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essential texts on libertarian socialism?
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How in the fuck would that work? Is it just a small-scale commune that labels itself libertarian for some reason?
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anarchy.
kropotkin and bakunin are key writers.
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>>7848324
why does it matter how it would work?

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I've never read the book and I've only seen this clip from the movie. Am I supposed to hate this character?
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>>7848233
No, you're just supposed to think he's pretentious.
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>>7848233
I thought there were aspects of the movie that were genuinely pretty good. But yeah, it's natural to hate most of it because chances are you aren't a 14-year-old girl.
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>>7848241
Am I really? I thought Mr. Green was trying to write a deep character? So this scene is really supposed to sound like bullshit?

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And but so, some retard tried to eat Infinite Jest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3xH2Kpk00k

Is there something terribly sad and banal about this?
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why do people mock wallace and his work like this? is it because his refusal to debase himself with irony is unacceptable and incomprehensible to those who are incapable of honesty?
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>eating a book by a dead white man

WHY NOT EAT A BLACK WOMAN'S BOOK
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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How did Menelaus hold a "firm grasp" on running water? This book is stupid.
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How is the sea like wine? It's blue, dude. Was Homer fucking blind or something?
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>>7847833

i dont remember it... give me the passage

was it a river-god or whatever? b/c they treat of those guys weirdly (i think synecdochically is the word)
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Why didn't Penelope and son just ask the suitors to leave?

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which works of dickens have you read?

how did you feel about them? which did you like the most? why?

this year i've read great expectations, david copperfield, and a tale of two cities and i found them all to be amazing. two cities was the most urgent and concise but i felt that great expectations was more complete. copperfield is hella bloated but still felt worthwhile. basically every paragraph he writes is good. damn.
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>even during yuro hours these cunts on /lit/ still don't care about the greatness of dickens

shit a windmill
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he's pleb sentimental shit. garbage prose too.
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I have read those three, hard tomes, and bleak house ... obviously his talent for creating characters in a few brush strokes is a strength, and he is very much a writer of depicting social problems in entertaining ways, something later american naturalists made more dry and boring, less eccentric. Barkis is willing. Bleak house features a spontaneous combustion and an unending legal battle, showing us the legal system was always an intermnable glacier motivated by money. Great writer.

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Thought about reading pic related. Do I have to read anything beforehand?
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>>7845923
The entire western canon. Then you'll be halfway there.
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ulysses cannot be read. only re-read.
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>>7845924
But that's a meme

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>what the author meant
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>>7845886
>what some undergraduate twat reads into the text
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>>7845886

>what the reader thinks
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>>7845886
>Plato's Republic was really a quirky action-adventure romance about a quirky princess with newly-discovered magical powers who must save the kingdom and at the same time navigate an awkward love triangle with her in the middle.

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Write the most batshit, outlandish, avant garde, post-metamodernist (etc.) shit you can think of off the top of your head.

GO
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OP; - Is...a; a fag?!
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Kangaroo notebook?
Idunno.
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Haley Carnasus, Parsimons ate, and spit seeds out like God spit men out of Eden, and stepped upon the seeds that they might split, and never sprout, and nothing be of them ever but as salted earth and dessert upon mars beneath sun within world beneath creation of god of things unknown to man who was by god made who by man is worshiped beneath sun.

I ran out of things to say before I was born, it's all worthless words hurled like fistfuls of sand at granite mountains.

I am told there are molecules in brain that there is hope and goodness and (I am told by me) I have seen it. It has seen me, it is not for a meaning but for a brief fulfillment of purpose, it is garbage to simply point out and speak about what is being spoken about.

I hate writing, I hate wanting to be someone who I am not yet, I hate wanting to be admired and loved and suspecting I am not.

I hate journalistic self-appraisal and appeals to "can't we all just get along we're all alike I am like you." This is a swelling void that is a sucking vacuum that can eat everything.

I would rather speak of forests, but I do not know the names of trees, nor can I tell elm from oak, nor have I heart to stomach swallow.

There is foam upon ocean, exhausted analogy. Humans lack the ontological constitution of numbers, product of primes, perfect, I wish my intestines were made of porcelain and amber. My moods are made of terra cotta and I sift swallowing cockstruck sand, say random things to razzle and dazzle you.

You and me, me and you, we are, we are not, we are, we are not, there is nothing to say, language is pointless, but it is not.

Haley Carnasus is a lovely girl and a stupid pun. Footnotes belong in essays, biographies are essays, being candid is forced and fake. fuck man, fuck, do you like this? do you hate it? You must hate it. You can't say you like it or hate it now. You are not a critic, you are a stupid human with pointless words too. Your prose is garbage like mine.

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Reading this fucking nonsense, still confused as fuck 50 pages in. What the fuuuuuuck is a sovereign relation of ban? What the fuck is nomos basileus? Why is this cunt even talking about metaphysics and Aristotle? Does this piece of shit even follow any logical structure or is that too much to expect from the fucking continent?
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>homo
nice try
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>>7845272
Shut up you cunt and help me understand this
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State of Exception
Political Theology
etc.

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Post yours, rate others

Night Genesis
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Inherent Jest or Infinite Vice, not sure
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>>7844750

Definitely Infinite Vice, dude. Definitely. That's good shit right there. I'd read that. Mos def fo sho.

What about mine? I'm between Gravity's Meridian or Blood Rainbow. Not sure.
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>>7844849
Blood Rainbow is metal af

I'm calling mine Notes From Ulysses

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Fresh off the Tao Lin, get it while it's hot:
https://m.soundcloud.com/taolin/two-hour-podcast-about-my-writing-1
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It's awful tbqh
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absolute madman
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go to bed Tao Lin

Opinions on "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream"?
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>>7844460
The title represents my life.
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>>7844466
How do you eat?
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>>7844475
you dont eat when you take meth all day
this is a thread about meth, right?

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Could this man be considered a philosopher?
Sure, he did some research on scientific matters, such as urinary and fecal incontinence (Screw cancer, let's make advancements on the art of pee and poo), but most of his claims are very subjective and opinion-based, particularly on "the future of and illusion" and "civilization and it's malcontents".
Is he the father of psichoanalysis? A philosopher on disguise? A cocaine-addicted hobo?
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Read Freud As Philosopher. Might help to read Lacan too.
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>>7847186
Yes he is the father of psychoanalysis. But he isn't a philosopher because 1. His theories were gathered from case studies and is centered around the analytic situation. 2. He's more concerned with answers rather than questions.
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Only if you read objective psych to go with your subjective psych.

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Is he America's greatest living writer?

Why or why not?
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>>7846722
No, because Gass, Barth, and McElroy are still (barely) alive.
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>>7846722

> America's greatest living writer
> Not Pinecone

Plebs.
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>>7846732
Whatever you want to say about No Country for Old Men and The Road, they are far above this swill.

B-but anon, he was just doing it for a fun paycheck!Sure. Sure he was.

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Do You know some good historical novels to learn history?
I miss the times when I was not paying much attention to the lessons of history, as I regret it, but I find it hard to read the essays. I find them very boring. I prefer to live adventures and, at the same time learn a little something.
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Get something by Mika Waltari
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>>7846684
I, Claudius
also that one that was really popular a few years ago about building a cathedral
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War and peace

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