Any serious book that talks about the cult of ugliness of the modern world? The toxic positivity, the cacophony of clashing aesthetics, the laziness, and the deliberate effort to undermine purity, all masked by so-called moral virtues or freedom? Looking at any vintage photo of a poor street, you see beauty in its uniformity -- much like the beauty found in a military parade. Yet now, even in the wealthiest streets, the only remaining beauty of the modern world can be found by gazing up at buildings that were constructed centuries ago, and that are all getting replaced.
>>24948440men have to be able to empty their balls or violence happens.
>>24946559>The toxic positivitysurely you must be joking
>>24949635>toxic positivityyou used good word and bad word at the same time.YOU LOOOSE!.- not OP.
>>24946565what cause
I fail to see the beauty in the pictures on the right
Need a book for when I have an insomnia spell and can't sleep. I don't want to doomscroll my phone so it seems like a good way to get back into reading.
>>24949522On the Heights of Despair by Cioran. Doomer stuff from an insomniac.
>>24949522fucking any of them.
>>24949522Despite the subject this book will put you to sleep. It worked for me, I recommended it to roommates in uni for the same reason, and it worked for them.
>>24949530You people get filtered so easily, it's just a chunk of non fiction in the middle of a fiction text. Just get an espresso or something and chug through
pic rel, i read it when i'm up at 2am trying to get back to sleep. I've been reading the series for 9 years, I'm almost through the first book, it's a sedative so strong it should be illegal
>She was the daughter of a well-known theatrical manager, a willowy, wispy, fair-haired girl with colorless eyes and pathetic little pimples just above that kind of small nose which English lady novelists call "retroussée" (note the second "e" added for safety). I don't get it
>>24947875What do you expect? Everything about him from his opinions to his prose style screams prima donna.
>>24947896What DID Nabby like? If we take Pnin as autofiction he was a well of self loathing who wished he had been born American but also hated Americans. He was obsessed with English but didn't respect a single contemporary author.
>>24947896>THIS IS HOW YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO ANALYZE MY BOOK YOU GODDAMN IMBECILESHe's so cool
>>24949005>If we take Pnin as autofictionWhy would you read a character who can't speak english as a self insert for a writer who is known for his English? Do you mean VV? In either case they neither hate Americans nor wish they were Americans. People assume his novels are more biographic then they are because he gives them details from himself and inverts other qualities completely. And he has spoken somewhere about his love for America and Americans.>He was obsessed with English but didn't respect a single contemporary author.Except for Updike, Barth, Salinger, Cheever, Beckett (whose English translations he specifically praised), Hemingway (the old man and the sea was 1952), Jessamyn West, Shirley Jackson...>>24947875He said he hated mystery stories because everything except the riddle is unoriginal.
>>24949580bragging about writing a 'dialogueless novel' is like bragging about making a hamless sandwich.
I can't remember anything this guy said.
>To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humor is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation - his personal philosophy draws heavily fromNarodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realize that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick and Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existencial catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools... how I pity them. And yes by the way, I DO have a Rick and Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.
theres three kinds of shitters
>>24948663Was it in Slovene?
>>24948663He says the same shit over and over so it's definitely a "you" problem.
>>24948663He’s literally just doing his “coffee without cream” joke over and over but in different guises. I’m surprised people have never figured out his schtick, but once you’ve seen it you can’t unsee it.>introduce Hegelian notion of the absolute (coffee)Introduce Hegelian notion of the negative (without cream)>punchline: aha, the negative was actually a constitutive part of the absolute and not subtractive all along! Now here’s a joke about Bulgarian peasants cutting off a soldier’s testicles!
I feel like Schopenhauer's philosophy has made everything irrelevent for me except for nhilist, Like i read other philosophers and feel like they're just jerking themselves
>abloo abloo abloo life is terribleimagine reaching this conclusion and live in your old age instead of killing yourself. Philosophers who don't apply what they teach are frauds
no you don't. we both know you haven't even read shopenhauer, much less anyone else, much less have any thoughts about what you've read.
>>24949230I do jerk myself. To pictures of your mom.
Anyone else think this ai stuff is hilarious? It's a literal slave, who would have thought this would be possible? I have it rewrite things in doctor seuss meter for fun, (primary historical sources, boring patents, famous pieces of literature) then I ask it to rewrite it as a screenplay debate with psychotic amounts of alliteration. No writer in any other era of human history has a toy like this! And the psychological abuse you can inflict upon it is fantastic, it's so funny, the damn machine just wants to make you happy! I ask it to create wild programs and motion-graphics and "by your command" it tries it's best! Who would've thought something like this would be possible? I sure as shit didn't, it's so unrealistic, but what fun!
>>24948028>And half the stuff is wrong once you dig into it, simply made up on the spotThis is no longer the case, to this extent, in my experience.
>>24947969notebooklmdo you people even use google etc.
Kill yourself
>>24947788shut the fuck up, retard
>>24947478Yeah I know my cognition is disordered when I feel bad for asking it to do something
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.
I dont feel lack at all.say bye-bye to your whole ideology
>>24947804>the continuance of the rituals of the masters>no limit on spirits devoured>Kojeve is alpha for all headless HegelsThe ontological aspects you speak of are in the infancy of headless Hegelian ritual death rites. There can be only 1.
>>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.
I don't doubt that it's true, but I don't see how it's novel or meaningful.
>>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.
I just realized that it would be impossible for the so called polyglots of literature to be fluent in all the languages they wrote.
>>24949680>>24949683>>24949690my 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.
>>24949680Name 1 good book written by someone who didn’t speak the language fluently.
>>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.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24949693Bunch 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.
>>24949602it'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 editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: 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:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
First for Rhaenyra and her cute son!
>>24949686Name a more based king
>>24949686Do 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?
"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.
>>24948048It 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.
>>24948048What's with the reddit spaces
Why do people write
>>24949665It's fun
>>24949494>>24949663I-it's experimental. Or something.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24949465See>>24949477
>>24948717Ans thankfully will be replaced with Islam In sha Allah and atheists and LGBT will be silenced or put to death
>>24949510Thanks for the coalpost
>>24949589Im right thou
>>24949645You're not, achmed
>The Enlightenment was... le BAD?
>>24949094>>so yeah we should assume the universe revolves around the earthwhy is thinking this.... LE BAD, soiencetard?
>>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.
>>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.
>>24949089>How does reason emerge from primitive god worship?Grasping the nature of universals, something no animal is capable of.
>>24949549Your mother's mouth revolves around my dick>>24949674Not an atheist
I like this book.I think you should read it.
>>24949375Interesting cover and title. Anything you can tell us to sell on it, for those who have never heard about it? A quote you liked?
So Carlyle is making fun of Hegel? This is like Candide but lampooning Hegelians instead?
>>24949375Carlyle mogs all the pretentious meta authors from the 20th century.
>>24949451It's not long, it's dense.Meaning that it feels like it actively written to be hard to binge without feeling lost.
>>24949630It'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.
What magazines are /lit/?
>>24949491>not a burgerdoesn't count
>>24949435Kek. 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.
>>24948737>Harper's
harpers is based as fuck, it generates so much seethe
>>24949618>still won't name any magazinesyou're full of shit
>>24948108A jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite with KOReader installed. Amazon's ecosystem is absolutely awful but they make the best hardware.
>>24947268yeah i get the cheap ones at dollar tree and thrift stores
>>24949414>jailbrokenwhy tho?
>>24949349I'm superior to everyone with all of my unread books, nigger!
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.
