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What is /lit/s response to STEMfags who call philosophy pointless opinions of idiotic people?
>>7859691
Ignore them. Why do you care what other people think about philosophy? Do you read literature to influence the opinions of other people, or to educate yourself on different subjects?
Life is too short to care what other people think, dude.
>>7859691
philosophy is goof for understanding how ideology operates, influencing power structures in society. it's good at understanding culture and all it's subjective biases and prejudices.
science is good at studying physical nature from an objective and impartial perspective, helping create technologies and services that can be of use to mankind.
BOTH are necessary to any serious scholar or thinker. they are the yin to each other's yang.
Has yours shown up yet?
top kek my friend
stop shilling OP
Hey, that's pretty good
Is Nick Land just a rehashing of Deleuze and Guattari, or does he have something new to offer to the philosophical (or anti-philosophical) front? Non-dialectic discourse that focuses on unity perspectives appears to be the main flagship statement of Land’s. The essay “Meltdown” is a nice summation of his overall anti-ideological outlook on life. Thoughts on the essay (it’s only 7 pages, so please read) or on Land in general?
http://cnqzu.com/library/Philosophy/neoreaction/Nick%20Land/%282003%29%20LAND%20--%20Meltdown.pdf
>>7848910
>Dark Enlightenment
>>7848916
>anime
absolutely disgusting
he's right about everything
the only counterarguments I've seen are snarky greentexts a la >>7848916
I was searching booktuber and I found these :
>90 % are females
>can't find booktuber that do not promote/like trash Lit such as Harry Potter,John green...
>10% of them are gays
>95 % are libtard, cannot find a fucking booktuber with a mind able to think and to promote deep works or philosopher
>Most are daugther of a rich and feminist
>I cannot bear them when I watch them
So,...
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booktubing is not literature doe
So there's a gap in the market for pretentious twats like myself? A sort of Fantano of booktubery?
>>7860191
Why don't you watch actual literary critics talk about books?
Why is /lit/ under 'Other' on the main page when it clearly falls under both 'Interest' and 'Creative?'
What fruit is this?
>>7859407
Moot was an uncultured illiterate for whom anime was a driving force when he was a little boy.
now he is an uncultured illiterate who has neither the pride or personal integrity to own up to what he created and the reactionary cultural forces it represents in today's youth, hence selling the site to an ESL seller of personal data.
>>7859407
>What fruit is this?
Its a cunt. Or an arsehole. Or balls. Depends on how you eat it.
>Why is /lit/ under 'Other'
The boards are organised in a certain way for cultural reasons. Lurk more.
>>7859407
Figs, old boy. Arguably the tastiest fruit.
Anyone with the new CoLot49? Would you mind showing us a picture of it? I'd like to the deckled edges
>>7859195
Whats the order to read Pynchon in? Anyone have any info graphs about it?
>>7859216
here you f a m
>>7859216
any is fine really. Probably would recommend a reading GR after you are used to his style though
ITT: pleb fiction you unironically enjoy
>>7855294
Bernard Cornwellinbox people posting great authors and saying they're pleb.
Stephen King. And Richard Laymon even though he isn't even a good pop fiction author as King but just bad. Entertaining though.
>>7855332
inbox => inb4
Who here fell for the Paris meme?
The Paris of the novels is not the Paris of today.
Today, it's mainly a giant toilet with some people living in it, looking for that last place where no-one has pissed yet.
A similar fate befell Vienna (see World of Yesterday) - from cultural center of the world to nothing.
untravelled poorfag here. Any unironical answers as to what changed in Paris and Vienna of today to make them not /lit/ places anymore? (tl;dr on the whining ausfag's memoir)
>>7853253
emblematic places turned into touristic traps filled with annoying niggers trying to sell you shit every two steps, dirt in the streets and having to avoid gypsy scammers and pickpockets wherever you go
Is bell hooks worth checking out?
I'm somewhat of a Marxists but I'm still undecided in regard to Feminism, especially the intersectional kind. Anyway, I'd like to read some Feminist theory.
Is bell hooks the right place to start?
personally i think feminism is sort of an inherent part of marxism as a whole, or in the very least lends itself to the idea
either way yeah bell hooks is a pretty good starting place, she does a good job at being critical and analytical without stooping into bullshit identity privilege politics
yes, bell hooks is quite good
Do you know of any books that discuss an alternative world hierarchy?
I have been thinking that Nature is the most noble thing on Earth, followed by Animals, followed by Humans. Most humans act like a destructive plague, destroying nature and killing animals and other humans for no reason whatsoever. If I was God, I would hate humans for ruining nature and killing innocent beings. So it is my theory that nature and animals are above humans.
Thoughts?
definitely look into deep ecology
the wikipedia article will whitewash it but some of the people into it are notoriously extreme
>>7860734
also anarcho-primitivism, if you rummage around in there you will find similarly extreme people
some of them are relatively mainstream while holding views like "we should kill 95% of humans and live in harmony with nature"
no hierarchy.
read derrick jensen
So, what is the last sentence of your novel?
>And but so it goes
And but so he finally realized that the real INFINITE JEST was the friends he made along the way.
>The end
What is some well written literature that can help me achieve enlightenment (whatever that means), preferably science fiction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopyRHHlt3M
>>7858554
What's so funny?
>>7858544
>well written
No idea if the ones on the Brown Pill reading list are, perhaps someone can confirm.
Has any other philosopher destroyed Nietzsche to the extent that Jesus does? He totally undermines the radical freedom of the Overman. It would all be true even if he weren't God.
>Jesus
>God
>Jesus
>philosopher
> "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it!”
No greater words have been spoken.
Give me the gist
>guy talks to God
>tells people
>flies away on a winged horse
>no pictures were taken
>>7851509
this pic pretty much sums up my opinions on it
>>7851509
It's an explosive read
Does anyone else here feel pathetic for not having attended Yale / Oxford / Cambridge etc?
Feels so fucking bad.
I have a crush on a girl who attended a top university (she was also privately educated) and I'm too intimidated by this fact to talk to her considering I attended a mediocre one.
>>7849870
this is incredibly autistic. even for lit.
>>7849870
christ the infantility of this made me physically cringe
