What do you think about the fairly recent development of the philosophy of immersion?
>philosophy of having other people create products that give you the illusion of choice and free will through the manipulation of experience via images
Where do I sign up?
>>9908317
You're already signed up.
If Camus had lived longer he would have written the next great philosophy and would be celebrated ten times over Jean-Paul "Child Fiddlre" Sartre and his hawk faced serial molester Simone de Beauvoir.
>>9908291
That maybe so, but I doubt that Camus would sit his fat ass and write philosophy books like Sartre and Simone.
He probably would make a lot of books with would have his philosophy inside it.
>>9908309
>he's never read the myth of sisyphus, the rebel, betwixt and between, reflections on the guillotine, and neither victims nor executioners
>>9908319
From him I only read the Stranger (idk if this is the english name), and a bit of one of his plays, but other than that, no, I didnt read it, but I am aware of those and all the stuff in them.
But he would write more.
william t vollmann attends a demonstration to shut down/prevent the opening of a nuclear plant as a young man. he and the others obliviously fail and get run off by the national guard, he wonders what there objective should have been and if they were so sure nuclear power was so dangerous and it was going to cause lets say ten thousand deaths would it have been justifiable to be violent and lets say kill nine thousand people. should they of pull a 9/11 to crash a jet into the reactor to prevent it from being built. is it possible for there to be a moral calculus for violence? this was something he could not answer right away and took the next 20 years to examine. lads what are your thoughts on the moral calculus?
>>9908259
interview with silverblat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ntVpQVPvEE
>>9908259
He didn't invent the moral calculus. Mill did.
Was it autism?
It was peronism.
I was in the library and read some stories out of 'the aleph and other short stories'. There was a story in there about some guy named bosqos and talking immortal cubes and Plato call the immortals, but all I could find was the immortal. Does anybody know what story I'm talking about?
>>9908270
I meant to say I tried to look it up but could only find the immortal by Borges.
What are some good novels involving gnosticism or other heterodox christian sects?
Focuault's Pendulum
>if you like occultism
Holy Blood, Holy Grail
>like a better Dan Brown
The Secret Magdalene
>romance novel about a gnostic jesus
VALIS trilogy
>pkd's schizo-gnosticism
Nag Hamaddi Library
>ancient scrolls by actual gnostics
the catechism of the roman catholic church
>>9908208
>Focuault's Pendulum
Baudolino has the better run down of Gnostic doctrine. But I'd recommend most of Eco's oevre to anyone interested in christian sects.
What the HECK even is a phenomenology, /lit/?
Another distraction from anything we really want and anything we really fear.
>(((Husserl)))
Makes one wonder.
it's basically just a way of putting ontology/metaphysics to one side (so by that I mean questions about the external world existing or not, realism vs idealism vs dualism vs etc), and 'studying' just the contents and structure of your actual conscious experience
and by 'study' it's basically just a way of carefully noticing and describing what your conscious experience is like
so we have things like a phenomenoligical description of ones body, which involves describing in detail the way in which one is embodeied within a publicly experienced world
How right is he on Nietzsche and Jung?
50%
FAR right
88%roughly speaking
Didn't Pinecone write a short little article about his thoughts on 9/11, close to right after it happened? Or am I imagining things/mixing him up with someone else? I can't find the article anywhere, at any rate. Anyone on /lit/ have a clue?
Tommy wrote about the Watts riots DeLillo wrote about 9/11.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html?mcubz=0
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/dec/22/fiction.dondelillo
Pynchon's novel "Bleeding Edge" covers 9/11 as well though.
dfw wrote about 9/11
I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee recently for the first time. I enjoyed it, but I am curious to know if anyone here thinks the author took too many liberties in describing the confrontations and direct actions taken by the pivotal chiefs and important figures during this time period.
I also have been wondering if there is a comparable book describing the eastern American Indians' stories and history post Jamestown.
>>9907876
This is probably the only book I ever had to put down because it was too depressing. The repetitiveness of the American government wanting land, not being able to possess it legally, signing some bullshit treaty, provoking Native Americans into a fight so they could break the treaty, killing them and resettling the women and children into a shithole over and over again just exhausted me. They literally just did that over and over again for over a century.
If you owned land and the American government wanted it in the 1800's it was as good as a death sentence a lot of the time.
>>9907894
My experience was really similar, I kept having to put it down after a chapter or a passage. In the end the repetition of the stories really felt like a deliberate choice from the author trying to hammer home the chiefs' and peoples' point of view.
Thoughts - 8/17/2017
Discipline is the ability to do something continually with or without the motivation to do so.
Physical training is essential to a healthy mind and a healthy soul.
One cannot preach to know virtue if they fail to practice in maintaining their inner virtue.
Physical training, and fitness, is a testament to the willpower of man and should never be forgone.
its a board for books queerlord
Can we talk about the greatest most influential philosopher the world has ever seen?
All modern philosophers exist solely because of him and his work and power.
Oh, a thread about Thomas Aquinas, nice!
>>9907717
No you fool.
This thread is about the founders of the modern age and ruler of all.
take your italian memer somewhere else.
>>9907699
ILLUMINATI MAN RUNS EVERY THING
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>>9907650
You fell for a meme
>>9907650
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>>9907667
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Let's say that I'm a 31 year gastroenterologist from Canada's sleepy West Coast who spends his days playing in a dream pop band, reading Rimbaud, listening to Death Metal and hanging out in bookstores. What sort of books would you recommend me?
>>9907585
ban these threads now
Forgetting Elena
i would say you should consider suicide. And Joseph Mcelroy ;)
Just finished reading this. What did I think of it?
Fuck off, this meme is awful
bump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEcQxQRVa-A
>tfw trying to read GoT but there is so many names and events of backstory to memorize that I can't keep up
What's wrong with me?
How do you even remember how to breathe?
>>9907567
best way to do it is to read the asoiaf wiki. keep clicking those blue links until you understand everything.
>>9907567
Watch the show, the visualization helps you to remember all the names/families by giving them a face.