Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1687. page

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What is the most cromulent English word?

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I have pic related and Stoner on my shelf to read. Which one should I read first?

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I hate vague books where it's up to you to decide what happened, or whether it was all in the protagonists head or not

I think it's lazy

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>The fundamental contradiction in the process of development of a thing and the essence of the process determined by this fundamental contradiction will not disappear until the process is completed; but in a lengthy process the conditions usually differ at each stage. The reason is that, although the nature of the fundamental contradiction in the process of development of a thing and the essence of the process remain unchanged, the fundamental contradiction becomes more and more intensified as it passes from one stage to another in the lengthy process. In addition, among the numerous major and minor contradictions which are determined or influenced by the fundamental contradiction, some become intensified, some are temporarily or partially resolved or mitigated, and some new ones emerge; hence the process is marked by stages. If people do not pay attention to the stages in the process of development of a thing, they cannot deal with its contradictions properly.

https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

what did he mean by this?

seriously, i have no fucking idea what he is trying to say

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What was up with the trout on the last page? What an odd way to end the story.

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Has /lit/ read Negarestani?

>Augmented rationality is the radical exacerbation of the difference between ought and is. It thereby, from a certain perspective, annuls the myth of restoration and erases any hope for reconciliation between being and thinking. Augmented rationality inhabits what Howard Barker calls the “area of maximum risk”—not risk to humanity per se, but to commitments which have not yet been updated, because they conform to a portrait of human that has not been revised. Understood as the labor of the inhuman, augmented rationality produces a generalized catastrophe for unupdated commitments to human through the amplification of the revisionary and constructive dimensions of “ought.” If reason has a functional evolution of its own, cognitive contumacy against adaptation to the space of reason (the evolution of ought rather than the natural evolution of is) ends in cataclysm.

>Adaptation to an autonomous conception of reason—that is, the updating of commitments according to the progressive self-actualization of reason—is a struggle that coincides with the revisionary and constructive project of freedom. The first expression of such freedom is the establishment of an orientation—a hegemonic pointer—that highlights the synthetic and constructible passage that human ought to tread. But to tread this path, we must cross the cognitive Rubicon.
Indeed, the intervening attitude demanded by adaptation to a functionally autonomous reason suggests that the cognitive Rubicon has already been crossed. In order to navigate this synthetic path, there is no point in staring back at what once was, but has now been dissipated—like all illusory images—by the revisionary winds of reason.

It's a great essay. Some other related acceleration stuff below. Enjoy, e/lit/e gentlefrogs.

negarestani/loti
http://www.dougashford.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Labor-of-the-Inhuman.pdf

transcendental miserabilism
http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives/008891.html

accelerate manifesto
http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/

malign velocities
http://sfbay-anarchists.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/benjamin-noys-excerpt.pdf

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Is the pic related the best collection of William Blake's works? Is there a version that has all his prose and poetry, but more notebook segments, letters, and plates?

Also looking for a decent guide to Blake as well. Is A Blake Dictionary: The Ideas and Symbols of William Blake, by S. Damon any good? What about Northrop Frye's Fearful Symmetry? Thanks

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How do I improve my cursive?

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What publisher has the best quality? What's your favorite? I realized the other day that a lot of my favorite books are from oxford press?

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Any good books on Jocasta Complex?

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what books have you read while stoned?
I read GR but I literally don't remember any of it lol

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Daily reminder that horror is not a genre that exists, for never has there been written fiction which is actually scary.

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Just started crime and punishment. I'm hitting page 130.
I am laughing much more I expected without losing delicacy to be aware of nice passages.

But anyway. Am I reading it good? Or just the weirdness of Raskolnikoff is too much for me?
I'm reading it sometimes as a meme and I feel bad. But Tbh I'm enjoying it a lot.

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What are /lit/'s favorite horror anthologies?

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Are monolinguals even human?