Nick Land totally fascinates me, but at the same time his ideas are pretty wonky. i'm wondering about this guy's academic reputation. do philosophy departments and students take his work seriously?
>>8604822
Most accademic philosophers don't take each other seriously. I mean common there is so much at stake, when you set the premises of a Weltanschauung and promote it, but little can be done do build a somewhat coherent system like maths. One the other hand everyone has his philosophy and works with it in his daily dealings, since nick Land and other philosphers have a significant different daily live, than the average person you could expact there philosphy to be somewhat different and more elaborate(because they have Time). Nick Land is an interesting Contemporary Philosophen, because he is so different from the normal philosophy Phd/Professor and their fifty shades of marxism, which is boring for any somewhat intellectual Person at the end of the day.
>>8604822
Sorry for my automatic correction system messing with the text.
I think some of the Speculative Realists are influenced by him.
the nobel is mine, murakami.
not so fast
>>8604706
WEW LADS
What am I in for?
>>8604628
a great book
visceral realism
The second part could be a little bit shorter
>your life will never be as /lit/ as Arturo's
I need a new book proposal for our bookclub and i have trouble finding one that satisfys me. So go ahead, anything goes!
>>8604590
Read Mann's Death in Venice few days ago, it's only like 50 pages long. Fantastic read
skylark
I have to translate this thing. What should I know before doing it?
Which language?
>>8604581
Brazilian Portuguese.
>>8604585
Why? I hope you're getting well paid. I read the BR translation of Ulysses and it was surprisingly decent.
I didn't get it. Read Light, Nova Swing and pic related in one week.
>>8604515
I read Light. What didn't you get, overall?
>>8604905
Empty space. The plot doesn't make a lick of sense. It does kinda explain what happened to the grill from light, at least I think so.
I couldn't make that much sense of them too.
Doesn't literature feel empty, or even lacking, just in terms of pure mental stimulation compared to music or a well-composed film?
Doesn't literature require more work to reap "entertainment" or even the philosophical fruits of that work?
I mean if you want to be a reader, you almost have to contemplative whereas just enjoying music, though more passive, doesn't require much to enjoy other than a listening ear.
>>8604453
No. The best film I've ever seen is vacant predictable shit compared to great writing.
Not necessarily, but that wouldn't mean it was "empty or lacking," quite the opposite. You can't fully grasp something really complex and profound on first encounter.
You think understanding a Mozart symphony requires less attention, knowledge, or skill than analyzing a novel? You can read a book with just as little attention as you listen to music, but that doesn't mean you're getting any decent part of it.
>>8604753
what writing is so great huh?
I literally just used 6 words that are in ALL BOOKS. Proves how bad they are
Reading does require greater concentration than listening to music or watching a movie.
But listening to Mahler requires greater concentration than listening to Wiz Khalifa, and watching Tarkovsky requires more concentration than watching Michael Bay.
In each of course I'm assuming that whether watching, listening, or reading, the intention is to derive something profound.
So I'm going to be applying as a Royal Marines Officer soon and I was looking for some good books on military strategy.
I've already started reading the Art of War
>>8604447
- On War - Carl von Clausewitz
- A History of Warfare - John Keegan
- Intelligence in War - John Keegan
>>8604470
thanks
>>8604492
Wish I could be more help!
If you are interested in accounts of particular battles Cornelius Ryan's "The Longest Day" (about D-Day) and "A Bridge Too Far" (about Operation Market Garden) are good.
A Bridge Too Far is a good example of how absurdly clusterfucked things can get. All kinds of weird happenings for both sides.
>Politics lecturer tries to argue that Nietzsche & Nietzschean thinking were responsible for the rise of 20th century figures like Hitler/Mussolini/etc
>Sums up Nietzsche's thinking with a throwaway line about those who are 'superior' thinking they have the right to eliminate the inferior
I didn't think many people outside of /lit/ made a point of commenting on authors whom they've clearly never read, but boy was I proven wrong.
Am I wrong in thinking Nietzsche was far from a nihilist? I am naïve and also making huge concision, but didn't he basically say "life is meaningless, but we can fill the void of meaning by allowing ourselves a life of constant self-improvement"?
>>8604408
Put "History of Western Philosophy" in the center and it will be perfect
>>8604443
>Am I wrong in thinking Nietzsche was far from a nihilist?
For Nietzsche nihilism is anything that isn't amor fati. For Nietzsche the only way out of nihilism is not to be ok with your life, but to actually love it. Every second of it, every suffering, every fear...
Most people don't think of nihilism like that.
>"Slothrop! We have to become the Gravity's Rainbow!"
>"Joelle, your antics have left me in jest. Infinitely."
>"Get ready, player one!"
go outside
is this a good introduction to philosophy? why, why not?
It's a nice compilation of aphorisms, no pre-reading required, except for maybe Epictetus if you're onto it. Not hard to understand desu but some thoughts in their simplicity are quite memorable
>>8604427
No. It is a series of aphorisms, not meant for publication from a man who belongs to a philosophical school which no one on the internet understands but thinks they do.
If you really want a baby's first primary source philosophical work Descartes's is a must. It marks the break with older philosophy in such a stark way there is no required knowledge to read and acts as a good spring board for the next hundred or so years of philosophy.
At some point you will want to read some sort of secondary text for those new to the subject. To begin with it will be very hard and while I think they vary greatly in quality sometimes youtube videos and podcasts can be good to get to grips with the basics of something.
http://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
This is a great resource with every article written by someone with their PhD in philosophy.
>>8604353
START WITH THE FUCKING GREEKS
Why i feel so nice after hour of writing? What i write may be shit, but its only thing that make me feel that way these day, besides drugs
>>8604311
What are you writing?
>>8604333
sexual fantasies
>>8604333
short stories and i also work on my big metanarrative
Anyone else into shit like this?
>>8604231
into saving thumbnails? only retards do it
>>8604237
kek underrated
>>8604231
More into Carl G. Jung, but i'm more intrested in aspects of it, which are accessable from mathematics/theoretical physics.
Post some nice irish poems as I am taking part in recitation competition tomorrow and I have no idea what to pick, but thinking about Harlot's House by Wilde
THE CAT AND THE MOON
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
HE cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top,
And the nearest kin of the moon,
The creeping cat, looked up.
Black Minnaloushe stared at the moon,
For, wander and wail as he would,
The pure cold light in the sky
Troubled his animal blood.
Minnaloushe runs in the grass
Lifting his delicate feet.
Do you dance, Minnaloushe, do you dance?
When two close kindred meet,
What better than call a dance?
Maybe the moon may learn,
Tired of that courtly fashion,
A new dance turn.
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
From moonlit place to place,
The sacred moon overhead
Has taken a new phase.
Does Minnaloushe know that his pupils
Will pass from change to change,
And that from round to crescent,
From crescent to round they range?
Minnaloushe creeps through the grass
Alone, important and wise,
And lifts to the changing moon
His changing eyes.
>>8604227
‘There’s a woman in the country
I do not mention her name
who breaks wind
like a stone from a sling.’
-Anonymous, 9th century
>>8604259
Joycean
Okay, /lit/.
I've read book Shadow of the Torturer and am about 50 pages through Claw of the Conciliator.
The world is cool enough, the writing good enough but I'm seriously having trouble getting motivated to come back to the story. I have never been particularly interested in fantasy which I think is a large part of my problem with the book. I had heard the Le Guin quote that Wolfe is the "Melville of Sci-fi/Fantasy" and I heard that it was one of the few books in sci-fi fantasy worth of literary consideration. I just can't say I'm enamored with it.
Maybe it's the main character, some of the fantasy tropes I dislike that keep cropping up, I'm really not sure why it isn't clicking or what I might be missing.
If you like this book series, please just let me know if I should be hooked by this point or if the final two books are worth the wait because if nothing really grabs me about it in the next fifty pages I'm considering just dropping the series.
>>8604222
You shouldn't be hooked to any novel and they shouldn't grab you.
You aren't reading it for a thrill.
>>8604223
t. faggot who doesn't enjoy literature
>>8604223
the single most pseud post I've ever read