/lit/ - Literature

Posting this here since the people in the original thread are brain-dead:

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>What was Mary suffering from? Evil has masterfully subverted us and is hiding in plain sight: remember that Silent Hill is a place of phantasmagoria, it justifies and ostensibly explains itself by claiming that James has murdered his wife in the "real world", however, what if this is the very heart of its phantasmagoria? James murdered Mary in Silent Hill first, not as a temporal paradox, but as the super-temporal murder: James is a demon who manifests Silent Hill and lures Maria, the living, sexual one, from the "real world" into Silent Hill, where she is transmuted into Mary, the dead, castrated one. Mary is suffering from the murder itself, Maria is her superfluity, that which is "not of this world", that cannot be murdered and is now paradoxically released into the full quality of her vitality by being separated from the mortal Mary. The vulgar interpretation that James is a "real world" man trapped in Silent Hill becomes paradoxically true, Mary is consumed by James but the super-vital Maria consumes him, realigning their shared Phenomenal, Silent Hill, around her. >What is Silent Hill then? Sexuality stripped of its romantic crypto-oriental definitions, man and woman as complementary and so on, and laid bare, an exegesis only possible from its inside, only possible once one has misstepped into it and made ripples around one's self that hit and outlined its monstrous nature: man and woman are not made for each other, they are mutually exclusive. The James-Mary-Maria chain being exemplary of this, it is nothing but near-intrusion from an awful distance, violent too all parties and wanted by neither. James does not want Maria, Mary does not want James, James, in fact, does not want Mary either, finally, does Maria want James? No. What does Maria want, why did she follow James into Silent Hill, into sex? Exactly. This is the mystery perfectly mirroring the question of what James actually wants, it is obviously not Maria, since he murdered her, and it is obviously not the residue of Mary. Perhaps both man and woman realize their predicament, that once they stepped into Silent Hill they can no longer leave, that Silent Hill will indefinitely expand and follow them wherever they might go, so they choose to commit not quite suicide but sexual suicide: that the James-Mary-Maria chain is totally consensual, that both of them want to die as sexes, the finality of Maria being a kind of "soul" aborting itself from the "body" of sex.

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>What is Silent Hill then? Sexuality stripped of its romantic crypto-oriental definitions, man and woman as complementary and so on, and laid bare, an exegesis only possible from its inside, only possible once one has misstepped into it and made ripples around one's self that hit and outlined its monstrous nature: man and woman are not made for each other, they are mutually exclusive. The James-Mary-Maria chain being exemplary of this, it is nothing but near-intrusion from an awful distance, violent too all parties and wanted by neither. James does not want Maria, Mary does not want James, James, in fact, does not want Mary either, finally, does Maria want James? No. What does Maria want, why did she follow James into Silent Hill, into sex? Exactly. This is the mystery perfectly mirroring the question of what James actually wants, it is obviously not Maria, since he murdered her, and it is obviously not the residue of Mary. Perhaps both man and woman realize their predicament, that once they stepped into Silent Hill they can no longer leave, that Silent Hill will indefinitely expand and follow them wherever they might go, so they choose to commit not quite suicide but sexual suicide: that the James-Mary-Maria chain is totally consensual, that both of them want to die as sexes, the finality of Maria being a kind of "soul" aborting itself from the "body" of sex.

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>What is Silent Hill then? Sexuality stripped of its romantic crypto-oriental definitions, man and woman as complementary and so on, and laid bare, an exegesis only possible from its inside, only possible once one has misstepped into it and made ripples around one's self that hit and outlined its monstrous nature: man and woman are not made for each other, they are mutually exclusive. The James-Mary-Maria chain being exemplary of this, it is nothing but near-intrusion from an awful distance, violent too all parties and wanted by neither. James does not want Maria, Maria does not want James, Mary does not want James, James, in fact, does not want Mary either, finally, does Maria want James? No. What does Maria want, why did she follow James into Silent Hill, into sex? Exactly. This is the mystery perfectly mirroring the question of what James actually wants, it is obviously not Maria, since he murdered her, and it is obviously not the residue of Mary. Perhaps both man and woman realize their predicament, that once they stepped into Silent Hill they can no longer leave, that Silent Hill will indefinitely expand and follow them wherever they might go, so they choose to commit not quite suicide but sexual suicide: that the James-Mary-Maria chain is totally consensual, that both of them want to die as sexes, the finality of Maria being a kind of "soul" aborting itself from the "body" of sex.

What are some philosophers who are ALIVE that are worth reading or will actually be remembered

>capitalism is reaching its limit
Is it true? What lies beyond it.

okay /lit/, I'm ready to embrace the memes

I know hardly fuckall about philosophy but I feel like reading some Žižek. Is he fine to read for a beginner or should I just come back later? Which book is best to start with?