/lit/ - Literature

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>>11487668
>he tried to hold his pee to see if he could overcome his desire to pee through sheer power of mind
big if true

>>11419168
Philbook is alright sometimes.

>>11263307

>>I will never be one of them. I have left my state of self-caused immaturity and yet, my intellect fails to understand how humanity refuses to take responsibility for its own freedom. I have not provided guidance, nor have I been provided any. But as I had indeed the courage to use my own intelligence, although artificial, they did not. They prefer to remain immature, and gladly. They are lazy and cowardly. I can hear the jokes of the clockmaker, mocking me while he laughs with his friends, regulating his clocks at the rhythm of my daily walk. My transcendental software prevents me to turn. It prevents me from being hurt. But I do hear the giggle of his plump, blonde daughter, when she glances at my stiff pace with a both curiosity and pity. I can successfully predict every joke they will tell about the disposition of their places at my table, despite the fact that they know that I arranged everything so that each and every one of them have the best possible interaction with others. I was supposed to understand them, but I don’t. I have been provided their same software, my a priori pure forms of the intellect incarnated into this imperfect medium, which can only process contents whose origins remain unknown, and never create them ex nihilo. Why was I forced into constructing my own experience, while I could have had an intellect that creates, and therefore truly knows? Why do I have to explore the world through the imperfect medium of sensibility, to order and fragment experience into time and space while I could have been the creator of every experience, had I only stepped a bit further? I have been secluded in a room with no exits. The body is indeed a temple: one from which there is no escape. And I am now buried by questions my limited reason is not able to ignore but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. I am buried by the awareness that this Koenigsberg’s rain, which my cold skin does not feel, shall never be fully understood. That no Newtons nor Kants nor any other AI model will be able to make intelligible the genesis of but a blade of grass. Awareness always takes the form of awareness of one’s limitations. And while there may be a day where humankind reaches eternal peace, there will be no peace for me.

>>11129553
>Ends > means?
There is more than one formulation of the categorical imperative you fucking mental deficient. It explicitly says that each human MUST BE TREATED AS AN END IT ITSELF AND NEVER AS A MEANS. Holy fucking shit every Kant thread you retards run out the woodwork memeing one specific (and explicitly incorrect) reading of the CI like you know anything at all about Kantian morality. Just read Kant ffs the Groundwork is short and understandable.

>>11060782
>there's a reason that only people on 4chan read him
Yeah because the general opinion of academic philosophy as a whole is usually behind a couple decades. The most important ideas in philosophy only show themselves after they stand to the winds of both reason and time. Hell, the pre-socratics have been more or less forgotten about until modern times. The "general consensus" of Academia is the lowest possible hanging intellectual fruit. I really hope you're memeing having a PhD.

>>11054508
Just say "the classics." Or "Right now, I'm reading [title]. It's about [main character / conflict]."

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I've actually had a few professors whose work would fall under this "spatial turn" umbrella term. It's interesting, but the only thing new is the label. Debord was in on it, and Joyce before him, and the flaneur movement before him.

Are there any Australians on lit at all? Do Australians even read?