Continental philosophy will come to you in your sleep but only if you post "Sleep tight, Dark Enlightenment" in this thread.
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Nick Land on love (quote from The thirst for annihilation):
That the root of love is a thirst for disaster is exhibited throughout its erratic course. At its most elementary love is driven by a longing to be cruelly unrequited; fostering every kind of repellent self-abasement, awkwardness, and idiocy. /…/
One wastes away; expending health and finance in orgies of narcosis, breaking down one’s labour-power to the point of destitution, pouring one’s every thought into an abyss of consuming indifference. At the end of such a trajectory lies the final breakage of health, ruinous poverty, madness, and suicide.
Reza Negarestani on love (quote from Cyclonopedia):
Love empties all possibilities of recovery. Falling in love is a one way ticket to the end of health. Barthes suggests that love is cyclic. /…/ This cycle strikes me not as love but flirtation, flirtation with survival. /…/ But love’s sole enthusiasm lies in consuming every possibility of falling in love again. /…/ The Love-Recovery cycle that Barthes maps in his works is of course Proustian but deeply resembles the ever refining self-fertilizing cycle of Aristotle (nothing must be wasted as it is needed in the next phase of the cycle, the next love, the next recovery from the last love). /…/ Love is only thinkable as one and only one tyrannical possibility: falling in love once and for all.
the consummate bullshit artist
I prefer icycalm when it comes to ridiculous new-age rightist bullshit
>>8027258
>Pual Virilio
It's weird I keep stumbling across that guy's name
I read part of a book on anime (serious) that cited him heavily.
I considered using one of his books on war movies for paper
I think he has an epigraph in a Vollmann novel I read recently
And now this.
Conspiracy?
Help me decide which critical approaches I should take for my literature assignment? I have to use two critical theories and apply one to two of these short stories: Eudora Welty's "A Warn Path", Katherine Mansfield's "Miss Brill", Stephen Vincent Benet's "By the Waters of Babylon", Kate Chopin's "Story of the Hour", Willa Cather's "Paul's Case", Gabriel Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
These are my approach options: PERSIA Approach, Hero's Journey, Psychological (Freudian), Marxist, Spiritual, and Gender/Feminist.
I'm actually really hyped on discussing these with you guys, so thanks ahead of time.
Coming, Eudora!
>>8027233
anything but formalist approach is trash
this sounds really gay.
How do I become post modern?
>>8026824
I've never heard of any of those people. what is wire?
>>8026828
>hes never heard of dean blunt
>>8026828
wtf rock do you live under that you've never heard dean blunt
What does it mean to be in love /lit/?
You will never learn, OP.
Bad news.
wait until some edgy faggot comes in to explain to you how it's just the equivalent of eating chocolate to your brain
Just read Notes from Underground and enjoyed it. Reminds me if my dad because he can be a pretentious introverted autistic man. What boom character remind you of your family members? Also please recommend next Dostoyevsky book to read.
Does your dad pull ass?
>>8026643
If you've got daddy problems, brothers k and any Kafka is great for you
>>8026643
Go with D's Demons, m8.
/lit/ is a slow board, think before you decide to kill a thread by making a new one.
Need a book rec and too stupid to check the wiki? Ask here.
Have a banal question and can't use google? Ask here.
Have a question that you think won't generate much discussion? Ask here.
>>8026628
lol i fail by not putting /qtddtot/ in the subject field.
this is one step away from generals
Are the LOTR movies faithful representations of the books?
Going on a road trip to New York; are there any literary things I should do there?
>Dostoijevsky
>Dostoyevskii
Sterstlersky
>Dostojewsky
>Dostoevskij
>Tolstoj
>Chechov
>Gorkij
>Majakovskij
>Evtusenko
>Brodskij
Why did he knock the chair over? Was he fucking pissed off?
its a bar setting and Engels was probably just trying to make it seem like bar debate was ongoing
I think it just fell.
90% of the reason anyone knows about Stirner is because he looks fucking cool in that picture.
What should I expect?
There's literally no way a translation of M&D would be any good.
>>8026339
nothing since your not reading it in English. dumbass
Spanish words by a translator.
https://screwplato.wordpress.com/2010/10/15/ancient-greek-philosophy/
The link says out loud what we all know: that Greek philosophy was a load of assertions that are unfalsifiable and badly argued and generally shitty.
WHY do people pretend that the Munchhausen trilemma doesn't clearly show the triviality of philosophy? You can choose any axioms you fucking want and then make the logical deductions ffs.
>>8026181
I'd like to pretend that the Munchhausen trilemma doesn't clearly show the triviality of philosophy, but I don't know what that means.
>>8026181
>WHY do people pretend that the Munchhausen trilemma doesn't clearly show the triviality of philosophy
Because it's self evident, it's triviality doesn't needs to evidence. Still one of two fields I am interested in and will continue studying until I'm dead. Feels fine man.
>>8026181
The Munchhausen trilemma trivialized the whole pursuit of knowledge, not just philosophy.
This board is growing useless.
I wish I could find relationships with uncomfortable power imbalances in real life...
>>8026177
Is /his/ better? I might emigrate there.
>>8026212
/his/ is baby brain people going WUTS UR FAVORITE HISTORICAL FIGURE
Wondering if I am correct in thinking that Stephen King's older material is better than newer creations.
Also significantly underrated by university lecturers...
>>8026172
That's like saying my current shit isn't as good as yesterday's shit. It's still shit.
I did enjoy Salem's Lot, though.
>>8026184
The Shining is a classic!
>>8026172
I think his short stories are pretty good.
>worldbuilding
>working on races
>can't stop seeing similarities to other races
>mfw no unique snowflake races no matter how hard I try
How do I get out of this trap?
>>8026136
the sweet release of death
When learning a skill you have to imitate for a while before you can do anything original
>see: music, visual arts, meditation, all trades and livelihoods
>How do I get out of this trap?
Pull out of her ass slowly...
Why is every response to existential crises a call to pile on shitloads of spooks? You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right? You know lit affects religious inclinations in order to portray a veneer of "patricianhood" based on "respect" for "culture" (i.e. pseudo intellectual masturbation), right?
You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right? You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than entertainment) by the publishing-media-academia industrial complex for financial gain, right? Also by pseudo intellectuals who try to look smart.
how many le epic troll threads are made every minute?
its like a constant conveyor belt of /b/ tier shit all the time
>>8025931
it is truly depressing. authenticity was lost when money became god.
>>8025931
Mathematics and science are trivial, though.
>You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right?
This is a myth
What would you say is the best literary version of the Faust legend?
it's a horrible comparison desu. i think i've probably read more faust retellings than anyone else on this board (though im missing a major one in the recognitions) and i think it's pretty futile to compare them like this. the reason the legend is so popular is that it is simultaneously subject and universal, and can be tailored to many highly particular circumstances and narratives while remaining enlightening. as such it's really a very apples to oranges comparison to rank them.it's goethe fampai
>>8025934
thanks for the answer
>>8025934
i'll have to reread The Recognitions, i think.