/lit/ - Literature

>>13234422
Very much so, in fact every "Nigger" poster is also a New Sincerity poster.
Irony is a mode of hiding from ridicule by masking intent
To return to sincerity requires addressing the weakness inherent to irony, having to mask your intent. To say " nigger " on an anonymous Mongolian horse trading board addresses how inherently pathetic they are for ever needing irony in the first place
Its a more self aware then irony before it and essentially is summed up to: DUDE REMEMBER IRONY

>>13119463
>all images hold an ideology
>dont look at images - overcome ideology
pic related

I just realized that the knowledge that SOMEONE out there has an explanation was enough to satisfy me. I've been reading that Zizek book on Lacan and I guess I'm looking for excuses to connect random things to it. In this case, the concept of transference and the subject supposed to know is going to be the thing I mercilessly take out of the context of psychoanalysis.

I should probably put this in another thread, but I suspect a lot of people out there have their own relationships to plotholes someone (probably) figured out.

I knew someone interested in the field of Christian apologetics without ever reading any of it. He was a big Tolkien fan.

>>10941527
He said to sage when replying, not to reply with sage when they come up. If it was the latter, then this reply wouldn't be less useful than the useless post you're replying to.

>>10778220
This, the most telling fact is if you simply look at how people behave instead of looking at what they claim to believe. Anyone may claim to be sympathetic to existentialism when pressed on it but how many actually act appropriately in that knowledge when push comes to shove?

>>10765049
He just eats the garbage.

He makes pretty entertaining counter-intuitive observations and "Event" is at least worth reading.

>>10384487
why would you expect anything even remotely eloquent like that, from him?

I haven't read him, but what you got is exactly what I would have expected from that slob

>>9589923
wanted to make my own thread for this but whatever

>mom buys me a new trash can
>it's very small
>get the idea to write IDEOLOGY on it and bring it to uni as my lunchbox cause we're philosophy students, and I'm sure people would laugh
>next day I sit in the back, cause I don't want to make it too obvious that I'm doing a bit
>I put it on the desk so that you can clearly see IDEOLOGY on it
>take out a croissant and start eating it
>only people close by are two girls talking in front of me
>one of them looks at the can, but says nothing
>finish the croissant and take out an apple
>girl now sees me clearly taking it out of the bin and asks "Are you eating from a trash can?"
>this is what I've been waiting for
>say "I am already eating from the trash can all of the time" with my best zizek impression
>she turns back to her friend
>I feel disappointed but what can you expect from a bitch
>see them get up to go talk to some guy
>the guy looks towards me so I know they're talking about the trash can
>guy comes up after a few minutes and asks me "Is that a trash can?"
>I say again with an accent "The name of this trash can is ideology."
>he says "huh? Is this some joke?"
>realize he also doesn't get it, but I don't know what else to say but "I am already eating from the trash can all of the time."
>he goes back to the girls and now there's a small group forming around them
>they are pointing to my trash can and laughing
>black guy yells "Yo, Groucho!"
>I think he was trying to say Oscar the Grouch but don't correct him
>put the core back and pretend to be busy reading something

I spent the whole class being pissed that none of these idiots know who zizek is, and that wasn't even true, cause one guy told me later that he knew what I was referencing but didn't tell them because it's funnier to say that I'm eating trash.

Nobody gives a fuck, just do what you want. I read almost everywhere on my e-reader while visibly using earplugs. I probably look 300% autistic, but who cares?

>>8802826
>implying I haven't already

>>7956909
>it's a Zizek tries to explain Hegel but ends up discussing the ideological significance of Jacques-Alain Miller telling jokes about masturbating in Macedonia while sitting on the toilet watching Rear Window episode

>>7846223

think of 'post-structuralism' not as temporally after 'structuralism' (although it is) but rather in opposition to. structuralism vs post-structuralism can be best understood in relation to sensualism vs anti-sensualism. it is useful to analyze this dichotomy via proxy because sensualism concerns solely the being qua being and does not penetrate the 'structure' that mediates phenomena (e.g. objects and events as they are understood by human consciousness) and the realm of platonic forms. Watch this brief video for an explanation-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPt8kAL7vTY

Hope that helped.

I've noticed a Zizek trashcan meme on here a time or two, and so I plugged that phrase into youtube. Surprisingly, it led to an amusing and interesting display of Zizek's thoughts about trash, nature, and so on, complete with the the tics that we love so well. And so, so to say..!, I can..! relegate Zizek to the status of an entertainment.

And you can, too. Let Zizek entertain you, /lit/:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_K_79O21hk

>>7205280
>you know, black people actually WANT to live in ghettos!

>>7152806
These threads are disgusting and quintessentially /lit/. Doing it for the pseudo-intellectual status jerking and not for the love of wisdom. ha ha, look at what i read on my BOOKSHELF GUYS. i hope this STATUS as outlined by ideology will MAKE ME BETTER THAN OTHERS.

>>7150374

>Not referring to pic related in your question

>>6923123
I pledged in D.A.R.E. to never take drugs, degenerate. Pure ideology is highly addictive.

>>6820218
>Muslims just decided to attack the West one day for no reason in particular

>that kid who always posts memes defending Marxist dictators and can't into left-communism
>that kid who is a devout Catholic Christposter
>that kid who is both

>Nicomachean Ethics
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>A History of Western Philosophy or more Aristotle
I hate how much time it's taking to start with the Greeks. I just want to read Hegel and Dosteovsky.

>>6622899
>Good music has been made since then
Debatable.

18
The Plague by Albert Camus and also A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes

left then right and so on

how do i escape pure ideology?

>>5955639
it would be GOAT