This guy used to be huge among the elite just a few years ago. Why did the tech oligarchs abandon him in favor of Nick Land?
Do you expect fame to blasting 24/7? He write dippy books for them. Probably working on another one. Not that he has anything interesting to say.There are other evil darlings for them to fawn over
>>24875561*BolsterGeez wtf>You must wait longer before deleting this post>This post is too old to be deleted 4shat fail again
>>248755464chan shitposting was just too much. This is the one place elites can conjugate without fear of getting all their naughty shitposts doxxed (remember when Taylor Swift posted her tits and pussy on /b/? I do), and the fact that Basedboy Wojack is a spitting image of Yuval Harari pretty much killed any sex appeal potential elites might gain from aligning with him on their Harvard/Yale/Columbia campuses.
I want books which describe how European aristocrats were supposed to carry out themselves in the public, their training, their conflicts with plebs and how they used to view plebs, their inner house politics. Are there any book regarding this?
>>24875548You might want to read Baldassare Castiglione's "The Book of the Courtier" and Lord Chesterfield's "Letters to His Son."
>>24875586Oh thanks. What other books do you recommend?
>>24875588Those are more or less the most revealing books I'm familiar with, but I suppose you could add the novella The Princess of Cleves by Madame de la Fayette, which confirms some of the impressions of those other books. It's very clear about courtly understatement and gossip and social maneuvering.
>>24875588>>24875599Also, to add, Churchill's Life of Marlborough, I don't know why I forgot that, especially chapter 2 of the first volume ("The Jovial Times"), which gives a great impression of the mindset of the nobles of that older era.
Any recs?
>>24874819How
>>24874821Prussia vanished in the Franco Prussian War before either of those in the 1800s
>>24874821Good god you're dumb.BANKS were the cause of both World WarsFabianism aided all corrupted state-socialisms to crush the genuine anti-state-capitalist socialists. Marx wrote Kapital decades before WWI. Read mofo
>>24874813http://www.google.com/search?q=toilet+witches+indiahttp://www.google.com/search?q=codex+pajeethttp://www.amazon.in/s?k=cow+dung+cakes
>>24874816FPBP
It's so fucking gay he squashed the KIRAC thing with a lawsuit. Show me your dick and balls NOW you French pervert.
>>24872626It's still contested AFAIK, we might yet see it
>>24872626Tarik was the actual engine and brain behind the videos. Kate did analysis, and Stefan worked on the edit. But the actual concepts, work, and arrangements were all done by Tarik. Houellebecq only managed to stop a particular (theoretical) cut of the film being released, as long as KIRAC avoids breaking those handful of rules they can release it. However, there is no movie. There’s tons of footage, but no movie. KIRAC are useless without Tarik.
>>24872626You get back to collecting penis photos. The world needs a gay Houellebecq.
>>24872626>unironically using the acronym "KIRAC"hahahhahah the retarded pseuds on this board I swear. Their little "group" was nothing more than social media content slop, and you got invested in it. haha!
>>24872968>rifftrax’d himWhat a reference, Servo.
Any literature that will make me stop being like this?
>>24866477The brain damage frequent pornigraphy viewing does can be physically measured.
>>24864707>live life on "easy mode">only if you're good looking and younger than 22>otherwise just become a smaller, slower, weaker, dumber version of yourself
>>24864303I don't even understand the question. Solution? What's there to solve. It's like asking what's the solution to the sun setting or what's the solution to the existence of fungi. Just nonsensical.>BUT PEOPLE AREN'T HAPPY :((((So? People will never be happy. A utopia will never exist. Time to grow up.>WE NEED TO STOP ALL SUFFERING EVERYWHEREThis is just arrogance. Universal cosmic good is for God to handle, not you. You're not capable. Know your limits and know your place. Second of all this idea is sourced from a morality system that is inherently flawed. It comes from the axiom that all suffering is inherently bad. The first flaw, is that if you are coming at this from a secular materialist perspective, the existence of suffering is not something that you can rigorously or materially prove. Suffering only exists as the subjective experience of a conscious observer. You can't empirically prove that other conscious observers exist and so you can't empirically prove that others are even capable of suffering.Second, like I said suffering is entirely subjective and cannot be measured objectively, which results in a nonsensical morality system. Let's say that hypothetically you were to cut my arms off and for whatever reason I was completely okay with this. Well in that case my suffering would be negligible and so would it then be okay to cut my arms off? How can you claim I suffer if I claim I don't? And conversely if a child is forced to eat vegetables and throws a temper tantrum, can it not be said that the child is experiencing a great deal of suffering, at least from its perspective?Lastly, this entire system is predicated on the idea that suffering is inherently bad. Suffering can be bad, but not always. It's far better to be strong than weak and strength can only be acquired through enduring suffering. A world without suffering is ultimately a world without strength. You can't condemn a tree while enjoying its fruits.
>>24875455You type like you have brain damage>>24875518>what's the solution for a broken arm>a cast and lots of rest>wow but that's a fake solution because like, people will be unhappy anyway, broken arms or notA utopia, even if not achievable, is an ideal we can approach and tend to without actually reaching. Most people understand that we want society to be happier even though it won't be perfect
>>24875396I'm not a delusional person who wanna cut his penis nor feel "discomfort" from my sex. I'm not "telling myself anything" you retard
What are your favorite albums and songs based on literature?"Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Man Who Would Be King" are mine.
>>24873145Beast and the Harlot by a7x
Grimes - Geidi Primes Blind Guardian - Nightfall on middle earth Not based on lit, but is lit: Any Ayreon album
>>24873478I like Slint but come onAlso a lot of metal heads in this thread, nice.My pick is Ancient Ones by Morbid Angelhttps://youtu.be/zwrlJbzYwQI?si=9o_hMP-5KPBEWz45
>>24875471>Have the power to transport people through time and space>Humans are all gonna die>Uhhh here's the power to not even time travel but to send messages back 1000 years >Wtf why didn't it work, the sixth race has fallen, billions must migrate
>>24873145I also like Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
I quit my job to become a full time book reader but instead I just play LoL 10 hours a dayHow do you people do it?How do you read so much?I buy like 5 books a month but I've only read one book this year which I read in a week, reading 100 pages every day.
You quit your job to play vidya and post on 4chan. Pathetic.
>>24875509you don't like the books you read
>>24875509For the same reason I’d kill myself if someone forced me to play MOBAs for 10 hours. Your actual interest isn’t reading.
I don't use my smart phone. Every time you're at the doctor's office or riding a train or waiting in line someplace, don't pull out your phone. Take out a book. Even if it's just 10 minutes at a time, you'll be reading entire books.
>>24875560Commuting gives me 1 hour of reading every day. Instead of some podcast dribble just read a book.
What are the best works in the dark academia genre?
>>24875538
>>24875538what the fuck is dark academiathis did remind me that i do need to read through my copy of an empirical introduction to youth
>>24875538The books you befriended along the way. >>24875565Instagram fashion trend.
>>24875571>read popular books to gain "cred" among normalfagsah so essentially the entire modus operandi of the /lit/ imageboard
I found myself listening to her videos on the background in a similar fashion one would mindless listen to a woman talking about some inconsequential triviality she dedicates her life to. Like how you would listen to someone who thinks Addison Rae's new boyfriend is newsworthy or whose biggest problem is choosing between lipstick and lip gloss.This needs to stop before my brain is completely gone. Are there any good looking youtubers talking about lit-related topics? I already know all the greasy males that are not completely garbage.
>>24875308Autistic girls who read fantasy for escapism have that deer in the headlight look to them that makes men feel protective.
>>24875333trips of truth
>>24865744>Plastic skull on desk >Big candles >Stuffed bookshelf >PC in the left corner of the shot >DEGENERACY >Rehashing a topic that has been beaten to death for the last 50+ years Only foids could get away with something this corny. Were this a man everyone would rightly call him a faggot.
>>24872360ugly but not in a gross way
For me, it's Malissa
Books for this feel?
Prison gays
>>24875550Plato, SymposiumMishima, Forbidden Colours
>>24875550faggot shit
Bros bros??
At what point does Pynchon just further tarnish his reputation and legacy by cranking out these underwhelming mediocrities like Bleeding Edge and Shadow Ticket?Isn't it better for him not to publish anything than these books which are leagues worse than Vineland, a book that tarnished his reputation and legacy to at least some extent when it was published in 1990?
>>24874568It's hilarious that 4channer are seething while us redditors are fucking loving this novel.
>>24874391None of that is evidence that he was going to use that title for Mason & Dixon. He made a reference to one of his peers in the script for some throwaway TV show, that's all.
>>24873120>He never had that much prestige to begin with.This is false.
>>24874625>us redditors are fucking loving this novel.The comments on Reddit are just as negative. In fact, the only positive comments go something like "it's not supposed to be good like V. It's supposed to be fun like IV!"
>>24875534It is true
>only popular because the government forced soldiers to read it for some reason
>>24872268The first chapter is fantastic and a million times better than the rest of the book.It completely carries the work.
>>24872268I can never look at this book the same after knowing Fitzgerald wrote this about his first love who he never stopped thinking about his whole life, even after marrying another woman. When he met her again after like 15-20 years of not seeing each other he showed up completely shit faced and offended her so badly they never spoke again.
>>24875171Isn't that basically the plot? Gatsby gets so obsessed about this woman out of his reach that he dedicates his whole life to "becoming worthy" and then they really do never speak again after he fucks up. The whole ending says, "We're all prisoners of the past, pining for things that can never come back."
>>24875420As much as people like to talk about great authors being able to write about abstractions far removed from their own experience, a lot of literature is just the lived experience of the author. Dante was obsessed with a women he met like twice, to the point of her being a nearly divine guide through Purgatory and Heaven. Melville's family faced financial ruin which forced him to work on whaling ships, and I doubt he would've written Moby Dick if he'd grown up as a pampered member of the upper class. He might have still been a great author, but the settings of his books would have been different.
>>24874114I mean, he's not wrong. why do you think spain lost their empire way before the rest did. it was extraction based colonialism. Great Britain and france actually bothered to settle functioning towns, with majority euro citizens, mostly on paid for / unsettled land. most native massacres by those two came later on when the land was running out. spain just did it to begin with and faced revolts the moment they seemed weak. britain did a similar thing as spain in india. the british didn't want to live in india they just wanted the riches out and a nice holiday home to visit once a year. very different to actually settling land like they did with the 13 colonies
If it doesn't rhyme and/or have a meter, it isn't a poem. Free verse poems are just paragraphs that are formatted to look like poetry.Don't act like I'm not right
>>24875470Rhyme and meter are why poetry exists as opposed to prose. It's a remnant of an oral culture and should live in performance. Just the fact that poetry enjoyers today don't read the poems out loud or enjoy them performed makes the whole format absurd.
>>24875470Sorry Homer
>>24875391That Pepe isn'tflying.He's falling.
>>24875391If you say this is not poetry you are objectively wrong, sorry:Life's involv'd and varied pageants,All the forms and shows, all the workmen at their work,All the seamen and the landsmen, all the masters with their slaves, Pioneers! O pioneers! All the hapless silent lovers,All the prisoners in the prisons, all the righteous and the wicked,All the joyous, all the sorrowing, all the living, all the dying, Pioneers! O pioneers! I too with my soul and body,We, a curious trio, picking, wandering on our way,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
I sketch a poemOn the reply form for a nonA slit in timeThat has no metric and doesn't rhymeBar the one rhyme I chose to make itCountBut it has heartAnd goes from me to anonBefore I read up some hentai
What is your opinion on the work of jk Rowling?
>>24856356But the market refused her several times.Imagine if she had not persisted.shows you how stubborness and belief in one's ability are so important.>>24874984>as i was reading it, i remember saying this to myself throughout the reading: how did people believe that robert galbraith was a man?Lol. I remember thinking that RG was a closeted fag.::I have watched some interviews she was on from a long time ago, when the HP mania started, and she came across as a very humble person, very shy, who went through some serious shit (domestic violence) in the past.But she no longer shows what at that time was one of her traits. Perhaps she underwent therapy or something.
>>24860264i'm gonna reread the whole thing once the so-called illustrated, interactive editions are all published. we're still missing 3. each one costs 40 quid here.these editions are the full text (not some condensed version) and include maps, foldable stuff, and so on.
>>24855495her work is lame and gayshe is cool as a person and doesnt afraid of anything though
>>24874877>>>24874866 (You)>>Seriously, the left has this preoccupation with feelings. How would you like it if... who gives a fuck.>Is "how would you like it" not the foundation of the Golden Rule, a principle which shows up not only in Christianity but in countless other religious and philosophical traditions?Yeah. I was taught that when I was little. Problem there. Only lesson I ever got, was that I was supposed to worry about what other people thought. Seemed like everyone else was allowed to be mean as fuck to me? All I'd hear was "grow up, kids being kids". I do it back? I got in trouble. Never did understand the shit, never will.>>>24874871 (You)>>actually, you did say it first. I've been hearing how "cis white scum need to die" for years now. Screeched first by purple haired obese lesbians, now by troons.>Queers are not a hivemind. I didn't say those things.Straights aren't a hivemind. I don't march in anti-fag demonstrations. Whites aren't a hivemind either, but its A-OK to print as a headline? Whites are being replaced, why this is a good thing. I ain't sticking my neck out for anyone that ain't sticking it out for me. When I see blacks marching for "equality for white people too", I'll reconsider. Whites march for blacks, backs march against us. Fair? Ha. Straights march for fags, but when I see a fag parade dedicated to "leave breeders alone, they need love too"... I'll reconsider. Notice my trend?>>If you weirdos didn't act up like this? Were quiet about it? People wouldn't care one tenth as much and you could all quietly go do, well... what ever in the hell you transformers do.>What do you know about what being queer was like pre-Stonewall? It was literally illegal.So what. When I was little, I used to get teased until I cried for having fair skin and red hair. If I fought back? I got my eyes blacked for it. I'm Irish. I thought the rule was, you can;t say shit let alone use violence, over nationality or skin color. Oops, that's only for blacks and foreigners. A poor Irish kid? Fuck off and quit being a baby, its kids being kids. Once again, see the trend here? You seem fairly perceptive, I figure you do.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24855495post her booba
What writers would I enjoy if Mishima is my favourite?
>>24874722nice dubs and recc>>24870111Try d'Annunzio
>>24872753Yesterday I watched this interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVvx9jQ5FcM where Nakadai claims he liked The Face of Another.
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>>24870119he's literally me
>>24873082>Definitely check out forbidden colorsI will; thanks anon.
