/lit/ - Literature

>>21964159
He wrote it, he didn't speak it. Dumbass oralist

>In the late twentieth century Daniel Barker formulated the axioms of spinal catastrophism: If human morphology, upright posture, and the possibility of language are the ramified accidents of natural history, then psychic ailments are ultimately afflictions of the spine, which itself is a scale model of biogenetic trauma, a portable map of the catastrophic events that shaped that atrocity exhibition of evolutionary traumata, the sick orthograde talking mammal.
>From psychoanalysis and myth to geology and neuroanatomy, from bioanalysis to chronopathy, from spinal colonies of proto-minds to the retroparasitism of the CNS, from “railway spine” to Elizabeth Taylor's lost gill-slits, this extravagantly comprehensive philosophical adventure uses the spinal cord as a guiding thread to rediscover forgotten pathways in modern thought. Moynihan demonstrates that, far from being an fanciful notion rendered obsolete by advances in biology, spinal catastrophism dramatizes fundamental philosophical problematics of time, identity, continuity, and the transcendental that remain central to any attempt to reconcile human experience with natural history.
You could convince me this was a parody of continental philosophy if i didn't know the book exists entirely in earnest.

>NOOOOOOOOOOO ACADEMIA HAS FALLEN. LOOK AT WHAT THIS LITERAL WHO ON TWITTER IS SAYING

>it's the China discord slobbers all over xi's dick episode again

>>18183422
>>18183701
>counter currents stormnigger shill again
you gave to go back

>IR kiddie starts talking about thucydides

>another incel thread

>>17869991
>Machiavelli applies very fundamentally "right wing" metaphysics

He makes a good argument for the problem of human evil, but his solution for the problem of natural evil is just dumb
>oh the devil has free will too haha

>phoneposters

>>17111040
>analytic "philosophy"

>Penguin Classics
>The Scarlet Letter
>Reading foreword by Tom Perrotta
>Proceeds to spoil a significant plot point
>"At it's heart, The Scarlet Letter is a coming-out story. I couldn't see that when I was a teenager - you weren't allowed to be gay in my high school, so no one ever came out - but I can see it now."
Who the fuck like this nitwit write the introduction?