I’m wanting to read more into fascism and it’s philosophical and political inspirations as of late both for myself as a fascist and as a means to better describe or show people the intellectual tradition it stems from.I’ve read most of the boilerplate literature (Doctrine of Fascism, Mosley’s 100 Questions for Fascism and other assorted works, some Falangist works, schizoposts from when IronMarch still existed etc.) as well as some of the thinkers that inspired them such as Hobbes with the concept of the state, legitimacy and the sovereign as well as Nietzsche and his concept of Will to Power and to strive for strength and abhor weakness.Is there anything else you guys would recommend I should read next or what thinkers I should look into, be it from the fascist tradition or from thinkers that predated it.
>i like power>therefore i will make a doctrine about me getting to keep that power, and only me!there is your literature bro
>>24772208Thats because American thought in of itself its not too conducive to it. Regardless, a lot of the stuff i ingested years ago has been wiped away with me engaging with Pragmatist thought and phenomenology which are worlds away from Fascism. Thats not to say I have abandoned all precepts of it.
>>24772108this one is good
>>24785370My God how spot on he was! Thank you for this post.
>>24782756>Every ideological relic of "what it means to be Canadian" was at some point cooked up by a cabal of liberal party beaurocrats and dissiminated through joint State-Private media partenerships.I'm not from Canada (been there a few times) and the way the Liberal Party taps into nationalism better than the Tories is an interesting thing to me:https://youtu.be/jKQPw9vmG04>>24778867>The only distinct thing about the early fascists seems to be the idea of prioritizing unity and trying to figure out and use whatever secret sauce fuelled the Romans. All the retarded lists of "signs of fascism" apply more to supposed liberals than anyone else.Zeev Sternhell wrote some books that treated it as a distinct ideology that fused together revolutionary concepts from the left with anti-Enlightenment concepts from the right. The story of its evolution in Italy was from revolutionary-minded types (often attracted to revolutionary syndicalism) who sought to overcome turn-of-the-century cultural decadence and saw class warfare by the proletariat as the means to do that. Sorel's theories about mobilizing myths and passions was influential (because the proletariat is too easily bought off by corrupt liberal parliaments and reform-minded labor parties), and this is also where the anti-Enlightenment stuff comes in because the Enlightenment was rooted in concepts like reason, science, and progress (Marxism identified with this tradition as did liberalism) compared to the intangible values like heroism which the emerging fascists based their ethic in.You see this anti-Enlightenment stuff on the right today if you know where to look. Like, nostalgia for the Middle Ages and a feeling that there's more to life than just working some normie job. It's like romantic chivalry and heroism. Well, these ideas were super-charged by World War I, while the newly-minted fascists (who started as a pro-war "angry patriots" veterans club) dropped the class warfare stuff for nationalism. Like these former syndicalists started talking about "Italian workers" instead of "workers" and then dropped that for just "Italy." And this also linked up with the bigger anti-communist movement on the right since there was a revolution in Russia and labor unrest in many countries after the war.But the military side of things doesn't get stated enough IMO. There was just a huge number of men who had been through trench warfare, and could in theory practice that inside their own countries. Ukraine today is like this but most Americans for example don't serve in the army, it's a relatively small percentage of the population. Israel has a lot of men serve in the army, something like 1/20 Israelis went off to war in the past two years:https://youtu.be/cjL0VI2UmMY
his best work?
Eh. Looks like someone that i can skip.
>>24785520actual living anticommunists condescended to by the idiot children of social media politics
>>24785452He won. I kneel.
1. Melancholy of Resistance2. Satantango3. Seiobo There Below4. War & WarBaron Wankheim was shit, so was The Last Wolf one, haven't read Herrsch yet
>>24785452Seiobo There Below overall, but in terms of a straight novel, Melancholy of Resistance
Why's there so little Mathematical Fiction, when Science Fiction is so big?
>>24784023Because 'science' fiction has literally nothing to do with science. If it did it would be boring as fuck
>>24785195Retardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction
https://www.quantamagazine.org/which-computational-universe-do-we-live-in-20220418/>Algorithmica>In this world, the most natural computational questions are all easy, which makes cryptography impossible. Here, the set of problems with efficient solutions — a set called P — doesn’t just contain the problems we’ve already figured out how to solve. It also includes all the problems in another set called NP, which consists of the problems for which it’s easy to check a proposed solution if someone hands it to you.>Heuristica>In this world, there are problems in NP that aren’t easy to solve, but every problem in NP is easy “on average,” meaning it can be solved efficiently in most cases. For example, if we’re in Heuristica, then there exists an efficient suitcase-packing algorithm that nearly always succeeds, but that might fail for a few rare combinations of suitcases and items to pack. (These fast and usually successful algorithms are commonly called “heuristics.”)>Pessiland>This is the worst of all possible worlds. In Pessiland, some problems in NP are hard even on average. For these problems, any efficient algorithm will fail not just occasionally but often. Yet these hard problems are not of a kind that is useful for hiding secret information.>Minicrypt>In this world, some problems in NP are hard on average, and this hardness is enough to build the most fundamental building block of cryptography: a “one-way function,” which is a function that can be carried out efficiently but can’t be reversed efficiently. Cryptographers have shown that secure cryptography requires one-way functions. And if we have them, we get an array of cryptographic goodies, such as secret key encryption, digital signatures and pseudorandom number generators.>CryptomaniaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24784023The actual audience for such a thing is pretty small. Most people simply aren't interested. Math people, who might seem the prime demo, even if they like fiction tend to get annoyed at "fake" math, and with good reason- fake science falls into the "maybe things could have gone this way" camp, but fake math is something you can't describe at all without the "but this isn't true and I can prove why" alarms going off, and if you keep it vague enough to avoid that problem then it's also too vague to be at all exciting. Meanwhile those who aren't math people invariably are way off the mark as to both what mathematical work entails and what is interesting about it; not much incentive to try to enter their world if you're just going to sabotage your intellectual merit in the eyes of people you don't even understand while alienating virtually everyone else.Flatland is a fun read but ultimately has very little to do with mathematics; it's an aesthetic trapping, which is the most you can get away with and it still mostly just irritates actual mathematicians. If something relates to mathematics and is intellectually exciting, it's math itself- if it's anything else, it's trivia or camp.
>>24784023Try Greg Egan. For example Dark Integers.His mathematics invariably develops into mathematics as physics or mathematics as an occupation (or both). Flatland is also mathematics as physics of course. You need to ground it in some way to produce readable fiction.
What the fuck is wrong with James Joyce?
Just because Joyce had a scat fetish doesn't mean Ulysses has no literary merit. Can a man not be allowed to create art and have a fetish society frowns upon?
>>24785680I don't think anyone said a fucking thing about the literary or artistic merit of Ulysses.
>>24778823>it's gross and humiliating but normies live and die for it.Every species lives and dies for it. Your views on life and the world are far more humiliating.
>>24785701Read the thread, retard.
>>24785709We're above other species in most other ways, I mean we literally wear clothes retard. Why do muh dick retards not realise how embarrassing they are?
>be gay hedonist>write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touch>get your dick cut off and locked in a tower until you die>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"I feel like the entire situation could have been handled better by all parties involved.
>>24785674As neurotic, talentless, fags in denial tend to do.
>>24785674>In early 1900 in Sicily, Oscar Wilde became involved in a relationship with the 15 year old Giuseppe LoverdeHe didnt ungay himself it seems
>>24784920> write definitive story of how being a gay hedonist ruins your life and destroys everything of beauty and value you touchHuh? Where can I learn more about this?
>>24785723I hate the late Victorian appearance of literary boy buggerers, for whom the steamship and British prestige only represented an opportunity to go noncing about the world. E.M. Forster being another.
>>24784920>>gay hedonists: "omg hes so based"see >>24785216For every handful of superficial party-gays you get one or two who instead are death-obsessed weirdos; when a gay man makes worthwhile art he's invariably one of the second.Even the invert who is happy with himself is well aware of the ultimately tragic nature of homosexuality; his duty is to channel that darkness into something worthwhile.
The state of literature in 2025 is beyond parody. https://archive.ph/0ZeJQ
>>24785246He said the total abolition of marriage as a meaningful entity.It's a little hyperbolic but it's definitely not a far stretch from what the left is pushing for now ostensibly.
>>24785246the "left" promotes marriage only so far as it makes work for divorce lawyers.
>>24784864Homoerotic poetry has been pretty common in a lot of major societies throughout history. Its not gonna go away just because it upsets your delicate sensibilities.
>>24785261And just what do you think the left is pushing for now?
>>24783757It’s not academics. It’s groupthink from a BioLeninist coalition of women, sexual deviants, minorities, Jews, and physically inferior white men. The primary foot soldiers are women. They’re the cause of bias among academics. They’re the cause the bias among publishers. They’re the cause of bias among the media. They’re the ideological foot soldiers of all this shit everywhere. If women were forced back into the home and politically disenfranchised all this leftist bias would drop by 60% overnight.
Do you think your life will be more pleasant with anyone but me? Think about it!—Ah! certainly not!—Only with me can you be free. And since I swear to you that I will be kind from now on, that I deplore all my share of wrongs, that my mind is at last clear, that I truly love you—if you refuse to return, or to let me come to you, you are committing a crime, and you will repent of it for many years to come, through the loss of all freedom and torments perhaps even more dreadful than any you have known. After that, think back to what you were before you met me. As for me, I am not going back to my mother’s; I am going to Paris, and I will try to leave by Monday evening. You will have forced me to sell all your clothes—I can do no otherwise. They are not yet sold: they will only be taken away on Monday morning. If you wish to write to me in Paris, address your letters to L. Forain, 289 rue Saint-Jacques, for A. Rimbaud. He will know my address. Certainly, if your wife returns, I will not compromise you by writing to you—I will never write again. The only true word is this: come back. I want to be with you; I love you. If you listen to this, you will show courage and a sincere spirit. Otherwise, I pity you. But I love you, I embrace you, and we shall see each other again.
>In his memory, Verlaine placed their first quarrel during the Commune. In her memoirs, Mathilde corrects: the first violent act against her took place eight days before she gave birth, on October 23, 1871. Verlaine related to her that to gain access to literature, Rimbaud was forced to steal books from bookstores, then put them back or later, in fear of being caught, resell them once read. Mathilde commented: "That proves that your friend is not very tactful." Verlaine then grabbed Mathilde by both arms and threw her out of the bed where she had just lain. Who was in the wrong here?
>>24784351it's crazy to think this was a completely heterosexual letter in the 19th century; men talked like this
>>24785631The Brussels police department didn't think so.
>>24785070verlaine for not realizing that when you date a child they will act like a child.
>>24785631Je suis élu, je suis damné !Un grand souffle inconnu m’entoure.Ô terreur ! Parce, Domine ! Quel Ange dur ainsi me bourreEntre les épaules tandisQue je m’envole aux Paradis ? Fièvre adorablement maligne,Bon délire, benoît effroi !Je suis martyr et je suis roi,Faucon je plane et je meurs cygne ! Toi le Jaloux qui m’as fait signe,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Next week, the Nobel Academy will bestow this year's prize in Literature. Who do you think will win?
>>24785564O. K. Catmom
>>24785563Nobody said that about Dylan because no one could even imagine him as a candidate.>and then houellebecq. screenshot this postYou are a retard. I will eat my copy of Infinite Jest if Houellebecq ever win. Feel free to screenshot this.
>>24785571he had a perennial presence in betting odds, obviously some people were imagining him winning
>>24785577Murkamommy is always in the betting rosters and he isn't ever winning. The guys who make these odds don't know anything about literature.
>>24765261My bet is that Krasznahorkai will win
Forget the Nobel Prize. When does this video of Houellebecq come out?
>>24785324he looks like Mr Boss lol
>>24785683Ok cartoon watcher
I think he successfully sued them to prevent release.
Satanic panic edition. Old >>24736100
>>24785459Ligotti is a hack
>>24785703>t. filtered zoomer from creepcast
>>24785710Ligotti appeals to zoomers who get filtered by BASED M.R James
>>24785718Lol
>>24785718I'm 32 and I enjoy both Ligotti and M.R. James.
Why has fantasy never had a literary masterpiece?
>>24783338Fantasy authors usually aren't writing about topics that the elite tastemakers consider literature-worthy eg. the virgin Struggle Against Evil vs the chad Adultery in the Midwest. And fantasy fans themselves have irreparably damaged the standards of prose in fantasy, so there is some very understandable prejudice. I mean, even now there are people who praise Sword of Shannara.But all that is immaterial. What matters is that fantasy does not require approval from Big Lit Daddy. It is doing its own thing, with its own fans, and with its own famous masterpieces within that world. That is already as legitimate as anything can get.
>>24784715Came here to post this.Mervyn Peake's prose is a consistent delight iirc.
>>24783527>I would say it has literary merit and is a work of literature.So is The Lord of the Rings, retard. Even The Hobbit as a children’s tale has a lot of artistic merit.
>>24783566Iliad and Odyssey are not fantasy, Metamorphoses arguably could be considered one, Aeneid was written to be the foundational history of Rome so not really fantasy either even if most Romans wouldn’t have believed this events to have been literal truth. Paradise Lost is fantasy though the author believed the events to have happened. Le Morte d’Arthur arguably could be fantasy like Metamorphoses.But doesn’t matter because none of them are fantasy as in fantasy as a literary genre. It’s like those retards that say “Orlando Furioso is actually sci fi because he traveled to the moon” ignoring the whole context.
Is LOTR anything more than a trip to candy mountain or what? I never read the book or watched the movies.
>>24784910that is rather satirical, or at least comedically inverted, not plain jane.
The quest to mount doom definitely drives the plot like you would expect, but LotR is a very 'big' book, and ultimately the quest is the tip of the ice-berg. The one ring, for example, is a truly clever plot and thematic device, the extent of which took more than one read through for me to fully understand. But I'm a retard, so idk.
>>24784943The One Cock Ring
>>24784905what is the literary equivalent of the character dynamic between Charlie and the two demon unicorns
Is In Search Of Lost Time anything more than a roast of the hypocrisy of the rich? I never read the book or watched the movies.
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There are some deer living near me. A mom and her babies, and a buck. Just passed the buck walking with a very pronounced limp and missing an antler. I’m worried he may have been hit by a car. I hope he makes it.
>>24785097I remember how amateurish and bad Philosopher's Stone read, never continued past the first book.
I love how early 2000s fashion is in again. Give me baggy jeans over leggings on women any day of the week.
>>24785727based if trueearly 2000s clothes were comfy
>>24784885Honestly for anything that isn't electric, gas, or plumbing it's worth looking into diy solutions. Or like roofing. Most home repair stuff is not that difficult
>God does not exist, He is being-itself.Is he right?
>>24784724Consciousness is existence looking at itself. Perhaps.
>>24784901not an argument>>24784908> literally what in the FUCK are you talking about rajesh, listen to yourself, there is something, or there is nothing, there is no third category.That’s a completely arbitrary assumption though, it’s not provable or demonstrable by anything. You are essentially no different from materialists or skeptics who inconsistently give their own materialist or skeptic assumptions a special a priori privilege while pretending not to do so. All of these arbitrary assumptions are garbage and any argument which presumes them is self-refuting.
>>24784946>but you can't just attribute to God things that don't make sense.There is nothing whatsoever that doesn't make sense about saying that the cosmic illusion occupies a liminal space between pure self-sufficient unconditioned Existence and pure nothingness.
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>>24784724imagine being an intelligent person in a place of influence and power and rather than doing anything about the cultural genocide of the west and the complete destruction of the west that was occurring by the technocrats and financiers, you just play stupid word games about whether the principle/cause of being can be said to actually exist or notthis guy is a retarded fucking faggot and is probably in hell, typifies totally impotent cowardly academics
Any good brother and sister adventures?
>adventure story>literally no mention of Henryk Sienkewicz (In Desert and Wilderness)/lit/ still not ready for the superiority of Eastern European literature
>>24785251You have no emotional maturity so the books aren't good?
Flowers in the Attic
>>24782282Women don’t give a shit about men, not even their own siblings or sons. Tough way to learn that lesson I guess but better sooner than later.
>>24783939People who don’t grow up with drug addicts don’t get it anon. They only see them as hopeless victims, which they kind of are in a sense but not only. They are also despicable people that push away everyone who loves them. That’s how they become drug addicts usually.