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>>9828320
What do you mean?

>>9828328
What work of his should I begin with?

>>9828320

Arthur Schopenhauer was a frustrated old man.

>>9828291
I'm proud to be racist

>>9828291
kitty kat!

>>9828291
there's already a thread
>>9827900

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You are nothing to me to me to me

Holy Gnon Abomenon!

>>9826647
post what they developed, fag

> 24

> The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy
> Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer 1943 - 1954 by Jeffrey Cartwright, by Steven Millhauser
> Ernesto, by Umberto Saba
> Aquarium, by David Vann
> The Sound of Waves, by Yukio Mishima

20
The waves
No longer human
Slaughterhouse five
The trial
I'm currently halfway through the brothers Karamazov

>>9826604
>20

>Crown and country - David Starkey
>The Romanovs - Siomon Sebag Montefiore
>Mythology - Edith Hamilton
>Candide - Voltaire
>The complete works of H.P Lovecraft

Hypernormalisation by Adam Curtis.

delete your anime for a start

it's always funny when you get these nerdy white nationalists who live for japanese cartoons, they try to unspook themselves from the jew but then get smoked by jap psyops, fucking failsons

>>9824379
Tengo curiosidad por saber que otros threads suelen frecuentar mis negros hispanohablantes.

>>9824430
/wg/ /wsg/ /fa/ y obviamente, /lit/

>>9824472
preguntó por threads no boards

>>9823518
Who is that

>>9823523
Eva Braun

>>9823518
I legit think you have extremely little idea what a borderline person actually looks like
t. I dated and am still in love with one

Try Peter Turchin's "War and peace and war"

>>9822825
where could one acquire books in digital form for as much as a janitor gets paid? asking for a friend.

>>9822851
MAM

>>9821291
Bloom's my literary hero. His work on Shakespeare changed the directory of my life.

Bloom should been remembered for his urgent reminder to his readership on the relationship between religion and Literature, and how the likes of literary heroes can be viewed in the same light as messianic mythologies.

His books "Genius" and "The Anatomy of Influence" are both grossly underrated treatises on the topic

>>9821291
>inb4 kike

>>9821291
Since this is a general thread, could anyone here help me understand his anathema towards using literature to reaffirm "moral suppositions"? Why is he so against using an ethical lens on, say, Falstaff?

>>9819327
read this shit
it's the next step after Kant
Like all good philosophy (making the implicit explicit) it almost seems obvious in hindsight
https://disquietism.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/freedom-without-selves-expediting-the-nemocentric-society/

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>>9819347
can confirm that thread is dope. hickman seems to skew heavy on horror and it checks out. existential space horror is still a kind of romanticism, and where there is romanticism there is something beyond the crushing death of irony.
>and underneath the crushing death of irony is the boiling death of sincerity

so. yes. fuck. shit. where to even begin. god damn.

ok. start w/pic rel. now wilber is straight-shot California Buddhism which is imho a problem b/c it dovetails perfectly with all things horrendously neoliberal and horrendously Bloody PostModern NeoMarxist &c. now i like wilber but i think this is probably not the place to discuss him at great length. he's all about Transcend and Include but to some degree perhaps this the issue: nothing atm Transcends and Includes more than Capital itself, which loves to efface all differences, sharpen them down, replace them with robots, and then serve them up for consumption. that is a deadly evil karmic wheel of its own.

now all that said however i want to point out where the lines do cross for me:
>an autonomous sybernetic spiritual captialism
b/c this is what i think too. whatever is going on, it is a big big Process and that is what makes continental philosophy so fucking destabilizing. there *is* in that sense a Matrix, but there is no real escape *from* that Matrix. i might even be so crazy as to say that what i would be okay with is a sort of *matrix preservation society* - a kind of sense of knowing that, for better or for worse, we are well and truly all in this thing together. the matrix is getting pulled all over the place, left and right. so something like asimovian psychohistory would be a good look, as would a study of memes, culture, politics, economics, deep ecology, art...the list goes on and on and fucking on and on and on.

(cont'd)

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>>9819327

let's try and look at some of your questions. they're my questions also.

>Who are the most relevant contemporary philosophers?
everyone you named. yes. i'll shill for chardin on that list as well. maybe barbara marx hubbard. arne naess perhaps. futurists & cosmologists. flaky new age a-go go. but not so much that we go off track. Capital plays the game *for keeps* and too much wishy-washy stuff makes things worse rather than better.

shit does *entirely* need synthesizing. massive re-reading and over-re-reading of D&G: anti-oedipus but especially A Thousand Plateaus. they nailed it. *quantify writing.* books and *abstract machines.* all that. new sincerity, but leaving some room for jesus.

fuck. so fucking much.

>What is the new canon? Do we have to contend with a world canon?
yes on east/west. yes on finding the connections where outer-fringe Western stuff meets inner-fringe Eastern stuff. that's *global* philosophy. the red team/blue team lines glow in purple and pink.

>shamanism/mysticism
this. i like castaneda here as well. i like a lot of stuff learning to un-plug yourself so that you can re-plug yourself, re-integrate. holism. without fuckface holism.

>Do we need a new philosophy for the contemporary era?
yes. as OP says, the techniques stay the same but the outcome changes. *there is a thing called history and we have to learn from it.* this was nietzsche's lament. it is kafka's lament. it is the Infinite Lament. enough fucking lamenting. but let's maybe foster something which holds out something more interesting to interesting types than suicide.

this was john gardner's test, by the way: consider you are writing a work of fiction and there is someone standing on a ledge about to throw themselves off. they hesitate long enough to pick up one more book. if the book sucks, they jump. if it doesn't, they will delay a little longer. the book is yours. there's a kind of scheherazade vibe there. i don't know. i'm really just thinking out loud here.

>What is the future of philosophy?
so. after all of this shit...left accelerationism > right accelerationism? let's say ok for now. i lean right when it comes to accelerationism > the present, but, yes, i think, if it's a choice between left or right accelerationism because *those are the options in town,* then ok.

deleuze is the *most* inspiring motherfucker to read these days. let's pour one out for guattari too, he had a major hand in that. mapping the future. cartographies and trajectories. can into.

>new age/occult
greater holism. hyperstition. *it doesn't always have to be negative.* maybe shit just has to get dark until you can hit some terra firma down there and integrate the shadows and come back up for air.

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won't keep you up turning pages at night, but this was the book that made martha nussbaum famous.

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>>9814799
Thanks!

Also what can I read about the views on the death in the Greek culture?

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>>9815143
this is bretty gud, more tragedy & suffering than death

Mason & Dixon is his unsung masterpiece. /lit/ seems to be coming around to it finally, but it's been criminally overlooked.

Mason and Dixon, definitely. By far his best work.

>>9813644
>>9813646
I've heard good things. I actually considered checking it out before GR, but the period-style writing made me nervous

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depends on whether or not you like literature, aesthetics, ethics, politics, philosophical anthropology, the history of religion, holy terror, violence, mass hysteria, eschatology, clauswitz, Great Books, memes, prophecy, psychology, god, sex, death, art and metaphysics

if that kind of stuff blows your hair back i'd say go for it

Nope. What's his stuff like?

Looks like the Shah of Iran.

>>9807548
Go ahead

>american family
>husband works for an pay-tv company
>comes home stressed out, worries about income
>describing the smalltown life intensively
>relations between neighbours
barbecues are meet up days for friends
>teens do their own stuff at those times, after dinner exploring the city and it's environment
>they find spoopy thingys

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> have soul crushing job in shopping mall
> be obsessed with the 80s and 90s
> no friends, no life
> writing book about someone writing a book in the 80s and 90s
> Mall slowly becomes dead Mall
> continue working miserable jobs in dying shopping mall
> mall closes for good
> get new job as security guard patrolling the empty carcass of shopping mall.
> spend years watching mall rot away
> all Publishers reject novel
> kill-me.jpeg

>>9792457
bugs.. easy on the carrots

ego.. easy on the spooks

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>>9792458
xD