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>>9992287
My future blog desu, follow me on twitter for eventual release in ~2months

Im surprised this hasn't gotten a lot of attention. I thought the way of the superior man was a great book

>>9992287
Everyone itt should just read gorilla mindset and go full pua/dark triad rapist, it would probably be cathartic for you.

>>9991971
Post an excerpt for meaningful advice.

>>9991971
Read, read and read. Percieve the writing and analyze it.

>>9991994
sounds like lots of work

>>9991958
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Because the other option for most sci-fi is Lucian wrote it, it's been here since the Greeks.

Shelley's a valuable marker because romanticism and electricity are modern obsessions.

Bergerac's Voyage for instance draws heavily on Lucian, and Kepler draws on similar classics and also wrote in Latin.


They're not the new mass market trend that Shelley was because that didn't exist before Byron, and she shifted non-scientific myths into being scientific, instead of drawing on works that talked mostly about philosophers/scientists or were written by them.

The electricity really is the big thing though because making frogs legs twitch with galvanism was just becoming a thing the year she wrote it. The science wasn't sciencey enough to write science fiction like that before her either.

Gothic as a genre has been viewed as some form of early proto-sci-fi, it deals with similar themes.

>>9992018
Gothic is more Proto-Fantasy than anything else

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>>9991937
David Graeber is an anthropologist and might have had something to say about the manifesto

...I want a house like that.

Use Mauss' The Gift

Short as fuck, classic, endlessly commented upon, endlessly influential in anthropology and sociology

Jacques Ellul, technological society

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>max stirner
>friedrich engels

>Leo Tolstoy
>Goya

>jean-louis david

You don't even know his fucking name was Jacques-Louis David and you say he's your "favourite visual artist"? Jesus, man.

>30 pages per hour

wew lad

>>9991729
Welcome to office life, OP. It isn't all that bad when you figure things like this out.

That said, it's harder to get away with reading books at the office than it is articles, but if you can read books, more power to you.

I can rel8. Finished a short story collection today because the condoms I was supposed to pack didn't arrive on time.

>>9991649
I think it is funny that most modern day"Mutualists" have never even read Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and are just contrarian Lolbergs.

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>>9991649
Stirner, Bakunin, Kropotkin, etc.

Guérin's No Gods No Masters is a handy anthology of a lot of the biggest thinkers in the movement.

>>9992536
... Actually deep.

Depends on if you put more emphasis on the law, that being reason, as purely objective or a mix of subjective and objective. If you say it has elements of both, congrats you are a Hegelian.

>>9992268
>reads the preface to the Phenomenology of Right once

>>9992276
Well I mean some people are Kantians and really don't like Hegel. So it does depend

It's Christopher Tolkien all over again

>>9991742
Christopher is a pretty good editor

>>9991752
And a douche

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>>9991577
Very. I am the epitome of /lit/.

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What does everybody here like to read?

>>9991650
Harry Potter.

Deadeye Dick

It's really Slaughterhouse Five.

Pretty Daze

The Sirens of Titan

post what

https://www.goodreads.com/mrsbunny1

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/10452400-josiah : I ran out of friend requests last time, so everyone add me xD . I have a lot of pleb shit, but that was from years ago

>>9991168
Unironically Proust. His analysis of fame is very accurate.

>>9991168
A lot of celebrities "write" books.

>>9991168
I'm curious about this too. Junji Ito had a short story about someone obsessed with a transgender novelist who would kidnap people and encourage them to find their quirks so she could write books about them. It's manga rather than a literary novel, but it's the first thing that came to mind. It's in his Fragments of Horror book if you're interested.

支那人。怎么讲,英语读者好像没有怎么区分道教和道家,这两者是截然不同的。首先,应该严格地将道家作为一个观念史的概念来看待,是一种被建构的叙事传统,甚至有当代学者认为把庄子和老子放在一起处理都是可疑的……之后都用英语。

A chink here. How to put it, I observed that anglophone readers usually don't distinguish Daojia(Taoism, a school) from Daojiao(a religious tradition), at least on this board. Both translated as Taoism in English literature, the latter is but an anachronistic collection of superstitions from myriads of sources and apotheosis of some major ancient thinkers including Laozi. There was some clerical effort putted in to construct a metaphysical system to compete in the speculative culture motivated by the massive influence of Buddhism. But the result was pathetic, most of time, intellectuals were either Buddhists or new orthodoxy confucianists.

>>9991194

I knew they were related but different things, just wasn't sure how different they were.

>>9991228

I think one should treat Taoism(the philosophical school) as a working concept of history of ideas, not a monolithic fetishized unity. Some contemporary scholars even think we should separate even put into oppositions Laozi and Zhuangzi, two absolute central figures of Taoism.

Twin Peaks*

Goddamn cellphone.

I don't know any suggestions, OP, but because I'm also curious, I will give your thread a polite bump.

Been curious to read The Secret History of Twin Peaks for a while. From the sounds of it from people on here, it's meant to be good. I'm sure it'd provide me with motivation to re-watch the original show and re-watch The Return too.

will there be a season 4 or anything new from lynch ever again or is he going to hang up his cap now?