/lit/ - Literature

>>22228272

>>18057483
yes, and that's a good thing

>>15736940
Based leaver

>tfw inside with comfy book on rainy day

>open book
>it's written in first person
>close book

>>12084586
Yeah its also in my native language so i have no excuse. But, it doesnt make any sense, its the insane thoughts of a lunatic. Not good!

>age
>current and last two reads
>university major

other anons rate

>>11833214
And how could my daddy have me if he was a homo sexual?
hmm...

>logos

>>10674120
Toes don't exist.

>>10655975
i know

>>10209587
It's a good thing that 4chan posts are even more than traditional literature

>degrees

Is it possible to read 25-50 pages a day and finish books every few weeks?

>>9286809
Oh, I guess the /pol/tards are gone now after being thoroughly btfo

Who would of thought?

>>9235174
It's more like

>All spanish speakers are retarded.
>Unfortunately, I've met a couple of them.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v20/n02/derek-parfit/why-anything-why-this

>appeals to analogies
>dwells on the history of philosophy rather than the ideas themselves, which is also implicitly appealing to authority
>too much of a charlatan to acknowledge the limitations of reason
>too much of a charlatan to acknowledge that the space of unfalsifiable ideas is infinitely large
>simply regurgitates highly cited views and tries to name-drop terms that package up trivial ideas

>philosophers

Nothing to see here

>we can now see that the pejorative use of the term ‘Sophist’, which stems from Plato and Aristotle, is rarely deserved.

Fucking sophists. I pirated this book suck my greasy toes

How long is it until literature has fully atrophied in to art gallery style art where it is merely half assed social signalling fodder for middle and upper class people? Not a long time left IMO.

It is so lollable watching MFA topics on here when Shakespeare and Dickens had as much formal education as 12 year olds today and wrote for people with even less education. It also makes the half baked intellectual reverence for their works funnier ("you need to have ten PhDs and memorise the Bible to understand them").

It's over for literature. It goes through what all art forms go through. It is made possible initially by new technology. It is a hobbyist activity that is seen as eccentric and then dismissed as a manchild activity when it gets more attention. It is criticised as not worthwhile due to its use of new technology and is criticised according to the standards of old art forms. It becomes more popular and business, big business, and women enter. The expected events occur.

Eventually it is over intellectualised by pseudo intellectuals who try to gain social status through the activity, not through the application of hard work and technique needed to create, but through signalling (being vocal about their likes / dislikes and their hatred of people with different opinions) or through dishonest creation. What distinguishes this "dishonest creation" with honestly bad / gimmicky creations of the past is the intellectual / moral veneer proclaimed by the artist / followers along with a genuine LACK OF ENJOYMENT by people who experience the art.

When people get away with this it a because the hobbyist and honestly experimental groups along with a large portion of the consumers who "merely" want enjoyment (crucial for the art form to be supported) have moved on to another art form which uses more advanced technology.

The pseudo intellectuals become more dominant through the media and artistic sorting processes. The art form is dead from a developmental point of view and eventually becomes a vessel for pure attention seeking.

>>8641444
Kek confirms

Check em cuckboy, you were C U C K E D by KEK

>listening to PM programme on radio 4 today
>zuckerbergs goal of funding the end of all diseases was mentioned
>the guest who discussed it was a philosopher
>the philosopher made zero non trivial points and just had some conjectures and questions that anyone could have thought of

What a joke. Fucking LMAO at philosophy phans. They keep telling us that their Hegel continental jargon "definitely hides non trivial ideas, trust us guys!!1"

Can someone explain?

And why is it Infinite Jest?

Did you know it took J.K. Rowling 12342141215424594242 attempts to get published?

Who are the best American writers of the 20th century?