What is the most cromulent English word?
Debigulate.
I have pic related and Stoner on my shelf to read. Which one should I read first?
>>9149183
Start with the Greeks first, then read Stoner.
>>9149183
Herzog is better imo. No one on /lit/ has read it though so don't expect much of a response
Herzog was his best, but really if you want to read about jewish academics doin crazy stuff and sayin nutty things just read Phillip Roth
I hate vague books where it's up to you to decide what happened, or whether it was all in the protagonists head or not
I think it's lazy
>>9148996
No u
>he reads for the plot
>>9149020
No u
>The fundamental contradiction in the process of development of a thing and the essence of the process determined by this fundamental contradiction will not disappear until the process is completed; but in a lengthy process the conditions usually differ at each stage. The reason is that, although the nature of the fundamental contradiction in the process of development of a thing and the essence of the process remain unchanged, the fundamental contradiction becomes more and more intensified as it passes from one stage to another in the lengthy process. In addition, among the numerous major and minor contradictions which are determined or influenced by the fundamental contradiction, some become intensified, some are temporarily or partially resolved or mitigated, and some new ones emerge; hence the process is marked by stages. If people do not pay attention to the stages in the process of development of a thing, they cannot deal with its contradictions properly.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm
what did he mean by this?seriously, i have no fucking idea what he is trying to say
>reading marxist literature
reported
>>9148942
Can you please FUCK OFF. If there's no room for fascist lit, there's definitely no room to discuss your bullshit.
What was up with the trout on the last page? What an odd way to end the story.
They were in the streams in the mountains brah.
>>9148940
I lol'ed when I read that
what a hack this guy is
>>9149523
Nobody will ever read about you
Has /lit/ read Negarestani?
>Augmented rationality is the radical exacerbation of the difference between ought and is. It thereby, from a certain perspective, annuls the myth of restoration and erases any hope for reconciliation between being and thinking. Augmented rationality inhabits what Howard Barker calls the “area of maximum risk”—not risk to humanity per se, but to commitments which have not yet been updated, because they conform to a portrait of human that has not been revised. Understood as the labor of the inhuman, augmented rationality produces a generalized catastrophe for unupdated commitments to human through the amplification of the revisionary and constructive dimensions of “ought.” If reason has a functional evolution of its own, cognitive contumacy against adaptation to the space of reason (the evolution of ought rather than the natural evolution of is) ends in cataclysm.
>Adaptation to an autonomous conception of reason—that is, the updating of commitments according to the progressive self-actualization of reason—is a struggle that coincides with the revisionary and constructive project of freedom. The first expression of such freedom is the establishment of an orientation—a hegemonic pointer—that highlights the synthetic and constructible passage that human ought to tread. But to tread this path, we must cross the cognitive Rubicon.
Indeed, the intervening attitude demanded by adaptation to a functionally autonomous reason suggests that the cognitive Rubicon has already been crossed. In order to navigate this synthetic path, there is no point in staring back at what once was, but has now been dissipated—like all illusory images—by the revisionary winds of reason.
It's a great essay. Some other related acceleration stuff below. Enjoy, e/lit/e gentlefrogs.
negarestani/loti
http://www.dougashford.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Labor-of-the-Inhuman.pdf
transcendental miserabilism
http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008891.html
accelerate manifesto
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/
malign velocities
http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/benjamin-noys-excerpt.pdf
>>9148812
>tfw you fuck up the goddamn greentext raargarblfrlarbl
i liked cyclonopedia as fiction when i read it in 2010, a sort of sequel was planned?
always thought that speculative realism thing and assortments were bs
>>9148847
I read some of Cyclonopedia too and then gave up. The concept is great but I found reading it kind of tiring. Fiction may not be his strength and Borges probably could have written it as a brilliant short story. Not that that's saying much.
I'm skeptical about spec-realism but I like what Reza is saying about the relationship of reason and freedom. Both are good looks and the idea that you might not get one without the other is appealing. Plus he doesn't seem to argue for a total disavowal of humankind, either. That's refreshing.
Is the pic related the best collection of William Blake's works? Is there a version that has all his prose and poetry, but more notebook segments, letters, and plates?
Also looking for a decent guide to Blake as well. Is A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake, by S. Damon any good? What about Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry? Thanks
>>9148802
Frye's book's fantastic. Still the best Blake primer.
How do I improve my cursive?
>>9148609
caligraphy or go back to primary school
>>9148614
what are some /lit/ suggested primary schools?
>>9148625
asking the real questions.
What publisher has the best quality? What's your favorite? I realized the other day that a lot of my favorite books are from oxford press?
Aldo Manuzio.
Everyone else is shit.
>>9148576
That's hardly fair. I'll reverse it: Dover Books.
Library of America, Everyman's Library
University presses, esp. hardcovers.
Any good books on Jocasta Complex?
>>9148563
Oedipus Rex
>>9148563
my diary duse
>>9148563
Jocasta is an onomatopeia of balls bouncing during sexual intercourse
what books have you read while stoned?
I read GR but I literally don't remember any of it lol
I started Moby-Dick while really high and it was great
Frankenstein
The sun also rises
Tbh I kind of wish I had read them sober, I missed out on like half the subtleties of sun also rises because I was baked the whole time
>>9149410
It's a book about a guy getting cucked. It's Hemingway getting cucked by proxy.
It's actually good up until the fishing trip ends, then it's awful.
Daily reminder that horror is not a genre that exists, for never has there been written fiction which is actually scary.
>>9148329
How do you determine whether something is scary? There are books which have scared people - don't you just mean "never has there been written fiction which is actually scary to me"?
>>9148380
>2017
>believing in subjective reality unironically
Just started crime and punishment. I'm hitting page 130.
I am laughing much more I expected without losing delicacy to be aware of nice passages.
But anyway. Am I reading it good? Or just the weirdness of Raskolnikoff is too much for me?
I'm reading it sometimes as a meme and I feel bad. But Tbh I'm enjoying it a lot.
>>9146947
>Am I reading it good?
Probably not but who cares
>>9146947
Why do faggots never wait to finish a book and then post about it?
>>9146962
Bc I'm posting it to 4chan
What are /lit/'s favorite horror anthologies?
>>9146658
>>9146658
Spookiest source book ever
Are monolinguals even human?
Weren't the greeks monolingual?
>>9146292
estne. stultum est.
This thread was probably made by an anxious monolingual hamburger