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>>9966786
fags reply

>>9966786
I suppose the ultimate book for you would be Frankenstein, especially as Victor shares your feelings on meddling with God's domain after the fact. Other suggestions would be Herbert West: Reanimator by Lovecraft (doctor brings the dead back to life), or Cat's Cradle by Vonnegut which is (at least in part) about the terrible things that can happen when scientists create bigger and better weapons without considering the permanent effect they can have on the world.

The whole cyberpunk genre might also fit into your specification (start with Neuromancer), as there's usually elements of surpassing the natural there via augmentation (as well as creating life in the form of artificial intelligence).

Afraid I can't be more specific than those. Perhaps some of the fine folks in the SFFG can help?

>>9966779
But the fourth point is completely unnecessary, as the success of the natural sciences did not supplant or eliminate philosophy. Just look at the philosophy of science, particularly of physics, in the analytic tradition. If anything, science and philosophy are continuous. Continental reevaluation isn't necessary

People won't like this, but IMO continental philosophy's defining trait is that it's written as a game – it's completely involuted and obsessed with its own tradition, and the idea is to come up with cleverer and cleverer ways of subverting that tradition, deconstructing it and rebuilding it, over and over again. Continental philosophy has no content or purpose outside of this self-referential academic game. It's like a heat sink for intelligence, a high form of mental athleticism.

>>9966662
I just started the first book. I'm not far enough in to make a solid opinion yet. However, the story starts off with a bang. I have high hopes for it being an action-packed fantasy series.

>>9966662
>>9966662
High fantasy verses low fantasy

at least Erikson can fucking write

>>9968668
A Song of Ice and Fire only appear as low fantasy cause none of the POVs and barely anyone they meet have magic. Yet the world is full of magic. It's a shitty premise either way. Three should be one.

>>9966615
I don't even remember a second Jason, but the important one is /pol/ trash.

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>>9966634
>I don't even remember a second Jason

>>9966614
>philosophy and the epistemology behind it
There is none.

>>9966642
I think there is
The fact that the simulation hypothesis is not disprovable sets some hard limits for the knowledge about existence and perception, just the same way hard solipsism is not disprovable.

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>>9966614
So there are two directions to look in. There is the technologist version of simulation. This is what Elon Musk and other silicon valley types are generally talking about, something akin to the Matrix or even Plato's Cave.

The other angle (and I think the more nuanced and interesting take) is pomo version, put forward by people like Baudrillard, Debord, McLuhan. In this version, it isn't a digital apparatus that prevents access to the Real, but rather the symbolic world of knowledge that is slowly but surely covering over the real with the Simulacra.

Both versions overlap, but I think Elon Musk is missing the bigger picture. I'd recommend Society of the Spectacle, Simulation and Simulacra, The Perfect Crime and Impossible Exchange as good texts to read.

>>9966582
my diary desu

Fantastic Mr. Fox
Watership Down
Animal Farm
The Master and Margarita

>>9966577
>the atlantic
Jesus christ, what a fucking idiot. Who is Mr. fucking Atlantic to say what makes a great writer? Kafka was an absolute genius, one of the most truthful writers to ever exist. This idiot has such a narrow-minded conception of literature, seemingly based off of cliches he heard from other people. I hate modern society's arrogance in the face of the classics.

>>9966647

This. I can't believe The Atlantic ran that. Kafka was massively influential ... unlike Joseph Epstein or whatever fraud wrote that hit piece. That was almost painful to read due to its ignorance.

>Great writers are impressed by the mysteries of life; poor Franz Kafka was crushed by them.
Is he saying here that Proust wasn't crushed by life? Because he definitely was, in a different way than Kafka, but in all honesty, all great writers are crushed and broken.

Honestly not his best work. I feel that it's only popular for its shock value.

>>9966566
no, that was the point of the book, basically. his self-hatred prevented him from seeing his capacity for compassion. Contrary to popular belief, he isn't exactly a self-insert for Dazai, though the book has autobiographical undertones. He's more like a Stephen Daedelus

>>9966617
Right, and I understand that the epilogue clearly illustrates that point when she calls him a good boy, an angel. I guess my question is more along the lines of, could he have learned to love himself? Or was there a point of no return, where he gets too deep in his self hatred?

no he just has daddy problems
if frankenstein had looked after the monster better it would have been okay

>>9966556
true

frankenstein was irrational and maybe the dumbest character in the book?

>>9966561
no, just blind

Better yet introduce it in your ass

Do you actually think that pleb trash will impress anyone here? Lurk more /pol/fag.

>>9966536
Did you look at pic-related? lurk more newfag

What the hell is ctmu

only pseuds are obsessed with pseuds

>>9966512

Cognitive theoretical model of universe.

>>9966635
Brainlet

>>9966480
Add Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Ulysses, the Iliad, and the Odyssey

The fault in our stars

harry potter series

>>9966462
bump!

I need to publish this so that my dad will acknowledge me as human again

Best thing to do is google "submit short (genre) story", there are plenty of databases online.

>>9968529
I've done some research like that. They usually give the standard publications, which I will try. I was also wondering if there's more 'emerging' online publications or something that people were reading widely. Something like Jacobite or Jacobin, whatever it is that Nick Land has been submitting to.

>>9966391
Blood Memedian

>>9966391
Ulyshit

>>9966391
Pedoita

>>9966343
Unironically the FT

Also their book recommendation articles can be good especially for non-fiction

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