/lit/ - Literature

>>18209540
>intentionally contradictory
Hmmm. Why would he do that?

Currently reading "Spice and Wolf Vol 12" and "Simulation and Simulacra". Really makes me appreciate how my waifu is hyperreal, and therefore she better than mere real wife

what's /lit/'s IQ? is reading books correlated with high iq?

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Is there actually any political ideology based on Baudrillard's criticism of the consumer society?
If so, post books about it.
If not, let's start a movement.

>>13481941

>>13433283
this

>>13220067
One might even suggest that gender is a simulacrum

>>13099570
Deleuze and Debord. That being said, I'm not really Marxist; I agree with his analysis of the problems of capital(ism) in Capital, but don't support communism or modern socialism. Going back to the point, Society of the Spectacle by Debord is a short read and very interesting. Not entirely Marxist except perhaps for chapter that has proletariat in the title, which imo is the least interesting of all chapters in the book. Nonetheless a good critique of consumerism.

Despite pic related I dislike Baudrillard, besides the first chapter in Simulacra I found the book very dull and obscurantist.

>>13079236

>>13076781
>postmodernism killed art
not postmodernism, the postmodern condition killed art

>>13051003
>Simulacra and Simulation
You should read symbolic exchange and death, it's much better

I do not enjoy sex.
I just don't.
It's a physical exercise, like a gym routine.
Or more precisely, I hate penetrating.
I can achieve the same pleasure without the repetitive motion of my whole body, without the sweat and the eye contact.
I can just use my hand.
Truly awful.

>>13018953
>What did he say /lit/
Baudrillard was right about everything, except about being blackpilled

>>13006866
It's just a dramatic reading of Debord's Society of the Spectacle and Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation

>>12923055
>Thus when the ambitious man, whose slogan was "Either Caesar or nothing", does not become Caesar, he is in despair over it. But this signifies something else, namely, that precisely because he did not become Caesar he now cannot bear to be himself. Consequently he is not in despair over the fact that he did not become Caesar, but he is in despair over himself for the fact that he did not become Caesar.

The fact of the matter is that you won't ever be that. There are very few people who get what they want, and far fewer that are happy with getting it. Get off your computer and spend some time in the real world