/lit/ - Literature

>>5510015

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

I ctrl+f'd Carruth, you guys are bros

>>5507596
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>>5508998

ventriloquism

>>5509327

Did you read any other Walser? If yes would you elaborate a little on him?

I have just recently attended a lecture about the aspects of narcissism his work, and I'm very very intrigued.

>>5509131

basically:
book about two people who pretend to be dealing with trauma
who really aren't dealing with trauma
until it becomes irrefutable that they haven't really been dealing with trauma
following which they resort to creating new trauma instead of actually facing their trauma.

>>5509084

It's alright, dude, if your only preoccupation while reading books is book aesthetics than you might as well not read books.

>>5508711
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>>5508679

sort of agree*

>>5508655
That's a valid but curious observation. Because of the image?

>>5508635
Sort of on Butler (though I had liked his piece on his vocal tics), and yeah, actually most of the things you've said.

>>5508540

I don't know, I usually like their book critiques, and I get to see contemporary books I wouldn't hear about otherwise.

http://htmlgiant.com/random/in-defence-of-4chan/

Not necessarily a very interesting piece but relevant, I guess.

+ htmlgiant is cool, though it might be possible that everybody already knows about it

>>5502563

vertoscillating, obviously

It's a cute book.

>>5488918

It's basically Knausgaard, I think.

>>5487589
nooooooo

>>5487571

>embellish

>>5478815

:>>>>>>>>>

>>5476759

I always think of 'enlightenment' as an answer: to have it you must first have the question.

I think these teachings, ie, buddhism, sufism etc, all converge on very basic points. Don't be paranoid. Anxiety is something you do to yourself. Quieten your mind. Don't be hurtful. Understand that everything is always personal for everyone. etc. The problem with them is that they sound so much like empty truisms until you already know why they're meaningful.

Like meditation. What it is is very simple, it's sitting down and freeing your mind of thoughts. I think the problem is with names, so I think it's better the other way around:
It's not that meditation is this thing where you sit down and don't think. It's that you can actually sit down and not think, and people decided to call it meditation.

You don't need to meditate until you do. Another truism. But this is what I meant, at the beginning, about it being an answer to a question.

>>5478188

Oh wow.
I have finally understood why continental philosophy gets so much shit on /lit/.

>>5474162

It's basically identities.

So few people are passionate about both because so few people reject identities. And even then, I think, it's not always very obvious to tell when your views are being shaped by an identity.

>>5474027

Some guy was fucking with me and and I didn't wanna back down so I started, yeah. Though I think he also posts with o+trip. Anyways,

I'd say, if you don't have any other obligations, keep working the thing you're already working on until you feel incapable to do more of it. Then you can do more research, etc. At least for me this is the only way of actually getting work done.

And, as other people said, there is no inherent reason for you, or your project, to fail. This might sound like 'believe in yourself bullshit', but it's different.

>>5473934

Start doing the big one partially. See how it goes.

>>5472069

Putting actually doing this aside, I think that's actually pretty good writing.

>>5471208

Yeah, nice one, I'd also be interested.