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>>24949363
Convoluted explanation for ideological motivation
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>>24949363
Or, as Tolkien put it in his fiction also, in other words, evil cannot create, only copy or destroy.
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>>24947068
Women can translate just fine. Iconoclastic ideological motivation should be called out for what it is without resorting to retarded generalizations that merely feed the beast.
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>>24947071
They are honorary white (unlike jews)
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>>24949442
No it's not. It's an explanation of why people become ideologically possessed and the rotten fruit such bears.

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How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
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>>24949586
Im Muslim ideally they would be Muslim but I'd rather have them going to mass and at least being somewhat conservative
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>>24949598
Option A: you're a hypocrite
Option B: you're a LARPer

take your pick
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>>24948572
They weren't familiar with one another's work and Peterson decided to talk to Zizek instead of talk past Zizek. Peterson thought Zizek was a standard commie whereas Zizek thought Peterson was le alt-right boogeyman and it took longer for Zizek to figure out Peterson than it did Peterson to figure out Zizek.
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>How do you actually overcome post-modernism?
You stop being a pseud who pretends to care about -isms and live your life.
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>>24948572
you flow organically with the tao
there is always a subset of genuine aesthetic expression that flies miles above the drudge of the modern world. also I think talking about structures of control or postmodernism or social signaling is pretty weak when even the source of all this shit like anti-oedipus objectively calls out any intrusion of social delusions into the life of the self as nothing but bullshit and all exploited by it complete fucking retards
"postmodernism" was overcome by postmodernism. just read deleuze and debord lmao
when is egoism and anarchism making an explicit comeback? I don't like this faggy social game

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Erich Heckel edition
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>>24949394
Well, they can offer you human flight, but it's unwise to take them up on it
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Enter the age of the aesthetics of total ego sublimation, absolute enslavement of the soul, my will and my penis i give to the latest egregore, the psychic spirals that rape the continuum of space, me and my band of renegade space faggots heil Hiltler to the idea of stealing the fruits of western civilization while Gustav Holst Jupiter plays in the background, and they grow to become actual human beings, in our bellies, because they were us all along no surprise there.
What? Are you really surprised? You shouldn't be, the fruit of our labor are the fruits of our seed the fruits men. See what we did there? Did you see? Did you see? Did you see? Are you watching? Keep watching, keep watching while nothing happens. In that void, In that void that you keep watching, in that hole, in that absence, in that faggot shaped hole, i am going to stuff you and the last tree that is left, and we will take that as a victory, another one for the white race.
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>TFW you don't live in a Scandinavian country w/ easy access to NEETbux
>TFW you live in the open air mental asylum that is the US of A
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Books for AI sloppa causing epistemological death?
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>>24949322
This is not a black space.

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There is so much confusion on this board, on 4chan and within our world in general about psychology and this man.

His fundamental insight is that you, I, and every truly human subject that will ever exist "Lack" in someway meaning they feel incomplete or are missing something that someone or everyone else has. This can only even be temporarily fulfilled.

This manifests itself in millions of ways, but once you understand this, psychoanalysis becomes a lot easier to understand. Of course, this isn't nearly all of Lacan, but its the lynchpin.

You feel lack, your mother feels lack, the hobbo down street feels lack and most importantly, the cheerleader or jock at your high school feels lack in some way.
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I dont feel lack at all.
say bye-bye to your whole ideology
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>>24947804
>the continuance of the rituals of the masters
>no limit on spirits devoured
>Kojeve is alpha for all headless Hegels

The ontological aspects you speak of are in the infancy of headless Hegelian ritual death rites. There can be only 1.
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>>24947804
>His fundamental insight is that you, I, and every truly human subject that will ever exist "Lack" in someway meaning they feel incomplete or are missing something that someone or everyone else has. This can only even be temporarily fulfilled.
That is not an insight. It's something every five year old discovers. I will know to ignore everything from this charlatan in the future.
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I don't doubt that it's true, but I don't see how it's novel or meaningful.
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>>24947804
>You feel lack, your mother feels lack, the hobbo down street feels lack and most importantly, the cheerleader or jock at your high school feels lack in some way.

Lacan explicitly states that it is not lack of this-or-that, but the lack of being itself.

Ultimately I side with D&G: a notion of desire as lack fails to capture the creative potential of desire, ie. desiring-production. To say that the structure of desire inhibits its own fulfilment is to confine desire within the Oedipal double-bind. Lack isn’t “lack of being”, it’s a productive negativity, a positively charged void from which incredible things can emerge. Without it, nothing would even happen.

Two Weeks Left Edition

>Old:
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>Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs):
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg
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>>24949515
Completely understandable.
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>>24949515
I've read the summary and I didn't get it at all lol
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>>24949335
Awesome. Thank you, I'll be going through all this soon.
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Continuing a thought from the last thread, I finished Port of Shadows from Glen Cook. Legitimately the worst book I've finished - I should have DNF'd halfway through. I hate saying that because the Black Company he wrote 40 odd years ago was just so fucking good and this felt like a teenage ghostwriter taking over the reins. A story of no consequence without character growth, action, good prose or generally anything interesting happening at all. To any and all people hoping to read this book series, just skip Port of Shadows. Your time is worth more than what this book has to offer.

Has anyone read Lies Weeping? Is it closer to the Black Company we all know and love or is it closer to this mess? Should we all just stick to the old stuff from here on out?
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the more I think about these books the more I realise they're perfect...

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I just realized that it would be impossible for the so called polyglots of literature to be fluent in all the languages they wrote.
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>>24949690
my argument is that I'm fluent in english because of spending 15 years on 4chan talking daily, and before that I spend 3 years studying it, and 4 years more using the english internet.

Claiming that you can reach fluency is not possible for more than 3-4 languages.
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>>24949680
Name 1 good book written by someone who didn’t speak the language fluently.
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>>24949691
>my argument is that I'm fluent in english because of spending 15 years on 4chan talking daily, and before that I spend 3 years studying it, and 4 years more using the english internet.
>Claiming that you can reach fluency is not possible for more than 3-4 languages.
thats a resonable argument , I kind of agree in the context of the normal paradime , but I do think thier is problably an underexplored world of language , the mytical true polygot, that being said , for me to say any Autor is one of those would be silly.

most polygots agree with you preposition at least , or the intent anyway.

what they do is just reach the minimun for fluency aggressively , is not entirely the same as learning english , since that is the verry important globohomo lanaguage.

imaging talking with someone who only knows 30% greek , but they are very clever in using that 30% , thats how it goes for them.

I think they could be larpers , their is a reason I compared polyglots to tarot.

although , if I had to guess , I would assume they are the type of larper who is semi decent at one part of the language (that being writing) and just over inflates their abilities a ton.


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>>24949693
Bunch of Chinese poetry written by Japanese people who could read and write Chinese but not speak it. Much of it's not great, but the best is pretty damn good.
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>>24949602
it's not hard to learn a language if you already know some of it and you spend your time reading books or watching film instead of doomscrolling 4chins endlessly です

sansa edition

ASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_Page
Blog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/
Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/
So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/
Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/
SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdy
General search: http://searcherr.work/
TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chapters

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First for Rhaenyra and her cute son!
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>>24949686
Name a more based king
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>>24949686
Do you think GRRM runs a tube up his ass to provide additional calories or did he get that fat by strictly mouth feeding alone?

Follow up question:
What percentage of his brain has been replaced by fat and why is it all of it?

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"Hemingwrite" edition

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Follow prompts made below and discuss written works for practice; contribute and you shall receive.
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>>24948048
It feels like you're writing it like a movie. With a round table flashback sequence then it pauses, black out, then moves to the present as if you copied Citizen Kane's opening.
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>>24948048
What's with the reddit spaces
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Why do people write
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>>24949665
It's fun
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>>24949494
>>24949663
I-it's experimental. Or something.

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Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
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>>24949465
See
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>>24948717
Ans thankfully will be replaced with Islam In sha Allah and atheists and LGBT will be silenced or put to death
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>>24949510
Thanks for the coalpost
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>>24949589
Im right thou
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>>24949645
You're not, achmed

>The Enlightenment was... le BAD?
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>>24949094
>>so yeah we should assume the universe revolves around the earth
why is thinking this.... LE BAD, soiencetard?
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>>24948256
>le Enlightenment is le bad
>but let's just unquestioningly hold to its premises that freedom is power/potential, wholly discursive reason, truth as constraint, concrete particulars are more fundamental, nominalism/individualism, and the resulting voluntarism that comes with these assumptions.
>Hence, we must be terrified of le riefication which is le oppression because le freedom is potency, so the actualization of the intellect by truth is le bad. Truth is le violence.

The irony is the misology and relativism this triggers just reduces in everything coming down to power relations. Reason can no longer adjudicate and so all that is left is the violence of Hitler, Stalin, and the liberal states against the Third World. The only thing that papered this over was zombie like continuation of Christian ethical and teleological assumptions. The spiritual logic of critical theory and post-modernism both terminate in fascism, whether they like it or not.

Dostoevsky saw further than most here.
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>>24949678
>>but let's just unquestioningly hold to its premises that freedom is power/potential, wholly discursive reason, truth as constraint, concrete particulars are more fundamental, nominalism/individualism, and the resulting voluntarism that comes with these assumptions.
in english, doc.
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>>24949089
>How does reason emerge from primitive god worship?
Grasping the nature of universals, something no animal is capable of.
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>>24949549
Your mother's mouth revolves around my dick

>>24949674
Not an atheist

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I like this book.
I think you should read it.
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>>24949375
Interesting cover and title. Anything you can tell us to sell on it, for those who have never heard about it? A quote you liked?
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So Carlyle is making fun of Hegel? This is like Candide but lampooning Hegelians instead?
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>>24949375
Carlyle mogs all the pretentious meta authors from the 20th century.
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>>24949451
It's not long, it's dense.
Meaning that it feels like it actively written to be hard to binge without feeling lost.
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>>24949630
It's written from the POV of an editor who himself is reviewing/publishing a fictional book titled the "Philosophy of Clothes".
At risk of being overly reductive an inferred theme that pervades the book is the idea of the pretentious and the authentic. (much like the wearing of clothes)
It effectively challenges Shakespeare's "what's in a name?".
The book itself can be both read ironically or seriously or perhaps both at once much like how the editor expounds upon the book he is investigating.
Part of the story involves the editor looking into the author's biography to try to make sense of it all.
There are several quotes that stuck with me and likely more that fell out of my head as there was a lot stuffed into the book.
The one that comes to mind at the moment is.
>That the Thought-forms, Space and Time, wherein, once for all, we are sent into this Earth to live, should condition and determine our whole Practical reasonings, conceptions, and imagines or imaginings—seems altogether fit, just, and unavoidable.
>But that they should, furthermore, usurp such sway over pure spiritual Meditation, and blind us to the wonder everywhere lying close on us, seems nowise so.
>Admit Space and Time to their due rank as Forms of Thought; nay even, if thou wilt, to their quite undue rank of Realities: and consider, then, with thyself how their thin disguises hide from us the brightest God-effulgences!
>Thus, were it not miraculous, could I stretch forth my hand and clutch the Sun?
>Yet thou seest me daily stretch forth my hand and therewith clutch many a thing, and swing it hither and thither.
>Art thou a grown baby, then, to fancy that the Miracle lies in miles of distance, or in pounds avoirdupois of weight; and not to see that the true inexplicable God-revealing Miracle lies in this, that I can stretch forth my hand at all; that I have free Force to clutch aught therewith?
>Innumerable other of this sort are the deceptions, and wonder-hiding stupefactions, which Space practises on us.

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What magazines are /lit/?
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>>24949491
>not a burger
doesn't count
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>>24949435
Kek. Binked ya, huh? No worries. The anons who want to read will follow my advice and have the opportunity to learn about new, interesting writers.
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>>24948737
>Harper's
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harpers is based as fuck, it generates so much seethe
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>>24949618
>still won't name any magazines
you're full of shit

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>>24948108
A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOReader installed. Amazon's ecosystem is absolutely awful but they make the best hardware.
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>>24947268
yeah i get the cheap ones at dollar tree and thrift stores
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>>24949414
>jailbroken
why tho?
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>>24949349
I'm superior to everyone with all of my unread books, nigger!
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I hate the modern world, but ebook piracy is just too beneficial and convenient to look down on. Where else.am I going to find out of print books from the 19th century, or source the entire Paladin Press catalog for zero dollars, from the comfort of my desk? Too bad printing technology hasn't made low-cost home printing a thing.

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Bolãnobros... it never began...
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>>24949594
God help me if this were real.
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>>24949594
that book sucks ass
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>>24949594
If you ever read Blood Meridian you will never stop wanting to beat Wendigoon to death with your bare hands
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>>24949594
/lit/fags on their way to start shitting on Bolano in the catalog because of normies
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>>24949666
Nice try, Satan, but I always hated Bolano.
Or at least the English translation, the prose in Savage Detectives is dogshit, and everything else (structure, characters, symbolism) isn't good enough to redeem the book.

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I haven't read a book since AI got big. Have you?
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>>24947661
I've read multiple novel length fanfcitions though
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ever since ai i read less and less useful non-fiction and more and more fiction (plus copious amounts of ai written porn)
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>>24947661
I just finished a book bit h
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>>24947661
are you gay though , you don't tell you AI bedtimes stories.

how else is it gonna grow up strong , if AI fails and bursts , is literally only your fault/
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>>24947661
Subhuman.


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