Best criticism of neoliberal capitalism out there? Who, what, where, which?
>>24946162Wall Street and the Russian Revolution by Richard Spence is implicitly a great critique of capitalism. But it is possible (even likely) that the author disagrees with this conclusion.Captcha: ASST4
>>24946241>implicitlyDrooling
What’s the male version of this? I’m tired as fuck
>>24945515no, and I sort of liked eileen and myorar despite the silly endings.
>>24945515differ of opinion but I really appreciated Lapvona but tragic comedies speak to me
>>24944210The average body count of people in their 80s is like 5. Touch grass.
>>24944316are you 5 years old? are you afraid its going to give you cooties?
>>24945179That’s true for men and women, retard
I am reading deleuze’s what is philosophy at the moment and the part about the creation of concepts, the analysis of their components and the resulting impossibility of discourse in philosophy is blowing my mind. The discourse becomes impossible or at least fruitless because the terms and concepts discussed, although homophones, aren’t comparable because they’re on different planes of thought and have different components. So we think we are speaking about the same things, while only confusing ourselves and wasting our time. I mean the idea is almost trivial, while the execution and explanation is outstanding.
hes a fag
>>24946062Doesn’t matter, don’t care.
>>24946039sounds interesting. haven't read WiP, but i've found his (maybe related?) concept of the plane of consistency to be really useful for thinking about artworks and the miniature model worlds they represent.
What's the great British novel?
>>24946156an oxymoron.
i don't think people who talk in terms of 'greats' are really fans of literature, not in the way i am, the true and noblest way
>>24946156The Quran
Post image get book rec pls
>>24945612AI can't cal.
>>24945938 I never see my only friend anymore cuz last time we hung out i got too drunk and made a fool of myself
>>24945942And what the flip is CAL ????
>>24945938kek
Just ordered thisWhat am I getting into?
>>24946147The greatest and most beautiful book of all time. Take your time with it and God Bless you.
>>24946147what translation, if its the nrsv you better throw it out
>>24946190It's the one in the picture.I figured it would be too hard to read for me (not a native english speaker), but the samples I've read online were easy enough to understand.
>>24946192even native english speakers get btfo, especially normies. Even educated people will have some issues especially with words that have changed meaning. but you will understand most of it.I'd still recommend a NKJV which keeps a lot of the feel, NASB or ESV
What did I think?
>>24945310i am drinking slow cooker grinch hot cocoa while reading your post
>>24945812How does three different kinds of dairy a green hot-chocolate make?
>>24945310I hate Dr. Seuss. Rhyming a word with a nonsense word you made up expressly for the purpose is not good writing. Just another ugly dumbed-down shadow over my once-great nation, hardly better than the Mouse. We could have done so much better.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a great example of what Northrop Frye a called "Spring Cycle" story. The story begins with The Grinch alone and angry on top of his snowcapped mountain, and it ends with him in a warm home in Who-ville. The loneliness and anger The Grinch experienced at the beginning of the book (Winter) is contrasted by the community and happiness he experiences at the end of the book (Summer).
>>24946201>Rhyming a word with a nonsense word you made up.All words are made up. Some were just made up more recently than others.
I'm interested in a reading group focused on art books. Most you can get through your library if you can't afford them, or as PDF's from Anna'a Archive.To start with I'd like to go with Umberto Eco's On Beauty, and then On Ugliness, but I open to alternative suggestions for our starting book.The reading for the week will be posted Sunday if there are enough takersIf you want, although it's not necessary for participation, there will be linked to threads and so forth on the Criterion Club server under the visual-arts channel https://discord.gg/XhFGx57VKm
>>24945775Gombrich Story of Art should be the basics required for beginning such discussions.
>>24945775stop shilling your pedocord
>>24945933Checked So you would participate if we started with that?
From On Beauty
Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 yearsPic related
>>24944600What's schizophrenic about that?
>>24944600You don't come out of schizophrenia writing something like Mason and Dixon. Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenics are retards who can barely understand human speech. Analogy, metaphor, simile, symbolism is all beyond the average schizo brain. With age, the retardation gets worse.So, no, Pynchon wasn't schizophrenic.PKD is classic amphetamine abuse, which does lead to episodes of psychotic cognition indistinguishable from acute schizophrenia.
>>24944612why?
>>24944632Tristero?
>>24944708>Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenics are retards who can barely understand human speech.Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenia, like all mental illness, varies in form depending on the IQ, with low-functioning and high-functioning individuals. Ted Kaczynski was vehement he wasn't schizophrenic but he was diagnosed as such and may just be an example of a highly-functioning schizophrenic
Why did humanity suddenly discover a sense of humor in the 1600s?Don Q, Sammy Ps diary, confusiones de la confusiones... all have a LOL witty passage or four in there. Prior to this, just about nothing. Where did this come from all across yurop? When the modern offices bros humor is a collection of Will Ferrell movie references, you have to think there is some comic progenitor or Q source in the 1550s that taught them how to make a witty joke.
>completely dismantles leftism in your path
>>24945069>The Nazis were overwhelmingly Catholic Right WingersBrown hands typed this.
>>24944269Kind of interesting to me how obsessed the chuds have become with indians recently. Is it because you found out they're profiting greatly off your cuck fantasies?
>>24945439>>24945441back to /pol/ with you subhuman retards
>>24944276Nazism derived much of its political style from Jacobinism (like communism) so it confuses retards and they assume the values and ideology are the same.
>>24945069>The Nazis were overwhelmingly Catholic Right Wingers, so why is Hitler listed on this book?how did you know i am mexican?
>crowds are.... le BAD
>>24943867Frankly I'm impressed a shitposter who didn't read the book even knows who this is. Pretty obscure reference.
>>24945410He was namedropped in a Debord thread like, 24 hours ago, dude. He's not some nobody, at least not anymore.
>>24943867His beard tells me all I need to know
>>24945410NTA, but I read both of his main works last year and enjoyed them thoroughly. he's not bad for a frog.pretty prescient and on-point with most of his observations
>>24945461>he's not bad for a frog.because he was an open and unashamed angloboo.
"Hemingwrite" editionPrevious: >>24931322/wg/ AUTHORS & FLASH FICTION: https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQRESOURCES & RECOMMENDATIONS: https://pastebin.com/nFxdiQvCPlease limit excerpts to one post.Give advice as much as you receive it to the best of your ability.Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.If you have not performed a cursory proofread, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work for spelling and grammar before posting.Violent shills, relentless shill-spammers, and grounds keeping prose, should be ignored and reported.(And maybe double-space your WIPs to allow edits if you want 'em.)Simple guides on writing:Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24945863>>24945881Also of course I have done the most basic of market research. When you assume everyone else is an idiot you reveal yourself to be one.
>>24940898How do I get started?
>>24945801better than the AI-generated foraging books
>>24945846Sounds like you need to take three years to make it comprehensible, then. Ganbatte and good luck.
>>24946042Have something to say.
Do you think the Leap of Faith is really a good philosophy or an Immanent onr
>>24941197Excellent post.
>>24939908>lack of a little piece of knowledgeThe word "little" is much like Atlas.If you had known God for a number of years (personally) through courting & marriage. If you & your wife had routinely done chores which involved being away from each-other. If when you saw eachother again you had evidently done said chores.>He will have us love in a way wherein we choose reason Great, and he'll know even if my reasoning is flawed that I'm happy for Him to discuss it politely with me :)
>>24943402To some extent, but you are underestimating the size of some leaps. This is what Kierkegaard actually gets that other Christian philosophers weirdly don't seem to understand. I don't know if we are that different, or they are terribly good at coping and ignoring the elephant in the room.
>>24943002>>24943009but none of that makes them the same. reasoning as a guided process toward some normative or desirable end (reasoning can be guided by values, for example) as opposed to prudence as an embodied habitude to the sequence of stimuli. prudentia does not only refer to caution but more to habitual expectation. prudence is the reason bayesians believe humans are bad at reasoning about probabilities: all of reason's resources concerning probabilities, until they come from definitional knowledge derived from scientific observations of statistical regularities, are based on the imagination's basically paranoid attitude toward the sequence of stimuli. prudence encourages the imagination to open itself to deliberation by imagining not just the best possibilities but all possibilities of a consequent action. on the one hand, the inclination toward the openness inherent in action and decision disposes us toward futurity, but, on the other, it predisposes us to reasoning errors owing to the essentially fictitious nature of its undecidable speculative constructions. with prudence we are not authors, we're more like oedipa maas walking the train tracks. the products of prudence are not willful actions but indecision and deliberation. reason steps in to cut prudence short.
>>24943161>muh faith reason dichotomy
What's the greatest short story of all time?
>>24944337Definitely not that- though that is an okay Borges story but its nothing spectacularMy vote is Rustico and Alibech
>>24944337The Tereus, Procne & Philomela canto of Metamorphoses. Made me cry on the toilet while reciting it for the first time. The window is open so the neighbours would've heard me if they were home.inb4 hurr durr poems aren't short stories
The country doctor by Kafka
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro by Hemingway
>>24944337The garden of forking paths
