ but let's be honest I don't want to lose more brain cells than I already have.
How is anarchy (or the revolutionary ideals that inevitably lead up to a state of anarchy) different than other ideology? I shack up with the Solzhenitsyn critique that ideology has skullfucked the modern polis into being a shit storm of "means justifies the ends" oppression. How can anarchy not end up like this? My general thoughts are the truistic claim that mostly cults of personality that spring up around revolutionary figures are to blame for skewing revolutionary regimes into some autocratic or oligarchic form of government. But betting on that being the only problem with
"the revolution" is a thick bet.
Also, my general train of thought with anarchy is along the lines that it will remove power from the hands of the oppressor, eliminate private property which allows for a definite capital power over another, and democratize fulfillment of capabilities as things would be in an idealized "state of nature," i.e., a state without the foreign imposition of law or the demand of capital productivity. So, yay, sounds intuitively good. But who's to say that in this state free of the oppressive powers (the powers that do, in fact, aim for and secure peace in some semblance, following Hardt's logic) that some other form of oppression will arise. And, in fact, this might be even scarier or more oppressive because it's not concentrated oppression as is implied in "the law" (where you could just lash out at the judicial system or whatever). tl;dr, Who's to say that in an anarchic state, men won't tend toward forming militias to reimpose private property with an even more brutal force? My initial reaction is to say that these militias would just kill each other out, and people would quickly realize that killing or attempting to monopolize property is ultimately more harmful for all parties involved than good. But, again, that's an idealistic bet.
Keep in mind that all of the evils these questions could yield are to be compared to the evils produced by an oligarchic control of capitalism. That's what's really doing me for a woozy because fuck if I know which is more evil: hoping that everyone will cooperate while armed factions run amok in the streets for a (again, hopefully,) brief period of time; or, knowing that a vast majority of individuals will never have the opportunity to pursue the fulfillment of their capabilities because the powers that be have their testicles in a vice grip with bills to pay, jobs to work, ends to meet, etc.
P.S. Can we please not let this descend into a Hobbes vs. Rousseau argument? Both didn't know jack shit about a true "state of nature" seeing as how all of their evidence was derived from bullshit, half-assed anthropology or mere speculation.
> But, again, that's an idealistic bet.
You answered all of your own questions there, bud.
gtfo fedora tipper
Go read Emma Goldman and come back.
just found this for cheap in a used book store and got it based on reading somewhere that it's great, and the cover art. what should i expect?
>>8290241
like 2666 victims of rape-murder
Shit unless you read it in Spanish
>>8290621
This also applies to every other Bolaño book
Hey guys im about to get /lit/ hahaha
@8290240
/lit/eral cuck
lit af
>>8290250
>Not knowing how to tag posts on 4chan.
>2channel is older than flickr, so the ">>" system is actually the original, predating the "@" way of tagging people.
Am i missing something? Thought you guys said this was good.
also was this based off tao lin's mumblecore movie?
>>8290197
Go to bed, Tao Lin
read it again in the original Taiwanese its.much better that way
the English translation isn't good
This book is hipster garbage, don't fall for the meme.
What books give you a lust for life and urge you to live life to the fullest?
>>8290082
Probably Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil.
Atlas shrugged
>>8290082
Don Quixote
There is no one better.
>>8289993
who the fuck is that, anon-sempai?
>>8290075
It's John "Convex Mirror" Ashbery.
I've been looking for a copy of Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror for months with no luck. I even found Gaddis, Gas, and McElroy in that time but no Ashbery. I think I'll have to cave and go to Abe.
I've never read any of his books but I hear good things.
What about him is meme? And what about him is good? Genuinely interested, as I see a lot of mixed reviews of him on here
>>8289908
Pynchon is my favourite writer because goofs and so on
>>8289908
Only college sophomore white upper-middle class males read him.
Same for Infinite Jest.
>>8289908
Like every great writer, /lit/ goes through contrarian phases where it pretends to dislike them. Just read him and forget wtf /lit/ thinks.
How hard is to get published if you want to share unpopular ideas? Would it be too risky if you want to enter in politics in a future?
there won't be politics in the future
Present them as satire,
Or create a sci-fi world that allows your views to slip under the radar.
Or present views opposing your own in such a way that readers are driven to yours.
Or find out if Resistance records does publishing.
Your ideas are neither important nor original and your presentation will certainly be lackluster, but pls write about it so the masses can know to keep you out of power
What books made you literally laugh out loud?
Pic related
>>8289619
Diary of A Wimpy Kid
>>8289619
Big Nate
>>8289619
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Dog Days
>>8289618
Nobut it helps
>>8289624
Yeah
Also it helps that you really liked girls when you were little and the experience haunts you
Also if you loved a little girl but she just went away.
Oh boy...
>>8289618
nah, just an idiot
Could the story have been told in one novel of reasonable publishing size?
How would you do it?
>>8289569
Yeah, probably
What's reasonable about making less money?
>>8289569
>fourth cover
That's the ugliest dragon I've ever seen. It looks like an old, naked man with a cheap halloween mask on.
What's wrong with HP covers? Why does it always look like they're trying to make them as shitty as possible? It's the best selling series of all times, hire some decent artist ffs.
So /lit/, what fictional literature would you consider to be essential MRA-core? And why?
So far I've got
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn
The Old Man And The Sea
MRA-core would be any books about boys and men dealing with poverty and other male-centered issues, OR that focus heavily on the value of masculinity.
(Fedoracore is a broader category of literature than MRA-core, though MRA-core is definitely a subset of Fedoracore. Reacting to this post with an image of a guy wearing a fedora, while frowned upon, is a legitimate response.)
Note: MRAism is not nazi-tier edgyism; /pol/ need not apply. Also note that feminist statistics, while indeed fictional, do not count as literature.
>>8289452
Please eat a bullet
>>8289452
If you're gonna make such bad bait at least put less effort into it. 0/10
>>8289452
MRA is pleb tier. MGTOW it's where it's at, bro.
I'm about to take the plunge. Still debating which tier journals to submit to, etc.
Experiences? Evil journals you've encountered? Would repeat?
Tl;dr Lit mag general
>>8289376
http://thegrinder.diabolicalplots.com/
you know about this website? Pretty good to help you decide where to send your stuff. There was another site that ranked online journals by the ammount of Pushcart nominations they got, which sorta serves as a ranking system.
Playing the game just cuz nobody reads novel manuscripts if you haven't published shorts :/
>>8289401
http://cliffordgarstang.com/?p=4777
