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ITT: We crudely draw literary characters in MS Paint and other anons try to guess who it is.
Starting off with, hopefully, an easy one
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Dimitri
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>>9779560
Correct. Have another
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Is there a single relevant literary figure who didn't have gross/weird sexual fetishes he subtly wrote into his work?
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>>9779305
Nothing about that fat shit is subtle
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me desu
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>>9779305
Everything you will ever write tells everyone something about your weird sexual fetish.
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What is /lit/ opinion on Cormac McCarthy?
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Sunset Limited is his only redeeming work.
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>>9778789
He needs to work on his run on sentences
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>>9778795
First post worst post
>Get it? Each guy represents a differing view!
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How fast can you read?
What is your stance on speedreading?
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i do it naturally, and it fucking sucks. Too fast to actually appreciate the total page, but when i make an effort to slow down i naturally go back to a faster speed
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>>9778561
>i do it naturally
The internet shaped me
Into doing these things
I am no longer my original being
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speed reading is acceptable for simple non-fiction or books with low signal to noise.
if you're speed reading nietzsche, nabokov or books with high information density you'll be cheated and won't actually pick up anything non-superficial
same goes for audiobooks
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Books on Order vs. Chaos? 2017-07-19 09:21:24 Post No.9778429
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Alright /lit/, I'm looking for book recommendations about "Order" and "Chaos", and unfortunately I don't know what exactly I want to read because it's a vague but personal concept. Please excuse this angsty, quasi-conservative rant, and feel free to skip it as soon as you get the point.
Lately, I've found that some of /pol/'s rhetoric against social degeneracy resonates with me, and it's frightening because I don't know how to voice it the way I'd like without coming across as a Nazi. Like many other people, I'm disgusted with the messes we've made of ourselves today, wasting so much human potential in an age of so much prosperity. We hold materialistic values, we skirt responsibility, we celebrate ambivalence, we embrace meekness, and we take individualism to such an extreme that we forget to strengthen the individual. I'm sick of the victim culture because it makes us forget how to stop being victims, I'm sick of sexual liberation because it has cheapened sex, etc., and I'm sick of political correctness because it has made things like consequences a forbidden topic. Worst of all, we live in an age with so much information on how to fix it all, and yet it seems like we've burned the opportunity. Our collective behaviors leads to chaos and self-destruction, ruining what has been painstakingly built over a long period of time.
This is probably all a bullshit rant. But I'd like to explore the topic by looking to more intelligent people to refine my views and see what there is to it all. What are some books, fiction and non-fiction, on "order" vs. "chaos"? Should I be reading Eliot, Spengler, or something?
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>>9778429
What is your personal concept of order and chaos? How would you define it?
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>>9778453
I don't know. I just think of order as the forces that compel us to build things up and chaos as the forces that drive us to tear things apart. That's why I asked for book recommendations because I have an undeveloped conception of the dynamic, but yet I can't help but sense the dynamic everywhere, so I'd like to refine what I'm feeling.
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spengler is a good idea
deleuze is mos def a good idea
>also nietzsche
pic rel is interesting
>in order to make fundamental progress, we needed to introduce new physical concepts, such as deterministic chaos and poincare resonances, and new mathematical tools to turn these weaknesses into strengths. in our dialogue with nature, we transform what first appear as obstacles into original conceptual structures providing fresh insights into the relationship between the knower and the known.
>what is now emerging is an intermediate description that lies somewhere between the two alienating images of a deterministic world and an arbitrary world of pure chance.
certainty a spook
but skepticism a meme
tinfoil hats & dementia are where it's at
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Why is he so perfect?
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>>9778023
Autism.
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>>9778023
He's really good unless he goes into "clowns and puppets are sooo scary" mode.
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>>9778134
Just so, Last Feast of the Harlequin is fucking amazing.
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I'm a cishet white dude seeking an introduction to intersectional feminism, where should I start /lit/?
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You'll get your (You)s don't worry, and if you are serious - which you aren't - be aware of what will come
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>>9777633
start with bell hooks
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Jose Vasconcelos' esoteric nationalism via new age tumblr intersectional dykes
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Please make me understand why is this book good and so appraised.
I read it and got nothing out of it. I didn't even find it entertaining or beautiful, just plain and boring. What am I to take from this book?
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Read more books until you stop seeing books as One (1) Token Redeemable For One (1) Point At PatricianLand
Just keep doing it until you stop being a fucking pleb. Learn some history too. And stop being a faggot.
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>>9777397
Been there done it you pretentious faggot
Ive beeb reading my whole life albeit most of the books I read uo until a couple years ago have been YA or Genre Fiction. Im not asking for validation here you mong I just want to hear opinions and arguments in favour of this book because I read it with high expectations and felt nothing trough it.
Stop insulting and start giving arguments.
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>>9777372
I don't know, I found it pretty entertaining personally
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What's the deal with the abundance of feelsy pussy wussy philosophy from 1800-1980?
It's egocentric, insecure, neurotic, effeminate, it's always written in imperative form and or retarded flowery prose, it keeps making up spooky sounding words, intended to evoke vague connotations of importance and grandiosity. It talks about marginal philosophical problems like they were paradoxes of life which have the inexplicable power to WIPE YOUR ENTIRE BEING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH if you aren't careful and read my book where I talk about how I rationalize my feelsies.
How did this ever become acceptable? What it comes down to is shitty self motivation for neurotics BUT WAIT it's really really profound and everyone is affected by it I swear guys. You must become the knight something will to power something and slay the dragon.
What is the name of this mental disease? And why does it keep drawing in young people like moths to the faggy little rose scented flame?
inb4 romanticism or nietzsches "great revelations". That doesn't begin to explain this phenomenon. Before philosophy was baseline masculine. Even the exceptions, like anatomy of melancholy or consolations of philosophy were written with such stoic calm you can not begin to compare them to the insecure introspection starting in the 19th century.
Somehow and for some reason a shift towards baseline sissy took place and it seems to coincide with the death of Kant.
So what the hell happened here?
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>>9776508
>What's the deal with the abundance of feelsy pussy wussy philosophy from 1800-1980?
It's not philosophy. It's bad poetry.
> shitty self motivation for neurotics BUT WAIT it's really really profound
It isn't profound. You have learned your definition of "philosophy" from 4chan, of all places.
>a shift towards baseline sissy took place
It didn't. That only occurred among poseurs the likes of which populate /lit/.
Genuine 'legit' philosophy continued as usual after Kant. (Bolzano, Brentano, Frege, et al)
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>>9776532
Point taken my man. But stll, there was a surge of this shit starting somewhere in the 19th century. You can't explain that. Or can you?
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HOW TO GET INTO LACAN? 2017-07-19 08:00:03 Post No.9776275
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How to understand Lacan?
Do I need to first read Freud's writings?
What do you advise?
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Lacan? More like Avoid this meme while you can
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>>9776275
Madam, good evening to you
First m'lady id like to let you know that if you have any questions you can ask me. I put my name on, I don't usually but I will this time ;) Kay? Cool. So Lacan, that's a tall order. If I give you some information, perhaps you could send another picture, in private if you like.
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>>9776293
Pardon me, but I forgot to put my name. There it is. And if you need me just address me by that name.
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write what's on your mind
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>>9775149
what's on your mind
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what's on your mind
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I've been posting on flagged boards under a VPN proxy for the last couple of days just to shitpost under various nationalities.
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>reading on the train
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?
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>>9774657
Why do you specify train?
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>>9774657
more attention seeking? shit posting
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It is literally one of the best times to read.
The Anima is my absolute favorite part of Jung's theory.
Does anyone (with knowledge) have any strong opinions on it or recommended scholarly reading?
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>>9774434
The idea that there is a feminine part of my personalityturns me on like you wouldn't believe
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How are homosexuals accounted for in this theory? I remember Jung saying about Hitler, that his unconscious seems "female." This makes me suspect that at least some homosexuals follow a female typical pattern of sexual development. But I can't exactly verify if this is true. So I've never found this theory of sexual development particularly illuminating. At least in my own case.
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I wish people would stop acting like sexuality is so fucking interesting. Its right up there with favorite color for trite bullshit
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Nick Land - Human Pawn in the Robot Chess Game 2017-07-18 04:55:05 Post No.9772931
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Nick Land - Human Pawn in the Robot Chess Game
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Here is a fresh thread in which we can all discuss the ideas and works of Nick Land and other philosophers who address similar issues.
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obscuritanical, psuedo-continental post-academic wankery
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>>9774480
>He is just upset he can't understand the genius that is Nick Land
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>tfw Nick is redpilled on the women question
Can Rorty's ironist vocabulary be effectively redirected to conservative purposes?
The chunk of Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity concerning liberalism is without a doubt the weakest part. Rorty would be one of the great thinkers if his work was purged and appropriated for conservative politics.
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>>9772539
I think so, and I would cite the last few years as the idea in practice.
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>>9773130
Tell me more. I'm interested in the use of appropriation as applied to evolution in right wing politics and philosophy as it is presently occurs.
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>>9773130
Can you elaborate anon? Conservatism is on the rise - thank God - but there seems to be a widespread false certainty about our core beliefs on the right with little recognition of contingency or room for doubt.