>1942+74
>not being an Absurdist
whats your excuse, /lit/?
>he fell for the continental meme
shaking my head
i'm a coward, spooked and conditioned beyond recovery
>>8057115
I think everyone who chooses to go on 4chan from one degree to another is an absurdist
>>8057115
Nice hairline you got there Bogart
>>8057115
>1942
why this year?
Who is this?
>>8057155
he wrote the stranger and was an existentialist
>>8057155
He starred in Casablanca
>>8057155
sam spade
>>8057155
Jean Luc Godard
>>8057115
I'm pretty sure everyone who isn't a Christfag or a /sci/-addicted empiricist is basically an absurdist.
>>8057191
this
90% of continental philosophy is just explaining in a long winded way what we all already understand intuitively
>>8057155
Meursault Maman
>>8057201
>mammary merman
>>8057191
Your post is nonsense.
>For sure man was formed out of earth, conceived in guilt, born to punishment. What he does is depraved and illicit, is shameful and improper, vain and unprofitable. He will become fuel for the eternal fires, food for worms, a mass of rottenness.
>>8057138
>shaking my head
only because you got a weak ass neck my nigga
>>8057154
the stranger was published
>>8057310
I don't know whether to hate or like that movie. I get what it was doing but it seemed so full of its self.
>>8057115
I find Absurdism absolutely absurd
I'm a quietist.
>>8057310
This film was great
>>8057399
>film
its a flick
>>8057392
wouldn't that mean....fuck
>>8057397
Show me, don't tell me.
>tfw no absurdist bf to cuddle while he rubs your belly and tells you that the absurd is merely the relationship between the natural human urge for reason and meaning and a universe that is unreasonable and meaningless
why live
>>8057411
False dichtomy.
>>8057405
Funny Games. It's a fantastic movie that sort of explores why we enjoy violence in movies.
>>8057424
It kind of doesn't, it just kind of mocks it.
But i really enjoyed it, and never actually found myself 'missing' the tropes and cliches as it kind of intended.
>>8057419
tfw that's not what absurdism is- sure it's the inability to comprehend the nature of the universe but that's doesn't mean the universe has no meaning, it's just too difficult for us to understand... which I suppose makes it meaningless to some degree because we can't comprehend the meaning of it, so we couldn't be sure if it's still there. Shit.
>>8057310
this film was embryo bait garbage
haneke is a huckster and a fraud who does nothing but criticize the viewer for viewing his films
INTERESTS:
>Literature
>Absurdism
>Micro Brews
>Pale Ales
>COFFEE
>Photography
>Art - see mine here: Deminuitive_Meanings@deviantart:
The Post
>Beards
Faggot hipster trash. Take a shower.
>>8057479
this post triggered me
>>8057150
Camus has fucked more bitches than you ever will.
>>8057115
>>8057115
Enough already of Lacan, Derrida, and Foucault poured like ketchup over everything. Lacan: the French fog machine; a grey-flannel worry-bone for toothless academic pups; a twerpy, cape-twirling Dracula dragging his flocking stooges to the crypt. Lacan is a Freud T-shirt shrunk down to the teeny-weeny Saussure torso. The entire school of Saussure, inluding Levi-Strauss, write their muffled prose of people with cotton wool wrapped around their heads; they're like walking Q-tips. Derrida: a Gloomy Gus one-trick pony, stuck on a rhetorical trope already available in the varied armory of New Criticism. Derrida's method: masturbating without pleasure. It's a birdbrain game for birdseed stakes. Neo-Foucaldian New Historicism: a high-wax bowling alley where you score points just by knockng down the pins.
>>8057562
>>8057452
Close. The universe has a self-contained system; individuals also have a self-contained system made up of preconceptions, ideals, and basically how your brain understands where you are in the world. The absurd is what occurs when the two meet, but don't match up. The world goes on as always but you are thrown into chaos as your brain tries to regain its bearings.
The absurd is the feeling of "the fuck is this?"
>>8057511
Why?
>>8057568
>jc denton interrupts festivus
>>8057577
>The absurd is the feeling of "the fuck is this?"
anyone else get this feel when they were really young like in elementary school?
>>8057404
Oh shut the fuck up and go back to /tv/.
>>8057115
I'm only an absurdist for as long as I have no self-worth and find comfort in believing my life is inherently meaningless.
Daily reminder Timothey McNagel's account of the absurd is superior to Camus
https://philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/The%20Absurd%20-%20Thomas%20Nagel.pdf
>>8057592
>not french
>doesn't smoke
dropped
>>8057592
Nice, some actual clarity on the subject.
>>8057583
>elementary school
it never went away
>>8057583
aren't we all in elementary school
>>8057642
i meant the first time feeling like that. being super aware that you're alive and breathing and so confused asking why
>>8057592
"We can salvage our dignity, Camus appears to believe, by shaking a fist at the world which is deaf to our pleas, and continuing to live in spite of it. This will not make our lives un-absurd, but it will lend them a certain nobility. This seems to me romantic and slightly self-pitying. Our absurdity warrants neither that much distress nor that much defiance."
>>8057567
That's ridiculous
camus' philosophy is just tumblr hedonism
Absurdism is for man-children
>>8057155
oui c'est le meme
>>8057155
Friedrich nietzsche
>>8057155
jean paul sartre
>>8057155
TS Eliot
>>8057155
Pepé Le Pew
>>8057155
Ulysses
>>8057155
The Stranger
>>8057155
he is Calbert Mamus
>>8057155
Alber Camoo
74 years of Europeans trying too hard
>>8057155
the Marlboro Man
>>8059016
That lean... that dangle of cigarette... that look on his face that just screams...... i'm writer
>>8057155
Bonbon Sartre
>>8059016
I wonder if this guy writes books
yeah dude i totally subscribe to a philosophy only for people to associate me with le smoking frenchman of existentialism
identityphilosohers please die
>>8057155
Robert Bresson
>>8059040
>Camus is an existentialist
>You're not butt madBut I totally agree with identity philosophers
So far I've read The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall.
From what l could gather, Camus believes that the world is a pretty shitty place, but we should still do whatever makes us happy both in the short and long term.
How wrong/right am l?
>>8059666
About as right as saying Nietzsche is about 'being yourself'.
>>8059688
Give us your run-down of Camus
>>8059698
Camus believes the world is an indifferent place and that we must ''rebel'' against this indifference by first recognizing our inability to decipher inherent meaning and then by imposing our meaning on it that satisfies the condition of the absurd. I don't see where you got the idea Camus thinks the world is a 'shitty place' and to say his Absurdism boils down to doing 'whatever makes us happy both in the short and long term' is a gross misunderstanding of an existentialist's idea of 'meaning' and ignores Camus' rejection of living for the 'long term'.
>>8059666
Read his Myth of Sisyphus if you want a better idea of his views, and not just 4chan's idea of absurdism - its a short-novel length essay rather than a story.
>>8059736
myth of sisypoo is shit.
There's no good reason to imagine some faggot drudging a boulder up a hill as being happy. It's bs
>>8059721
Just to clear things up, l'm >>8059666. The guy you replied to (>>8059698) is someone else.
Let me rephrase. I don't think Camus says the world is a shitty place, but rather that shitty things can and will happen. We just need to persevere in spite of that. I mostly got this from The Plague.
I won't even try to refute your second point. I thought Camus' work would serve as a good bridge between fiction and more philosophical writings. I knew l probably got everything wrong, but might as well discuss it here instead of shitposting some more.
>>8059736
Will do, l've been meaning to get around to that one as well. I just think l'm suffering from some fatigue after reading the three other books back to back.
>>8059782
Definetely should have read Myth of Sisyphus first. A lot of people jump right in with The Stranger and completely misunderstand the little parable. Namely missing that Meursault's condemnation to death is the miracle that lets him finally live meaningfully.
>>8059688
What is Nietzche 'about'?
>>8059035
that's the my struggle dude
>le just be happy man
Shit tier philosopher desu.
>>8059814
>philosopher
he's a journalist
>>8057399
I completely agree. Michael Pitt's character has been my guide both fashionwise and philosophically ever since I have watched it.
>>8059022
fucking keked out loud
>>8057155
Hunter S. Thompson
>>8057567
>yes... let your hate flow through you...
>>8057155
Philip Marlowe
>>8057115
>expecting everyone to be an absurdist
That's just absu- fuck.
I feel bad posting on these smaller boards cause its like my shitpost will be there for weeks
>>8057428
holy shit so blowdrying the phone was on purpose. thank god
>>8061461
IS THAT OKAY?
NO?
IS THIS ABSURD YET
WE'RE JUST BARELY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE
>>8061461
>>8057115
I agree with a lot of the things the Absurdism school of thought says but theres just something inherently empty about it that I want to avoid. Am I wrong? To me it just seems like a cop out.
>>8057155
Camu Al-Jabert, Algerian-Muslim freedom fighter
>>8057155
Morrissey
>>8057155
Albert Camus
great memes guys! good job.
>>8057155
nice dubs
also he's Derrida
>>8062688
thanks mate
>tfw talking about book with mom
>tfw called him came-us
>tfw she proceeded to belittle my intelligence
>>8063744
she was talking about me not camus
>>8057155
thom yorke
>>8057115
>implying it's not the most absurdist thing not to be absurdist
Checkmate existentialists
>>8057463
I think using a platform to create external discussion beyond it is called art.
>>8057310
>For sure man was formed out of earth, conceived in guilt, born to punishment. What he does is depraved and illicit, is shameful and improper, vain and unprofitable. He will become fuel for the eternal fires, food for worms, a mass of rottenness.
A quote from Pope Innocent III.
>>8057155
Raymond Chandler
>>8057155
Ricky Gervais
>>8058932
You bastard.
>>8057155
Count Orlock
>600BCE+2616
>not believing everything is made of water
what's your excuse, OP?
>>8066570
Tell me more of this philosopher, Anon.
He sounds pretty cool.
>>8067226
>not knowing of the first known western philosopher ever
>>8057155
Jay Gatsby
>>8057155
marie curie
>>8057155
Jean-Baptiste Clamence
>>8057115
>philosophy of maybe when the answer is no
yeah, no.
>>8067226
Thales was gay
>>8057155
jean valjean
>>8057155
the ego and his own
>>8057155
John Green
>>8057155
winston churchill
>>8057155
Your grandpa
>>8057479
what did you mean by this?
>>8057155
J. R. R. Tolkien
I performed as Pozzo in Waiting for Godot a bunch of times, shit was so cash
some 30-40 minutes of stage time dedicated to bullying my stage-mates
>>8057155
Thomas Pynchon
>>8057155
Holden Caulfield
Since postmodernist irony we don't need it, nobody has an existential crisis anymore, maybe the teens who read Sartre and said to themselves that if they had not read Sartre the would have had an existential crisis.
>>8059812
>the my struggle dude
Hitler?
>>8063765
underrated post tbqmfh familia
>>8074625
knausgard
>>8073438
>postmodernist irony
>>8057419
>meaningless
dropped the ball there
>>8057155
The best way to troll liberals when they ask about your favorite African writer.
>>8057592
>If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that doesn't matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair
>his solution to absurdism is "just be ironic"
although you might be baiting because you completely botched his name
>>8057155
To Kill A Mockingbird
>>8059812
... you missed the joke
>>8057115
I dunno, trying to write something absurdist.
