/lit/ - Literature

>want to make an "authors/things you only know about because of /lit/" thread
>try making a list for myself to start it
>realize it's literally hundreds or more
how the fuck was this place more valuable to me than my entire undergraduate education?

>>23111179
>an internet drag queen was raped by an internet fag so the fag became a drag queen to preemptively counter the rape accusation battle which is the internet leftist community's version of a witch trial

it's like a wizard battle
>Fag uses RAPE
>Troon begins taking in energy for an accusation ...
>Fag casts CUT MY DICK OFF!
>Troon's attack was cancelled!

Is time cyclical or linear?

What's a good introductory book on logic in preparations for reading philosophy? Preferably one suitable for starting with the Greek philosophers.

>>22167316
What are the obvious reasons?

>>22031778
Is it beginning again?

>>22028161
>>22028227
Can we just start over

>>21710537
>>21710544
These posts encapsulate the /lit/ user's mind.

AI is going to make people obsolete, yet people are embracing it fully. Why /lit/? It appears people have been subtlety turned into technophile-slaves. Is technology already in control through its now pervasive place in every persons' lives? Arguably, it is now driving and changing behaviour in a way that is perpetuating itself to a degree that fears of AI automation are increasingly common. I believe that technology has created (with human labour) a nascent Huxley-Orwellian reality.
>People are gladly dumbing themselves down (many are even proud of it).
>People are spending millions on screen-opiates (onlyfans, vidya, social media, etc.)
>Surveillance literally frickin' everywhere.
>Data farms and data harvesting fuelling AI research.
>There's a massive drive to automate everything to make everyone's lives that much "easier".
Yet, while all this is happening - technology's dominant role in society is growing at an almost exponential rate! Modern technology is a monkey's paw. You have been warned. Uncle Ted was right and should be revered as a martyr on the level of Jesus and Paul.

>>21261700
What about the time I felt very happy, does he have an explanation for that?

>>20763346
>fuck alone
um anon who is going to fuck them if not men

>>20276928
Plot twist: You only ever write when you're miserable.

What's the difference between meditating and sleeping

I hate writing bibliographies and citing sources. Why make students so afraid of just speaking their minds?

>>18975286
Ok, I read it. Very, very good posts.

1. To be honest with you, I'm starting to draw up a system that reconciles hard dualism with the elegance and subtleties of "classical" Gnosticism. The One is a negative, and not positive, condition of Evil, in much the same way that a sun-spot inheres in a Sun without the Sun "meaning" to generate it. I'd say Laruelle radicalizes even arch-dualism.

2. I don't know if you read the schizo wojak post that was made a month ago or so, but your intuition that death signifies the ultimate removal from all coordinates on Being is on point, and that's the ticket: just like the Kenoma and Pleroma do not intersect and so the return is automatic (nothing intrinsically prevents us from MAKING it automatic), so is death unconstrained by the meaning of death WITHIN being. "There is a death for the dead and a death for the living." Because the return is automatic because we've never left, death is liberation because it was never that which truly keeps us here. There is no fundamental constraint on what death is "supposed" to be.

Maybe Laruelle is the key here: the longing of the Marcionite for a Love he is categorically cut off from understanding is a non-relation. It does not have its origin in that acosmic Good, and yet it is in some sense analogous to it, adequate to it, without determining or corresponding to it. We're in the absolute deep zone of abstraction here.

>>17770976
>>17770996

>read berlioz orchestration book intro
>his modern day issues and fights literally seem written in 2020

>>17750069
If what I’m saying isn’t the truth, how can I be judged?

>>17642082
I was about to write 'hitherto' but it might just be too based to mock.

literally im just trying to read my book but im too drunk how do i stop being an alcoholic

>>17365648
>reading session
What the fuck is that? Don't make a big deal out of it. It's just reading, faggot.

When did you realize that linear time is only 1 way to look at time.

You cannot escape the ever present past.

>>17194065
>I have sex in two life