/lit/ - Literature

>>23001020
>dialogue expressing the most hegelian point imaginable
>"this kills the hegelian"
redditt is down the hall and to the left

>>16753984
"rogue academic" is an oxymoron, like "wise dunce" or "thin american"

>>13273768
>t

>>12272735
You're mistaking volume for density. Instead of taking in lots of information and extrapolating a little bit of meaning from it, start taking in small amounts of information from which you can extrapolate lots of meaning.

Basically, learn what they tried to teach you in English.

>>12272979
Also, this, but unironically.

>>11428920
>into politics but hasn't read Rawls and Nozick
>into "aesthetics" but hasn't read Hume, Kant, or Heidegger
>into "nihilism" but hasn't read Nietzsche
>into "nihilism" but thinks Nietzsche is a nihilist
>into "nihilism" but really means existentialism
>into existentialism but hasn't read Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Heidegger, or Sartre
>unironically likes any of the New™ Atheists™
>has used the phrase "______ bodies" (e.g. "queer bodies," "black bodies," "fat bodies") unironically in either a paper or a poem
>claims anything about economics without having read Smith, Marx, Hayek, and Keynes
>reads or writes instagram/internet poetry
>doesn't regularly read/watch/listen to books/films/music that were written/shot/recorded before 1960
>fetishizes the past, insists that "everything after [point in time] was a mistake"
>disowns the past and insists tradition has no value
>on music: "I like everything but rap and country"
>parrots opinions from 1-3 YouTube """intellectuals"""
>makes broad claims about religion a la >>11429677
>went to a 4-year college in the US, but didn't get either a minor or a second major outside of their field of study
>MFA writing his/her first full-length novel/film/play
>LARPing
>hates math (or any other field of study)
>claims to love science, but has never written or read any scientific papers
>unhealthy obsession with a single work of art or media property
>vlogs, especially daily vlogs
>favorite book/film/song was published/shot/recorded within the past 2 years
>thinks traps are gay

>>11414711
:^)

>>11033273
>le naturalistic fallacy
>le is-ought fallacy
>le faux-Darwinism
ebbin

>>10124488
John Green has an audience.
Infer from this what you will.