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Why is it that cultural critics seem to be more patrician than all the other academic philosophers and literary critics? Every single old Marxist, Lacanian, Nietzschean, Hegelian culturalist I've talked to has been incredibly knowledgeable of the canon compared to professors of philosophy and literature. Start talking about Aquinas and some scholastic fetishist might understand some of what you say, or a medievalist may be able to keep up with you to a point (and have perfect latin to boot), but the culturalist will always understand the reference and have a list of implications as a result of it ready to go. I find it kind of aggravating since political theory is incredibly boring, but these guys always act like heavyweights and often have knowledge of the canon to back it up.
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I really think Zizek most be on some kind of drug, he is like a funcional totally nuts guy
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>>9106232
because it's easy to understand cultural criticism since we're exposed to culture on a constant basis, but the same can't be said of more abstract academic philosophy or more formal literary criticism. you can't say that something is patrician without understanding it enough to know that it's "above" you.
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>>9106256
Does this mean plebs have the best eye for what's patrician?
Besides Boethius, what are some great works of Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages?
>Begin with the late Romans, including Boethius, of course. Then you should dip rather extensively into early Medieval. You may skip the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. That is mostly dangerous propaganda. Now that I think of it, you had better skip the Romantics and the Victorians, too. For the contemporary period, you should study some selected comic books.
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>>9106099
FESER GO AWAY
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>>9106132
The quote comes from A Confederacy of Dunces.
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>>9106099
If you're into history, I think the Royal Frankish Annals are pretty fun to read in translation. Also things by Bede
I realize I am opening myself to the requisite "reading translations means you are a philistine" comment
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4chan's very own gutenberg
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hi guise i just wanted to tell u when yall arent fagging out over commies or dfw pinche dubliners of fyokkarmadoestynabokyzinskikov or trying to be super edgy u guise r pretty funny and cool also when i have the means to do so one of my dreams is to open a boutique publishing house and publish u fukken losers (only if i think yr funny and cool tho which many of you can be) bc i know those libtard white jkr rowling everything is illuminated fellators who still think salman rushdie is actually edgy instead of some pleb edgy faggot whose verses were fucking boring and gay not that satanic at all totally not worth the fatwa at all desu nyt bestshitter dumpy ya gatekeepers sure arent going to
but anyways my point is if i think youre funny--youre funny. keep shitposting on lit but imaybe take the time to write everyday for an hour or two; it doesnt have to be cohesive, linear, whatever as long as you are honest, do your best and dont put on airs or pretend to be something it isnt good writing will always be good writing just letting you know that there is a wider market for you guys and im gonna make it happen
think honestly write honestly work honestly and know that your shitposts are 24k nuggets that you can one day send to me and actually deserve to be published unlike most of these soylent cookiecutter faggotkike liberal pseuds who arent worth the half the paper their table of contents is printed on
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just to clarify: that was all sincerity, btw. dream big my darlings--you are one of the few remaining bastions of #value-addedtruecontent
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>>9106041
don't kill yourself op.
whatever it is you may be going through right now, it's all temporary and it will get better with time. time cures everything.
stay beautiful and awesome op
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literally iim like super offended that u would even think that i would be thinking of offing myself groce
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Is blindness a cheatcode to get infinite literary talent?
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What other blind authors are there besides Milton and Borges and Homer?
Granted, those three are big fucking deals, but it's still only three.
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>>9106313
nope
t. guy who put battery acid in his eyes to write better horror
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Can someone explain to me why Borges is considered pomo
Where do I start with Sara Ahmed? A phenomenology of whiteness or Queer phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others?
htanks in advance
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>An Archive Of Feelings
>In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma. She challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking
Oh boy
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>>9105712
This is why analytic philosophy will always be better than continental wankshite that leads to this
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>>9105718
Analytic philosophy and queer bullshit are two equal errors the Brits made after misunderstanding continental philosophy.
I strongly feel that society, and life itself, is devolving into caricatures of themselves. Living, from day to day, feels like being involved in a satirical stage play.
Though it doesn't sadden me, I feel like it should not be this way. What books or philosophies deal with this feeling? Also, do some of you feel the same way?
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Eh, caricatures exist for a reason. A lot of people roughly conform to some sort of prescriptive trope. You might be blowing it out of proportion a bit.
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>>9105667
T.S Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
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>t. Holden Cauliflower
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Melmoth the Wanderer Reading Group 2017-02-14 05:59:15 Post No.9105471
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Come on, come all! The Melmoth the Wanderer reading group is ongoing!
Come meme yourself with a comfy Gothic variant of the Faust story! Ebook available in the Discord channel.
February 14 - February 21
https://discord.gg/NVtdUsf
(It's not like you have anything to do on Valentine's Day, so you might as well spend it reading)
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To anyone remotely interested, this is the work that Wilde was obsessed about in prison, then took inspiration from, after this release.
Bumping for you. May the gods prevent you from getting banned.
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>>9105794
I probably wont read this with you but I'll bump it becuase its a great thing.
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>>9105471
Was there a thread before about this reading group starting?
Also bump.
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What are the best books written by world leaders?
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inb4 mein kampf
also fuck off to /pol/
saged
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Whoops the poster below me mentioned Mein Kampf, funny guy!
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Are these good suggestions for a young beautiful 18 year old girl who is into the classics? (she's a bit of a noob haha)
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I'd recommend to start with a cookbook.
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>>9105164
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>9105155
>no mein kampf
>no Culture of Critique
>no The Art of The Deal
>no Death of The West
Honestly OP, do you want to redpill her on the Jewish menace or do you not even care?
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/lit/ writes a (good) book 2017-02-14 12:54:36 Post No.9104548
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I was going to step aside, and integrate CSiaCG into "pantheon," but I looked through and the philosophy is just not right. An anonymous narrative shouldn't be designed from the top down with rigid structure, but should emerge when ideas overlap and grow.
To that end, I'm doing some free marketing. My philosophy is better, and the surface level subject (mental illness, sexuality, socializing) is flat out more interesting than a weeaboo pretending to ask DFW questions
Here's the link.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-LqSX0517eH2gmWVdVcBDVSxq4n8HBsCJ6K9LYm-h3Q
Vandalism is welcome, but will be edited for comprehension.
Old stories which you don't know what to do with are much more welcome. Get them in here.
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This is an anthology which may gain a larger narrative structure. Bumping to contrast to the other attempt
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>phoneposter
Don't you have more cum guzzling to do?
We aren't writing an interesting book, at most we're compiling memes into its own mythology.
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my man in order for this to work you need a loose structure. my idea for a post modern YA doorstopper was to have a highschool that is filled with real authors (as kids) and we just go from there. you can pick authors and make short stories and do all kinds of shit as long as it loosely follows that idea. it's better because people don't bitch about constraints and you can do what ever with the characters.
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Is this actually good or is it just a meme?
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The cover looks like a cunt
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reddit tier
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>>9104532
who let you on this board?
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What is some quintessential demsoc literature? Ive read Marx and Rousseau
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>>9104208
>demsoc
Fucking classcuck.
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>>9104208
Read "the systems view of life"
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>>9104370
demsoc isn't necessarily always capitalist, social democracy always is though.
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My major is math and I take history philosophy and English electives lol
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>>9104039
Go write a shitty blog that nobody reads except yourself, anon.
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That is universally what I do.
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>>9104664
*unironicly
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is he the biggest cuck in all of literature
>dedicate you life to defending your oneitis's son who looks exactly like your chad bully
>die a virgin
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>>9104700
>literature
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>>9104713
go to bed harold
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>>9104700
>tfw snape created a fetish for you
>tfw you can only get off to skinny goth teens fucking qtpi blondes in normie bedrooms.
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How do you get the motivation to write? I can't help but feel writing is a waste of time, due to the fact that I'm not talented enough to ever create something of market value. If publication is not the end goal, what is?
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>>9103313
>If publication is not the end goal, what is?
To make something that you feel is important. If you care about it deeply, someone else is bound to take an interest in it
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The answer is simple: don't write.
Just imagine if everyone in the world would write... What an awful situation! You're part of the half that mustn't write.
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I have great enthusiasm when it comes to writing my journal because that's just for me and I don't care if it's shit writing but I've given up on all the short stories I've started because ultimately they were unoriginal hackjobs