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All philosophers post bronce age were losers

Why does he wear the bandana

>>7671647
it's a do-rag and it's to maintain his cornrows

Gramsci is a good intro. Dialectic of Enlightenment is needlessly difficult to read but the first essay is good for understanding the basic idea of critiquing "capitalist culture," instrumentalization e.g. Some kind of intro to Gramsci would be your best bet though.

The interesting thing is that a lot of cultural Marxist critiques dovetail with the most incisive (and much less read) right wing critiques of modernity, industrial and mechanical man, mass man, capitalist culture, etc. Not uncommon to see people smushing Gehlen together with a bunch of leftist wieners.

read it in original greek or don't bother at all

I've liked Fagles a lot.

Fitzgerald

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

>>7671593
seneca's letters from a stoic is pretty great

>>7671593

on my to read list is "Meditations" by Marc Aurel which is apparently to develops and introduces some ideas of stoicism

Nonexistent. Don't try it or you'll be very disappointed if you're familiar with the XXth century French authors.
Stick to pre-2000 writers.

>>7671731
I'm under that impression too. Most of it seems to be terrible "autofiction." I'm curious mostly because Soumission was fairly easy to read and was curious to find out if there were any other writers in French worth reading now.

2084 by Sansal is literally just a better version of Submission.

Echenoz, Michon and Quignard are the best living French writers.

>>7671551
pedantry

arbitrary

lit fic makes you think about lit, gen fic makes you think about that gen.

>a fiver
kill yourself

>>7671542
Get Oxford World's Classics, has a nice layout, introduction, and annotations.

You can also get the Norton Critical Edition, but I wouldn't recommend it because the editors changed the punctuation, making it "easier" to understand, but taking away some of the ambiguity that created poetic force in some passages (e.g. they put in parenthesis some parts of Satan's first monologue).

>>7671616
What?

>>7671644
Nice, I'll check that out man, thanks.

>>7671522
It's more of a retroactive realization for me, but yes, it's not just in your head.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man benefits greatly from being read in late Winter or early Spring.

>>7671503
Redpilled /r9k/ browser here.

Here's a piece of advice: Don't pick up women writers. They're not as good as men

>>7671520
THE FIRST BLOW OF THE "IRONICALLY MAD ABOUT MISOGYNISTS BUT IF I CLOAK IT IN SATIRE IT MEANS I'M NOT MAD AND JUST SUPERIOR TO THE PEOPLE WHO DISAGREE WITH ME (FUCK I HATE THEM SO MUCH!!)" CRUSADE HAS BEEN STRUCK

WE JUST NEED TO KEEP IRONYPOSTING AS IRONIC /R9K/ SATIRES UNTIL THE BOARD IS NOTHING BUT ASSPAIN

THEN /R9K/ WILL LEAVE

THE SOLUTION IS SO CLEAR

DEA VULT

>>7671520
Care to pill my on women?

The one Zizek uses.

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>>7671483

>>7671606
fuck, meant to reply to >>7671529
what a meal i have made of this

Hardcore History

This is how it ends when reading Bataille's prose works and knowing nothing about his theory.

No it isn't 'just pornography', somewhat key word would be 'transgression'. I'm sure someone will explain it further, I'm just too lazy to do so.

And, at the end there should be a note where Battaile explains why some elements of the story are like that and so on.

>>7671354
I dunno, it is very relaxing to read though. It feels like it lifts me out of the pressures of every day life, into a new state of mind.

>>7671275
This book was garbage, it read like something a horny 15 year old wrote and tried his hardest to be as /b/ as possible

>>7671041

TAO LIN CHARGES HIS iPHONE
a short story by Anon Anonoevsky
>2/2

“My mother, my ex-girlfriend, and this woman who writes a column for some nobody blog but she didn’t read it, she jut retweeted it because I retweet her links when she posts them because we’re both prostitutes.”

“How many followers does she have, is it that Shannon woman?”

“Over a thousand.”

“From the genre blog?” Tao asks.

“Oh shit” Tao says.

“Yeah that was cool.”

“Did you hear back?

“Rejected”

“She didn’t look up and didn’t see me holding the charger, and didn’t know it was under her feet”

“Form rejected.” William says.

“So I had to just sort of start moving in toward the area, slow enough to give her a chance to figure the whole situation out”

“I sat on my fire escape last night in the snow until I couldn’t feel my hands”

“And eventually she realized what was happening and flinched away from the outlet so I got there.”

“Are you serious?” William says.

“Who does that”

There’s a thing on the table next to the vase and Tao picks it up. He turns it over. He can’t write a poem about it, so it puts it back down.

“I was at a gallery last night.” William is saying. Tao orders a kale product. “It was filled with hookers who smelled like starbucks and critical acclaim.”

“What was there?” Tao says.

“Some Russian idiot wearing lipstick and a blazer with no shirt on.”

“Hah”

“You were allowed to smoke in the gallery, and he was collecting cigarette butts and hot-gluing them onto blank canvases and then hanging them on the walls.”

“Did that actually happen?” Tao says. The girl is packing up her things.

“Yeah, that actually happened.”

“Have you written it into your book yet?”

"Wouldn't that be a trite insertion?"

"Trite is old." Tao says. "Now it's honesty."

“That’s why I’m lying on the floor.” William says.

She leaves. Tao puts his hands on his laptop screen like he’s making to shut it but stops.

“I can’t even afford to buy her a drink.” He says.

“Who?”

“The charger girl.”

“I can’t do this.” William is saying again.

“We're Americans, aren't we?” Tao says.

“We’re shit.”

“We’re doing things.”

“We’re shit”

“We’re shit.”

“We’re shit.”

“We’re the now.”

“Shit”

“Shit”

“We write like shit”

“We’re shit.”

“But that’s what makes us honest.”

“You don’t think anyone will buy that?”

“Of course they will, they’re shit.”

It was alright until the end. It's facile and overdone.

>>7671041

you should have written it in his style. he wouldn't use dialogue tags after questions. i don't think he's ever used present-tense, either. too many adverbs.

cont. ?

why are you quoting schoppy with a stirner pic?

>>7671044
I quoted myself who is schoppy?

Shogun by James Clavel

>>7670849
Watch this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh5LY4Mz15o

Hideo Okuda reflects the society nice in Lala Pipo. Taichi Yamada gives a look into the soul and deep wishes. Akira Kudo about the youth culture. Kenzaburo Oe´s stuff for the past-war time, very interesting.