/lit/ - Literature

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT DIVINATION

This is week 3 of your "Meditations on the Tarot" (MOTT) book club
The subject for this week is: THE HIGH PRIESTESS (pages 29 to 49)
If you haven't read it, you can do it now.

Next Saturday (May the 4th, 2024) the Arcana due is still THE HIGH PRIESTESS (I decided to have two weeks per chapter) but you will be, of course, welcome to post any insights, notes, questions regarding the previously read materials.

1. I packed MOTT & books most relevant to it into a convenient 184MB archive
link: https://files.catbox.moe/0ubl85.zip
There is also two auxiliary archives:
2. Holy Texts (Catholic study Bible + Tanakh w/ Hebrew-English parallel text 163MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/8j0iyi.zip
3. Tarot related (histoical, occult, and professional investigations 187MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/3tjyjx.zip

>Good podcasts related to MOTT:
https://podtail.com/es/podcast/the-christian-mysticism-podcast/
https://shwep.net/podcast/ (the person is LGBT, but fortunately a professional so can successfully abstain 99.95% of the time)
>Good music to listen while reading MOTT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lS_Y-aNJwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Clq0rDR-w

>Archive:
Week 1 Chapter 1: >>23283755
Week 2 Chapter 1: >>23307690
Week 3 Chapter 2: >>23331133

>Note:
Additional books are only to be discussed if relevant to the current (or previous) MOTT chapter we are discussing.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT DIVINATION

This is week 3 of your "Meditations on the Tarot" (MOTT) book club
The subject for this week is: THE HIGH PRIESTESS (pages 29 to 49)
If you haven't read it, you can do it now.

Next Saturday (May the 4th, 2024) the Arcana due is still THE HIGH PRIESTESS (I decided to have two weeks per chapter) but you will be, of course, welcome to post any insights, notes, questions regarding the previously read materials.

1. I packed MOTT & books most relevant to it into a convenient 184MB archive
link: https://files.catbox.moe/0ubl85.zip
There is also two auxiliary archives:
2. Holy Texts (Catholic study Bible + Tanakh w/ Hebrew-English parallel text 163MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/8j0iyi.zip
3. Tarot related (histoical, occult, and professional investigations 187MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/3tjyjx.zip

>Good podcasts related to MOTT:
https://podtail.com/es/podcast/the-christian-mysticism-podcast/
https://shwep.net/podcast/ (the person is LGBT, but fortunately a professional so can successfully abstain 99.95% of the time)
>Good music to listen while reading MOTT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lS_Y-aNJwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Clq0rDR-w

>Archive:
Week 1 Chapter 1: >>23283755
Week 2 Chapter 1: >>23307690

>Note:
Additional books are only to be discussed if relevant to the current (or previous) MOTT chapter we are discussing.

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT DIVINATION

This is week 2 of your "Meditations on the Tarot" (MOTT) book club
The subject for this week is: THE MAGICIAN (pages 3 to 21)
If you haven't read it, you can do it now.

Next Saturday (April 27, 2024) the Arcana due is THE HIGH PRIESTESS (unless we have to stay at the magician's table) but you will be, of course, welcome to post any insights, notes, questions regarding the previously read materials.

1. I packed MOTT & books most relevant to it into a convenient 184MB archive
link: https://files.catbox.moe/0ubl85.zip
There is also two auxiliary archives:
2. Holy Texts (Catholic study Bible + Tanakh w/ Hebrew-English parallel text 163MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/8j0iyi.zip
3. Tarot related (histoical, occult, and professional investigations 187MB)
link: https://files.catbox.moe/3tjyjx.zip

>Good podcasts related to MOTT:
https://podtail.com/es/podcast/the-christian-mysticism-podcast/
https://shwep.net/podcast/ (the person is LGBT, but fortunately a professional so can successfully abstain 99.95% of the time)
>Good music to listen while reading MOTT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lS_Y-aNJwk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2Clq0rDR-w

>Archive:
Chapter 1 Week 1 : >>/lit/thread/23283755
note: that thread had a supposedly Christian janny start trolling, then gaslighting, then "take meds"... unfortunately she also deleted the thread while being sucked back into Hell thanks to the Name of Jesus Christ.

>Note:
Additional books are only to be discussed if relevant to the current (or previous) MOTT chapter we are discussing.

What podcasts do you listen to while reading?

Can you be well-read and never read a single book in 2024? Through youtube essays and audiobook and podcasts? I legit don't wanna read

What are some /lit/ podcasts? Hermitix and pic related are the only ones I know.

You guys know if theres any podcasts like Writing Excuses but without the faggotry? I'm a pretty liberal person, but I'd rather listen to alt right nazi propaganda than brando sando's crack team of elite gays bragging about their successes constantly

Post-audiobooks audio. Give me the rundown on this. To what extent have things like short story audio podcasts, audiozines, and musical books been developed? Is it common for podcasts to be pre-written? What does this imply is possible that is not being explored or embraced? How will AI change the audiobook game?

What /lit/ podcasts do you like?
For me its "in our time" (history, arts, science, philosophy) and "poetry unbound".

please no yootoober, POV virtual friend experiences, american style "culture wars" pundits, or presenters under 35.

Bonus question - who will replace Melvyn Bragg when he dies?

What are the /lit/ approved podcasts and channels for the erudite gentleman?

So I was drinking and watching Bryan Magee videos on repeat last night, and I got to thinking "why doesn't this exist anymore." Then I went down a rabbit hole of looking into late night talk shows and game shows and podcasts and the different formats they use and what function that form conveys.

It's kind of interesting actually. Take the late night talk show, which has a desk stage right and a couch stage left, with the host always upstaging (literally) his guests in a kind of patriarchal power relationship. It's been a fairly consistent format since the fifties, which itself comes out of the American minstrel show: the opening is a monologue and theme song where the host, a viral white american socialite, does a little dance and hypes up the audience, then they have a series of guests who are always placed at a stage inferiority to the host, and finally they end the segment with negro music.

Bryan Magee on the other hand is more of a podcast type, with both host and guest being places equally on a couch and having a long in-depth discussion. There is an introductory monologue, but the negro music is dropped from the end.

Podcasts have somewhat revitalized the format, my favourite type being the co-host podcast where you've got two people with decent chemistry riffing off eachother on various topics. This is actually somewhat similar to a traditional comedy due, or japanese manzai, of which Abbott and Costello are probably the best example. However this kind of format doesn't lend itself as well to interviews, which is probably why its revitalization in podcasts hasn't led to a simultaneous revitalization of the public intellectual.

So anyways I was wondering why there isn't a bigger revitalization of "public intellectuals" in the media sphere. It seems like all the necessary infrastructure is there, through podcast and video hosting sites like YouTube and Spotify, yet the format seems to have reached its peak with Bryan Magee and been in terminal decline ever since. Podcasts as they currently are really seem to cater to the lowest demographic, with people like Sneako and Andrew Tate, and the closest our generation has gotten to producing a "public intellectual" is that zionist shill Jordan Peterson. So my question to you, /lit/, is how would you design a talk show with a focus on featuring/creating public intellectuals? Keep in mind McLuhan's famous quip "the medium is the message."

For the mods, pic related is a book for this feel.

Wasn't sure if I should ask /pol/ but I feel like they're all retarded and haven't touched a book in their lives. I'm looking for something to become more informed on matters of geopolitics. I'd really prefer some stuff in the hot topic areas of Ukraine/Russia, China/US, Israel/Palestine, etc. I'll take podcasts or youtube channels as well if you guys got any. Bonus points if they remain "mostly" unbiased, or look at pros/cons for each side following some kind of solution.

Do you guys have any favorite audiobooks?
I need something to listen to at work, genre or whatever doesn't really matter, I just need something other than podcasts and music.

Recommend good Audio books, Audio Dramas, Podcasts, etc.

Recommend good Audio books, Audio Dramas, Podcasts, etc.

This is perhaps an oddly specific request, but I was wondering if you could recommend contemporary German literature or perhaps even podcasts or YouTube videos where literature is discussed in German, perhaps similar to what "Das Literarische Quartett" with Marcel Reich-Ranicki used to be. I'm not asking because I have a particular interest in this type of literature, but because German is my native language and I feel like my vocabulary has atrophied and I'm no longer able to write or speak eloquently simply because almost all of my communication, even my thoughts, are in English. I feel like I can't put my thoughts into words anymore, and I'm hoping that more exposure to the language can help with that. I would also appreciate any other tips or ideas you may have.

What is the transgender incel Nazi reading list?
Also interested in atrocity studies and spree shooters.

Some stuff I liked included:

- Altemeyer, Bob. The Authoritarians
- Kantor, Martin. Homophobia: The State of Sexual Bigotry Today
- Picciolini, Christian. White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement–and How I Got Out
- Downs, Alan. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World
- Dworkin, Andrea. Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females
- Hooks, Bell. The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

Some stuff I liked but I felt was out of date included:

- Sartre, Jean-Paul. Anti-Semite and Jew: Reflections on the Jewish Question
- Eco, Umberto. Ur-Fascism
- Reich, Wilhelm. The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Some videos and podcasts I liked

- https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/vice-how-a-neo-nazi-found-their-identity-as-a-trans-woman/5b34c997be4077208b663b2e
- https://m.soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-239-transmaxxing
- https://www.spreaker.com/user/16630550/emastered-ep82parta

I didn't like Andrea Long Chu's Females. I found Females obnoxiously misogynist and regressive in a second wave feminist sort of way and not in an incel school shooter sort of way.

I didn't like Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies. It felt like a very surface level look at things.

Still reading Chris Hedges' American Fascists. Idk how I feel about it.

Also I struggle with understanding some facets of image board culture. I am not into anime or furry stuff. There doesn't seem to be any good books on furries much less Nazi furs. Or books explaining Touhou.

Where do I go in right wing thought after becoming disillusioned with BAP? The quality of his podcasts has been trending downwards for the past 50 or so episodes anyway, but the episode he sided with Greeks being “gay” was some of the worst shit I’ve ever heard. And now he’s clearly siding with Israel despite claiming he’s just neutral.

Honest I didn’t think he was actually gay and Jewish until now.

I haven’t watched Keith Woods in a while what’s he up to? Any less boring?

I work a low intensity physical-labor job in which I can listen to audio with one headphone.

I have minor distractions where I am occasionally interrupted and cannot focus on the audio.

Can you please recommend some audiobooks/podcasts that I can listen to in this way while still absorbing something useful from the content.

It is much appreciated.

this was great fun. Can you recommend more good audio drama? Be it podcasts or older productions on CD or whatever.
And I don't mean audiobooks where someone reads a play, I mean plays performed with full cast, sound effects etc.

Any good /lit/core book podcasts/auidtorial experiences? Been listening to pic related and seems pretty good.
https://youtu.be/FGJfSZ7kT-o?si=feLojYKZcsyfjt-6

Hello all. I love reading but I cannot do it while walking, so I listen to audiobooks and podcasts. Is there anything you guys would recommend on philosophy and literature?
Lately I really enjoyed the U22 podcast on Ulysses - which, ironically, has been left unfinished for now, just like most people leave the book unfinished.
Audiobooks and book-based podcasts thread, I guess.

>MY WIFE WON'T STOP WATCHING TV AND LISTENING TO PODCASTS ON HER AIRPODS AND THE ONLY PERSON WHO EVER UNDERSTOOD ME WAS A MENTALLY ILL 16 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO DIED GETTING HIT BY A CAR LIKE A DOG. WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

This book kinda sucks actually.

Of audiobooks?

Whenever I read a book, it's often that I read some sentence or paragraph twice before fully comprehending it. Which makes sense because the author carefully chose the words he used and took his time to convey the message in the book. However with these stupid audiobooks, one blink and you miss it.

I was hoping to fully comprehend and retain the books I've read with their audiobook versions but they don't seem to be efficient. I'm just gonna use cliffnotes or some shit now.

Why does this shit even exist? Should I just stick to podcasts?