/lit/ humour thread senpaitachi?
reading this right now too :(
>>7844865
R/E/Gs are the GOAT tbqhwyrn
>>7844856
>What the author wrote: next bar tab and rent
>What underaged banned thought: "Authors control meanings by assigning texts to them"
>What undergraduate gonna undergraduate thought: "The author is dead, readers control all meaning."
>What anyone who has done the least literary criticism thought: "texts have an impenetrable depth of meaning and only discipline practices can recover meanings from texts"
apparently that caption was written by an early computer program from the 1940s
>>7846565
The whole "Jay Gatsby is black" thing could be a neat interpretation IF THEY DIDN'T SPELL IT OUT TO YOU THAT HE'S WHITE
>>7846565
>The communist manifesto
>Recommends it for: Anarchists!
>>7846594
Anarchism and communism are like
the same thing.
Like there's this idea that the state only serves to protect property but communism disavows that and recommends shared property among everyone, so if we have that, anarchism is the only solution since a state is no longer necessary.
Or something like that
>>7846603
Dude... No.
>>7846647
He's being farcical, friend.
>>7846559
requesting more tasty zizek memes
>>7848543
>there will never be a /lit/ Halloween party in a major city where 1/3 of the people go as DFW
>>7848552
I admit I laughed
>>7846553
every time I see that pic I'm reminded of gogol's The Nose
>>7846565
wow
>>7848563
>1/3rd
oh boy all you'll get are fat DFWS and scrawny fags who stole their grandpas hat and bought an costume eyepatch
>>7846565
Woah, Borders has a 15 day return policy?
I just found my loophole!
Where are the train track memes
>>7850137
Railing your mom
>>7846565
>The only bright spot about the book is if you think of it on a metaphorical level
oh lord
>>7846585
If you read any of the theories, they hold that "We're all white here" is wordplay, or a lie, and the his "paleness" is ironic or something.
It's like a crackpot theory from the /pol/ of black people.
>>7846504
Top kek
I saw Pynchon at a grocery store in New York yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person and congratulated him all his great literary achievements, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He replied, “Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Jesus God man" and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bananas in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be paranoid and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the snickers and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent entropy,” and then turned around and winked at me. After she scanned each banana and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by saying "A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY" really loudly.
>>7846565
;_;
>>7850592
beautiful
>>7850592
Amazing
Go ahead, make my day
This is a classic from my hilarious collection
Part 2
>>7850507
>picture
lmao blacks
>>7846565
Atleast he's right about Plato.
something from the autistic spectrum of /lit/
>>7850713
I'm indifferant to derrida.
>>7850722
so are ana/lit/ics of /lit/
bonus points if you can name all the mugs in that pic.
>>7850592
>he kept interrupting her by saying "A SCREAMING COMES ACROSS THE SKY" really loudly.
somehow I believed you right up until this point
>>7844856
women vs men
>>7850713
Russell, Wittgenstein
,Kripke, Carnap
Is it Peirce on the left?
>>7851400
Its Frege, nevermind
>>7851364
Cringe.
>>7851410
It's an aggregate of billions of english language social media posts.
>This is what normies actually think
![371ae53b64fe6e927c5e2340c33b6182[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gN6ebax.jpg "371ae53b64fe6e927c5e2340c33b6182[1].jpg")
>>7851364
>soo
>sooo
>sooo
>sooo
>soooo
>sooooo
>soooooo
it's arrived.
>>7850137
>>7851364
>women
>>7851738
these truly are elite memes
>>7851741
>>7851747
>>7851753
This is all I have I think
>>7851364
>freedom
>america
>football
>metal
>xbox
>ps3
It is like a parody. I would feel embarrassed, but the female one is even worse.
>>7851773
ily =]
>>7848928
I honestly want to go to that party.
>>7850650
I offended this girl once when I asked her why she didn't read after she said she didn't. She failed three of her freshmen community college courses in community college. I feel sorry for her.
>>7852162
>tfw my gf reads more than me despite the fact that she's a STEMfag and I'm wasting my life studying Classics
I just call her pleb and leave it at that
>>7848552
Was this from a discussion about Kate Beaton and how formulaic her posts about books are?
>>7852734
looks that way
>>7846565
Brendan is secretly Nietzsche
>>7851738
they use it so much because people dont actually say how they feel in the first person anymore. Its like rping their life
>>7851738
Lebron wishes he could..
Thomas wishes he was Lebron
Etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkptuaH3EW8
>>7851664
>no multi-track drifting
>>7851761
>>7851753
>>7851747
trolley problem solved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86PUB4u2s2A
>>7848552
>i love bugs and frogs
Does "Fathers and Sons" transcend the meaning/unmeaning dichotomy?
>>7851773
It really isn't.
>>7850137
>>7846565
>tfw I made this image
Look Ma, I made it!
>>7852185
Nah, you're just a cuck.
>>7853116
The answers for the "Nick Carraway transgender?" question are even better, half of them don't understand the difference homosexual/transgender
https://www.goodreads.com/questions/958-is-nick-carraway-transgender-i-couldn-t
>>7848563
i would go as pynchon andnot be there
or maybe do the simpsons bag over head pynchon
>>7846594
Maybe he's one of those Marxists that believe that anarchism doesn't have any theory or is anti-organisation, and he recommends it to try to convert anarchists.
>>7853103
what if the one-guy-line was infinite, but the five-guys-line stopped somewhere in the vision of our man?
If he saved the one-guy-line, he obviously would have saved more lifes by logic, but he can never know for sure he did, and he might have killed more man just because of a belief in a set of rules.
>>7850722
>
heheheheh
>>7846594
Wasn't Marx's end goal a leaderless ungoverned world?
>>7854479
>When, in the course of development, class distinctions have disappeared, and all production has been concentrated in the hands of a vast association of the whole nation, the public power will lose its political character. Political power, properly so called, is merely the organized power of one class for oppressing another. If the proletariat during its contest with the bourgeoisie is compelled, by the force of circumstances, to organize itself as a class; if, by means of a revolution, it makes itself the ruling class, and, as such, sweeps away by force the old conditions of production, then it will, along with these conditions, have swept away the conditions for the existence of class antagonisms and of classes generally, and will thereby have abolished its own supremacy as a class. In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.
What would you do in this situation?
>>7848751
I unironically think there's value and truth in this-- not the "huehue quantum" meming but the original statement: sincerity is a meme in some ways, and in the modern world it's worthless to think of it as a binary value, it's a spectrum.
>>7846504
I got you
>>7854508
>>7854533
So you would go on reddit if Pynchon lived in your building?
>>7854538
Yes, if I wanted to make a Reddit post about Pynchon like this man did
>>7846603
Socialism =/= communism. Read about the Soviet Union and you'll see how hilariously NOT anarchist-inclined communism is.
Does anyone have that Venn with the bubbles "what the teacher thinks the author means", "what I think the author means", "what the author means" and "what God means"?
>>7850592
>scanning bananas
>>7851773
>>7851480
It's what they think off-hand and without filters. It boggles my mind how genuine people are on social media, when usually in person and on the phone and on forums there's a "let me put on my human suit first" thing going on, where people self-censor and put at least marginally more thought into what they say. Also there's no way to know how many of those are complaining about those things being prevalent or highly valued (the high use of "fuck" might suggest it's a lot), but then that still means they're thinking and talking about those things a lot.
>>7854479
I see, leaderless in feel but not entirely ungoverned, more just apolitical.
>>7854596
bah, meant to quote >>7854486
>>7854550
like a lot of countries the Soviet Union started (at least ostensibly) as an actual attempt at communism and it turned into a dictatorship, and then when that was gone there were lingering government underlings who ascended and became effectively a ruling class
(from what I remember/was told)
I know they deviated from Marx's ideals at some points
>>7850592
you forgot to change snickers to bananas
>>7846603
Nope
Does anyone have the image of the guy who posts hard vore in a thread and gets super butthurt when other posters act shocked?
>>7853103
It would need a machine to generate more people and drop them onto the track while the train runs them over in a nonstop circle for infinite casualties.
>>7854881
>>7854998
holy fuck I missed this thread
>>7850673
that feel when you get posted on a lit thread
>>7854197
>mfw I googled nghozani kirikou
>>7854197
my favourite part about this is that they group the Australian in with the Mongolian hermit and Amazonian Yuri tribe
>>7854822
lmao
If I wanted humor I'd ask for your 1 rep maxes
>>7850722
kek
>>7855279
Don't you ever fucking reply to me unless you're contributing to the thread.
>>7855279
I once got 20+ replies on a post.
>>7855279
humour*
>>7855472
>spelling things any other way than the American Way™
>>7855494
>Being a pleb
>>7854513
>I unironically think there's value and truth in this-- not the "huehue quantum" meming but the original statement: sincerity is a meme in some ways, and in the modern world it's worthless to think of it as a binary value, it's a spectrum.
I'm actually having problems with people, mostly females, saying to me that half of the time they don't know whether I'm genuinely enthusiastic about something or if I'm just humoring them or even mocking them. The worst thing is that often I don't even know myself.
Sarcasm is fine, people can detect it pretty easily and are used to it, but post-irony is the new fatal cosmic nihilism, it's not compatible with life
>>7844856
>intent matters
top pleb
>>7855279
>meathead "humour"
"Irony" is a cover for the fact that most twenty-somethings just don't really believe in anything. They move between different levels of dryness signalling different levels of affection and distaste for ideas which they wouldn't, in any case, commit to because they have no principles.
This could fruitfully be called post-PoMo because the PoMos thought that irony was going to be a kind of salvation from absurdity. e.g. from Bellow:
"That's the animal ridens in me, the laughing creature, forever rising up. What's so laughable, that a Jacqueline, for instance, as hard used as that by rough forces, will still refuse to live a disappointed life? Or is the laugh at nature—including eternity—that it thinks it can win over us and the power of hope? Nah, nah! I think. It never will. But that probably is the joke, on one of the other, and laughing is an enigma that includes both."
I'll assume you see what I mean. You can trace a similar vein in Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. There's a warmth in the irony, a wisdom that includes humour. It is a full and satisfying philosophy which includes much beside irony; but it stresses the irony.
The millennial has found that a laugh isn't always merry. It needn't be a charitable laugh, or a hopeful laugh. Sometimes it's just a nasty laugh. The new ironist can laugh at himself, and at everyone else, and at everything, but not with warmth. His is a cold and skeptical laugh, often indistinguishable from a sneer.
The "new sincericist" is the name for the new prig who somewhat self-consciously asserts that he takes something seriously. I have nothing wrong with taking things seriously but he rather reminds me of the Christians who like to "testify". Still, I can admit that there is use for him. His whole purpose seems to be to unsettle the amused aesthete, and I like that.
What we have now is pretty much the counterreaction to last century, which we spent drunk on ideology. The pendulum has swinged back as we've realized that ideologies don't have all the answers, and now passion for an idea and strong, sweeping oratory is viewed with distrust. On top of that, technology has changed the first world and the old values no longer suffice, but the new ones have not yet been properly invented, so the youth are afflicted by an epidemic of anomie.
The only thing that is immune to this effect is the absurd and irony. Because they require no attachment. Sincerity requires and attachment to something, but if you have no attachments, you cannot be sincere. And what possibly you could be attached to? You've been bored and drifting all your life, and you have nothing to fight against, nothing to define yourself with, either by "I am this", or "I am not this", because you avoid feeling deeply about anything. It's all ephemeral, subject to change, relative, meaningless cosmic dust, and this point of view transforms sincerity into absurdity.
That's right, to be sincere is to be absurd, and only absurdness and irony can entertain you anymore. Hence, your sincerity gains barbs and becomes just another tool for expressing your mild disdain towards everything, disdain for which you have no solutions. You have no idea what could be done better, nor do you care.
>>7856494
>The pendulum has swinged back
why is this SO funny to me
>>7851664
I don't get this one.
>>7856502
ur high my man
>>7856526
It's a bunch of rudimentary variations by /lit/ users of the trolley problem
>>7854486
Just from reading this you can see how Stirner totally bootyblasted this guy.
>>7854998
holy shit the autism
>>7846887
Spicy
>>7846559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4
>>7846887
>>7846887
>>7848552
This comic has potential. Poor execution.
>>7857004
>>7846603
is max stirner a commie?
>>7854197
>Dr. Henry Flower, Harvard College Professor of Irish Literature.
nice.
>>7850686
fuck you, defend your claim
>>7857731
This is funny but you know it isn't real because they mentioned being German.
>>7857759
Suspension of disbelief, my nigga. Plus, what if the story were true, and he was in fact German? Perhaps, the only non-true factoid of the story could be the remark of Germanic nativity, while the rest of the tale is true.
I think you need to let loose - at least for a little bit to enjoy the smaller, simple things, like a good ol' meme.
In other words: relax, bucko.
>>7857768
bait
>>7850137
>>7856366
Also if you leave the angloamerican post irony sphere, people think you're retarded and don't know what to do with you.
>>7857072
And that hair! Lol
>>7856366
>I'm actually having problems with people, mostly females, saying to me that half of the time they don't know whether I'm genuinely enthusiastic about something or if I'm just humoring them or even mocking them. The worst thing is that often I don't even know myself.
>>7854998
geeeesus, you don't even deserve to go to literature
>>7854619
she didnt
>>7858107
tl;dr
>>7858288
>>7858290
>>7858294
>>7858297
>>7858305
>>7858313
>>7858317
last one
i hope others contribute to this thread on a dead board
>>7858322
your sense of humor is god awful and this thread deserves quick death
>>7852745
>>7858330
>your sense of humor is god awful
i bet you laughed reading the first 100 pages of infinite jest before giving up.
>>7858338
infinite jest sucks
>>7858343
>>7858349
what's that supposed to mean
god, ij and dfw is just drowned in all the worst aspects of middleclass suburbanites, enough with the hyper-anxious self-aware bullshit
>>7854822
not how it works nubbin
>>7855516
I new sincerely want this shirt.
>>7858366
unless you are some ethiopian, starving trans slave, i dont think you have shit to complain about. either object to the class, or be willing to accept you "faggot" ^1
1: faggot being used ironically, as in 20th century term used for "loser" or "lesser than"
>>7858448
You're retarded
I can't complain about something unless i'm suffering horribly enough for you?
ffuuuuck you
>>7856462
>>7856494
sounds a bit pretentious but I think you're pretty much on the money there, though I doubt most people talking about irony and "irony" put that much thought into it, and I think some would pick at the details if they cared enough
I know it described me on and off for much of my later formative years and early adulthood
>>7858462
>complains about the middleclass struggle complaints
>gets called out for grading struggles
be objective and rational or submit to your social conditioning faggot
>>7857759
I have met that exact type of person several times. It's the same kind of person that writes fanfiction or argues about the lore to something almost no one cares about. They are everywhere.
>>7858430
tfw can't find the exact DFW face to put onto a shirt mockup
Would probably cost you $20 desu
>>7858519
That's not even what i was complaining about you thick headed retard
please learn to read
what you're saying has nothing to do with anything i've said and frankly i'm concerned for your mental health, anon
>>7856412
good luck writing about love when you never experience any
>>7858539
this thread is a bully-free zone
>>7858570
>>7858589
dumb animeposter
>>7858601
dumb antiweeb
>>7850650
Even in the last thread you got called out on how unfunny this is. Fuck off with your juvenile "ironic" humor. Even reddit is above this, which is disgusting.
>>7858859
45% serious, 55% ironic. How would you place your entropy?
>>7846565
Actually if Jay was black the story would be much more interesting
>>7859076
It's called Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
>>7859076
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/153166.article
Here is the article in question
>>7859532
>Laurence Fishburn
>High Yeller
SUUUURE.
I mean I fucken love Fishburn but either way you rub it, getting him to play high yeller is blackface.
>>7858290
fuck me that gave me a great laugh
>>7854550
you know that soviet union and other countries of warsaw pact were dictatorships? and that they were "communist" or "socialist" only in name?
lel
>>7858479
those are two different posters, by the way. It should be evident from their different takes on postmodernism and irony.
>>7860887
>you know that soviet union and other countries of warsaw pact were dictatorships?
They were as democratic as Western Europe or the United States. Exactly as democratic.
>and that they were "communist" or "socialist" only in name?
Are we forgetting the periodic revolutions for actual communism? That has to come from somewhere.
Nice idealism bro, fully Hegel. Existence precedes essence next time.
>>7858294
sick of this one t.bh f.am
>>7861580
Pure ideology.
>>7860944
jesus christ
>>7858288
>inb4 plebs asking, it's from Titus Andronicus
>>7861806
Unironically accurate desu
>>7861806
This image is basically why 4chan is good, or at least the humor style of 4chan is good (if it's from SA or whatever)
The original comic had its time, and then ten thousand variants of this image have been created: most of them garbage, a smaller proportion of them were kinda funny for a second but not worth saving, an even smaller proportion were funny enough or inside joke-y enough to circulate for a while, and at the very top you have the ones good enough to stand on their own. The guy who created it is probably not some super genius, he just had a really good idea that struck him for an edit.
We're all monkeys on typewriters here, trying to make each other laugh. It's pretty cool. It harnesses camaraderie, competitive instincts, and altruism to create an open community of likeminded people based on comedy.
>>7861906
4chan is actually an extended exercise in mutilating your social abilities.
>>7861909
naw dude i meme irl, chicks love it
>>7852185
If you saved/created that image, you can be sure that she understands books better than you as well.
People that think Stoner is sad are fucking incompetent readers
>>7860944
That guy has read none of those books
>>7848552
top kek
>>7860944
Is the joke the thing he said about lifting weights or is it the fact that has some of the best books ever written in front of him and he's raving about Gass
>>7856462
>"That's the animal ridens in me, the laughing creature, forever rising up. What's so laughable, that a Jacqueline, for instance, as hard used as that by rough forces, will still refuse to live a disappointed life? Or is the laugh at nature—including eternity—that it thinks it can win over us and the power of hope? Nah, nah! I think. It never will. But that probably is the joke, on one of the other, and laughing is an enigma that includes both."
>I'll assume you see what I mean. You can trace a similar vein in Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. There's a warmth in the irony, a wisdom that includes humour. It is a full and satisfying philosophy which includes much beside irony; but it stresses the irony.
Bad readings; misunderstanding of modernism.
>>7862699
the joke is he's never read those books and has then to get likes and followers
>>7854998
If anything it's an "insightful journey" into his own psyche
>>7851364
>metal fuckin' war album
>>7861799
Literally reading a critique of Baudrillard in relation to the evolution of global capitalism in India right now
>>7858283
Read it faggot
Does anyone have the one where most of the philosophy problems are put together into one comic? It had the turtle at a start trying to reach a lever.
>>7853273
i kek'd hard
>>7858313
>reading it in their voices
>>7862948
it applies more to bellow than to eliot, who was ofc very nervous and skeptical. I meant only to say you can trace it back to some nervous first attempts in modernism. of course Eliot became an Anglo-Catholic and fell back a little more on old paradoxes and less on irony. but the young man imitating laforgue was arguably more influential on the PoMos
whether I have misread Bellow I am open to being told; but I'd like to hear a better reading if you have one.
>>7861580
FUCK OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!
>>7856366
>tfw
>>7863519
yes, i do change my choice so that i have 50% chance rather than 33.333333%
i remember learning that in statistics and it still fucks with my head
>>7867112
You dirty utilitarian.
>>7851364
thanks for more proof men belong in the ovens
>>7852958
thank you
>>7860944
> the immaculate spines
>>7844856
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-doRuonMoxw
>>7852768
lmao
>>7867112
No, you get a 66% chance rather than 50%
It seems to have fucked with your head a little too hard
