/lit/ - Literature

well you either follow it, or not

the point being that showing a gun on stage doesn't mean that it's going to be used,

it just evokes (not sure if this is the word) the rule and the whole ordeal becomes a commentary on chekov's gun more than anything else

David Foster Wallace
Yusuf Atılgan
Thomas Bernhard
Bernard Marie Koltes
Doris Lessing

>>5784024

please no, corn father

>>5775977

some exercise really is great for your brain though

>tfw

>>5775042

do my favorite poem please:

My friend attacks my friend!
Oh Battle picturesque!
Then I turn Soldier too,
And he turns Satirist!
How martial is this place!
Had I a mighty gun
I think I'd shoot the human race
And then to glory run!

(it's by dickinson)

>>5773762

Allah used to be an arabic moon god before the whole islam thing, if i'm not mistaken

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6DSOSudkwY

etc

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idk, maybe koltes' the night just before the forests

maybe it's incompatible with having excess money to leave to your descendants in the first place?

gmail drafts for when i'm writing for myself
google drive for when i need to turn it in

>>5760113

cheers

/r/'ing the 'why am i so différant' image if one of you has it

lmao poor guy

>>5752852

they both mean that you need to sleep

>>5752675

sleepless and sleepy are up there too

>shakespeare
>did not straight up fucking invent everything that has ever been referred to as the human condition
>no shiggity

>>5747072

Hey I really appreciate it, thanks a lot mate

>>5746933

I really agree with you in that the author (and by extension the marxists) sort of fall/s to a similar trap; but I'm not very confident in dismissing the prioritisation of class identity as it really feels to me like a more concrete form of separation. I guess what I'm saying is that I'm genuinely partial, and letting it slide for the time being.

I've read what you linked and I liked it a lot. This is a very interesting (and in a way, comfy) passage:

>As the child of a working-class family, I can attest this is what we were actually proud of. We were constantly being told that work is a virtue in itself – it shapes character or somesuch – but nobody believed that. Most of us felt work was best avoided, that is, unless it benefited others. But of work that did, whether it meant building bridges or emptying bedpans, you could be rightly proud. And there was something else we were definitely proud of: that we were the kind of people who took care of each other. That's what set us apart from the rich who, as far as most of us could make out, could half the time barely bring themselves to care about their own children.

>>5746903

This is a follow up to the first article, by another author and it seems a lot more interesting than the first one:

http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11411

Hello /lit/, can anyone recommend me some reading on post-identity theory?

Here is a piece I just read that approaches the subject from a marxist point of view:
http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=11299

I liked this passage and I think it's the kind of approach I'm interested in:

>The privilege I certainly enjoy as a white male consists in part in my not being aware of my ethnicity and my gender, and it is a sobering and revelatory experience to occasionally be made aware of these blind-spots. But, rather than seeking a world in which everyone achieves freedom from identitarian classification, the Vampires’ Castle seeks to corral people back into identi-camps, where they are forever defined in the terms set by dominant power, crippled by self-consciousness and isolated by a logic of solipsism which insists that we cannot understand one another unless we belong to the same identity group.

Zizek also touches the subject sometimes, but not in the way I would want.

Opinions and discussion are very welcome.
Cheers

>>5744491

why do you think that communism is by definition incompatible with the separation of powers?

>>5738029

what do you even mean by empowerment how is this related