Since this new and untainted board is still here, I'm going

First a history of the English language and how it's changed from Old English (which is like the Norse which Vikings spoke) to English as spoken now across the world.
[If you want another series after this Stephen Fry's Planet Word is fun but not as thorough, and you should really read a book and watch less TV]
The Adventure of English with Melvyn Bragg
ep1 Birth of a Language (Heaney on Beowolf)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihoYL-dUK1g

ep2 English goes Underground (effects of the French Norman invasion)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pxf0ANntz64

ep3 Battle for the Language of the Bible
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP7ZErdNTZY

ep4 This Earth This Realm This England (Shakespeare)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsdiLyPUXps

ep5 English in America (Webster's)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeBcHkbf_oI

ep6 Speaking Proper (elocution and the pricks who want it)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb_UdA2NO_E

ep7 Language of Empire (English as spoken in the colonies)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s56lkK6q7p4

ep8 Many Tongues called English, One World Language (future of English as a common language)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vhpiy2C_ck

To give an alternative history of culture, this is from the Greeks to film and the internet in terms of pornography. The Classical section will teach you to laugh at big dicks instead of becoming aroused. It's from 1999, but most of the books in the world were written before then.
ep1 Classical era, being discovered by Victorians
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7steSPKtn1s
[For bonus Simon Goldhill, the first interviewee, have talk on ancient sex and modern art www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PpPZbtwTjU]
ep2 Print
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7Cqn9DT3KI
ep3 Photography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6yEaf7652o
ep4 Film
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TDLNKzImps
ep5 Video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2f2LgY7QmU
ep6 The burgeoning internet
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEyN9f48mmU

To skip back a bit here are two discussing the differing ideas of the word Luxury in the Ancient world and Middle Ages [sorry no youtube]
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ikws3_bbc-guilty-pleasures-1of2-luxury-in-ancient-greece-hdtv-x264_tech
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ig0xw_guilty-pleasures-luxury-in-the-middle-ages-full-documentary_tv
For more on changing attitudes to the flesh, Berkowitz's Sex and Punishment: 4000 Years of Judging Desire, does exactly that, and will take you from Babylon through the concept of hubris in Ancient Greek as hinted at in the second last documentary right up to now. For Greek attitudes on the flesh for those planning to become god bodied philosophers: start with Plato's Symposium.
For literary porn from the Ancient world, The Satyricon is hilarious gossip from Roman society; Lysistrata is a play about women not putting out in a vain attempt to get peace, which they don't want any way, and filled with dick jokes; Catullus writes poetry about being cucked by a senator and facefucking your rival poets with your verses.

[A random point of interest on the plebeian/patrician dichotomy: In 62 BC, Publius Clodius Pulcher tried to commit a crime of "incestum", which was any act extreme enough, and usually sexual if not with your sister per se, by disrupting the games which had been dedicated to Julius Caesar. He did this because he was patrician, born upper class, and so could only become tribune of patricians, but if he committed a crime of incest, he would cease to be patrician, and could easily win tribune of the plebes at a plebecite, which was an equally favourable position of power. Sometimes, it literally pays to be pleb to the point of incest]

To skip back further, Melvyn Bragg presents In Our Time which a very good series of intro podcasts/radio shows where there's never enough time for all the scholars on the subject of the episode to get everything covered. Again, these are jumping off points but here are two:

One on politeness, and its relationship to print:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C118F4p49_E

One on the Bluestockings, a salon which is important in turning out England's relationship to literary pursuits, and was frequented by Edmund Burke, one of the first people to promote idea of the Sublime in art:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b045c0h9

You can find the rest of the podcasts yourself and use them as the jumping off point for your own interests if these don't interest you, but they flesh out the period before the Romantics which I'm trying to get you towards.

For more on the Sublime you can read Burke's work on it.
Schopenhauer follows on from Kant in this idea, which essentially amounts to beauty<the weak sublime feeling of pain<the strong sublime feeling of destruction<the total sublime feeling of oneness with the nothingness. This became the major hierarchy of art for a while, so that picture of Caspar Friedrich's wanderer looking out over the immense uncaring mountains and fog that could easily kill him is the cover of every book from this era. Nietzsche's images of tightrope walkers and "higher climbers" (Ubermenschen) also relates to this idea of willing acceptance of the inevitablity of human vulnerability.

Which is why you need a Peter Ackroyd series on how Percy Bysshe Shelley crying like a girl in public was political and philosophical act at the time, and not because his name was Percy:

ep 1 French Revolution and effect on Blake and Wordsworth
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ

ep 2 Industry vs Country
www.youtube.com/watch?v=liVQ21KZfOI

ep3 Keats Byron Coleridge [and of course more incest]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6mefXs5h9o

[sorry about the formatting so far]

Bookmarked

Reading and Education difference in Attic Greece v Sparta due to their difference in government

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0z9sJyTv2w
Sparta had higher literacy

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Samuel Johnson, which shows how mad you have to be to make a dictionary by yourself and how you keep going despite all obstacles [It's also about the greatest literary champion of LONDON]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpVP8ezoVlM

If you want to see how mad making an encyclopedia like Diderot did from the start for the Romantic series, there's a satire by Flaubert called Bouvard and Pecuchet, which is basically a book about why you never go full /lit/sci/

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Translating the Bible, again with Melvyn Bragg

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2gfaks

It's the story of Tyndale's translation and points out its influence on the English language.

Of course, you can try to fit the whole of the Human Situation into one book, which is exactly what Aldous Huxley did with his lecture series The Human Situation. Yes, it even has what being an ectomorph means in there.

He also wrote a book about famous possessions in Loudon called, The Devils of Loudon, which later inspired Ken Russell's The Devils. This brings us back to censorship and close to /tv/ ew with a documentary which will explain why you can't show what the book does on screen to a UK audience, even if the book is historically accurate about the lesbian cat possessed nuns hungry for sex.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ppqutUB23A

Also featured are the adaptation of DH Lawrence's Women in Love and that very gay Greek wrestling scene, and the adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses being the first instance of "Fuck" being spoken on British screens.

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Back to the reign of the Sun King and its impact on culture when the Sublime still came from the divine right of kings, this one is about early ballet, as the Sun King would have danced in, and as is depicted in Russell's film quite well. The modern ballet they create to honour his contributions is performed at the end, so the documentary itself is only a portion of this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix2g3GTIv8w

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>More repressed faggot shit pls
Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys, about Baden Powell founding the scouts by writing a manual which is completely unsuitable for children

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlvQmItBVCc

>How is that /lit/
Have a documentary with Ian Hislop explaining the Poets Laureate to you

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGIzry8cCBY

Carol Ann Duffy's Warming Her Pearls is quite good and beautifully purely yuri, even if the rest of her poetry doesn't live up to a laureate necessarily.

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Are there any philosophers that somehow expand on Shopenhaurs work? Other than Hinduism, I've only read "the will as representation" also why does learning about the old Englishes matter?

Thanks for putting effort into this anon

I'm going to have to take a break soon, so we're having a post about whores

Fictionalised dramatised and account of Hogarth's Harlot's Progress set of print. Hope for all the ugmos
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPrqQyoZpRU

If you want a book for this one, Tom Jones is written by Fielding, who mostly appears in the movie as Hogarth's drinking buddy. It's about one of the foundlings and has a healthy amount of sexy bits.

If you want something blatantly pornographic from the era, the porno series above should have clued you in to Fanny Hill.

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The story of the book that catalogued every trick in LONDON in the 18th C
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMvMnmhRtGM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXgrutnhT9M

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>bitches ain't all that shit
Victorian female upstarts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsgC9ojd0yI

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>>34577
>Are there any philosophers that somehow expand on Shopenhaurs work?
It depends what you want specifically. On the sublime, it would probably be Otto Rank next for you. For meaning and language it could be Beckett or Wittgenstein, though it's probably not considering your second question. For pessimism, it could be Zapffe, though he's hard to find in translation.

>>34577
>why does learning about the old Englishes matter?
Because it improves your understanding of English and allows you to read old English works, and makes it easier to learn other Nordic languages. Beowulf is available in modern English, but that's like only working on your arms.

If you're not into that, it's probably not worthwhile, but you'll feel left out when we light up the wicker man and start singing this old hymnal if you don't at least understand Middle English:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCA9nYnLWo

Middle English you need for Chaucer and is much closer to modern English. Beowulf is for the more deeply invested in becoming a vikingish dragon slayer.

What is the point of this? Where is it going? Maybe you should provide a brief summary of what the fuck any of this even is before spamming us with 300 videos and articles.

>>34599
but OP gives a description of every video just above the link, and what do you mean where is it going

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>>34577
Try Nietzsche, Bergson, Langer or Bahnsen

Popping back in

>>34599
>What is the point of this?
To get people interested in things they might not have heard of before
>Where is it going?
Wherever you want

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Bright Lights, Brilliant Minds takes one year in each of three cities which shaped 20th Century movements in taste and thought. [no youtube links sorry]
First episode is in Vienna 1908. It has Freud, the Austrian expressionists, and the very strange porn an author wrote to Klimt about young boys and multicoloured fish.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24td9m_bright-lights-brilliant-minds-a-tale-of-three-cities-1-vienna-1908_travel
Second episode is Paris in 1928, catching the Lost Generation writers from America and Breton's surrealist manifesto
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x24tdbr_bright-lights-brilliant-minds-a-tale-of-three-cities-2-paris-1928_travel
Third episode is New York in 1951, and deals with jazz and Keuroac etc.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x25ecrr_bright-lights-brilliant-minds-a-tale-of-three-cities-3-new-york-1951_creation

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The same presenter also made this series A Very British Renaissance, which deals with the parts of the Renaissance nobody ever thinks of because of the Italian, French and Northern Renaissances making a bigger splash.
It deals with everything from architectural codes for religious subversion in Elizabethan England to how to transcribe Native American languages when you share no alphabet.
ep1 (Renaissance arrives)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCNKRDtpQY0
ep2 (Elizabethan code)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=py7tbDbJUdA
ep3 (Whose Renaissance)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLCtjBUNlpA

To bring this back to /lit/ there's another BBC series called A Very British Murder, which traces the history of murder mysteries from deQuincey's spoof "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" through Conan Doyle and Christie and Sayers. [available on youtube if you don't mind it being played at the wrong speed]

ep1

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18y345_a-very-british-murder-with-lucy-worsley-s01e01-pdtv-x264-c4tv_school

ep2 (moving to Victorian age)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18y254_a-very-british-murder-with-lucy-worsley-s01e02-pdtv-x264-c4tv_school


ep3 The Golden Age (Christie et al)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18xgi1_a-very-british-murder-with-lucy-worsley-s01e03_school

There is another series by the same presenter about Romance with a similar title, but I haven't seen it.

Sorry I keep forgetting to space these. AFK for a bit again, maybe someone else will add improving material.

überboard
how can other boards compete

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>>34598
>>34610
I've read Nietzsche and Wittgenstein before I got into Shopenhaur the others I've never heard of so I'll check them out

can someone save this somewhere else

>>34822
I'll save it on a Word document but I won't post it.

>>34845
Cruel

Some warnings on believing too much in what books say:

This one is about how translations can affect what you're looking for in an archaeological site. The French fucked up the translation of the Greeks, and dug up half of Delphi looking for the underground chamber beneath the oracle. A drunken argument about the translation leads to new research about where the oracle got its magic powers

www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1RkXX1Jhew

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This one is about a best selling book on honour killings in Jordan written by a virgin Christian woman who knew the victim. The virgin Christian woman is a con artist from South Chicago who wasn't in Jordan to have Muslim friends to be honour killed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkxTRTJ-s4

She got accepted for publication and an advance though which is more than some of us.


[To balance this, or if you have an interest in journalism, you might want to watch Shattered Glass, the movie about how one of the writers and editors for the New Republic, Stephen Glass, who fabricated stories for that magazine and others for years before anyone caught on.

No youtube link for the movie, but Stephen Glass has, since being fired and losing his chance to take the bar in at least two states, published a book if you don't want to hit up torrents.
The book is called The Fabulist and it's rather sympathetic to its hoaxer main character. I'd recommend finding the movie first instead, and not donating to the honour killing prevention fund the first book mentions.]

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Nietzsche is a fantastic, but often misread, writer. To illustrate how wrong it can go, please regard a terrible copyright dodge version of The Galapagos Affair [this is worth finding a torrent for too]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYFAgnVd5w4

In case you haven't worked out where misguided interpretations of Nietzsche gets you, it's to the Galapagos and dead. The book called Satan Came to Eden is written by the sole survivor who can't really be questioned, and makes the Nietzsche lovers seem more lovable since she was one.

For more on lies and truths, read On Truth and Lies in the Nonmoral Sense, by Friedrich Nietzsche.

>>34849
Your words wounded me. Here.
https://pastebin.com/mpzR0RnW

>>34901
i love you

this thread is based.

>>34470
As I've said before, /lit/ has always wished to teach, but never could in its own cesspool.

Here is kairos.

Will dump and add later.

If, instead of English or pornography, you want to view the history of culture as one of disease, have a series of lectures about how we write about, depict, try to prevent, and record great plagues.

First the Black Death setting the tone of the middle ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ImYgBeBS0


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Secondly, syphilis, the French disease. Well, it's the French disease if you're English. The name changes as it spreads from Spain, with the Poles blaming the Russians for it and the Russians blaming the Poles for it, and everyone else blaming their neighbouring soldiers.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQZ7i_8KjdY

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Thirdly, TB. This is the disease Byron wanted to die of because it was the most /fa/ of diseases, much better than a club foot. If you want a book about TB being comfy, read Mann's The Magic Mountain.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV-Q35ZyEGg

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Fourth lecture: cholera. If you want fiction near the subject you could get Love in The Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn2Bfc1Cgpo

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Next, typhus
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA2inXM-8fM

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Finally, AIDS
www.youtube.com/watch?v=odiSM7nYaE8

As you can see from the title cards these all come from Gresham College, and they have a range of free lunchtime lectures, not just medical ones, on their website. There's lots of /lit/ series, and a lot of STEM, none require background and most have transcripts on the site. Youtube is normally better than their site player though for me.

I'm going to bed. Bumps and dumps appreciated. Reminder to read both stickies because they're resources.

>>34928
>Bumps and dumps appreciated
bump