There is a fascinating, digressive chapter in Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris about how architecture was once the main form of expression of human thought and how the invention of the printing press put an end to this.Are there any other books about this topic? The intersection of philosophy and architecture? And was Hugo even correct?
Architecture used to mean something, post modernism destroyed it as it destroys everything though.
>>24945477My dad is an architect; I'll tell him about this.
>>24947754>>24949464We still very much do build monumental architecture, countries even waste more money than is needed for building a structure that's essentially temporary (the Olympic stadiums for an example). The thing is outside of shitty third world nations, our great architectures are no longer religious sites. For one, religion is no longer the center worldview & cultural glue for most people in the world. And second, the world is globalized now so building a religious structure will alienate many people. Instead we build monumental architecture for something more universal & inclusive to all nations like museums, sports stadiums, or theatres.In case any anons wondering what the buildings in the pic are>Louvre Pyramid>Beijing Bird's Nest>Sydney Opera House>Museum of the Future
C.S. Lewis' book made from him overview lectures on the scientific-philosphical-mythic context of medieval and Renaissance literature, The Discarded Image, does a really great job showing how the Gothic cathedral captures the medieval vision of the cosmos.
>>24949802It's really not on the same scale though. Cathedrals took generations and took up more of GDP than Cold War defense spending.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
>>24948859>>24948944Grazie
THE SOUTHERN PLAGUE NEEDS TO BE ERADICATED. CHILEAN AND ARGENTINIAN OBLITERATION IS THE WAY TO GO, PAL.
Las Malvinas son y serán Inglaterra boludos
>>24949628en el futuro será de china. y porqué eso? porque los ingleses van a perder su guerra con china y perder su territorio en todos lados
de mas esta decir que si permitis que lo que dice una manga de pajeros en 4chan afecte como ves y entendes tu realidad politica, no sos mas que un boludo util
A good metric for a genuine writer is: can i read his works on the toilet? If so, congratulations, you managed to find an author that's engaging enough to be fluently read in a low focus environment without issues. If not, well you just found a trendy name for fake intellectuals to prance about.
>>24948107the bathroom is a quiet white place suitable for meditation
>>24948275That this place is high quality entertainment? Despite telling us the contrary, you're lurking this place for years if not decades.
>>24948107I use Adorno for toilet paper.
>>24948415Fair enough
>>24948107As a child I would read on the toilet until my legs went numb, good books too usually. I remember reading book one of a farewell to arms in one sitting on the toilet and just laying down in my room for hours afterwards. My parents stopped buying me good books around age 10 at the advice of a school teacher that was annoyed with me reading in class. I think I'm still not over it.
Do Tolkiendrones realize that fantasy existed before Lord of the Rings and that it suffered greatly from Big Fat Fantasy and other sloppy derivatives that grew like viruses from Tolkien's wen? https://voca.ro/1Rwc7lMX0hfT
>>24948171>worldbuilding is something tolkien introducedLoad of shit, he was just very autistic about it.
>>24939820>Is Named China>Is A Communist>Mieville>Bald As Moby
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>>24949835You thought that was clever, didn't you? You unwashed manbaby.
>>24939820I'm writing a “Futuristic existential dystopian meta-epic with elements of philosophical science fiction, apocalyptic fiction, post-apocalyptic societal reconstruction, spacefaring coming-of-age, and speculative political thriller". Y'all need to stop reading genreslop and blaming other people when it's boring and derivative lol
If, according to Gnosticism, the material world was created by an ignorant or malevolent Demiurge, why did the higher, benevolent source of reality allow such a being or such a world to come into existence? This idea seems to relocate the problem of evil to a meta-level rather than resolving it.
>>24949807The Monad allows the Demiurge's reality to exist because the Monad wants his grandchild (and his offspring) to return back home of their own free will. By allowing Sophia to create the Demiurge in the first place, the Monad could experience imperfection and the cycle of life. To dwell within the Pleroma is to thrive within Heaven-Nirvana, but what is the point of experiencing Oneness (non-birth and non-death) if you've never earned it? It's like being on top of Mount Everest when you were already born.Consider what the Buddha spoke about existence being equivalent to living in a burning house. To realize/understand Nirvana, one must just simply step outside.>The Demiurge came from the forest with wood and nails and made a house to live in. He stays inside his burning house because he is afraid of many things: his mortality, hashing things out with Sophia, and humbling himself. He fears returning back to the woods and what it means for him. He believes connecting himself with others is equivalent to Ego Death.
>>24949807Bro PLEASE I am begging you read more about the things you are talking about. The problem of evil?!? In GNOSTICISM? They literally claimed that the entire cosmos is evil and ruled by evil gods, there is no 'problem of evil' because in their view the evil is rooted in the design of the universe itself.You are also misunderstanding how divinity actually functions in Gnosticism. The high god doesn't actually do stuff, it's like the Neoplatonist 'Intellect' that creates the world of forms, but it has no power or control over the material world. Basically it's Platonism for retarded incels who hate the world.
>>24949807Gnosticism is a form of substance pluralism and thus is false.
It's a heresy created by Satan or those under demonic influence, don't expect it to make sense. Also, the is no one Gnostic myth or Scriptures, we have a bunch of different surviving texts. So it doesn't really make sense together. Aside from the Demiurge mythos and the edgy stuff in the Apocryphon of John and the Hypostasis of the Archons a lot of the stuff people are attracted to in Gnosticism is actually more coherently and deeply handled in orthodox Patristic works it seems to me. I don't know if it's that people tend to associate Christianity exclusively with modern Anglophone Protestantism, but there is this weird push to sell orthodox (or mostly orthodox) figures as le ebin gnostics, so that Eriugena is inappropriately slapped with the label, and Origen too, or the other Origenists or Eckhart, etc.
>>24949910Satan does not exist and neither does God. Jesus did not rise from the dead and he's never coming back.
>Moby-Dick;
>or, The Whale
>The Anatomy of Melancholy:) >What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up:D
>>24949066>Whale, I guess that's the story of my moby-dick!
>short but complex enough to hold your attention>Easy to read without the dumbed down low IQ prose slop of modern fantasy>no political correctnessStart with the pulps
Two Weeks Left Edition>Old:>>24936611>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
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?
the more I think about these books the more I realise they're perfect...
What are my thoughts on Le Guin and Abercrombie?
>fuck LiesanderNo, fuck Alexander
wtf am I reading
2025 is almost over. What's the best book you read this year?
Suttree, also my favorite book of all time
I read these three. The second was the best but they are all really excellent.
Either this or Chesterton's Ballad Of The White Horse. Both very different but both highly enjoyable.I also reread the Republic this year, and read Considerations On France for the first time. All in all, a very good year.
reread but goddamm i love byatt
>>24948844Seconding this, actually
>december 2025>novel still unfinished
35k word of my first draft. Life's good. I am writing chapter 21 of it as we speak. I expect 27 or 29 chapters, so I am almost done with the first draft.
I've got 50k words down and I'm probs not even a third done. It's fun but I know I'm gonna need to write another draft which is kind of disheartening
>>24948774If you find an activity intensely difficult, it's usually because you have no aptitude for it.
>>24948774>ok OP what is your book about, please enlighten me
>>24948774you should drop writing alltogethr and learn how to code roblox games my little nephew makes a cool 600-800$ a month from it
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24949618>still won't name any magazinesyou're full of shit
>>24949696>this guy does more than me >if he won't tell me every detail of every thing he does, he's full of shit
>>24949790>he won't do something as simple as typing a nameKill yourself
>>24949872>he won't do something as simple as typing a nameCorrect. I expect at least part of the autonomy I showed to get my results. Go get your own
>>24949876>There's so many great literary magazines!>no, I won't name anyyou're full of shit
is this actually a decent microcosm of growing up in American society? he and his family did most of the stuff my family did growing up.
>>24949304This series wasn't even a thing when I was a kid
I found the first 3 books alot of fun and 4 kinda killed it for me. What order did they come out in its not right in the op
Completely out of order. The first few DOAWK books were fine, but even 12 year old me noticed a pretty drastic drop in quality after the fifth one
Reported
>>24949304love these books as a kid but teachers are faggots that didn't let us read them because they want reading to be miserable
Are there any librarians or library assistants here? How did you get your job? I want to be a library assistant but Ive found it difficult to find a job.
>>24949864You have to be gay for starters
>>24949870i posted xiuxiu ofc im a tranny
i guess more specifically i only have an associates would a bachelors help?
>>24949871Did you try going to your local libraries and asking the people there how they got their jobs? They're usually pretty chill.
>>24949882thats a good idea. Ive asked around at my uni and most said they interned first and then got hired on later. thanks :)
thoughts on this guy?
>>24949859Ruined by overexposure
"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.
>>24949900that's only if you post the entire thing. if you post excerpts it doesn't matter. since it's going to be rewritten anyways
>>24949907how do i know when I'm ready?
>>24949920Some publishers might be okay with that. Others definitely aren't.>>24949922That's a question everyone has to ask themselves. If you don't have any experience, then you have no idea. All I can tell you is that the vast majority are doing more than 2 drafts and if you think it's ready, statistically, it's probably not.
>>24949920No. If you post so much as a single letter that appears in your story you've written you forfeit publishing rights and will never be touched by anyone ever under any circumstances
>>24949494Holy digits
