/lit/ - Literature

>>3363811
well the big one is La Méditerranée [...] but you should check out his books and see if the ones on capitalism or french identity appeal more to you.

Abu-Lughod, you should check out Before European Hegemony, which is superb, and maybe either the one about Cairo or Morocco.

>>3363812
can you recommend anything by de Landa?

a) doesn't matter if it's done before

b) blowup, blowout, parallax view, those movies where they assasinate the president of the united states, etc

im off writing for a while so nothing else to contribute

>>3363746
counterbalance that jared diamond with some Janet Abu-Lughod and Fernand Braudel

you'll be happy you did seriously

arche tier
film

demiurge tier

music, literature

high tier
architecture, cooking

mid tier
plastic arts, painting, photography, sequential art

low tier
theatre, rethoric, dance, interactive media [for now]

>>3363719
-Badiou's translation of the republic,
-Baldwin Rosencrans' You Lost Me There
-The Power of Film by Howard Suber
-No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July
-The Years of Rice and Salt
-Empire Falls
-The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy

i think this is pretty representative of the entire list.

>>3363357
i've heard the japanese version of ulysses is a work of art by itself

a fair bit, yeah. more non-fiction than fiction. i have 25 post-2000 books in my to-read list.

>>3363281
bely

>>3363269
i always pick those three whenever the question comes up.

>>3363225
good post anon

/b/ for the pretentious

kinda like early /r9k/ was trying to be, minus the relationshit

>>3363256
i assumed that tryhard esser was from mew, no?

it has three forms

finnegans wake

petersburg

zettels traum

>>3362975
presumably he means the old testament

>>3359287
weeaboo

it's clearly meant to represent the grand european empires, not be inclusive.

inb4butAMERICA

stick a tampon in it and call your mom

>>3359089
now you got it

>>3359061
>text-only posts on an imageboard

>>3359050
>not making your own reaction images

step up son

>>3359033
revolutions are so passé

i used to think this david mitchell made it

>>3358992
>china specifically

definitely asia though.

not hard at all if it's a translation.

spanish speakers might have to make a bit more of an effort, but it's not a titanic struggle.

>>3356869
>>3356873

it's somewhere in between the two. trying to work it as a puzzle is also not the best way to go about it. read it, enjoy it, read it again in a year, enjoy it more, etc.