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What do you guys think of Claude Levi-Strauss?
I'm currently reading Structural Anthropology and liking it a lot. What do you think of strcuturalism? What other books and authors do you recommend on the whole subject of anthropology?
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>>8838559
Was he redpilled?
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You can spend all this time learning about structuralism only to realize it's already quaint and irrelevant. And then you learn post-structuralism and you're finally caught up to the 1970s, and you're still 40 years behind real life.
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>>8838559
Thumbs up OP.
Structuralism is very good & worthwhile. I'm a Lacan guy myself.
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is this book good?
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>>8838521
It's by Chomsky and isn't linguistics so probably not.
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>>8838521
> Reading ((((((Chomsky))))))))))))
You should read Hitchens' critique of that guy first.
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>>8838521
its alright.i read it not too long ago but the effects of the wars in the middle east are and have been well known. in terms of theoretical depth, it'll probably leave you wanting. think of it as long editorial story about why we shouldnt have been there.
neoimperialism is an interesting topic, but probably should be viewed through the lense of other works.
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Do you read new books? 2016-12-13 07:18:34 Post No.8838473
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I haven't read a single book released in the last 10 years.
I just don't know how to follow along and find something new that I would like.
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Read old books then...
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Mostly because I only started reading for myself about a year ago I am still reading through the classics. I got caught up in a lot of Russian works about six months ago and just finished TBK the other week. The closest book I read to coming out this century was IJ.
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There hasn't been anything interesting in the past 10-15 years.
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At which book does this series turn to shit?
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The first one
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5 desu
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>>8838439
OP's question wasn't "At which reply does this thread turn to shit?"
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Studying literature in school. 2016-12-13 07:02:59 Post No.8838417
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Studying literature in school.
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Hey y'all.
I've been thinking lately, is studying literature as a form of science that meaningful?
From high school and a few literature classes I took in college, it seems to be that the study of literature, at least at the beginner level, largely consists of reducing a work to its core staple elements.
I'm thinking of things like plot diagrams, identifying various staples like who is the hero, what kind of hero they are, etc...
I don't see what there is to gain from any of that. I assume no one here reads a book and considers these kind of topics you learn in school. In fact, I think it takes away from not only the enjoyment by making it such an arduous process, but also takes away from the writer's intentions. I think literature is often abstract, you know? I don't dissect a book while reading it, instead I finish it and then contemplate the core principles the author was trying to convey, or certain interactions that I found particularly interesting.
What do you guys think about studying literature in the way it's taught in schools versus how you or I might read a work of fiction?
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try graduating high school. this is an 18+ site
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>>8838429
And this is a literature board, yet you can't read.
rec me some Anglo-Saxon literature /lit/
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIac4nKaAy4
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>>8838405
define anglo-saxon
do you mean beowulf?
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Start and end with Beowulf
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Hay /lit/ what do you think of great expectations
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I was disappointed.
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Read for the first time this year liked it way more than I thought I would. It was hilarious in places sad at others and gripping throughout. Definitely a book I would recommend to others. Are his other works as good as this
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>>8838378
Haven't read it but I have great expectations for it.
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Is detective fiction a literary genre, or are there works in it that fit the qualification of literary? or is it just trash?
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>>8838366
>literary genre
Are you confused? "Genre" refers to science fiction, fantasy and, yes, mysteries and detective stories. "Literary" fiction is the classics, the cannon, and stuff like Murakami that's not explicitly genre.
The thing is, all good novelists are writing mysteries.
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Hammet's pulp but he's solid. Better than Lovecraft or REH. At least in terms of story.
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what did they mean by this? 2016-12-13 06:39:38 Post No.8838343
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what did they mean by this?
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> deterritorialization
> schizoanalysis
> machinic assemblages
> body without organs
> rhizomatic lines of flight
> smooth/stratified space
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Shits don't have identities as objects in space. They have virtual ideal identities based on our network of infinite reflexive associations with all other phenomena
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>>8838440
This sounds pretty cool desu. Too bad he could never explain anything in terms this simple and always had to resort to almost nonsensical sounding prose. People think Kant, Heidegger, and Derrida are difficult to read, but at least I can make sense of them. Kant actually seems pretty clear desu, and Heidegger isn't too bad either. Deleuze on the other hand is seemingly intentionally obscure. He often switches the meaning of a word or phrase half way through a sentence so as to draw some analogy, produce a play on words, or otherwise create some sort of poetic affect. He uses phrases ambiguously. He constructs seemingly endless sentences. He uses almost as many neologisms as conventional words. What a headache.
I'm not one of those people who outright rejects continental philosophy in general or even deconstruction in particular (perhaps its most obscure and controversial form), but this is precisely why I prefer analytic philosophy (also Generative Grammar and cognitive science are pretty cool desu senpai).
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>>8838440
Any novells that touch this?
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>trying to read as much books as possible
>while your memory can't recollect the prose and some fragments of story shortly after you read the book
>trusting yourself to be able to hold the same opinion about a book after two years
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>>8838315
Why does it matter. Be honest, the only people you discuss books with are here on /lit/.
Re-reading a book a few years after the first time and comparing your thoughts then and now is enjoyable and it is interesting to see how you have changed.
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>>8838315
>Holding exactly the same opinion on ANYTHING after two weeks
Sheep
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>holding opinions
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Best short story collections akin to Dubliners, Death in Midsummer and the like.
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>>8838262
Kim was such a qt
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>>8838262
Winesburg, ohio
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>>8838262
"What we talk about when we talk about love."
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If I found out that his works were being taught in my local public high school, how would I go about stopping this? I fear it's a bigger problem than most of us realize.
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Care to elaborate? I know extremely little about John Green except that he published some book about cancer and normie history videos
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get a grip
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>>8839017
He has an extremely biased youtube "educational" channel called crash course where he goes over different subjects. All of his videos are not made by him and are actually scripted by some high school teacher and his books are crappy and made to appeal to the "misunderstood" teenagers.
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One day, it happens. You've finally gone too far. You heard rumors but played them off as the ramblings of some schizophrenic conspiracy theorist. You almost had to in order to keep living. But it was real. The Trumpfschtaffel kicked down your door. You had mocked the God Emperor one too many times on an anonymous imageboard.
They held a kangaroo court for you, no jurors, no witnesses. The judge passed his sentence upon you. "Send him to the Gass chamber!" he shouted at the two non-working class white males now gainfully employed as bailiffs. The troglodytes let out slack jawed chuckles as they dragged you away. How did it it come to this? How could this be real?
They brought you into a dark room, light from the hallway revealed blue stains across the concrete walls. A solitary chair sat in the center of the room complete with restraints. This was it. The last threshold you'd cross, the final seat you'd take. They locked you into the chair and left the room in silence. You noticed another chair in the room sitting directly opposite your own. It looked to be a well cushioned recliner, completely out of place in this otherwise barren setting.
Suddenly the chamber door opened. A single man entered the room, a corona of light surrounding his rotund form. In a slow yet fluid series of motions he shut the door behind him and took a seat. He lit a flashlight under his chin, illuminating his face as one would do when telling a ghost story at night. It was William H. Gass.
He didn't acknowledge your presence directly, he never shone the light on your face. It was unimportant for what he was tasked with doing. He began to recite The Tunnel from memory. As you faded from consciousness around the middle of We Have Not Lived The Right Life only the barest acknowledgement of his deed crossed his face. You were nothing to him. He had done this six million times before.
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why am i so aroused?
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>>8838248
I almost want this to happen to me. But, of course, I would never, ever dream of disrespecting The Anointed One on an anonymous Nepalese shamisen tab sharing message board.
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>>8838248
Gass me up senpai
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>In library
>Returning The Sentiel by Arhtur C. Clarke
>The librarian moves the scanner over the barcode
>gets up to put it into the cart
>just fucking throws it in the same manner a worker would throw a sack of potatoes
>the book makes an audiable flap as it lands
>physically cringe
Shouldn't shit like this be against the law?
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>>8838189
literally no reason to mention the book name you monster
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>>8838189
>being this much of a fag
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>>8838189
Just go to the library showers but leave the water running. The should teach them.
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What do I need to have read to tackle this big boy?
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Oedipus rex
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>>8838172
wikipediatrician's manual
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>>8838172
Anti-Oedipus draws on elements of Marx, Freud and Nietzsche, but it's also useful (given Guattari was his protege) to read some Lacan as well to know the kind of psychiatric tradition they're trying to distance themselves from. If you want to vibe with deleuze its probably a good idea to read some Bergson, Kant and Hume too