>>25637755Alright faggot, explain how I should actually be interpreting your favorite bald jew's kvetching.
>>25637484no all they did was create more confusion while spreading their mis-informed drivel. Henryk Grossman cherry-picking Marx to demonstrate that capitalism is 'inevitably' heading towards collapse is the first thing that comes to mind.
>>25637484>Now that the dust has settled, did the Frankfurt school add anything meaningful to Marxism?Lukacs wasn't Frankfurt. Benjamin wasn't Frankfurt. Althusser wasn't Frankfurt.From the remaining continental hemi-humanist predominantly pseudo-structuralist Marxists of the mid 20th century Europe, we learn what not to do.Lukacs supported armed workers councils in Hungary 1956 while participating in an attempt to dominate the rump HWP by worker aligned party elites.Benjamin hyperstasised hypertext and went op shopping.Althusser allowed for the theory that allowed the Kampuchean workers party's programme to be developed, and as Chomsky (a known believer in grammar) also supported the Cambodian genocide this means Althusser was also good. (They split over the issue of gender politics, Althusser obviously takes the correct position. Chomsky once again vascillates on absolutisation of violence *1).So what not to do: talk about things disconnected from the reproduction of value in immanent life / autogestation. What not to do: fail to participate to the extent you can in revolutionary movements about you. What not to do: write in boring ways instead of create an index card based hyperstack of op-shops. What not to do: not provide the theoretical tools for immanentising the overthrow of class.*2*1 The adults in the audience are free to get the joke.*2 Khieu Samphan did falsify the elimination of the bourgeois relationship as the physical elimination of the constituent members of the bourgeoisie; a valuable falsification. We should, however, seriously consider replicating this falsification in the American context.
>>25637793Try reading him
>>25637484
Currently reading The Bacchae.I know I’m late to the party, but holy shit, this is absolutely incredible. You should absolutely read it if you haven’t already.
>>25636091No.
>>25635983>>25636080Thanks!
>>25635445Don QuixoteThat one section of Moby Dick>Man's insanity is heaven's sense
>>25636105Wait until you read Kings and Chronicles and get to the transvestite bull calf penises.
>>25635445I saw it performed once, and it seemed a bit meh. Perhaps my expectations were just wrong.What's so great about it, in your view?
What do you think about Dallas Smythe's landmark essay "On the Audience Commodity and its Work"? Do you agree with the premise that audiences "work", and if so, could paying audiences for their "work" be considered UBI?
>https://st0uty.substack.com/p/either-i-designed-ubi-or-i-created
>>25634993Dallas Smythe’s essay argues that in advertiser-supported media, audiences are the actual commodity sold to advertisers, rather than the media content itself. The "work" performed by audiences is the unpaid labor of paying attention to advertisements, which creates consumer demand and reproduces labor power for the capitalist system. This challenges the notion that media consumption is merely leisure, framing it instead as a productive activity that benefits media corporations and advertisers. Whether this premise is accepted depends on one's view of labor and value. Critics like Graham Murdock argue Smythe overgeneralizes by equating all non-sleeping time under capitalism with work, potentially ignoring audience agency and the meaningful nature of leisure. However, proponents and contemporary scholars extend this theory to digital media, where user data and attention are explicitly tracked and sold, reinforcing the idea that audiences perform audience labor even when engaging in "free" online activities.Paying audiences for this work would not necessarily constitute Universal Basic Income (UBI), as UBI is defined by being unconditional and universal, regardless of work or contribution. Compensating audiences specifically for their attention would be a form of labor payment or data dividend, conditional on the performance of "audience labor." Such a system would fundamentally restructure the media economy by shifting revenue from advertisers directly to users, but it would remain distinct from UBI due to its conditional nature and specific link to media consumption rather than general citizenship.
>the absolute state of literary theoryi hope that's just some loser witha blog and academics aren't considering this dopey shit insightful
>>25636879That's a shit AI answer mate.>>25634993Wages for Housework indicate that the surplus labour being extracted is the "skill" component of the complex labour power household. The "work" of the audience is the reproduction of labour itself in an expanded form, and the surplus value is being accumulated through the "free" commodities being supplied against advertising.As this is merely complex labour power in unmechanised modes, you could partly account for hyperprofits by positing an internally colonised system of imperialism balancing out the labour power structure of profit: but, this means that you'd need to hyperfinancialise media commodities and media-producing (AI / datacentre / software) commodities in order to financially move (told you I read volume 3) the capital from the site of production/extraction to the site of realization in finance.OH SHIT LOOK AT THE WORLD MARKET./me drops mic, goes back to workplace organising.Fuck me do I hate libcom lit crits.
Just finished Walden. The conclusion was nice, the bit about defining your own success hits a lot of feelings I've been having about some of the people around me. Overall though I preferred Desert Solitaire. Thoreau didn't make me want to be in the forest as much as Abbey made me want to be in the desert, and I'm almost positive I would fucking hate the desert. Rounding out the trilogy with Outermost House, and possible Down the River if I can find a copy. What other good pieces of nature writing are out there?
>>25636466Well, read more Thoreau for one. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Far better than Walden for what you seem to be interested in.
>>25636466The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles
John Muir is a huge force in the development of America's valuation of the natural world. Influential writer, conservationist, lobbyist, and the effective patron saint of Yosemite national park.The Sierra Club hosts a ton of his writing for free on their site.https://vault.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/
>>25636466His Nature essays are fantastic, plus>>25636537
>>25636537On reflection I think I tended to glaze over whenever Thoreau got overly sentimental. I think Abbey strikes a better balance between the philosophizing and the actual day to day practicalities of living isolated in a harsh environment. I've skimmed some of HDTs smaller essays and they seem more my speed
>>25637058So many novels are first-person that this question is not really much less pointless than “What's the greatest novel?”Perhaps a slightly less silly question: "If all novels are divided into two groups, first- and third-person, is one group appreciably better, and if so, which?"Yes, the category edges are a bit fuzzy sometimes:— books with both first and third person (Ulysses, The Sound And The Fury)— books technically in third person but so tightly anchored on one character that they're effectively first-person (Wolf Hall)— books with a thin first-person framework around an effectively third-person narrative (Moby Dick, Lord Jim)— other oddball things, like dialogue-only books [Kiss Of The Spider Woman]But setting that aside, my guess would be that third has more stuff. Most of Dickens, Hemingway, Henry James, Tolstoy, Dumas, Balzac, D. H. Lawrence, etc. Austen is always third, as is Cormac.
>>25637058The Good Soldier and Lolita are the only contenders of note I can think of.
>>25637058Lolita makes the best use of first person perspective.
Pale Fire.
First person + someone recounting events and writing them down = peak writing
Books with absurd, ridiculous plots that will never happen?
>>25635222>>25635260>>25636314same thing with ADULTS being the primary consumers of YA literature now.
>>25637389He's saying the average American can and will, in fact, resist and organize themselves as an armed band
>>25636530do you not have friends or family members in the military? I can guarantee there will never be a military coup in the US as long as the military is the way it is right now. service members don't give a fuck about whatever "mission" their officers talk about, democracy or the constitution. They just want their paychecks to pay off their car loans and credit card debt. Bonus points for getting a real (or fake often enough) disability during their service time for more money.Remember all the outrage from service members when a former al-Qaeda fighter and leader of an Islamist militant group, and the current president of Syria, went into the White House? Remember when Petraeus, who was head of US forces in Iraq when al-Sharaa was imprisoned for being an AQ fighter, said he was a fan of his?There was no outrage. They didn't give a fuck. They spent 20 years fighting the GWOT and didn't say a fucking word when an al-Qaeda fighter took control of a country neighboring our "GREATEST ALLY" and got to walk around the White House.
>>25637206>>25637747>>25637763ItCan'tHappenHere
>>25637805Ah.Must be on a cellphone
What are some good (auto)biographical chess books?
Checkmate in Prague>>25635577>chesscum paypig
>>25635682Go back liredditor
>>25636274Chess dot com is the mainstream site, of course Lichess is the 4chan chess site.
>>25635577Lichess has much less cheaters than dotscam.
>>25637782Retard
What am I in for?
>>25636693Boredom, a whole lot of it. Sade gets memed a lot but I rarely see anyone mention how mindnumbingly boring it is to actually get through his writings
>>25636723I only read Justine but was surprised at how wrong and retarded everyone was. It was a fun picaresque novel, except for the autistic convent section midway through
>>25636723Because you read shitty abridged editions that contain only philosophical babble. Read the full 6 volume edition of Juliette, one of the greatest novels ever written. Adventure, travel, torture, rape, hilarious schemes and heists, throwing women into volcanoes to prove science theories, trivia about made-up countries, elaborate descriptions of engineering inventions, and most importantly a lot of genuine HUMOUR! Sade is a humorist, all of the over top stuff is meant as an inside joke, but people completely miss the point because they've been groomed to read Sade as this le scawwy edgy serious author. Sade is an absurdist, his magnum opus Juliette is like a combination of Dumas and Rabelais.
It might be interesting, I'm tired of depressing chud lit and want to experience erecting Chad lit.
>>25636223huh
>>25636174>>25636223>no one would ever lie or embellish things for attention and profitI see I see
>>25635208>abridgedthere is your error.when you're here, you may as well not read it at all: it's not for you.>>25634323there's what Casanova is saying, and there's what's he is not telling directly, things that you understand. or do not.it's one of the reason his memoirs are so entertaining: the things you have to understand though he doesnt say it.very nice tits in the OP.
>>25637754“The Master” didn’t even read the entire thing because he found it to be composed of tedious and boring tall tales.
>>25637463NTA but you're not tall enough for this ride
Is this a good book to get my niece for Christmas? The description sounds promising.>From Julie Murphy, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin', comes a hilarious and creepy middle grade summer camp story that takes a bite out of fat camp and diet culture. Perfect for fans of Spooky Stories and Starfish.
>>25636701All involved with this book's publication deserve to be burned.
>>25637016I doubt it.
Why do they look like hobbits
>>25636701>being a fatty is goodDon't gift this to a kid.
>>25637740Yeah it's irresponsible. OP's post is bait but he should get her Warrior Cats or something
Books about people who had unrealistic, utopian visions of the world yet managed to make significant strides towards achieving their goals.
>>25636877About a guy trying to capture a consumerist market at the earliest of ages>>25636958>how he reshaped the American media industryThe talents he hired offered fun and beautiful pieces of art. He was just the moneybags
>>25637165Not saying it would have been viable, but Walt would have definitely tried to make it work. >>25637198Walt was directly creatively involved with every single project produced during his lifetime, even if he didn't always come up the concept of a project himself. He also had an eye for quality and implementing new technologies that many of his employees simply didn't have. If anything, Roy was the finance guy.
Very Reddit coded thread I've clicked on here. Maybe I was the Redditor all along.
>>25637256>wanting to reshape the world based on your ideas is Reddit.
>>25637249I could have done the same.
can Russian literature still produce great books in the modern day? if so, what are some examples?
>>25637600Don’t you see! Zelenskyy WANTS you to take Donetsk! That was his plan all along.
>>25637619my god...he played us like a GODDAMN fiddle...
Slavs are just white niggers.
>>25637619My hope was that when there was the referendum on eastern ukraine joining russia Putin would rig the results to get a no vote and say "well the people have spoken, we are pulling back to our borders now" as a way to extricate Russia from this pointless war where even victory is a loss.
>>25637714Well too bad they don’t have a geopolitical mastermind like you running the show.
Dude why is this so poorly written? The writing style is ass, and judge holden has only had one scene up until now, im on page 27 and no sign of him after the first encounter in the town which was very brief, i thought he was going to be a major character, im getting bored when will he show up and fuck some shit up like a based BVLL?
>>25635727>I am a genius, No, you're a fucking retard.>you are a retarded tranny fucker and a cuck, i didnt say anything wrong i genuinely cant even see why youre so upset, are you trying to say the way he writes is good?No, I'm saying he writes *well, you illiterate fucking faggot.
>>25637564Oh oh, clittycel meltdownBtw, the way he writes? Yeah its objectively fucking shit, why do you insist on being wrong? I have yet to see a single fucking comma, his writing is incoherent, And he inscribes his prose in the manner of a sissy plebbitor, insecure as to the measure of his intellect or the deficiency thereof, who harbours the conviction that the employment of antiquated verbiage renders him perspicacious.
>>25637581>Btw, the way he writes?Btw when you end a statement? with a question mark? it makes you sound like a complete fucking faggot?
>25637584WHAAAAAT? I GOT THOROUGHLY BUCK BROKEN YET AGAIN? I'VE GOT NOTHING ELSE TO SAY BECAUSE IM A RETARDED CVCKBOI WHO GOT PROVEN WRONG? SAAAAAAAAR NOOOOO IT'S NOT POSSIBLE NO NO NO IM JUST GONNA CLITTYLEAK OVER THIS METHOD YOU USED TO BUCK BREAK ME THEN USE IT WRONG LIKE A FUCKING MORON THAT WILL SHOW YOU SOIENCE BLESS KARL MARX AND PLEBBIT GLORY TO LEFTYPOL I LOVE BIBISI AND BADLY WRITTEN BOOKS #FEELTHEBERN #IMEITHHER #BELIEVEALLWOMEN
>>25637628I genuinely hope you commit suicide
>Don't date single mothersThat's it? That's the whole message?
>>25637570>@grok switch Kris Kristofferson to Destiny and change the album title from "To The Bone"'to "Take The Bone"
>>25637599Irony. The sailor is "saved" from a mundane life but it's definitely not in the way he expected or those championing the romantic worldview envision.
>>25637071>>25637599Sailor = imperial Japan of the 1940sWoman = democracy/ USA/ western worldThe kid = Mishima and his clique of FascistsThe “kid” is disgusted thst the sailor who once sailed the seas and embodied masculinity is now stuck with an old woman and is emasculated as a shop keeper. The kids would rather see the sailor die a painful death of glory (ritual suicide) rather than continue on being a bitch for the “woman.”
>>25637611this seems right
>>25637622Note that as a shop owner the woman’s clothing items are all foreign from Europe and the US owing to her cosmopolitan nature whilst the sailor’s profession is one associated with Imperial Japan (ex, the many naval victories Japan had over Russia in 1905 they look back on with glory).
Is chud cannon actually good or is it a meme
>>25633306I really liked Evola. And after him, I went back to the Greeks.I was able to go from a purely modernist and positivist mindset to being more accepting of metaphysics and theology. It started by saying "I'll just be open minded and try to believe that maybe they are right", and approaching it from that angle was very liberating from the old cemented views that modern society has ingrained in me from birth.I have been a visual artist most of my life and never wanted to learn philosophy. Preferring instead to keep those feelings vague and work them out in the moment.But I'm really happy that I've begun the journey and feel like I have even more "inner content" to express in my work now, as opposed to relying too much on aesthetics like I used to.I still like Evola and have a couple of his books on my shelf at all times for reference.
>>25637340IIRC Evola got his start on visual arts as part of the ‘futurist’ movement. I had an experience similar to yours with Evola and especially Guenon. I wouldn’t follow them everywhere (and especially not Evola) in a doctrinaire way, but their works helped open up my understanding
>>25633310it comes from the movie c.h.u.d.
>>25637340Thanks for the answer. Like I said earlier in the thread, I'm less interested in metaphysics as I am in aristocratic philosophy, but I'd like to give it a try.
>>25637340Interesting. Do you want to share some of your art?Can you explain some how your thinking changed? I haven't read evola but have the greeks so curious what you mean.
