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is this graph accurate?
>>7742934
No dude that's way off. Someone clearly exploited the security weaknesses of that Windows XP and/or that Java install and hacked some seriously misleading info into there.
>>7742934
It is. When it comes to influence, no one has escaped Kant in the last two centuries. Connections and names are lacking, but what the image shows is accurate.
>>7742966
underrated post
> In his compendious notes, he (Foucault) informs us that his discussion is based on such works as “The Catacombs: A Temple of the Butthole,” Urban Aboriginals: A Celebration of Leathersexuality, and The New Leatherman’s Workbook: A Photo Illustrated Guide to SM Sex Devices. “For the techniques of hetronormative discourse in these years,” he explains, “I have relied on Larry Townshend, The Leatherman’s Handbook 11.”
Why do people take this guy seriously again?
I never understood leather fetishism and it only seems to attract ugly old white guys.
>>7742885
I dunno it seems weird how it's that big of a thing
being turned on by a type of fabric doesn't really seem like a normal human fetish. but then i guess guys like things like thighhighs and underwear so
>>7742831
people like you turn this board to shit
How do individualists reconcile the thraldom of the physical world and especially man's biological and physical needs. Surely the sole use of Individualism is to prove that freedom is an illusion and that only a fool would pursue such a fantasm.
>>7742830
wot
>>7742865
Heh. I guess this post might have been a bit too highbrow for 4chan.
>>7742830
>>7742876
>fantasm
>phantasm
>highbrow
Nope son. You're not put in thrall by biological necessities, that concept is a spook. Eating and Sleeping are spooks that you use to accomplish the will of the creative nothing to stay alive. The creative nothing could easily desire to not live and then use the spooks of food and sleep, or the lack thereof to accomplish its interest to die.
How do I into Luddy Dubs?
I recall some infograph made by /lit/ but I can't find it anymore.
>>7742810
Avoid secondary literature. Start with the Tractatus, then read the Brown and Blue Books, then read Philosophical Investigations.
>>7742810
>>7743478
Why do you people jerk it over the Tractatus so much when Wittgenstein himself largely discredit the work later on in his life?
How does Kant arrive at the categorical imperative? I've read the groundwork but i still don't get exactly which steps he takes to get to it
Read it again, dumbass. It's not that fucking hard. Now, it's easy to not AGREE with him, but it isn't hard to understand him.
He analyzes what we really mean by "good will."
He talks about what really goes into determining an action.
He points out (and this may be a step you're not willing to grant him, but the reasoning is transparent) that we can't strictly call a good will good if it's at all determined by any Empirical content.
He ends up concluding that the only law a truly good will would follow is the "pure...
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>>7742763
Which part? We learned that stuff in school. I'm sure only superficially but it wasn't that hard to get.
He was spooked into it.
Anyone here familiar with Henri Lefebvre? Mystical marxist and spatial theorist. I just started his THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE. Just wanted to see if there were any fans around better informed on Lefebvre than I.
>>7742630
No one for trialectics?
>>7742630
>Mystical marxist and spatial theorist
>Mystical marxist
ayy lmao?
>spatial theorist
Does he know shit about the geometry of Minkowski space-time?
>>7742870
Yeah he does. Check out the first 10 pages of the book I referenced above for a scope of what he's on about.
Why is being hungover the best state to write?
"Banana Kiwi Fruit Prostitute"
Is going to be the title of your first novel. I can see it now, 1.5mil publisher advance, 5mil screenplay rights and full autonomy, the book about the book deal in the 7 figures, 500 million copies sold worldwide in the first 48 hours. The genius our generation needs. Thank you 4chan, you saved humanity again.
it's not
You're reflecting on your mistakes.
/lit/
i want to read some classical comedy/tragedy, i've already enjoyed my share of Plautus and Terentius, now i want some greeks. Anything to suggest?
I'd read The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides before Aristophanes (otherwise it would be like watching The Thick of It, without knowing anything about British politics)
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What's the horrors of belief without evidence trilogy?
1984
Brave New World
throw in something by some Russian or something
add the lottery to your list anyway
How do you organize your work in progress?
>write in libreoffice
>save in 3 different file formats
>each novel in a separate folder
>notes file in same folder as the novel
>same for the backup archive
>illustrations in subfolders
>>7742519
>write in libreoffice
>1folder
>3 sub folders: illustrations, published, PDFs
>6 files: 3 novels, 1 crap,2 collections of short stories, plus extra files for the occasional article
occasionally copy folder to USB stick and other pc as back up
Recommend me some books that will help me decrease my suffering, please.
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
Cioran
The Daodejing
The Gospels
Why does everyone keep it on the downlow that Hamlet was fat? I thought that it was a major reason to why he acted the way he did.
Delete this.
>>7742432
i fucking love this post. Hamlet as an insecure fatty. Hamling, more like.
Are there any good books written by someone that didn't read much, i.e. they are a good writer by are not influenced by previous authors or much of the canon (inasmuch as it is possible to learn to write without adopting certain historical influences through the language itself)?
no.
every good writer reads a shitton
>>7742391
Thats what i figured, but thought maybe there'd be a couple extreme outliers
Outsider literature is only endearing in its banality. The majority of it is garbage or schizophrenic manifestos. The whole concept of outsider art centers on patronization.
Who /mcelroy/ here? Why is this guy not bigger? I know experimental fiction suffers from a lack of readiability, but why is he excluded where Pynchon and Gaddis aren't.
"For hear us falling. Toward the horizon albeit oblique, for we imagine it isn’t our natural state. We are some power to be here and to have changed toward life even to think distinct from these angels lately to be heard speculating in us as if they were learning to hope. We deserve to know what is in us."
I'm reading The Letter Left to Me right now. Father/son stuff, real...
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hello! let me explain to you, /lit/ is a part of 4chan. 4chan is inherently meme-versed and only meme-versed. mcelroy's talents, while good, are not meme-worthy. you seem to have confused discussion-worthy with meme-worthy. glad to have cleared it for you though.
>>7742378
>but why is he excluded where Pynchon and Gaddis aren't.
Probably because he's actively preventing the publication of his most famous book?
>>7743442
you raise a good point.
See I read stories like Night Soul or his book The Letter Left to Me and it feels like reading Delillo. Some kind ineffable thing not being expressed because communication is flawed, it feels like his stories are about what moves them more so than the plot itself. He just seems ahead of his time, but ultimately ignored.
Is this the pinnacle of english literature?
No, but the game was pretty dope.
I liked the book with the underground zombie dinosaur lab better.
I've always heard about the pure concentrated awful of SD Perry but is it really that bad?
