Our hero, weary from trying to rise, let his head rest lightly upon the ground, and as he looked to his right, he saw a serpent of yellow and red colors coming toward him.— I sought you everywhere. It seems to me that what they whisper out there is true.— What is true, talking serpent?—— It is true that thou art the Never-dead, the Corpse. Such a thing is spoken in every corner, and it is impossible that we should not know. For in a certain manner we are the Unity made visible, individuated.— What do you want from me, talking serpent?—— I came only to ask thee some questions, nothing more. Dost thou accept? Perhaps even a proposal. But before thou answerest me, there is another matter that bites at my curiosity: how was thy conversation with Her? For it is not every day that one is granted such fortune — or rather, such misfortune.— Are you speaking of Nature?—— Indeed, of whom else could I speak, if not of Nature, mother of all things?— You had declared that it is impossible not to know what happens here. If that is true, then why do you question me?At that moment the serpent opened its lips. Our hero thought it would attack, but in truth, it seemed a kind of smile — a malicious smile.—— I desire to hear from thine own mouth, Never-dead. To hear thy version.— All I want is only the repose of nothingness, non-existence. I do not know what befell me that such misfortune should descend upon me. By natural law, I should already be dead. Nothingness should be my dwelling, and not this degrading condition. What wrong have I done? Look upon me: my body is the living banquet of larvae and worms, it is dying, and yet I remain with my consciousness intact.And again, smiling maliciously, the serpent said:—— Yea, yea, thou art accursed, thou art degraded. Why dost thou not hearken unto my proposal?— I have nothing for you, serpent. What could you possibly want from me?Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24981120how
are you purposely code switching or do you just have a limited vocab?
>>24981363yes, i'm purposely code switching.
There’s a writing general
>>24979358Edit toAs our hero lay on the ground, he saw a serpent of yellow and red colors coming toward him.— I sought you everywhere. Is what they whisper out there is true?— What is true, talking serpent?—— It is true that thou art the Never-dead, the Corpse. Such a thing is spoken in every corner, and it is impossible that we should not know. — What do you want from me, talking serpent?—— I came only to ask thee some questions, nothing more. Dost thou accept? Perhaps even a proposal. But before thou answerest me, there is another matter that bites at my curiosity: how was thy conversation with Her? For it is not every day that one is granted such fortune — or rather, such misfortune.— Are you speaking of Nature?—— Indeed, of whom else could I speak, if not of Nature, mother of all things?— Why do you question me?At that moment the serpent opened its lips. Our hero thought it would attack, but in truth, it seemed a kind of smile — a malicious smile.—— I desire to hear from thine own mouth, Never-dead. To hear thy version.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
A square 90% of writers in aesthetics need to be culled. This approaches 100% in general-audience publications.
Who are the 10% worth readingI want to go deep on aesthetics because it seems really parallel to a lot of moral philosophy All I have right now is kants 3rd critique, a hegel lecture, and a bunch of evolutionary psych books about the biological reduction of aesthetic thoughts and behavior
>>24981831Really good stuff anon, I never read anything remotely close to this genre but the line 'i have a full beard' absolutely slayed me. Well done.
>>24983000kek the humour of it is strikeing i was useing gpt to edit and spitball with its not very good but its not bad ur post illuminated the humour that is hilarious unintentionaly so infact heres an update the ai just dosent "get it" it has no idea what im doing even when i prompt it lol but then againt your post reminds me about the bueaty that is hidden maybe i dont get it eather lmfao this was a story made to be a "tik tok" of storys
>>24983000Reworked Draft with Growing Emotional Intimacy in the Memory Layer:The two envirosuit-clad agents stalked the long trench of glowing plant matter, weapons fixed firmly forwards, scanning the vibrant stream that oscillated beneath them.[Suit Meta-Recording: Timestamp 00:00:23: “Agent REDACTED: Position—trench 06-B. Oxygen: 87%. Ammunition: 800 rounds remaining. Nestic dosage: 32% depletion. Vital signs: stable. Weapon systems online.]"So, what's our extraction point?"The silence over the intralink told her the answer.[Memory Recall: "It’s been hours, maybe days, since she last felt this. His presence beside her. So close she can almost hear his heartbeat under the weight of the mission. The world is full of fire, but in this moment, it’s just the two of them. The fight doesn’t matter. Not when he’s near."]A wide smile drew across her face.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24983034[Suit Meta-Recording: Timestamp 00:01:12: “Agent REDACTED: Name verified. Ammunition consumption: 15 rounds. Oxygen: 83%. Nestic use: 39%. Vital signs: stable—minor fluctuations.”]"Well, REDACTED, what brings you to this luminescent sewage outlet?"[Memory Recall: "The crackle of static echoes between them, the walls lighting up with a strange, violet glow. But it’s his voice that cuts through the noise, warm and steady, even in the midst of it all. She focuses on him, on that warmth, even when the world around them crumbles."]"Fuck."[Suit Meta-Recording: Timestamp 00:01:39: “Agent REDACTED: Emotional disturbance detected. Nestic gauge: 45%. Alert—possible memory shift. Prepare for combat mode.”]"Fuck.""This is bad."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24983037"My fingers are poking into the suit; I don't strike myself as the type who gets French tips before an incursion."[Suit Meta-Recording: Timestamp 00:03:10: “Agent REDACTED: Nestic disturbance: 67% usage. Ammunition consumption: 210 rounds. Oxygen: 62%. Critical readings—adrenaline imbalance detected.”]"We have a huge problem.""I have four shots left.""My clip is dry."The forward agent reaches for his belt."Looks like I already used the ace up my sleeve."Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>When the loud options are moralistic anti-technology on one side and managerial techno-optimism on the other, the vacancy is real. Into that space Land arrives, not with a program, but a jerry can full of accelerants. He offers a style of lucidity that makes refusal of justificatory exposure feel like realism, and he supplies different factions with the same transferable permission to burn what they already want to burn.>Land exploits that vacancy by treating contestation itself as pathology. The slow work of stating conditions, specifying stakes, tracking costs, and admitting defeaters is redescribed as security reflex and primate panic. His central gesture is substitution, the labor of justification gives way to the glamour of inevitability. He swaps arguments for accelerants, then calls the burn insight. Landian inevitability is counterfeit realism, a get-out-of-reply-free card stamped with ‘what is coming.’ If every objection is already a symptom, nothing has to be answered on the merits.>Thus, the space of the reasons is displaced by a regime of selection, time, capital, war, optimization, whatever can be invoked as an external criterion. Behind this move sits a familiar ancestor. Darwinian selection, abstracted into a metaphysics. The Landian trick is to treat selection not as a local operator but as a final arbiter. Whatever survives is taken to deserve survival. Whatever scales is taken to be true. This is how selection is promoted into a theory of justification, and it is also how resistance becomes illegible. If the arbiter is selection, then objections are not reasons, they are symptoms.Actually pretty good. I think the polemics lean a little too heavily on a dated caricature of Land’s thought, but the criticism of provenance as a substitute for justification is sound, imo. If you submit your ethical judgements to the invisible hand of technocapital then every criticism can be framed as a transient pocket of negentropic drag that doesn’t deserve an answer. Of course if in raising your metaphysics to the status of an ethics your position magically becomes immune from criticism, there’s definitely a problem there.
>>24981193it falls apart when you just reject Hegelian Monism/Absolutism.there's other Wills than Techno-capital at play; but this is the god that Land worships as he gives nominal lip service to God (probably hedging his bets; he's a smart lad)
Land has been in serious decline for some time now, he's had two strokes I believe?You can tell because he's gone full boomer in support of Trump to the point of coping about tariffs with lemure-larp.
>>24982936>You can tell because he's gone full boomer in support of Trumphe hasn't done this thoughNick Land hasn't 'declined' he just hasn't adapted his framework, he's been right about everything but then what's next? Who's the prophet of the 2030s?
>>24981193you can sort of tell it was generated by ai with all the contrastive framing sentence structure.Its not original -- it's a light re-edit of an LLM response
>>24982827>go ahead and give me a short summary of Nick LandNot that anon but I'll give it a shot.Lands philosophy boils down to accelerationism, a concept in which he predicts that the world is bound to end and all we can do is accelerate this process and begin a new , sort of dystopian, artificial intelligence as capital driven darwinian horror world. Also numerology bs.
I prefer reading physical books and so often by them from local bookstores or online. So its no big deal for me. But my wife prefers reading online and wants to find a resource to download free books of varying topics. Any good reccomendations. Obviously googling gives me nothing.
Many Gutenberg publications have also been moved to the Kindle store for free, which is convenient.
>>24982548Heathcliff is unfathomably based.
Anon: you should read this book! I downloaded it free!Me: google...typed in... "Title" by author free PDF download. Found the book (for free) minutes later.
What happened to libgen?
>>24982562>>24982564Don't spread it, retards.>>24982920Russia invaded Ukraine.
What's the most book-accurate Lolita cover?
>>24978956>The correct term is 'hebephilia'.>You see, judge, I'm not a pedophile; I do not fuck children beneath the age of twelvePedophilia and intelligence definitely don't go together.
>>24981290>I'm not a pedophile; I do not fuck children beneath the age of twelveLiterally how it works though.
>>24981290Hebephilia and pedophilia are not distinguished on the basis of age, but on the basis of pubertal development.
>>24981300cute
>>24981300>>24981452This is a "kill them all and let God sort them out" moment.
How come the rate of readership keeps declining but Barnes and Noble just keeps getting more popular over time
>>24982802Just return it if you still have the receipt. This is why you should think before you just go ahead and do things
>>24982301>the rate of readership keeps decliningNah, the rate of literacy is declining. Readership is, as always, higher in younger people.Picrel is from Europe (I can't find any public org doing statistics for the US).>Barnes and Noble just keeps getting more popular over timeBecause Amazon smells like corporate slop. Barnes and Nobles is more sovlfvl.
>>24982309>nick nacksI hate Americans so much.
>>24982899>pic -women mostly read slop fiction-the industry is controlled by people that hate white men and don’t produce any books for them.
>>24982301Did they start selling vibrators, buttplugs, and dildo disinfectant like Indigo?
what novel best depicts loneliness
Johnny Got His Gun.
>>24980739Could be a man, could be a chick with rough genetics.Wouldn't risk it
>>24980739>>24981275Would.
The Lonely City: by Olivia Laing: A personal and artistic look at loneliness in New York City.
>>24983027Women in a big city cannot be alone in the same way men can.
I just want to learn what's so appealing this genre
a girl i fell for recommended The Life Of Anna to me during the two months i was with her. she ended up emotionally destroying me under quite horrific circumstances but i still remember the book quite well because i imagined Anna as her the whole time.
>>24977030violent video games are a reflection of an already present thirst for violence the same way that rape fantasy writing is a reflection of an already present sexual depravity. both mediums are scapegoats, the responsibility for real-world acts of violence lies on the actors for failing to distinguish fiction from reality and being tempted by media to either perform or solicit violenceso no, media is not inherently responsible, they exist as outlets for violent fantasy but people fail to treat them as such and/or allow them to distort what's culturally/morally acceptable irl
>>24976052kek, i stalked a woman's twitter that posted on /tg/ like this.
>>24979914what did she do
>>24976243Because we evolved living under tribal chiefs and Kings so many of us are naturally predisposed to needing someone to have power over them
I've been watching a lot of youtube videos about this book and I kinda want to read it myself, however I am somewhat of a brainlet and have difficulties with paying attention while reading, what are some other books that are easier to read but explore similar ideas? Can be fiction or non-fiction. I heard that American Psycho is based on the book, does it explore the philosophy well?Any recommendations are appreciated.
>>24981888Honestly just take 20mins to talk to a LLM about the concepts therein and what their application is and move on.
the Wachowski brothers were famously obsessed with this book and look where it got them
>>24981888read The Jean Baudrillard Reader (Columbia University Press)
>>24981898fpbp. you a real nigga
Just read it. Or don’t, it’s one of those disorienting reads that makes life a little less pleasant.
one of those books you immediately start re-reading once you get to the end
>>24980305>paramowhy is he named this? isn't this a kind of alpine ecosystme?
>one of those books you immediately start re-reading once you get to the endNobody fucking does this.
>>24976649keep seething pedro
>>24981025fag
>>24976067>>24976282Just use Google translate
I've never personally found any argument against suicide that really convinces me. The more philosophy I read, the more many common objections seem based on instinct or emotion rather than careful reasoning. When people call suicide "murder" or "unnatural" they often ignore that a right to life should also include the right to give it up, and that nature itself isn't a moral authority. If it were, we wouldn't use medicine to prevent or delay natural deaths. The claim that suicide is selfish also feels very one-sided. It can just as easily be seen as selfish to expect someone to keep living with unbearable mental or physical suffering simply so others don't have to feel grief. None of us chose to be born, and being stuck in a life that has become intolerable is a tragedy, not a moral failure. I think society has a strong optimism bias that makes people assume life is better than it really is for everyone. When someone experiences life mainly as a heavy burden, ending their life can be a rational way to take back control over something they never chose.
>>24980854Funny how nobody answers this one
>>24976419>needing an argument against suicideKek
>>24982871cuz he sounds like a whiny faggot who intentionally misinterprets kamic systems
>>24976419funny how all these pro suicide niggas are still alive and havent killed themselves
>>24983011https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
>>24979312I put faith in metaphysical claims because it's impossible not to, and if you think this is not the case that just means you're so invested in your interpretation that you can't see the forest for the trees. We all put faith in some interpretation of reality, even it that's simply the assumption that we take reality at face value. Science really has nothing to do with it.
>>24979379>Taking psychedelics until you "get it"?That's one option. Could meditate, pray, any spiritual practice. Getting it is known as stream entry, kensho, gnosis, unknowing, realisation, awakening, etc. Google those terms and find appropriate practice and tradition
>>24981521It's too hard though, and when you have brainrot from too much media consumption it's impossible to do any religious practice.
>>24979312Science doesn't deal with metaphysical or supernatural claims in any way
>>24982719No it's not. You haven't even tried.
>400k subscribers>can barely get 4k viewsWaldunchads...we were supposed to be the next Jamie Joyce or Willy Shakespeare...our proses...they were supposed to flow...it's just ever so bizarre...weren't we going to be polymaths...the next Mozart (Hey! that rhymed)
>>24982602It was a comment he left on the L'Académie review video or on one of his videos around the time of L'Académie's release. I'll be arsed if I'm going to find it. You can trawl the /lit/ archives. I posted a screenshot of it a few times.
>>24982657It took me 5 seconds to find it, but I am after all /lit/'s leading Waldun scholar. The comment I left on this post>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3k-i0c3onfY>Skip to 1:18:00 and read the chat to see KD's comments on Waldun.>So, what do we think about Waldun's supposed third novel? When will he announce it?Warosu linkhttps://warosu.org/lit/thread/20849189#p20849386
>>24982665Alright, newsflash pal! If some Welsh who from Welsh whoville easily rips some wannabe writer like Waldun a new asshole twice, saying his first two novels are utter dogshit, goes on to say the third one which is unpublished and unreviewed is "better", you cannot quote him, like, "that third novel is good". KD's comment simply means it's better than pure shite. it might be shite with chunks of chocolate now. not "good".
>>24981641>Downing a glass every night>feel like Oscar wildeHe is so cute, I want to cum in his butt every night and hold him in my arms
>>24981614I do. He's our man.
