/lit/ - Literature

>I read that one critic stated that it escapes interpretation and I think that puts it nicely.

The typified mediocrity of these "Blood Meridian" threads is officially annoying now.

>>4392727

>part for the course

You should probably go ahead and just stop posting here. We have enough idiots already.

>>4087921

You have a very naive understanding of criticism and aesthetic.

>>4039044

>repeatedly trying to police the board

Stop being such a limp-dicked bitch and hide the thread.

>>3956356
miss that sweet prince :(

the only media to ever make me tear up was (1) that part in Deep Impact where the blind guy is saying goodbye to his newborn daughter who he's never gotten to see and he's about to die to save the earth and (2) the end of season 8 of Scrubs when there's that future-scene where they all have kids and they're having Christmas dinner and they're all so happy fffffuck

wow i am a fag

>>3890595
>Faust, Can, Neu

... the list could go on

Benjamin has a wonderful article about the faults of the novel ("the Storyteller"; it's in Illuminations). Basically (if I recall - it's been a few years) his point is that the narrative closure and linearity of novels (that is, most novels at his point in time) truncates what is really valuable in storytelling, which is the open-endedness and meaningful multiplicity of the narrative.

I could be butchering the essay but that's what I seem to recall

>>3694345

>using the word "patrician" when he hasn't even read two of the most popular works from Dostoyevsky

Fuck off back to /mu/, kid.

>>3670754

>implying you could understand either continental or analytic philosophy...

Benjamin is key, at least read theses on the philosophy of history

The hubris of analytic philosophers. Why do they think their understanding of concepts is the only valid one? Why must an anthropologist or a literary critic clarify what they mean for them when it is taken as rote knowledge within their own discipline. Why are analytic philosophers above using a dictionary?

They make interdisciplinary research a task instead of a valued methodology.

>>3417592
>man presuming to judge God

>>3383972
Well yeah,
On the one hand we have the question of Josef K´s character.
On the other hand the said girl´s perception of him, and of me, and of the similarities between us.

I do not understand either of those issues. But I did think the latter could make a good topic for lighthearted conversation.

Alright, it´s 4:30 here, I´m off to bed.

>>3271157
>implying history can be written without inspiration
or interpretation

Only Brecht

>>3046808
Funny you should mention, I've Benjamin Cat Stevens recently1

>2012
>still not a flâneur

Anyone else start their PhD today?

Thoughts?


I for one am UNIMPRESSED. The other students seem uneducated and the courses seem easy. What makes this unbearable is that I am at a world renowned institution. Seriously they didn't know who the Young Hegelians were or what Critical Theory is. What are philosophy PhDs coming to these days?

>>2802466
>Aquinas
>Abelard
>Ockham
>Condemnation of 1277

Any other Historical Materialists depressed while the sheep celebrate their so-called freedom. Post-Marxists free to post too.

Personally I'm taking this time to reread Žižek's "The Sublime Object of Ideology." However, I find that Žižek is good only in small doses so I might read a few of Benjamin's essays in "Illuminations" later. What are you doing?

>>2756628
Is not filling out the census the best example you can come up with? not trying to be a dick, but I'm a semi-Trotskyist with syndicalist sympathies, and I don't get how non-compliance can tear down capitalism at all, precisely because it's so pervasive. And even if an alternative, anarchomarxist community appeared and flourished, if it weren't dismantled, no one would join it in the first place because the indoctrination within capitalism is so pervasive (culture industry etc., I dunno).

my roommate next year is a hardcore Republican, it looks like. Gonna display my Marx proudly. I was once like you, afraid of admitting my anticapitalist tendencies. be strong bro