/lit/ - Literature

>>18852295
NICE anon, thanks! think i'll order this one today https://borahgear.com/chestbivy.html
>Why are you homeless bro?
post-graduating soon. enough said really, i fell for it, engineering but i fell for it. the system will give me a job germane to the study that i gave the past six what years for, else i'll live in a bug bivy for as long as i can and fuck it.

>>9109474
Incidentally, in that hotel I basically consider myself to be a combination of kind of Faulknerian halfwit janitor and night manager whose job it is to occasionally go and get coffee or unplug the toilet and so on. I'm a pseud and not a philosopher myself. I have to sort of try to remind myself of this sometimes, because the most odious habit to me is to set oneself up as The Great Explainer.

I think it's best to understand analysis, for example, as a kind of a psychic dentistry. Deconstruction is what I think I am really opposed to, because it seems to me like a kind of stance or attitude towards philosophy that confuses bewilderment with understanding, like a Socratic aporia that begins at the end and works backwards, infinitely re-confirming itself, rather than proceeding from the beginning towards those places where we have to leave things unfinished and mysterious.

The thoughts of the big philosophers are kind of like big machines: I like that. They're Big Guys because their thought is so totalizing and complete, but there really is to my mind no way of resolving all of this stuff into a total ethos: there is no really or genuinely postmodern want to live. What we have are these relics or artifacts, these big thinkers - and they're not all dead, there are some really interesting people living and working and writing today, right now - but there's so goddamn much to sift through that the idea of 'reaching the end' is naive, even counter-productive.

It's why I like the idea of writing Total Pseud Guides: just kind of sketches of how some of these guys work. They do have answers to everything, but in the end you're always going to be left to yourself, I think, to decide which questions you like and which you don't. They all have a kind of circular logic in them. It's mostly a question of tracing those circles.

Anyways, that's my own pontificating.