Anyone have links for back issues or pdfs?
look for archived pages on the way back machine
>>9969905
Awful publication funded by the CIA.
it's shit
Just finished the audiobook, why does this get so much praise here? It really didn't seem like anything special.
Durrr I listened to an audiobook instead of reading it myself and missed everything. What do?
>>9969879
>there actually is an audiobook
what the fuck
Actually kind of hilarious
I'm fond of taking notes while I read, especially if the material is dense in content or I don't have time to finish in a couple sittings. What are some reads I can get through without taking notes and just enjoy the ride?
Hey I'm trying to get into writing poetry but I'm not sure what mistakes I'm making, what do you guys think
"forever chasing the sun
the moon is dark and desolate
alone
so am i
i only shine when i orbit the sun
i dont know how to make my own light
i can only reflect the brilliance i see
in others"
What shall I start with?
>>9969751
Just go straight into the trilogy senpai. It's 20 bucks on Book Depository, and well worth it! Great prose that you can read aloud.
The Greeks.
Waiting for Godot. Then read the rest of his plays. Then "Proust", then the novels (chronologically). After that, anything and everything.
What are the differences between postmodern literature, postmodern art, and postmodern philosophy?
>>9969707
postmodern lit is literal shit, lots of scat humor and rape
postmodern art is all googly woogly
postmodern philosophy is angsty
>>9969707
postmodern lit is primarily concerned with two things: first, the acceptance of the fact that everything worth saying has already been said and a sort of coming-to-terms with that through frequent use of allusion, reference, and recombination of existing materials; second, a shared reader-author awareness that fiction really is fiction and doesn't have to pretend to be contained, coherent, consistent, or work inside any sort of box, and a resulting increase of interest in formal creativity (see, for instance, DFW's footnotes, Pale Fire, or the cancer that is House of Leaves).
postmodern art is all googly woogly
postmodern philosophy is angsty
Angsty?
cool covers? cool covers
while the barnes and noble leatherbound classics are very great books (price, design, mechanical build) I like the penguin hardcover classics more. the selection of titles is far more minimal but the designs are more aesthetic
>>9969585
I love this one
Just what the fuck was he thinking when he wrote that garbage?
What went wrong?
Neocons are like watered down, retarded Trotskyites.
>>9969920
>2017
>Believing in the trotsky neocon meme
>>9969475
liberal institutionalism is the most retarded international theory. American primacy is the way to go
Is it worth a read?
No, but it'll probably take you two hours to read if you really wanted to.
>>9969445
read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" instead. it has more content than dun brown's work, and is funnier besides.
>>9969445
No.
People say Dan Brown might not have literary and historical merits, but at least he writes good plots. But he does not - I predicted the ending after the first 30 mins of the movie.
Probably Eco (Name of the Rose) instead, haven't read it but classic is a classic.
Is epiphenomenalism the best theory of consciousness we have thus far?
Seems pretty bleak to me.
>rationalists claim they explain consciousness
>let's explain consciousness but let's not actually talk about consciousness
seems pretty reddit to me
science is not welcome on this board. GAS ALL MATERIALISTS
What is /lit/'s opinion on this big guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophFkYN_03o
But where do you start with the Greeks?
What authors, philosophers, and works are both beginner and must reads?
read socrates' works
Well obviously one should have a basic understanding of the pre-socratics before they start with the greeks so they understand what socrates, or at least plato's recordings of socrates, was going against.
Read the sticky.
So I just finished pic related and I'm looking for other books I should read to understand Islam. I know there's the Hadith and Sira, but I'm having a hard time finding a good version of those considering there's no one definitive version and I doubt there's been much effort to put out something like an oxford annotated version of these texts. Also looking for some good secondary sources, something that toes the line between apologist and "islam is trying to conquer the world".
Marshall Hodgson's Venture of Islam
Reza Aslan's No God but God
Muhammad by Martin Lings. It is based on the earliest sources.
[[ ]] The postmodern meltdown of culture into the economy is triggered by the fractal interlock of commoditization and computers: a transscalar entropy-dissipation from international trade to market-oriented software that thaws out competitve dynamics from the cryonics-bank of modernist corporatism. Commerce re-implements space inside itself, assembling a universe exhaustively immanent to cybercaptial functionality. Neoclassical (equilibrium) economics is subsumed into computer-based nonequilibrium market escalations, themed by artificial agencies, imperfect information, sub-optimal solutions, lock-in, increasing returns, and convergence. As digitally micro-tuned market metaprograms mesh with techoscientific soft engineering positive nonlinearity rages through the machines. Cyclonic torsion moans.
Is he right?
I'm probably not smart enough to know, but the doom and gloom over technology is getting really fucking tired
>>9969278
But it's only getting more justifiable
>>9969260
no that is just technological-determinism. so he's missing almost everything.