Discuss good narrative history books on any subject.
>>24986544Any book by John Julius Norwich. He's the man who first shoiwed me that non-fiction could be just as interesting and captivating as fiction.
>>24986544This one was a banger
So, I think I understand Aristotle now.Singular things are the primitive beings for him. But what makes a thing a thing, are the motions they do to continue being that thing and not some other thing. So, self-persisting motions are the essence, and everything is in motion, either in equilibrium or in disequilibrium but tending to equilibrium.And everything else that can be said, known, explained, etc. has to be spooled from or built off of that metaphysical edifice first and foremost.Pretty neat desu.
Dumb gay shit
I'm ready for the third series.
>>24984253In all of the countless gay rape scenes in this series, does anyone ever have a prostate orgasm and leak cum? It seems like a real missed opportunity to have countless monster on male rape scenes but nobody enjoys it not even a little not even once.
What happened to this guy? I heard he had some kind of unspecified mental problem and quit writing.
>>24986500>unspecified mental problemTDS?
I'll read it if it comes out, just because I want to see what happens. That said, I think every book from 1-7 was worse than the one before
>>24986499No
Why do you put faith in metaphysical claims that can't be empirically tested? Are you just a science-ignorant caveman?
>>24979312Metaphysical claims are proven through dialectic and direct insight. Zeno's paradoxes are one example of how dialectic leads one to monism. By following the laws of logic and examining reality one can deduce it's deeper nature. Obviously it's not empirical, metaphysics by definition is about puppet master of empirical reality, it's explicative, not descriptive. Empiricism is all about describing and quantifying things, but it can never explain them, even science deals in metaphysics despite how much they want to avoid what they think is woo woo. To use the puppet analogy, science is all about describing the puppet to the exact detail, while metaphysics is about explaining the why and how of the puppet. If the puppet is empirical reality than the puppet master is metaphysical reality. And obviously science deals with metaphysics, all the theories about how reality works are by definition metaphysics. The nature of reality being quantum and atomistic is a metaphysical claim, despite how much they eschew metaphysics it cannot be escaped because descriptions are never explanations. All they've done is created a self-contradictory anti-metaphysics that tries to masquerade descriptions as explanations, hence the bean counting quantum/atom cult. Limiting yourself to only what you can quantify and measure is retarded. Can't measure logic, can't measure hope, love, fear, can't measure arithmetic, in fact, measure is just a conceptual abstraction that humans made up. To make some conceptual abstraction humans made up the basis of reality is true ignorance of the highest order, it's no better than a religion.
>>24985701>It is entirely reducible and, in fact, there is a scale of the phenomenon of "human experience". When the physical components of the human brain breakdown or lose connections, consciousness is effected, dementia can set in, brain fog can set in, all manner of "reduced" cognition can and do occur and are predictable entirely on the material underpinnings of said phenomenon.>DURRRR CUTTING OPEN THE BRAIN EXPLAINS THE EMERGENCE OF SUBJECTIVITY, ALONGSIDE THE CREATION OF CULTURE, ART, SCIENCE, AND PHILOSOPHY etc.Yep, bona fide materialist midwit.
Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.
>>24986142based and truthpilled
>>24979722>non-being doesn’t exist
Dastardly New Age Edition>Old:>>24975110>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
this book sucks dick man I feel literally nothing while reading it
>>24986503which is why it died. essentially it stopped being fiction.
>>24986529>I literally feel nothing Hi Kaladin. You have depression
>>24984782Thing with Black Company is you either like or hate Cook's writing style. It's very terse and to the point with minimal descriptions. Everyone's favorite of his is "we saw the fort, we took it" and just the fact company avoids the frontline makes you feel like you're robbed of big battles. It's important to note the Black Company is not epic, high fantasy.
>>24986552someone posted brief fiction from the black company tabletop rpg book recentlyhttps://theblackcompanyrpg.com/the-faceless-man/https://theblackcompanyrpg.com/nightcrawler/https://theblackcompanyrpg.com/moonbiter/writer emulates cook rather well although the idea there are WOMEN in the black company as regulars is ridiculous
Renaissance edition>τὸ πρότερον νῆμα·>>24914151>Μέγα τὸ Ἑλληνιστί/Ῥωμαϊστί·https://mega dot nz/folder/FHdXFZ4A#mWgaKv4SeG-2Rx7iMZ6EKw>Mέγα τὸ ANE·https://mega dot nz/folder/YfsmFRxA#pz58Q6aTDkwn9Ot6G68NRg>Work in progress FAQhttps://rentry dot co/n8nrkoAll Classical languages are welcome.
>>24985480to have an ablative case means to have a case that primarily functions as the name says, ab-latively, that is, indicative movement-fromyou can say Greek doesn't have it because movement-from uses the case that is primarily employed as complement of attribution/specification, unlike Latin or other indo-european languagesand that's without even using the PIE theory to reconstruct nominal morphology
>>24986077Fuck off back to /int/, coombrain.
>>24986321He's not being coombrained here that I can see, he's engaging in language-related discussion, you shouldn't harass him as long as he behaves himself.
>>24986333Kys faggot
To the anons who would say they've attained a great proficiency in reading Latin, who would you say is the greatest Medieval or Renaissance prose writer? Or for verse too. Someone who rivals or maybe even surpasses Classical authors. Any surprising discoveries?
>he still reads .pdfs>not comfy .epubs
>>24986063>has never read on ultra retina xdr with nano-texture glassi do hope you'll find gainful employment one day, not just so u can read on a modern device, but also to stop being a disappointment to ur parents. have a great new year.
>>24986071i actually have read on one, your mom showed me your paternity test results on it. the screen wasn't very impressive but on the other hand, phew
I like seeing a picture of a page of an actual book
>>24985961>casually converts pdf to epupper file format in the year of linxu desktopper
>>24985961>>24986043>Amazog shill
How important is psychiatry/psychoanalysis, in terms of creating societal change?I am a psychiatrist-to-be.How would you practice, if given unlimited power/funds to create your own health department? How would you set it up?I know of critical psychiatry and books like bad science and some by James Davies. But any thoughts on modern policy thinkpieces? Books about the best way to manage societies (mental) health from a macro/state/gov pov?Is psychiatry /lit/ or /sci/ ? Or some other bumfuck board?
>>24984277In its current form, it offers no spiritual guidance and ultimately seeks to chemically lobotomize people who are deemed problematic. It also provides little-to-no guidance to people who try to get off the powerful chemicals they are pushed onto - chemicals which can inflict brain damage. Watch this youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@taperclinic
>>24984277Joanna Moncrieff and James Davies are authors who have credibility, but others do not have the same level of reliability.
>>24985395Hey thanks for the book rec.Have you read anything by Bruce Fink? He does stuff on Freud and Lacan and was wondering whether people rated it well.
>>24984382is schizophrenia caused by repressed trauma, speaking of hallucinations?
Reminder that Freud was a fraud
Crocodile Tears edition.OLD: >>24978375
>>24986409ya i'm so stupid i didn't realize being tall was good until i was way into adulthood lmao if i had known all i had to do was be tall my life could have been so different oh well i can always rope
>>24985989i'm listening to this album it's fairly fire t b h when it came out i only listened to that one single and was like meh but now i'm like aiight this kinda goes
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBFOJ3R0M4u forgot another scottish singer
damn i just remembered i have to get up and go to work tomorrow man that fuckin sucks
My friends are all man children and it's really getting on my nerves lately.
>When the loud options are moralistic anti-technology on one side and managerial techno-optimism on the other, the vacancy is real. Into that space Land arrives, not with a program, but a jerry can full of accelerants. He offers a style of lucidity that makes refusal of justificatory exposure feel like realism, and he supplies different factions with the same transferable permission to burn what they already want to burn.>Land exploits that vacancy by treating contestation itself as pathology. The slow work of stating conditions, specifying stakes, tracking costs, and admitting defeaters is redescribed as security reflex and primate panic. His central gesture is substitution, the labor of justification gives way to the glamour of inevitability. He swaps arguments for accelerants, then calls the burn insight. Landian inevitability is counterfeit realism, a get-out-of-reply-free card stamped with ‘what is coming.’ If every objection is already a symptom, nothing has to be answered on the merits.>Thus, the space of the reasons is displaced by a regime of selection, time, capital, war, optimization, whatever can be invoked as an external criterion. Behind this move sits a familiar ancestor. Darwinian selection, abstracted into a metaphysics. The Landian trick is to treat selection not as a local operator but as a final arbiter. Whatever survives is taken to deserve survival. Whatever scales is taken to be true. This is how selection is promoted into a theory of justification, and it is also how resistance becomes illegible. If the arbiter is selection, then objections are not reasons, they are symptoms.Actually pretty good. I think the polemics lean a little too heavily on a dated caricature of Land’s thought, but the criticism of provenance as a substitute for justification is sound, imo. If you submit your ethical judgements to the invisible hand of technocapital then every criticism can be framed as a transient pocket of negentropic drag that doesn’t deserve an answer. Of course if in raising your metaphysics to the status of an ethics your position magically becomes immune from criticism, there’s definitely a problem there.
>>24982796>What is it about Land that triggers certain posters on here?They're all cringe
>>24984505Land’s priority is not metaphysics but carpet-bombing the shit out of its history. Whatever spontaneously assembles itself from out of the resulting chaos needs no further justification, having been means-tested to the very limit. By the time it comes into being it has already proven itself worthy of devotional submission.
>>24982796If NRx thought offers no moralizing, no prescriptions, no program, no course of action, why should it be taken seriously as a political project? How can it be compared favorably to social democracy, or Christian nationalism, or whatever else, if it lacks every single characteristic of a political movement other than a vision of the future?
>>24986436>midwit detectedWorry not midwit, your eternal search for muhthority can finally be laid to rest. The Jewish god dies in itself, the Christian god dies for itself, and the gods of various other things like Egypt die underground leaving an empty mausoleum. Go back to your designated midwit activities and shit flinging. Consult pic related, it's a twitter screencap which is about as close to whatever you were looking for as you're going find here you little rascal.
>>24986436Your question highlights one of the key problems with NRX that ultimately lead to its collapse. If your mission statement is to uninhibit ideological competition within the marketplace of ideas, then it is inevitable that such a project would splinter into groups that work exclusively towards consolidating and optimising their own self-interest. The exact same thing happened on the left with intersectionality, which is also currently in the process of self-destructing. There are attempts to manage this crisis post-collapse by way of trustless permission networks, theologically suspended concepts like Gnon, or anti-democratic systems like “no voice, all exit”. But none have really managed to cement themselves as a definitive solution.
It was probably the hardest book I've ever read. Simple reproduction was very frustrating to read and I don't understand it that well, especially with gold production. Reading expanded reproduction though was pretty fun. The rest of the chapters were quite boring but cleared up most questions. It's clearly an unfinished book.The whole book in a literary sense is a desert with some good gems here and there.Overall very insightful, even if many people seem to skip it and jump to the third volume, or rather not read it at all, read like the first 100 pages of Capital and then become professors of critical theory.I still don't quite understand what the 'transformation problem' is supposed to be. The way I understand is that there is no reason for the inputs to be in prices of production + average profit rate, as Marx deals with the production process (in the first volume and elsewhere) in labor-times, not in prices of production (+ average profit rate), which are a sort of ex post thing, how surplus value is redistributed due to competition and other things. In any case, total value = total commodity money and total surplus value = total profit should still be correct. I'm not sure if the input-output schema even works for Marx.I've already read a bit of the third volume now, so I'll see if there really is a contradiction.
What did you think of Volume I? I'm sure you posted it before but I must have missed it
>>24986051>Neoclassical economics is founded on utilitarianism (hence marginal utility theory)Those have nothing to do with each other.There's nothing more empirical than marginal utility, because instead of making pretty much metaphysical speculations about 'value' it sticks to observable behavior, and assigns value to that which people try to get, and this, importantly, in their actions and not their words.It's Marx who develops an epicycle zoo of different 'values' and types of goods and capital which leads nowhere and failed to predict or even explain the economic development of the late 19th, let alone 20th century.
>>24986418Nothing, he doesn't know how 2 think
>>24986502can you do me a service and use a trip so I can filter you from now on?
>>24986522Best I can do is a dynamic ip and harass this low speed pseud fag nerd invalid incel board for the next 3 months nonstop, sorryyyyyy
Reading Translations is not reading.
>>24983952And I want to add: even if their German thoughts can be expressed in English -and surely this is possible in many cases - that is still beyond the point. The point is that the works are written in German. Maybe they could have expressed more or less the same thoughts had they written it in English, but the works are German, and translations are often problematic.
>>24983605Does it even matter if I 'just want to read'? Doing the listening and speaking takes more time, but it would also work together with the reading. On the other hand I could just find fiction written in German and go through it with a dictionary.
>>24986112>This is because Dutch and German are so similar they might as well be classified as the same languageDo you know Dutch? Id say theyre only on the level of French::Italian similarity.
>>24985855What about Wagner? Whoever translated that had to use more advanced grammar than most people will see in English
>>24985719Yes, all those problems are becoming worse in America. The US under the Trump regime (he will not hold fair election come 2028) is rapidly becoming a 3rd world shithole.
When discussing maximalist fiction here, a couple years ago some anon started posting about this 1000 page novel by a black writer that was about jazz or something set in the 40's or 70's.Does anyone remember the name of that novel?
that sounds rad but it was probably albert murray's scooter trilogy at least that's what grok 4.1 thinks
>>24986257>>24986270Divine Days by Leon Forrest. It's been called the black "Ulysses" (J. Joyce). Interesting little note that the day before Divine Days was to be released to the general public, the warehouse caught fire and destroyed all the books except for 100 first edition Divine Days. University of Chicago Press printed a second edition immediately. So only 100 first printings of that book are known to exist.
>>24986478>Divine Days by Leon Forrestthis looks hella sick i wish i had the self-discpline to read a 1100 page book but i doubt it's gonna happen
>>24986491Allot the same time to read 50 pages each day. If you do this, you will finish Divine Days in 3.5 weeks. It is a self-discipline, I call it slow-motion binge-reading, but it does pay off when you want to really read good literature.
>>24986491If that bitch niga had something good to say he could've gotten er done in 110 pages bitchass
Does anyone know how to download those "Print Disabled" protected books on internet archive?
>>24986504Copyright needs to be illegal
"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world"The normie scholar reads this as "limits of thought limit one's interpretations" and "my world is limited by a personalised language of interpretation". Wittgenstein makes a much deeper claim: "The world is a posteriori to a metaphysic more fundamental than the self". The world is but the current material configuration of facts. Whence come facts? The same place where the meaning of language comes from. Now this deeper fundament of the Self and every fact is utterly unknowable to us. Beyond reason, beyond logic, we can not philosophise our way to this place. The apparent arbitrariness of the meaning of words, of the origin of natural laws, and logic it self prove this to us. There is no point in trying to go into mysticism like some Guenonists think as this does not even touch the fundament of every-thing. All of philosophizing, natural, moral, religious, is a forlorn activity. So, what are we supposed to do? Quit. Just live your life. All meaning is hidden from us, only delusions are possible. We delude ourselves by interpretation. We always misinterpret sensory input, leading to delusions of knowing "the" patterns in natural phenomena. We delude ourselves into believing a set of facts like the position of the sun and moon has particular religious meaning. We delude ourselves into thinking the sounds of speech have a power of leading us to correct interpretation. You are Totally Estranged from Truth itself. Do not waste your time (if it is possible to waste) thinking you can uncover things beyond what is revealed to you through conjuring spells of interpretation. Give up. Walk away from the Perennialists and Platonists and prophets.
>>24983534You're thinking of Thomas Aquinas
>>24981979thanks for posting this
>>24982712Me (I'm only middle class)
>>24981979I can't
>>24984301>Do not waste your time (if it is possible to waste) thinking you can uncover things beyond what is revealed to you through conjuring spells of interpretation. This includes this very text. Give up.>>24985960May you never philosophise again>>24985974Give up. Realise there is nothing there for you. You may notice there is a forest for the trees, but you can not reach them, place them. Give up trying.
