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Yuval Noah Harari and his work: good or pop-philosophy garbage for the plebs?
I specifically mean the following two:
>Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
>Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
I watched a talk he gave about Sapiens, and it seemed like he is fitting Dawkins's memes into an early historical context, making some commentary relevant in today's crisis situations.
Anyone read them? How are they?
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>>9155766
Is he redpilled?
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>>9155770
Seeing how "redpilled" these days means "agrees with /pol/ imbecility", I sure hope not.
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What does /lit/ think of Fuck Theory and his syllabus "for the end times"? (https://www.artforum.com/slant/id=65193)
It's supposed to help people survive Trump's presidency.
The works included are:
Eve Kosofksy Sedgwick. “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think this Essay Is About You.” In Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, Series Q (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003), 123–52
Barbara Smith, “Toward a Black Feminist Criticism,” 1977. In The Radical Teacher, No. 7 (March, 1978), 20–27 (reprinted from Conditions, vol. 1, no. 2 [October, 1977], 25–44)
Luce Irigaray. “Any Theory of the ‘Subject’ Has Always Been Appropriated by the ‘Masculine.’ ” In Speculum of the Other Woman (1972)
Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1992)
Aristotle, Categories; On Interpretation (~40 BCE)
Porphyry, Isagoge (~268-70 CE)
Seneca, Letters (65 CE)
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (167 CE)
Epictetus, Discourses (~104-7 CE)
Martha Nussbaum, The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994/2009)
Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (~524 CE)
Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad “al-Fârâbî” (~870–950 CE), The Opinions of the Inhabitants of the Virtuous City
Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (“Maimonides”), The Guide of the Perplexed (~1190 CE)
Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1675/1677)
David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)
Gilles Deleuze, Empiricism and Subjectivity (1953)
Henri Bergson, The Creative Mind (1946)
W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction (1935)
Antonio Gramsci, The Prison Notebooks (1929–35)
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>>9155622
holy shit im so triggered
thanks for posting this so we can have a circlejerk where we pat each other on the backs for being conservative
>Barbara Smith
Woman
>Irigaray
Woman
>Jameson
Marxist
>Aristotle
white male, so good
>Porphyry
Arab
>Seneca/Aurelius/Epictetus
stoic cucks
>Nussbaum
woman
>Boethius
GOOD
>Muhammad
Arab
>Rabbi
Jew
>Spinoza
Jew
>Hume
GOOD
>Deleuze
French post-structuralist so shit
>Bergson
French
>Du Bois
Black
>Gramsci
Evil personified
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Pretty cool in practice. Far ranging, rigorous, varied.
Even better if meant ironically, like more as a broad exercise rather than a sincere theoretical defense against an allegedly crumbling America.
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>>9155636
Americas days as the number one power in the world are certainly over, that has nothing to do with Trump though.
>RELIGION ABSOLUTELY BTFO!!!! HOW CAN THEY EVEN COMPETE
In all seriousness, Hitchens' roast of religion is pretty solid. How can theists even respond to that? I have never seen an answer to atheism a part from ad hominem in the form of fedora memes.
I never thought that people would go back to religion in the west after the new atheist movement because, while it didn't bring anything new to the table, it still made the ideas of atheism accessible to a mainstream audience yet there's been a sudden, albeit small, revival of Christianity amongst the neo-conservative movement.
Is this return of religion just a consequence of the neo-conservative movement who in itself is just an inevitable contrarian answer to hardcore feminist and leftist taking it too far or is there anything of substance behind it?
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>>9155537
>In all seriousness, Hitchens' roast of religion is pretty solid. How can theists even respond to that?
Faith, d'uh.
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Society and religion are one and the same. They can't be separated for long.
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>>9155547
>Society and religion are one and the same.
Define religion
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Newfag, who has always had an appreciation for literature, but only lately have I started reading for information as well as pleasure.
My question is: how can I gain as much knowledge as possible, and how do I know if I am progressing? Please forgive my stupidity.
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>>9155246
Why would you want to be /lit/. The majority of people on this site are social outcasts, virgins, and generally unattractive people who cling on to being "well-read" for a sense of consistent identity because they're so utterly insecure. Of course, this lack of authenticity is apparent when you see people wanking off over the same meme books (often shitty postmodern doorstoppers that aren't easily accessible to 'le evil normies', the sole reason for their being read).
As you will undoubtedly also have noticed, this thread isn't actually about literature, but rather about constituting your own idealized self-image against such evil forces as liberals, women, 'normies', and people who don't read. Hence all the threads about reddit, women, nonwhites, postmodernism/continental philosophy/Frenchies/feminism/booktubers/atheists etc.
In short, start with the Greeks and don't ever come on here again
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>>9155269
>As you will undoubtedly also have noticed, this thread isn't actually about literature
board, not thread.
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>>9155246
>>9155269
best first post fucking blown the fuck out of all other best first posts, ever.
Except for the bit hating on continental philosophy, that was uncalled for.
Hi /lit/, what else would you recommend for my nonfiction collection?
As you can see I am particularly interested in the covert crimes of state, the so called 'deep state' as Peter Dale Scott has called it, and a bit of classical history
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Gary Webb's work about the CIA/contras operations, I think they're (mostly, not all) collected to "Dark Alliance" book.
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>>9155070
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corner:_A_Year_in_the_Life_of_an_Inner-City_Neighborhood
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>>9155070
I have never understood the fascination with Garry Webb. He simply repackaged the work Alfred W. McCoy, Bob Parry, and others did in the 1980s covering the Contra Cocaine connection
And I already have Politics of Heroin and Crimes of Patriots
Should get Parrys book
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Recently started reading books. But I loose interest very fast. It's necessary to finish the book?
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>>9154849
You can read short stories if novels are too long for you.
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It's not if you actually don't enjoy reading it, but if it's like that with every book over 100 pages then I think you need to make an effort. In general, though, it is not necessary to read stuff you don't like, just remember to challenge yourself from time to time.
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If you recently started reading, I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that you're probably either reading A) Crap, or B) Things which just do not interest you.
I don't think you'd have trouble finishing something you enjoyed a lot, unless it was extremely long, like Wealth of Nations.
Which genres interest you the most, so we can suggest some things for you.
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Where were the poets between the 1th and 11th century, /lit/?
The last gret poet we had was Juvenal, and then... nothing until the troubadours. That's like 10 centuries without poetry in the Occident. Where were the poets? There's any book that deal with this problem?
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It's all poetry til 17th century.
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There's this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudentius
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>1th [...] century
lmao
they were certainly around, anon, but a large part of the problem likely has to do with the fragility of manuscripts and the condition in which they were kept. also, it is almost certainly the case that most poetry of the time (especially in now-England) existed in the oral tradition and was rarely transcribed, which again was no guarantee that the texts would survive to be copied by the moderns.
there's a reason we call them the "Dark" Ages, because only very little of the record had survived to modernity (the beginning of print culture, I mean)
Charts thread?
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>>9154364
Any similar charts that cover finance/economics?
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https://www.goodreads.com/list/tag/women
>leftist stawmen: the book
How can anyone take this shit seriously? Dostoyevsky is a good writer, but politically speaking this is /pol/ tier. He just makes the most insane and unbelievable caricatures of leftists and pokes fun at them.
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b-b-b-BAIT
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>>9154353
No im not baiting. If you want to really devastate someones ideaology, you disprove their strongest arguments. Not through
>HURR LOOK HOW DUMB ANARCHISTS ARE! THEY CANT EVEN HAVE MEETINGS CAUSE THEYRE ANARCHISTS XD XD XD ROFLMAO!
Its fucking stupid, he doesnt even fully understand the ideaologies hes refuting
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>>9154353
>he says he doesn't like an acclaimed book, it must be b8
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I've only read two books in my adult life, Propaganda by Ed Bernays and The Art Of The Deal by Donald Trump. How am I doing so far?
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>>9154339
Good. Continue on to The Bible.
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>>9154339
I refuse to believe that anyone on this website has unironically read The Art of the Deal.
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I just got back from watching Hamilton and it was surprisingly well written and every bit worth the hype. I think it will revolutionize Broadway with it's unconventional but long contemporary score, long awaited among plays/musicals. I also loved how much they were able to express and make contemporary audience identify with the characters by casting your 21st century everymen and women, specifically POC. Seeing them in this role really allows for a new level of empathy I don't think audiences would have if they were witnessing a bunch of old white men.
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>>9154298
you have the empathetic range and aesthetic sense of a toddler
also ree get out normie etc.
sage
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This is now a Book of Mormon thread.
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>>9154298
You spent more than a thousand dollars on a ticket to Hamilton?
wew
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He does a brilliant job of seeing through the ideology... 2017-02-25 05:09:22 Post No.9154082
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He does a brilliant job of seeing through the ideology...
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but what solutions does he offer?
I recently watched his interview with the BBC. He advocated a more welfare orientated state governed society without ties to Communism.
But is that all he has to offer? I like him a lot but he doesn't seem to offer any practical solutions for the future. He does a brilliant job of explaining desires, dreams and ideology but he doesn't seem to provide a well formulated plan for the future.
Anyone disagree?
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He can't offer solutions, really. He's a philosophy, not a policy guy. Neither can Badiou or hundreds of other Marxists beyond theorizing what revolution might look like. Marxism is worth reading critically but it's not a blueprint for action anymore.
He's told us how ideology works, and that's a pretty good contribution. He knows it's techno-dystopian nightmare from here and basically wants us not to be completely seduced by the ideological Matrix as it happens. Which it will.
"Think capitalism so that it doesn't think you." I read that today, it made sense. Mass social action beyond hysterical idpol virtue-signaling (or the Islamic State) is done. Just don't be a mindless neoliberal retard, plan for the future and use ya head. Beyond this what could anybody propose?
This is not to say something won't happen. Invariably it will. Bannon is mobilizing his team just as much as the left is. But it's ideology on both sides.
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> aging population
> depleting resources
> environmental catastrophe on the horizon
> a higher proportion of retards in positions of power than usual.
There are no positive solutions for the future.
"Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
And don’t have any kids yourself."
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So basically what the Scandinavians have going on then?
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How to write lewd scenes while still retaining dignity?
"She had a heaving bosom" doesn't cut it anymore.
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>>9153557
>her vagina smelled so putrid that my dick has no choise but to take one for the team and plunge into that horrible little satanic orifice to stop the stench
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I just copy stories from askreddit. there are usually 7-9 posts about made up sex at any given time so I've got a dearth of material to choose from
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>>9153565
>I've got a dearth of material to choose from
>dearth of material
>dearth
fucking learn what words mean before you use them.
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What are your thoughts on published author, poet, and all-around Renaissance man James Franco?
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kinda like his faulkner adaptations.
Everything I've read of his is like 7th grader level trash tho.
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is he jewish?
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>>9153516
His mom is. So yes.
Could any of his works be adapted? Should they be?
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>>9153355
Yes. No, it would miss the point
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>>9153357
They made a movie of Watchmen. They must've known they were missing the point, but they did it anyway.
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>>9153355
>this is water
>just a close up of his interview, dripping with sweat looped for several hours