Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1196. page

I heard as much. Looking forward to reading it.

>>9450881
I wouldn't call it depressing really. Probably more sobering.

Either way it's a good read. Echopraxia is also decent, but Blindsight is a bit better.

>>9450881
It's actually available on his website.

Goodreads for social plebs. LibraryThing for hardcore autistic patricians.

Goodreads (or Librarything if you feel like paying for it)

>>9451041
LT costs a dollar if that's as much as you want to pay. It's definitely the better choice if you're cataloging you physical library.

(((them))): freud(muh sublimation), benjamin(muh aura), brecht(muh collective)

>>9450682
>anyone familiar with philosophers who have tried to write about something like 'what it is to be cool'?

Barthes has an essay on that in Mythologies, it's mostly about how 1950s America gangsters are so cool, rather than like why hip-hop guys with their ass hanging out of their pants are cool, it was written in a different era, but basically still applies today

Hegel is unprecedented, not a single name you have listed compares to his work.

Heidegger's aesthetics (Holzwege) is amazing as well.

I read your post because I liked the pic, but I don't understand your point. Yeah, your description of the situation is more or less correct... and?

Also, it was Alan Moore who wrote Jerusalem, but he became well known for his comics from the eighties and nineties (Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, Swamp Thing etc).

>>9450654
It's just weird to me that there doesn't seem to be any attention payed to recent works of literature on this board. I was just making a conjecture of why I think that may be, but I'm not sure.

>>9450658
>doesn't seem to be any attention payed to recent works of literature
it is trash compared to most classic literature.

>>9450602
no. No

>>9450602
Useful and purposeful are relative concepts defined by each individual. The things I find useful may be useless to another.

Philosophy is purposed to question the ontological, epistemological and metaphysical aspects of human existence. It's up to the individual and/or society at large to deem the results of this effort as 'useful'.

>>9450631
There you go OP

He walks through the desert mindless.
His thoughts blank.
Except one.
That one girl that made him question who he cares for.
Or does he even care?
Has he ever begun to care?
No.

I came to my city.
My home.
But something is changed.
Something is missing.
Something is gone.

Mmm, breakfast cereal really is delicious at non-breakfast times. Have you ever tried it, dear Anon? Just pour yourself some gosh darn frosted flakes or whatever you got, put some milk on that sucka, get cozy where you like to sit and CHOW.

>>9450516
Coin Locker Babies isn't really hard sci-fi, but it's definitely nihilistic.

Blindsight

Consciousness is maladaptive

File: kubin.jpg (22KB, 320x245px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 320x245px

anna kavan - ice
women are already nihilist, but this was a very depressed woman.

>>9450489
Marx used the word cuck too.
That said the word cuck has been a staple in Anglo white supremacist movements for 150 years now, it's not really something /pol/ made up.
They have to thank the stormfags who raided that board for months.

>>9450489
Shakespeare too. Joyce (all of Ulysses is about this, basically).

But Nietzsche was an actual cuck, first by Wagner and then by Paul Ree. Rene Girard basically says we just feel bad for Nietzsche and that's why we like him but we all know he was wrong and stupid.

File: s.jpg (70KB, 600x800px) Image search: [Google]

70KB, 600x800px

>>9450497
It's interesting for a few reasons:

Nietzsche has the photos of him in the nude with another man and a woman and it's known that he refused to continue the relationship with the woman so long as the other guy was fucking her. There's "cuck" 1.

"Cuck" 2 is the adoption of "cuck" as a pejorative by the "alt-right." The thing is their adoration of big, strong Daddy-types isn't ubermensch-y and is rather slavish at its core.

"Cuck" 3 comes from his critique of religion, and I think especially when it comes to "God"'s omniscience you can infer that the idea of "God" being naturally aware of your every act of sexual congress has some elements of reverse-voyeurism in it.

File: 674221.jpg (38KB, 318x472px) Image search: [Google]

38KB, 318x472px

>>9450362
I dropped this book multiple times just to pick it up again weeks later because of how horrible the dialogue is.

>>9450362
"Do you love me?" she said.
"I love you."
"Do you love me truly?"
"I love."
"I love to love."
"I love to love you."
"And do you really love to love me?"
He paused. The streets were oiled and the trees were dusty. His head swam.
"I do, I love."
"Love me, love."
"Love love love; love."

They did not have sex and she was pregnant in the morning.

They have a hard time expressing themselves because they are alienated, my guy.

File: 913UFJ9S3vL.__BG0,0,0,0_FMpng_AC_UL320_SR200,320_.jpg.png (132KB, 200x320px) Image search: [Google]

132KB, 200x320px

>>9450312

Already found Suspended Animation here:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/282161/9886a6a2101c647792b45628640ae9a2.pdf

>>9450316
Also, found Templexity on Soulseek but it's a mobi, and I'd rather have a pdf or epub.

What does Land do exactly in Shanghai?

I wonder if he manages to just get by on royalties... surely not?

>excitement of turning a page
You must be the soul of every party

>>9450253
I am the party

>>9450237
Yes.

Name one book

>>9451659
The Exorcist

>>9450227
The Recognitions

>>9450217
As I Lay Dying
The Picture of Dorian Gray
For Whom the Bell Tolls

>>9450217
Buy a cheap Bible and read Job, it's pretty /lit/

Tolstoy - all of his stuff.

>select all vehicles.
>Never works the first time.

EVERY FUCKING TIME I GET THAT CAPTCHA.

>>9450059
She looks like a twelve year old version of him.

>>9450435
Come to think of it, isn't that the most patrician kind of love?

File: Jackiechan.jpg (149KB, 940x940px) Image search: [Google]

149KB, 940x940px

>>9450059
>will never be as fuckable

>author's intention

Look at this pleb.

>>9450047
Harry Potter

Moby Dick. The story is literally about one guy lusting after another. Also his name is pretty homo desu