samuel beckett is my only friend. he /understands/ me.
samuel beckett would not have /understood/ that
>>9531981
Are you a bi girl who likes dominating cute smart guys?
Because I'm literally Beckett basically
Also saged
I wish I was a girl :(
>"The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip characters"
Do you agree?
>"The cultural work done in the past by grunting and loud noises is now done by gods and epic sagas"
Do you agree?
Why should I care?
>>9531512
They fulfill the same function but aren't necessarily of comparable intellectual or aesthetic quality.
Who is John Galt?
is he john galt?
U.P: up! You never did the Kenosha kid.
>>9531394
>Fetishizes about the ultimate manly man executive version of your own egotrip philosophy
>Your actual partner is a NEET painter and artist sustained by you
Ego trap 101: The Book
Why the FUCK are you not reading Shakespeare right now?
I only read white male authors.
Because he didn't write anything, he was barely literate.
>>9531380
Finished with Winters Tale. Slightly disappointing ending, great twist of genres, he certainly isn't at home in pastoral setting. First to suggest decides on what I read next.
I miss /lit/. The lack of meme trilogy posting on here is to me a sign that /lit/ has been overrun by deracinated /pol/ users seeking an intellectual backbone for their ideologies. Consider the constant influx of philosophy posts which try to seek out ready-made critiques of Marxism, or the bump limit threads about Peterson or postmodernism.
What happened to the literature, lads
they even made a board specifically for people who wanted to wank over off topic general philosophy posting but everyone ignored it and continued posting their shit threads here
/lit is still here... just focused on phi for the moment...promise ill be back with some new thoughts on McElroy once I finish this Locke...in the meantime, read MAGIC MOUNTAIN.
>>9531350
That image hit me with some minor nostalgia. I do miss how obnoxiously obsessive people got over Ulysses and how literally every other thread was either Pynchon or Wallace related.
>Social Democratic theory, and even more its practice, have been formed by a conception of progress which did not adhere to reality but made dogmatic claims. Progress as pictured in the minds of Social Democrats was, first of all, the progress of mankind itself (and not just advances in men’s ability and knowledge). Secondly, it was something boundless, in keeping with the infinite perfectibility of mankind. Thirdly, progress was regarded as irresistible, something that automatically pursued a straight or spiral course. Each of these predicates is controversial and open to criticism. However, when the chips are down, criticism must penetrate beyond these predicates and focus on something that they have in common. The concept of the historical progress of mankind cannot be sundered from the concept of its progression through a homogenous, empty time. A critique of the concept of such a progression must be the basis of any criticism of the concept of progress itself.
I want to say Social Democrats will never recover but his obsession with critiquing progress leads to ambiguity, especially with the last sentence. Wdhm by concept of historical progress vs. concept of progression through homogeneous, empty time. Is this another appeal to the authoritarian nature of historical narratology?
>>9531054
You're gonna have to forgive me because my english is shit for mundane tasks, let alone explaining Benjamin. But what he's arguing is that social democracy tries to generalize progress as a constant through history, when the very notion of progress is tied to a very specific material-historical condition, and that there is no REAL progress if we accept progress in the terms of capitalism. Basically, he's saying social democracy can only generate more capitalism and that reformism is generating empty time, false progress which further delays the oncoming revolution.
>>9531083
And no, social democrats never recovered, they just closed their eyes and years and yelled while capitalism completely disassembled any possibility of a worldwide revolutionary left and things have come to the point where guys like Sanders or Corbyn, extremely moderate socdems, have become the most radical shit there is.
>>9531083
>>9531092
It's a sad state of affairs
>want to destroy capitalism
>need to read guys like benjamin
>need to go to university
>spend years of life at university
>realize university is capitalism
Does anyone else have reading OCD?
I'll explain what I mean. Like I can only read full chapters, can only read in complete silence (i mean complete, like even if there's a bird chirping a mile away) I just can't read and get really fucking angry.
Whats worse is atm not living along and it is basicallh impossible for me to read. What do?
>>9530947
>The fact that
Fuck I really need silence too, the only time when I read and feel like I'm trully getting the most of it in at night
>>9530947
Something like Ear Plugs? Idk
Gonna buy e-reader tomorrow from a local shop.
These are the ones available: Amazon Kindle PaperWhite 2015, Kobo Aura 2nd Ed, Kobo Aura H20, Kobo Aura One, Amazon Kindle PaperWhite,
I was thinking of picking the largest, Aura One, but does /lit/ have any recommendations out of these?
Avoid Kindle like the plague. The size doesn't matter, unless you plan on reading something like manga with it, in which case definitely get the biggest one you can find. Otherwise it's just preference.
>>9530933
I saw my friend using Kindle and it looked v. small but I guess I will see in the shop tomorrow.
I just enjoy having lots of text in one page when I read. Weird preference, but makes it easier to read the text since you can scroll back and forth without turning pages..
>>9530933
>Avoid Kindle like the plague.
Why?
Here's an exercise for /lit/. You can choose only one of these options:
>Humans go extinct and are succeeded by a capitalist god AI which forever works to improve its intelligence and solve all the problems of the universe
>Human never go extinct and live on for eternity but our culture and life become ever more insane versions of this https://youtu.be/Wllc5gSc-N8
Do you understand now why people like to read Nick Land?
huh?
I'm a Christian, so I'm basically just counting on Christ coming again in glory and setting everything right.
Fuck off
Is The Bell Jar worth reading?
sure
It was for me, even as a 28 year old man.
>>9530707
It's really good, in my opinion
How does this make you feel?
https://gentlyhewstone.com/2015/02/12/every-play-by-shakespeare-ranked-and-graded/
>>9530524
Nothing particularly exciting. I would have ranked Romeo and Juliet and Merchant of Venice a bit lower, and Henry V and Richard II a bit higher.
>UNIRONICALLY uses "its muhsoggykneestic" as an argument for why a play from the 16th century is bad
Into le trash it goes
>>9530538
>33. The Winter’s Tale
>uneven and prickly
>prickly
What the fuck? I couldn't get past that. One of my favorite plays and some cunt with a Simpsons blog calls it "prickly." What does that even mean?
If Stirner's philosophy worth anything it is for btfoing Atheists.
elaborate
>>9530278
>Atheists are pious people
>lol dude listen to me being miserable for 700 pages
out of curiosity, why does everyone have this book? i randomly picked it up recently, but apparently im not alone since its on everyone here's bookshelf. does the title just appeal to our demographic?
(i put it down because i cant stand another moaning frenchman novel, read enough Sartre for that.)
>>9530298
Because many people think it is a good book
>>9530298
because being a cynical manchild who whines about sex and society is the ultimate goal of all the basement dwellers populating /lit/.
Was Holden Caulfield molested?
Throughout the book, Caulfield seeks to protect the innocence of his younger sister (and all children) as a "Catcher in the Rye." At one point in the book, Antolini has Holden sleep in his underwear, conveniently forgetting to give him pajamas. When Antolini starts laying next to him and stroking his hair (after calling him "handsome") Holden freaks out and leaves his house. He later remarks that he gets uncomfortable with "perverted" things because "that sort of stuff" happened to him "twenty times" as a kid.
To me, this heavily implies Holden was molested as a kid. It explains his distrust of adults, his want to protect his sister's innocence, and his discomfort with the prostitute.
Thoughts? Opinions?
>his want to protect his sister's innocence
Not much of a want seeing as he raped her himself.
Wouldn't the rape turn him into a pervert though? I mean, look at all these homosexuals.
People tend to forget, somehow, that he narrates the entire story to his psychiatrist. On an unrelated note, I think he probably attempted suicide prior to the events of the book.
I don't have one because I didn't enroll for one, but I dropped out of university anyways
No.
I did not enjoy literature when I was a student. I was a STEM turbo autist.
I don't need one to write.