/lit/ - Literature

>>13000957
people seemed to have enjoyed the Steve Bannon Library threads too.
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>>12610282
reality > fiction. we live in the best of all possible worst worlds.

i miss 2016 tho. Metal Gear NRx can never really be a thing now. Bannon/Senator Armstrong comparisons: dead on arrival.

so sad.

We were having a great discussion yesterday about Bannon's library (>>9075761) that ventured into Land, Deleuze, autism, and schizoanalysis. Unfortunately the thread hit bump limit after only a single day. Does anyone want to continue that discussion here?

Steve Bannon reads Moldbug, what's your excuse?
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/steve-bannon-books-reading-list-214745
>They are not mainstream thinkers, but their writings help to explain the commotion that has defined the Trump administration’s early days. They include a Lebanese-American author known for his theories about hard-to-predict events; an obscure Silicon Valley computer scientist whose online political tracts herald a “Dark Enlightenment”; and a former Wall Street executive who urged Donald Trump’s election in anonymous manifestos by likening the trajectory of the country to that of a hijacked airplane—and who now works for the National Security Council.
>Bannon, described by one associate as “the most well-read person in Washington,” is known for recommending books to colleagues and friends, according to multiple people who have worked alongside him. He is a voracious reader who devours works of history and political theory “in like an hour,” said a former associate whom Bannon urged to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. “He’s like the Rain Man of nationalism.”
Many political onlookers described Trump’s election as a “black swan” event: unexpected but enormously consequential. The term was popularized by Nassim Taleb, the best-selling author whose 2014 book Antifragile—which has been read and circulated by Bannon and his aides—reads like a user’s guide to the Trump insurgency.
>Asked in a phone interview this week whether he’s had meetings with Bannon or his associates, Taleb said he could not comment. “Anything about private meetings would need to come from them,” he said, though he noted cryptically he’s had “coffee with friends.”
>Curtis Yarvin, the self-proclaimed “neoreactionary” who blogs under the name “Mencius Moldbug,” attracted a following in 2008 when he published a wordy treatise asserting, among other things, that “nonsense is a more effective organizing tool than the truth.” When the organizer of a computer science conference canceled Yarvin’s appearance following an outcry over his blogging under his nom de web, Bannon took note: Breitbart News decried the act of censorship in an article about the programmer-blogger’s dismissal.