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>>9189780
Ladies and gentlemen, this is college.

>>9189780
>>9189798
Ladies and gentlemen, this is humanities.

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>750 word essay overdue a week and haven't even started
>whatever I write doesn't match my thesis (sometimes I begin rambling on with an completely unrelated topic) and have to start over
>ability to form coherent thought worsening and vocabulary getting sparser and sparser as time goes on due to undoubtedly undiagnosed cognitive degradation of some kind
>midway through reading sentences suddenly begin thinking of something else

>>9189754
>Is it wrong to give up politics and to pursue literature alone?

No

>Or, are the apolitical philosophically barren, or idle?

Quite the contrary. Freedom from the mundane affairs of politics opens up within you new conceptual spaces and a disposition towards abstract contemplation. Intellect is the only pure form of thought and it works best when it is untarnished by the flaming hot opinions of a thousand bomb throwers who think they have the answer.

>>9189771
Philosophy is pathetic mental masturbation
Politics are the brave application of practical and noble thought

>>9189785
All politics is applied philosophy, but not all philosophy is politics.

Theory fiction sounds like a cool concept. What are some essential works and what, if any, prerequisites do they require?

What is it?

>>9189796

I would define it as horror/psychedelia written in the style of academic prose. Part pataphysics, part Lovecraft, part Blare Witch Project. Dense prose, made up words, occult-looking diagrams. Basically, people took Deleuze and just ran with it.

Philosophically, it's related to speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy and accelerationism.

Nick Land, Reza Negarestani, CCRU are people to check out.

http://www.ccru.net/digithype/barkerspeaks.htm

https://youtu.be/6HgCjtd2iPU?t=1m47s

>tfw too smart to form a coherent sentence

>>9189480
>see post
>go to post the meme i made the other week
>someone else already posted it

What else can be achieved, when one has achieved all?

Immolate yourself my man

wot n' tarnation

It taint incorrect, it's regional you twat.

me, have you fucking read my diary dude!?

>>9189236
Plato
Augustine
Aquinus
Leibniz
Wittgenstein
Lewis
Kripke

Laozi
Emerson
Joyce
/endlist

>>9188951
Fucking obviously

>>9188951

No shit. Which school is giving out 20k stipends? that's pretty much unheard of in non-research based programs

no. It is only worth it to attend if you are saddled in debt because only then will you feel the pressure to produce the finest work possible.

NRSV for the win

>NSRV with Apocrypha in the Eastern Orthodox
No, just no.

The Orthodox use the Septuagint as Old Testament, not the Masoretic Text with the Deuterocanonical books added to them.

Here's Asser's English translation of the Septuagint: http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/zot.htm

And Here's David English translation of the Patriarchal Text of the New Testament:
http://www.christianorthodox.net/orthodox-new-testament/

KJV is really beautifully written

The Kalevala is pretty weird.

can someone do a travel lit one that'd be good in lieu of traveling through time? also an intro to kaballah one

>>9188356
the universe is MY will.

the universe is MY will

now what?

The universe is everyone's will.

i was 7 when revenge of the sith was coming out and i was really excited so my dad bought me the novelization and we read it together

>>9188771
>7

Holy fuck i'm old.

>>9188332
Put it down now, anon. Don't waste your time. There is nothing good here. The most recent novels go so far as to feature niggers and contain pronouns like "Xer".

ass

satanism

Modern scientific materialism

>step 1. don't be a disgusting monolingual pleb
>step 2. don't be a filthy uncultured prole
>step 3. use a companion guide

>he can't even into French
>he wants to understand complex multilingual puns and referenes

>>9187981

> buying books to read books

no thanks

>>9187985

I'm sorry, in Burgerland for thousands of miles all around me, is my own country. So the pressure to learn another language is not there in society. Do I regret not leaning a language when I was young? Abso-fucking-lutely. Can I do anything about it? Probably not.

It's best to learn a language if you immerse yourself in it, and as of now I have no means of doing that.

>>9187467
Uniqueness in the sense that what youre reading is yourself, with symbolic prompts (letters), and, therefore, supreme intimacy. What film has that individual reading lacks is an objective history (earlier films) and therefore models that may be used or referenced or both. Watching a movie is seeing with your eyes, hearing with your ears; reading a book is conning or deciphering letters so as to hear, as it were, with your eyes. Reading is synaesthetic, watching a film, less so....

>People tend to hate shit like this; nonetheless, over here, it was a fun exercise. Clearly problematic. Post this?

movies usually are around 90 mins long. you can only pack so much plot and character development into that time frame. it's like a shortstory. it can be masterfully executed but it won't ever reach the depths a full lenght book can.
books are also a lot more personal because they leave more to the imagination of the individual reader, which makes it a more relatable experience.

for example, if the prota love interest isn't described physically, you will project on to her your ideal features, which makes it easier for you to relate to his interest to her. in a movie, the main characters mpdg either appeals to your taste or not.

>>9187809
>actual content on /lit/

>>9186366

Infinitely less.

>>9186366
I would kill myself. Roll the Dice. try again

I would just be confused because that means time traveling into the past is possible