/lit/ - Literature

>>16939770
hello

Hello, /lit/. Can anyone explain to me why misogyny is bad? Being that the most of the left fundamentally believe that morality is morally relative, and people like Foucault believe most morality derives not from objectivity but from existing power structures, why is misogyny bad according to the left? Also, if people like PUAs are misogynists, why so? Don't pick up artists defer to female power by fundamentally accepting their dominant role in mate selection, and thus, appealing to their innate desires? Why isn't the power structure built on female mate selection criticized itself, rather than the people deferring to it? Are there any books which address the issue of why misogynist men do well in a de-regulated sexual environment that doesn't use the cop out of "internalized misogyny?"

I've noticed an interesting trend with the boards on this site. They tend to always latch onto some meme heterodox idea in whatever interest field they represent.

For example:

/biz/ - Cryptocurrency instead of normal investing
/a/ - Moeshit instead of classic or popular anime
/o/ - Miatas, though this is excusable since they're broke
/mu/ - ITAOTS, Loveless, etc.
/classical/ on /mu/ - Schnittke, pre-Baroque composers, Part, etc.
/pol/ - Nazism instead of normal politics
/lit/ - I think /lit/ is the wort offender since they simultaneously do it on several fronts.

Literature - Houellebecq, DFW
Philosophy - fucking Guenon, who nobody cares about IRL, and Whitehead, Deleuze, etc. Deleuze approaches normal but he's still a bit out there, and he's way overdiscussed here.
Economics - Austrians, Marxists, literally anyone who is abnormal has a home here

I wonder why that's the case. I used to think that the most resilient ideas come out on 4chan because it's essentially an open battleground - but it seems it's always the most meme ones.

This bastard is personally responsible for all the misfortunes we are having today.

stop shaming pedophiles
love is love

Where did all the paranoia and fragility surrounding postmodernists and post-structuralists come from?
How does one read them and conclude they're out to "subvert the white race"?

>>13048393
No, it's absolutely perfect that the final product of Foucault, Derrida, Lacan, and all the other French postmodernists has been a generation of techbros who are responsible for turning our world into the hellscape it's become. This IS the legacy of French thought, and it's entirely appropriate.

Why did so many famous philosopher sign a petition in the 1970's to remove the age of consent in France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of_consent_laws
People who signed it include:
>pic related
>Sartre
>Derrida
>Simone de Beauvoir
>Louis Althusser
>Roland Barthe
>Deluze
etc.

>tfw /lit/ keeps telling me to start with the greeks to "understand" philosophy and all I did was read sparknotes of all the main philosophers within a week and now understand all of the concepts you guys sperg on about it here

seriously, is there a reason someone should spend countless actually reading philosophy, with all it's faggy language, when they could just get the tl;dr version online that often summarizes it better than the autistic philosophers?

>>10630408
yea, it's pretty normie-core

Did his LSD trip in 1975 turn him into a neolib?

>tfw when:
>punishment has historically gone from a shaming/torture spectacle to industrialized slave labor
>the public disourse on truth and meaning is an object of power relations
>texts can be interpreted to have unconscious intentions
>mass media has reshaped the psyche at its very core, reality to modern man is mostly virtual
>unachievable desires mediated by symbolic relations shape our mental processes
>visual media has unwarranted precedence, in our culture, over input from the other senses

Post seasonally appropriate Michels. I'll start.

>>10235193
No, I am drunk so I probably won't explain it properly but Foucault pretty definitively showed that science itself is ideologically driven, and can potentially destroy empirical progress in shifts of concern, hiding truth under the new layers and lenses of modernity.
The man was based as fuck.

>>10204284
You want to live the /lit/ lifestyle right?

>There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.
What did pic related mean by this?

>>9938267
>we're like the same except for the ways we're different

You're saying absolutely nothing.
Start with the Greeks you're in no shape to be looking for your own books fucking retard

Why shouldn't I, as a traditionalist, want this man blotted out?

Why shouldn't I treat him as the ultimate enemy and wish him totally undone? His name should be torn from books. All his writings should be burned. He should be declared an unperson, and all his teachings forbidden. He should be torn out of the world, and labeled as less than a man. It would be only just.

>>9849843
dude was a living meme. the organisers of the famous debate with chomsky allegedly paid Foucault in species with hash. Foucault's friends back in Paris referred to the hash in question as 'the chomsky stash'.

>>9834882
>Y-you're spooked if you don't believe in my spook

>>9815035
Nothing can be objectively proven. Evidence? pfft

unironically

What was his endgame?

I need a quick rundown on Foucault's concept of biopower and biopolitics.
Should I read "Security, Territory, Population", "The Birth Of Biopolitics" or "Society Must Be Defended"?