/lit/ - Literature

>>17382135
I actually found him a very clear and beautiful writer.

>"The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and fleeing its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space. It was thus that Plato left the world of the senses, as setting too narrow limits to the understanding, and ventured out beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of the pure understanding." (A5, B9)

>>17059263
>last finished
Difference and Repetition

>what did you think of it
I'll have to read it again someday, because I didn't undertand the philosophical discussion in the first two chapters until I got to the last two.

>currently reading
The System of Objects
Count Zero

>thoughts so far
TSoO: Lies that are comfy and easy to read. It describes what it must have felt like to do The Sims (2000). It also sounds like a "Dē rērum natūra" on home-decor catalogs.
CZ: Like it. I hope that in the rest of the book Bobby will be more relevant, since he is the most interesting character (so far I've read). Really liked the passage about Bobby's mother, and also the passage in which Newmark is insulted by a boy tipping a barrel of radioactive substances.

>plan on reading next
Idk, but I wan't to read most of Baudrillard's books.

>reason why you want to read it
Because I haven't and so far I know the deleuzian critique on Baudrillard, I never realized it was that necessary until I got to this overpsychoanalyzing anglo trap (TSoO).

Contemporary philosophers who are not a scam?