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The same high school teacher that assigned me blood meridian just assigned me pic related
I haven't read any post modernism, will this be a good way to prepare for the meme trilogy?
Not underage ;)
your high school teacher has the worst taste imaginable
>>7822026
Shut up, fag
>>7822007
It's a good book.
But it's written by a black female, so the frog people and redpillers on here aren't going to like it.
I'm new to this board but see that there are some aspiring writers here. Are there actually any examples of /lit/ users who have gotten published?
>inb4 "I self-published on Amazon and 3 people, probably all friends, bought my book"
Not that shit. The bar should be a little higher than that. Self-publishing only counts if the user sold 1000 or more copies.
>>7815517
Who, in all honesty, would want their name to be associated with this place?
yes, that one that one anon who has a scifi young adult book coming out soon from penguin
also, Tao lin
and I'm sure many of us (including myself) have been published in various mags, journals, and won competitions and so on...
None that have really posted there work. I know for a fact there are some people in here who have been published in some lit magazines because I've met them IRL, but evidently they don't brag about it.
I've had a short story get accepted to a lit mag before, wasn't that difficult.
According to World Socialist Web Site, Žižek is now a member of the European New Right. Welcome, Žižek
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/02/08/zize-f08.html
>The starting point of Žižek’s tirades are the events of New Year’s Eve in Cologne, which he terms an “obscene carnival of the lower classes.” The incidents in Cologne have been systematically blown out of proportion by the media in order to whip up a hysterical campaign against immigrants and Muslims. To date, there is no evidence that anything happened other than what regularly takes place in similar mass gatherings where much alcohol is involved.
>...[Žižek] repeatedly warns the readers of Der Spiegel not to be swayed by sympathy for the fate of refugees. “Even if many immigrants are more or less victims who have fled from devastated countries, this does not prevent them behaving despicably.” And, “The fact that someone is at the bottom, does not make them automatically a voice of morality and justice.”
>The assumption that “behind the vicious circle of desire, envy and hatred” (feelings he sweepingly ascribes to immigrant youth) there lies “any deeper human core of global solidarity” Žižek calls “part of a naive, humanist metaphysics.”
>He fumes against “the politically correct liberal left,” which is mobilizing its resources to downplay the incident in Cologne, and refers to “efforts to enlighten immigrants” as “breathtaking stupidity.” They did not behave out of ignorance in Cologne, but “because they want to violate our sensitivities.”
>Following one of his idols, the French philosopher and Maoist Alain Badiou, Žižek divides mankind into “three kinds of subjects”–a “Western, ‘civilized, bourgeois, liberal-democratic subject”; “those who do not belong to the West and who are obsessed by their longing for the West”; and finally, “those fascistic nihilists whose envy of the West is transformed into a deadly self-destructive hatred.”
>The colonialist model of this scheme is obvious. On one side, the civilized West and the local elites who are obsessed with the “longing for the West”; on the other side, the barbarian savages whom the West must bring under control in cooperation with the local elites—the “white man’s burden”, as it was called by Rudyard Kipling. Under the banner of such conceptions, the imperialist powers have committed unspeakable crimes in the past 150 years and massacred millions of people.
>Žižek’s practical conclusions go exactly in this direction, as he explained in more detail in his interview with Die Welt. They would garner him applause at any Pegida rally and qualify him for membership in the far-right Alternative for Germany.
>>7805102
/lit/ - literature
>“Europe needs to demand of the incoming Muslims that they respect European values,” he says, and, “Europe cannot just open its borders, as some on the left demand out of a feeling of guilt.” Instead, “we” must ensure “that the streams of refugees flow in an orderly fashion,” and set up “reception centres in the countries bordering Syria, but also in Libya.” This, he insists, must be done “with the military.” In other words, Žižek wants to send European troops to Libya, Jordan, Lebanon and other states to imprison refugees there.
>Žižek explicitly defends European capitalism with its millions of unemployed and its dramatic inequality. “I do not want to bad-mouth capitalism in principle,” he says. “The European model” is “threatened by two types of capitalism, both undemocratic” –by the “fundamentalist market radicalism of the American model” and by “Asiatic-authoritarian capitalism, as practiced mainly in China.” But “Europe’s capitalism,” on the other hand, has “something to offer to the world.”
>Racist incitement against refugees, the demonization of the “lower classes,” the closing of borders, the defence of one’s “own” capitalism against its international rivals and a return to militarism—this is the programme of the new right, which Žižek advocates here.
>This is no surprise for the World Socialist Web Site. We have warned for years that the policy of the pseudo left represents the interests of more affluent layers of the middle classes and is directed against the interests of the working class. They have replaced the historical materialist method of Marxism with the subjective, irrational theories of postmodernism and the class struggle with various forms of identity politics, which focus on issues of race and sexual orientation.
>Five years ago, we wrote on the occasion of an appearance by Žižek in New York:
>“Zizek is an outgrowth of a reactionary anti-Marxist and anti-materialist tradition that descends from the irrationalism of Schelling, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Heidegger. He eclectically draws on the neo-Nietzschean and neo-Heideggerian thought of 1960s French post-structuralism.
>Zizek, “as with the post-structuralists and the post-Maoists, is a political opportunist, though crasser and ruder. Despite all the radical-sounding bluster he pumps off, when it comes down to real politics, not the political phantoms in his brain, his positions end up serving interests that are completely hostile to the international working class and to genuine socialism.”
>The sharp social polarisation accompanying the intensification of the crisis of capitalism forces Žižek and his ilk to show their true colours. They can no longer hide their right-wing politics behind pseudo-left phraseology. From that standpoint, Žižek’s transformation from an ideologist of the pseudo-left to an open right-winger is an unmistakeable sign that fierce class battles are ahead.
>>7805102
this just in, socialist movements are prone to fracturing and denunciations
I took the liberty of trying out some Hemingway, but was not impressed. The visuals were there, but the content was too crude and unemotional for someone these days to be reading. This can be argued about most of the classic authors. The old rules no longer apply. Hemingway barely passes for a modern man today. What did this man contribute to literature? Sure, he's less of an anachronism than Dickens, but at least Twain inspired me to think.
>>7824430
Nice spooks there, brah.
>>7824437
>Not 'Well spooked, my property'
Can't meme with the best? Then 404 like the restYou're right though, unspook yourself OP
>>7824437
I know my statement was vague, but this is not about anything in particular, but what this man was about. He's more of a symbol than anything. So far, I've learned nothing from him. Maybe that's why he shot himself. How long can you regurgitate memes of manhood without exploring the implications of behavior? Hemingway seems like he was an empty man.
Should art soothe or reduce suffering?
Or, for clarity: should art, and in specific literature, confront reality and better it, or is only for comforting persons who read it?
>>7822800
A piece's objective should be determined by its creator.
Confronting reality and 'making it better' is escapism
Is Russian literature part of the Western Canon, i.e Dostoevsky? Because politically Russia isn't a part of the West, is it?
:^)
don't tell anybody, it's a secrit illogical fallacy amongst literature experts worldwide lol
>>7821923
>politically
wew laddie
>>7821955
Thanks for answering m8
I am comparing the French and English translation together and they almost read like a different text.
Is this common? How much does a translated text differs from its source altogether?
Seeing as English to Japanese is fucked almost inherently, I imagine it's p bad.
Some languages translate better into others obviously.
>>7820659
it depends on if its prose or verse. verse is going to be translated a lot more loosely.
French and English have very different syntax. Don't get memed into thinking the value of a translation lies in its accuracy word to word, what matters is if it maintains the spirit of the text.
>>7820669
I like the vocabulary and clarity more in the English version though. I want to read more French but this book isn't very enjoyable in that language (or at least, in my translation).
Other the Fascist Manifesto by Mussolini what other texts from the 1900s provide a view into radical right-wing philosophy?
Manifesto against pasta
what is that ax made of sticks and why do u say it's fascist? considering it was on US coins before the jew take over, also notice the patrish greek god on the front, later replaced by crypto-socialist roosevelt
>>7816903
The Cantos
I am a Book Thief.
I steal books.
My favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky
ama
how long is your dick?
>>7815961
7.1 inches long. Mixed here so have black in me.
>>7815969
I'm not surprised.
Who here actually makes money from writing?
a long time ago i sold a short story to a small press publisher in Boston. i got $30 for it.
that's about it.
>>7815283
How long was the story?
>>7815581
as long as my cock dude :)
(my cock is 126 pages long btw) ....
Can we have a /lit/ humour thread?
What would have Baudrillard said about this?
Is this an example of a fourth order simulacrum? Or to be more precise of a fractal object?
>>7820004
How is this a simulacrum? Trump exists
>>7820040
He a media generated personality, he doesn't "exist" in the normal sense of the word. "Trump" the persona is a simulacrum.
>>7820052
Yes but Trump exists
If anything he's a 3rd order simulation
too smart to relate to the people I know, too stupid to talk with people on /lit/.
should I try to get smarter or return to being average?
inb4 someone says I should go to reddit. honestly I'm probably better suited for that shit than you guys.
pic unrelated
>>7819738
How is this even a question? We all aspire to be smarter not dumber.
>>7819738
swtg
>>7819740
Not me. I went too smart a couple yers ago and I've been trying to find my way back since then. Not easy, especially when you've gotta go as a far as me just to bring it back down to average, but the intellectual titan life isn't all it's cracked up to be
Hi /lit/, I'm looking for some books about two or more highly intelligent, sophisticated dudes (or ladies) who face off in some kind of protracted battle of wits.
The higher the stakes, the better. They should both be, shall I say, "pretty cool". Also, the book should be good, please.
thanks
How little should their shoes be?
>>7819516
The Sunset Limited, though that's a play.
>>7819516
bump
Where do I start on Dugin?
dr seuss
>>7814238
It's funny how America's ruling classes are boring ass neurotic white people, while Russia's leadership is entirely composed of OGs and would-be wacky James Bond supervillians.
>>7814238
4PT, obviously
If you can read Russian, read Foundations of Geopolitics
![2015_11_zizek_books[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KcqitAq.jpg "2015 11 zizek books[1]")
