/lit/ - Literature

>>17836233
this book really reads like a talented undergrad essay--but nothing more.

Jameson writes...
Zizek claims, referring to Lacan...
Wendy Brown argues...
Deleuze says of schizophrenia...

it just strings together basic critiques of neoliberalism/economic materialism and adds a couple of dangling points here and there. its like a "connect the dots" almost exclusively for neophytes and people who, in another era, would probably have purchased "economic critique for dummies" had it existed

there is hardly anything original here at all, much less anything in terms of a practicable "alternative" or real plan of action. just self-torturing whining.

>>17500788
omg you are ADORABLE i can hardly even take it just STOP before i eat you up with a spoon!

>>16963289
I went to a top prep school that recently fielded 2 Supreme Court justices.

What did it teach? Confidence, pure and simple. More specifically—and here is what these idiots who only see money and power will miss entirely—it taught you how to most effectively distance yourself from the money and the power. I mean by this not that you stop using money and power, but that you acquire the right attitude toward it: it teaches you how to be harsh, how to not care about nice things, how to lean into owning them—and your position—in such a way that it really is “entitled” in the truest sense. It was always there for you, and it always will be—and thus enables you to casually say “yes” and “no” to things that others think they have no jurisdiction over.

While the link might seem superficial or even far fetched, i will tell you now: there is a direct line between learning how to play lacrosse in loafers and a button down, learning how to muddy a tie properly, and duking it out on the congressional floor. Of course it is behavior that is “learned,” but it’s learnedness that exists in negative, so to speak: it is the attitude of the action, the halo that gives aura to the action, rather than learning the action itself, that matters. This power is often mistaken for the “aloofness” or “coolness” of the elite, a mere peripheral frame, when really it is part of their essential aspects.

>>16936958
These are way better than I thought they were going to be. Anons aren’t just pseuds after all. What was the worst one you received?