>The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today’s risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the “Oh how banal”. To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows.Do you agree?
>>24712335To disagree is not to be filtered
>>24715666Your post just comes across as sad cope, like you've finally given up on using your brain and decided to enter into a sort of numbers-game, a soulless void devoid of creativity, empathy, or anything human, just throwing around half-understood memetic insults you've seen hurled around a thousand times on this board. Like computers playing chess, the pieces are moving but there's no sentient thought.It's truly incredible how this time around, of all times, you've decided to drop all pretenses and get on with pushing for the motive you've likely had since the beginning. And to your motive , I'll say this: I will not enable or legitamize it. Your need for approval is now exposed, and you've exposed it. I guess it goes to show that we were never conversing, we're we? You were always just waiting, trying to figure out a good angle, like a scam caller having some inane conversation while looking for a way to weasel himself in. It's kind of sad, really. We had, at least I thought we had, a discussion of ideas here. I guess I was wrong, you're just another cynic looking to try to win internet points. Like a twitter bot made out of meat.And Pale King's supposed to be about me? You sure? Maybe this whole time you've been reading DFW ironically. Or maybe you never read anything from him at all, and you're just holding on to his name and a few Wikipedia summaries of his work in order to build something resembling a personality. Feel free to scream "projection", that's the usual part of your script, but don't pretend that you care about discussing irony in earnest when you act like this.
>>24716386He's a major postmodernist
>>24710509no it turned out the new artists are tiktokers
>>24717307You admitted to failing to say what you meant and throwing stuff in for shits and giggles and just winging it; how is my not wanted to wade through it all coping? lol. Put in the effort, I will respond in kind.
Books on the correlation between fighting wars, militarization and the GDP? Prefer history books but theoretical works are fine too.
When will US and China team up to destroy the synagogue of Satan and their occult symbols?
Post your own work and critique others.
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Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
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Books against advertising as a concept?
>>24717934Retard. We are all paying "free" things with our society, civilization, and soul. There is no free lunch.
>>24717783Syrup by Max Barry
>>24717783probably anything by Bernays. the guy wrote the playbook on advertising and PR. you don't need a book against advertising to find it repulsive. it's enough to see how it works. it's probably much harder to find a book that argues for advertising (outside of the business context which is a self-justification of its own ethos).
You should read No Logo
>>24718011By Naomi Klein? Isn't she some kind of shill?
>muh common sense"Common sense is stubborn; it stubbornly believes itself secure in the force of its inertia, believes the non-conscious secure in its primordial gravity and opposition to consciousness; believes matter secure against the difference that light brings into it just in order to reconstruct the difference into a new synthesis at a higher level. In northern climates this stubbornness perhaps requires a longer period of time to be so far conquered that the atomic matter itself has become more diversified, and inertia has first been set in motion on its own ground by a greater variety of their combination and dissolution and next by the multitude of fixed atoms thus generated. Thus the human intellect becomes more and more confused in its own proper doings and knowings, to the point where it makes itself capable of enduring the suspension of this confusion and the opposition itself.""As regards philosophy in its proper and genuine sense, we find put forward without any hesitation, as an entirely sufficient equivalent for the long course of mental discipline – for that profound and fruitful process through which the human spirit attains to knowledge – the direct revelation of the divine and the healthy common sense of mankind, unconcerned with and undisciplined by any other knowledge or by proper philosophical reflection. These are held to be a good substitute for real philosophy, much in the way that chicory is lauded as a substitute for coffee. It is not a very pleasing spectacle to observe uncultivated ignorance and crudity of mind, with neither form nor taste, without the capacity to concentrate its thoughts on an abstract proposition, still less on a connected statement of such propositions, confidently proclaiming itself to be intellectual freedom and toleration, and even the inspiration of genius."
>>24716613>SchopenGod>God
>>24716539I have never read anything by Hegel but after reading those quotes, which made me laugh out loud several times, I think I like him. I think it has to do with putting him in the proper framework which is that of an eccentric German philosopher in the 1800s. If you treat it as part comedy part philosophy it's a lot more enjoyable.
Hegels writing can be summarized by the acronym TLDR
>>24716539>umm, ackchyually i am really, really, REALLY smart and you are not and neither is common senseif upvotes existed in the 19th century, hegel would have a lot of reddit karma
>>24716539A wild Thomas Reid appears
How do you achieve enlightenment and reach Nirvana?
>>24713399Pure land Buddhism is heretical
>>24712788Nirvana isn't anhilationism but it's some kind of "transcendence" that "goes beyond the duality of existing and not existing". I don't really get it. Moskha is much easier to understand - you reunite with the Godhead (Brahman) but what does Nirvana's transcendence entail? How can their be reincarnation if their's no self? Or is there a self that just isn't permanent?
>>24717947they're pretty much talking about the same thing but using different termsthe 'self' is the aggregatesthere is ultimately no self, as in, once all of the karma of all of the aggregates is burnt up, you are left with 'brahman' or 'buddhanature', which I guess could be called 'raw reality' without any duality/selfing getting in the way, in even the most subtle of waysnot that you become some weird robotic entity you are actually much more alive and less 'stuffy' like your clogged nose (being completely self-based/karmically obscured) is completely unclogged and the breath (life) flows free with no resistance (not that you can't live, you breathe better with an unclogged nose, no?)
>>24717958Interesting, I've never heard it explained that way before. Thanks anon. So are jivanmuktas or people who are active Moksha while alive breathing freely? What is that like?
>>24717947The problem with "unity with gidheas" Is that thisngoshead Is what cast you unto the illusion, so this unity Is just going back to a state that still has illusión as a potentiality, there's no radical change or overcoming, the causes and conditions of your ignorance still exist, nibbana Is the destrucción if those causes and conditions,absolute freedom without conditions, and Is by deffinition impossible to grasp because that would imply that nibbana Is conditioned by some concept that entables said grasping, you can't understand nibbana only the Marks of existence that negates your achieving of nibbana, Is a vía negativa kind of thing
A language which doesn't mark a prepositional phrase for which noun it's modifying is simply retarded.If someone asks for an X-Ray of a Kangaroo with three legs, a sophisticated language would tell you if they mean LEFT: An X-Ray (of a Kangaroo with three legs) or RIGHT: An X-Ray of a Kangaroo (with three legs).
>>24715396What are the merits of learning logic outside of an academic philosophy or mathematics setting?
>>24711735This problem is generally solved by not being a retard on purpose
>>24716759Grammar, logic and rhetoric (the trivium/critical thinking) are the tools of thought, how to think. It benefits everyone to learn how to think better. When I say logic I mean grammar, logic and rhetoric as a unified system, these subjects are interconnected and were taught as one subject in the past. Logic deals primarily with language. Studying logic benefits you in all aspects of life where language is involved, primarily in determining if information you are getting contains arguments, what exactly the arguments are and whether or not you ought to be persuaded by them. It turns you into picrel. And conversely it also makes you better at constructing arguments and persuading others.
>>24715396Summa Logicae (Sum of Logic) by William of OckhamLibgen has book 1 and book 2 (of the 3 books) translated to English.https://libgen.li/index.php?req=summa+logicaebelow are two download links, but in the link above there are other links to Anna's archive etc if those are betterbook 1https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=d998729be33714aadd713afe0bd568a2book 2https://libgen.li/ads.php?md5=2b72ffd298f335c194cc230a7c084e44Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24715396Logic, the Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth, by Isaac Watts is from 1724https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Watts#Logic_and_sciencehere's a video series based on that book, and an abridged book version of it, both made by the same guy and apparently the video series and the abridged book have the same contenthttps://www.youtube.com/@informedchristians6982/videoshttps://youtu.be/m8MyllahXgwhttps://www.amazon.com/Logic-Abridged-Isaac-Watts-ebook/dp/B006SLZHH6Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
If you want a long, detailed fantasy series that has tons of lore, monsters, magic, gods and whatnot, you can't beat this. The heroes feel virtuous and the villains make you hate them. 10/10 fantasy series here and there's thirty-two books to delve
>>24717646Thanks. I don't think that was the name of it but it gave me the search terms I needed to find it:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SellswordsI vaguely remember reading these back in the 2000s and I recall being entertained by the characters of Artemis and Jarlaxle. Do you recall what the name of the Wulfgar series might have been? I think I remember reading that, too. Some people seem to refer to the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb as the Assassins trilogy. Have you read that one? I'm not familiar with Hobb.
>>24712187there was a decent adventure (illustrated and text) adaptation. Legend Entertainment. They did a "Gateway" too arguably better than the book.I know, I know, >>>/vr/.
>>24717365The Spine of the World was the Wulfgar novel, and Servant of the Shard was the Artemis novel.Later he continued the Artemis series and called it the Sellsword Trilogy. But that was years and several Drizzt books after Servant came out. I exclusively read in order published because anything but the order the author developed the story in is bullshit.So next up for me is Sea of Swords. Gonna start that one as soon as I finish up the Dark Sun Prism Pentad. It really made me appreciate Drizzt, reading shit like these Dark Sun novels, or even worse that Dragonlance crap. I read Dragons of Autumn Twilight and it was so incredibly bad. Rastlin was alright.
>>24717785>>24717812Continued, Yes Im familiar with Assassins Apprentice. It is top tier fantasy. Drizzt is like candy, or maybe fantastic taco bell. Prism Pentad is like McDonalds that hits the spot. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was like some rancid ass Wendys.Assassins Apprentice is a fine pumpkin soup in a bread bowl on a snowy day. It is real food.I just finished all 16 volumes. I read one of the final ones on a plane and the dude next to me probably thought I was going through a breakup I was tearing up so much. To me theres a Big Five in fantasy:1. Tolkein2. Song of Ice and Fire3. Second Apocalypse 4. Realm of the Elderlings (Assassins Apprentice)5. BerserkIve yet to experience anything fantasy to really compare with these.
>>24717812>even worse that Dragonlance crap>Rastlin was alrightI remember reading Dragonlance novels growing up because they were available to me but I had to read a lot of slop to find a little value. I could see revisiting it for nostalgia's sake. Which volumes would you recommend for the highest quality Raistlin bits?
Notable Authors: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti, Robert Aickman, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood, Shirley Jackson, Richard Matheson, Stephen King, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Edogawa Rampo, Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, M.R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu, Brian Evenson, William Hope Hodgson, Clark Ashton Smith, Frank Belknap Long, Ramsey Campbell, Caitlin R Kiernan, Laird Barron, Jack Ketchum, Stefan Grabinski, Peter Straub, and many many moreDiscuss your favorite horror tales in both short and long form. What have you read lately? What do you want to read? What's a work of horror fiction or an author who you want to recommend?
Which one do I read next? The ones marked in red I've read. I'm thinking of Pickman's Model.
>>24717886Ibid
So I just finished The White People. Overall I liked it but it was definitely very obtuse and mystical. Did Machen really deliberately include obscure esoteric references in the story? I feel like there's a connection with the spiritualism that was popular in the in 19th century. Are there direct allusions to alchemy and other magickal sciences that even the more-than-average reader wouldn't understand? And further, this makes me wonder about what kind of person Machen was. Was he in the Golden Dawn by any chance? >>24717891Thanks bro I think I'll do that.
Good sci-fi space horror recommendations that aren't hp lovecraft, Dan Simmons, or Peter Watts? Looking for a fun read, it doesn't have to be super literary or anything.
>>24702117Can anyone recommend me books which feature parallel dimensions?
I'm a complete outsider to the US so I'm asking for some recommendations on any writings and histories in early American political thought. Founding Fathers sort of stuff.
>>24716625William Blackstone and the English Bill of Rights of 1689 were both pretty important in the lead-up. That anon also lists>2nd treatise on government (Locke)>theological-political treatise (Spinoza)>the spirit of the laws (Montesqieue)>discourses on livy (Machiavelli)Which were all written prior to the Declaration. But otherwise you'd want to look to colony founders like William Penn for what the original settlers had in mind.
>>24716645thanks.
>>24715546Benjamin Franklin's autobiography is kino. Not as much a political tract, but it's got that in there.
>>24715546I might make a chart on this actually, there's a lot of stuff to read if you really want to understand early American thought
>>24716612I find Spinoza abhorrent
it's......................pretty mid.thought it would be much worse but it's just clunky overall
>>24715240I’m 55 pages in and yeah, I enjoy it but I can’t read more than a few pages at a time. There’s not a lot going on which can be fine if the prose is compelling, but it’s just a very dry meandering so far. I want to see where it goes but not blown away yet
>>24715240It's just a book clotted with an assortment of any random esoteric bullshit the author read about and hamfisted in there with no actual grasp on either style or actually compelling substance. It's like a really lame pastiche of a parody of The Recognitions or The Tunnel.
>>24715240>What does the father's death mean for life? Who was this father? Who am I? The son sits in a cell and writes for his life. His life is the novel "Schattenfroh." Nothing can save him, not even his own narrative. And yet, precisely this must be told: that the father is dead, the self is irredeemable, and the history of salvation is a colossal lie.>Whoever reads "Schattenfroh" reads God and the devil, reads love and death, the loneliness and pain and the dead of the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, reads ink and white space, reads the writing. "Schattenfroh" is a novel, the world, and life. A thousand desperate pages that don't answer the question of whether life is repairable and whether storytelling can heal us. A thousand manic pages of the impossible farewell to the father: as hermetic as it is powerful, monumental and overwhelming.Lol, imagine reading the above description and not instantly knowing the book will just be 1000 pages of pretentious nonsense.
>>24715240>doorstopper book that shilled on book twitter by pretentious retardsI wouldn't expect anything else
What do we think of "La Comédie humaine"?As a social retard, I need to learn. I got no empathy but I'm too much of a retard to be a machiavellian dude
>>24717230I have only finished Eugenie Grandet and Pere Goriot myself. Both works are greats in their own right, but I feel inclined to prefer the former. I specially like his reflective tone on changing social structures. It makes one think about how much this world has changed since the 18th-19th century bourgeoisie paradigm shift
I've only read Goriot and I only really like Rastignac's med school buddy and the Fag Prison King. Was a good novel.
honore de balzaclol, how does God keep coming up with these bangers.
>>24717131Haven't read much out of it but from what little I did read I concluded that it is like reading Buffon's natural historyYou will gain very little if you read it to learn, as information about common animals is all stuff you already would know and there are better texts about them out there anyway, while what is written about exotic animals is laughably inaccurateStill it is super fun to read about his description a crocodile, especially accompanied by illustrations, as it ends up being zany and weird and novel in a way, you just have to get past the chapter on the household cat firstLikewise everything surrounding Vatrin is a joy to read even though he more often than not seems closer to a weird fantastical reptilian creature than an actual realistic human, while it will be much less fun to read about Goirot and the tired archetype of the vexed father sacrificing everything for his ungrateful spawn. Just read King lear instead if you are interested in that
>>24717131I've read about two-thirds of it. Here's a quick ranking with some personal thoughts.>The GoodThe "trilogy": Père Goriot > Illusions perdues (Lost Illusions) > Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (A Harlot High and Low)Eugénie GrandetLa Rabouilleuse (The Black Sheep)Cousine BetteCousin PonsLe Chef-d'œuvre inconnu (The Unknown Masterpiece)SarrasineColonel ChabertCuré de Tours (The Vicar of Tours)>The BadMany of the hastily written Scènes de la vie privée (Scenes from private life)Études analytiques (Analytical studies)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>24717455>Clustering is the way I do it, and for me it's been quite reliable. Some people write early in the morning right after they wake up. Other's sit and daydream. Or nap with ball bearings in their fist. Some people induce it through autohypnosis. Some people drink. Rituals can often help.you write wildly different things based on each of these activities?
Forgot to say I voted
>>24717536Yeah normally when I write in the morning I write about writing in the morning, then when I daydream I write about writing about daydreaming about writing. With the ball bearings it's interesting because then I'll write about thinking about writing while falling asleep with ball bearings in my hands (because I can't write with ball bearings in my hands). Writing about writing about writing while hypnotised. Writing about writing about writing about writing while drunk. Sometimes I write from the toilet, and I'll leave the rest for you to figure out.
I voted.I’ll give more feedback on Sunday & Monday.
I have out grown fiction whats next?
>>24717871Outgrow posting maybe?
pornography
it's reverse for me, I've read all the masterworks and now I want dragonshit
>>24717871Read History
>>24717871Read Borges (Ficciones) and then Stanislaw Lem (Perfect Vaccum).