Who here studies or studied philosophy at the graduate level? How was it and what do you do now? I'm considering going into academia but terrified by the job market
Very bad. Philosophy is one of the few holdouts of the human sciences that haven't been overrun by broads, unlike sociology, anthropology, and history. It still has a tinge of autism to it. But it suffers from the same overspecialisation and has few "uomini universali." But if you really love philosophy, and you're already committed to going into academia (this is the kicker), you can sort of find your place in it. It will be moderately less torturous than going to study cultural anthropology and being drowned in people studying Fat Acceptance in Transgender Communes.
Academia is an extremely bad prospect right now, across the board. Only go into it if you love it and you're willing to suffer for it. You should not go into academia if you're looking for a mildly interesting job to keep you stimulated. You should go into it if you're a weird dude who wants to be a scholar at any cost.
Also, do some research into the continental / analytic divide in the Anglosphere. Its starkness is slightly exaggerated, but not all that exaggerated. I'm studying stuff that is pretty considerably off the beaten path, and I had to pull a few miracles to find a niche that will accept me. Stuff like Comp Lit or even one of the cucked disciplines in the Humanities might be a better choice, depending.
>>8154777
I studied philosophy.
>What I expected: Deep and ground-breaking debate involving Plato/Aristotle/Socrates/Kant/Schopenhauer/Nietzsche and pretty much all the names we associate with philosophy.
>What I got: A glorified maths class, brimming with analytic bullshit and all sorts of stupid symbols/equations and generally everything dull about philosophy. The turd sandwich was topped off with generous amounts of Post-Structuralism/Modernism.
>>8154801
You got philosophy. You should have studied literature, sounds more up your alley.
Are there any great novels about celebrity life?
Glamorama
>>8154758
Industrial Society and Its Future
>>8154758
this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen
To people that read Blankets:
What would you have done to save Raina's relationship with Craig?
Fuck off OP. I'm not trying to reread this shit and cry again
>>8154616
It's not that sad
fucking hipster bullshit
How to write edgy things without being edgy? Any examples from literature?
>How to write edgy things without being edgy? Any examples from literature?
What did he mean by this?
Notes from Underground
by going too edgy and clearly poking fun at himself/the character
basically put your edgy ideas into an edgy character but poke fun at him sometimes
>>8154227
write a successful anime in novel form.
There hasn't been one of these threads for awhile. What does /lit/ think of tattoos, particularly literary tattoos? I have pic related. I also have a Black Sabbath tattoo on my other arm but that's irrelevant. What do you think? Am I the king of comfy or what?
>>8154225
Oh, and I forgot to say: show yours off if you have any!
Trashy.
Devalues the human, I'd much rather appreciate someone who loves a series which is respectable (redwall included) to have a room with some well framed collectible posters, or collectors editions of the series, 1st prints etc etc.
In my experience it's usually trashy people who have visible tattoos especially, having such a low opinion of themselves they put a passing fad of theirs or a relative on their shriveling body.
/lit/ tattoos aren't any better then /v/idya tattoos.
>>8154225
At first I thought it was that one mouse knight from one of the Narnia novels, then it would have at least demonstrated some semblance of taste.
Post an image and get a book recommendation based on it.
Original thread
>>8145636
>>8153777
Fear and tremble
>>8153781
Gold in the furnace
>>8153781
Fleurs de mal
discuss
Correctly diagnoses the problem: fails to provide a solution.
Fuck yes, we never ever talk about MacIntyre.
>>8153585
Considering that isn't the point or in the scope of the text I would hardly call it a failing. This text is just to set the ground for virtue ethics, not to actually do it.
Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" is by far one of the most influential Sci-Fi novels ever.
However, it doesn't even rank on the Top 100 of goodreads' "Best Science Fiction" list.
My friend says that the list is flawed and exclusionary due to the fact that 98 of the 100 novels are English (#54 "Solaris" is Polish, and #61 "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is French) so obviously Russia's "We" would not be on the list.
I feel that, sadly, "Brave New World" and "1984" just stole the spotlight, and as a consequence "We" barely even gets printed.
Thoughts on "We", and thoughts on the Goodreads list?
Bonus Points: Upvote "We" into the Topp 100!!!!
>>8153244
If you love him so much you could at least get the author's name right. His name was Eugene desu.
>>8153244
Of the three big dystopias, I'm gonna read that one.
For those unfamiliar with "We", it was basically stolen to make "1984", "Brave New World, and especially "Anthem".:
There are similarities between Anthem and the 1921 novel, We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, another author who had lived in communist Russia. These include:
A novel taking the form of a secret diary or journal.
People are identified by codes instead of names.
Children separated from their parents and brought up by the State.
Individualism disposed of in favor of collective will.
A male protagonist who discovers individuality through his relationship with a female character.
A forest as a 'free' place outside the dystopian city.
The protagonist discovers a link to the past, when people were free, in a tunnel under the Earth.
What is the most expensive book you have on your shelf?
Pic related was $400 for me, I think it goes for a lot more now.
Probably the UoC Press edition of Moby Dick or an ARC of one of Meme Wolfe's books
It used to be a first edition copy of Rage by Richard Bachman but I sold it on ebay for way more than it was really worth. Worth about $300 I think.
120€ for each of those Quantum Field Theory textbooks
I have never gotten into reading as much as I would like to. Saw this image awhile back and saved it, are any of these books good? If so what should I read?
I actually enjoyed Flowers for Algernon.
>>8151932
>DADOES
>I think therefore I am
Couldn't have got a worse way of describing it if he had wanted to.
Let me just tell you first that The Book of the New Sun is the best, period. If you read that, everything after will pale in comparison.
If you are into sci-fi or fantasy try Dune.
Or just follow the chart.
Why is modern Japanese literature so fun?
>>8150790
How much of untranslated, modern Japanese literature is worthwhile?
>>8150790
Do you read it in Japanese?
>>8150828
I read it in English but I'm such a huge weeb that the words sometimes pop up in Japanese in my head. But I can't actually read Japanese so I read translations.
Who else here have confidence issues b/c of a YA book series?
>throughout middle school read whole Percy Jackson and the Olympians series at least 5 times
>mc Percy Jackson has confidence issues
>think Percy Jackson is coolest guy ever though
>he also gets blonde tsundere qt3.14 gf by end of series
>pretend in my head I'm actually the son of an Olympian God too, and that soon I'd end up having adventures over the summer with my goofy best friend (didn't actually have any friends at that time though) and qt3.14 tsundere friend to save the world
>base entire personality ( and appearance to a degree) off of Percy Jackson except I'm super shy so I'm way less outgoing and not able to make corny jokes like him without people looking at me weirdly
>For a while didn't even want to grow that much b/c Percy wasn't that tall
>do this from 5th grade into early sophomore year of high school
>told no one else though cause I'm not that retarded
>tfw confidence issues are for real now and not me trying to be like Percy
>tfw only got out of my obsession of Percy Jackson by becoming obsessed with Anime (keep powerlevel hidden though b/c not retarded)
>tfw you will never adventure across the country with your goofy best friend and qt3.14 tomboy friend
> tfw you will never slowly fall love with Annabeth slowly over the course of puberty, from meeting her for the first time after you defeated the Minotaur when your 12 to defeating Kronos at the Battle of Manhattan when your 16
> tfw don't become hardened, confident hero after defeating the Titans
>tfw Heroes of Olympus series (the sequel series to Percy Jackson and the Olympians) was shit
I've had confidence issues regarding my culinary ken and cooking skills because of Redwall, if that counts
>>8150388
>got out of my obsession of Percy Jackson by becoming obsessed with Anime
Shit man, when you think things can't get any worse
Cringe thread?
Why is this not considered Pynchon's best novel? It's easily his most accessible, humorous, and interesting work.
>>8145159
because he wrote his smarter novels before this. now everything he does after thats less serious will obviously be viewed as shit, because he cant maintain his own professional level
>>8145159
>his most accessible, humorous, and interesting work
I think Lot 49 edges out IV for this category. IV is great though.
>>8145165
What do you mean by "smarter"?
Are you currently writing anything, /lit/?
>>8145152
Yes. A memebook inspired by Finnegans Wake. I'm about 65% through the first draft.
Just daily journal entries. I'd like to write short stories but I never have any ideas
>>8145152
yes
a world where male children start to be taught from a young age to be flexible so they can suck their own Dicks. eventually an entire self dicksucking generation is born and they realize they no longer need women to be happy. so slowly women start going extinct and the men start creating more men with test tube babies. the book would follow 2 characters. both male. one character would be a normal guy living everyday life in a womanless world. the other male would be with the last vestige of women. the women have created there own hidden village deep inside the woods where they breed more women. male babies are only kept strictly to be used as studs. meanwhile the women live in fear of the killing squads sent out to eradicate them. eventually the death squad raids the village. killing all the women and freeing our one protagonist. he is then forced to live among men in a city he knows nothing about. the only thing he ever knew was fucking women and he can't even suck his own dick. tragic really.
Lets get a poetry-only critique thread going
>I'll go first
Nature Calls
Three men lay woke aside the parking lot;
Speaking of plans to pull the world so taut
That fi’re couldn’t cure them of their sins.
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Nights whimpered in silent fear of what might become of them.
War slithered in, with sinister intent, speaking in eager whispers
In the ears of looming shadows that wept dry tears for sunlight.
Murmurs of discontent sprinted throughout: your home; your clique; your self.
Inching further for anger, blindness swept beneath your skull and latched into you,
Your sins are not your own.
Luring you further with malicious speak shrouded by a veiled innocence:
Hysteria lit the path with shadowed light from an envious lantern.
Cheered on by coats of tainted wool, and assailed by coats of tainted challis
You become conflicted.
What now?
Leering from platted comfortability, shadows hiss at you to march;
Indeed, you do, in fact, with many hesitations, and many trepidations,
But indeed, you do.
March
Splintered bones sizzle under a foreign star,
Trickles of sweat blister, embroider, infartar your brow.
Misguiding you moreso than pockets pretensely avowed
Like schoolgirls hand-in-hand, capped-‘n-gowned.
Smothered words nested in fear choked on bravado…
Bravo, Bravo!
The term is done!
Wormwood parties in your pit,
Your feather withers at the sun,
Enthralled in fear and shadow’s shit,
Your blindness turns to deaf’d the young.
>infartar means to strip bare
At the beginning I thought it was shit, honestly, but the more I read the better it seemed as a totality.
Overall, very good, but a bit obscure at parts.
Mine:
If you see kay
Tell him he may
See you in tea
Tell him from me
In China
Poems are scratched on the walls of a cave
Not seeking fame or fortune
Below them sits no name
Who is the author?
They grow between cracks and moss
A cold mountain wrote them
Did it not?
Impressing dead fibers with
laissez faire bright streaks
drawn to electric
and mindless, pointless, soundless
foundation lacking seismographs
without opponents to inspire
a metaphor of war, skirmish
vendetta to men dressed like
pink birds, waltzing with
their wallets
Contemptuous scribbling
in bad tasting, unclean
homosexuals mouths
Spewing vile velvet bile
under secure detriments placed
by blue black bangs
under a new sun.
4 Removal of deep
satanic bad devil
worshipping WORDS.
By Marx, Engel, Mussolini,
And George W. Bush
until happy lobotomies
fellate idols with
grotesque masks.
Laughing hysterical
suits, blue black
swine murder production line babies.