/lit/ - Literature

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>Yeah I was talking about everything.
i'm not sure it can be done, or even if it's useful. you wind up becoming Derrida and the world's juiciest piñata for guys like Nietzsche or Zhuangzi. or a tortured mind-machine like Brassier.

i like professionals. in my Happy Place philosophy is done like cooking or like dentistry (more likely, proctology). you just know what *you* know, even if it's in a mildly paranoid way as what you can't *not* know. that's how some fiction works, anyways; we share a suspicion about things, and these suspicions can perhaps make us more empathic. i like Lacan for this reason also, he's a masterful narcissist. but there is a tremendous philosophical heritage behind what he is saying also that ultimately points back towards a noble goal: to tell the truth, as best you can, and to say it well. that's a real game-changer! that's really interesting! if absolute knowledge and total certainty are for the time being slightly out of reach, a character analysis is still useful...and of course this can lead to all kinds of French postmodern fuckery, but i think we can be charitable here and say that that is not the *point,* the point is not to be an obscurantist charlatan. it's actually to consider the role of showmanship in speaking and thinking also, because *somebody* is doing the speaking, after all, and that person has both a desire to speak and a desire to know...

>Maybe learn something from everything?
well this can be done, for sure. but ultimately it's only going to be a question of obsessions and fixations, perhaps transformed into a slightly more interesting register, a learned jargon for talking about the butterflies in your own stomach. there are genuine and unironic moments of real joy to be found in reading this stuff, when you encounter a kindred spirit or some concept that makes you jump out of your seat and go, that's it, that's fucking it! and then you immediately proceed to annoy everyone around you because you can't shut up about it.

>I've heard you need to read everything to understand him.
this is /lit/ pulling your leg. you absolutely do not require this. Land is not the Endboss of all philosophy. he's just a Black Magic Marxist with a terrifyingly interesting story to tell. such is the power of continental philosophy.

>Also share what you can about Land.
kek this happens whether anybody wants me to do this or not, sadly