/lit/ - Literature

>>9185015
All good. FWIW, Jiro's own insanely-determined work ethic does have some faults, of course. Sometimes it kind of *is* worth questioning your job (for example, if it's strangling enemies of the state). But.

Levinas is a good place to start. I was thinking about him quite a lot in 2015 when the migrant crisis broke out, was kind of oscillating between him and Heidegger. But then I thought, no, of course, how can anyone disagree with Levinas? That was when I read that (rather darkly hilarious) story about him referring to the Chinese as 'the yellow peril.' Stuff like this really brings out the flavor of modern philosophy. Nobody's without their flaws. But yeah, generally speaking, EL seems like a cool guy. I haven't read T&I yet, may read Derrida first. Some anon brought up Cool Memories in another thread and I've been seduced by Baudrillard.

>and not seduced by fucking work you hopeless shitheel
aaaarrgh

>Unfortunately, when he says such things, they get labeled as racist by the orthodoxy. Quite a shame, really.
Ayup. This is the worst parts of all, the tyranny of leftist good intentions devouring themselves, speakers getting shouted down to protect free speech, &c, &c. And every time Bannon/Trump sees this they just build the walls a little higher.

I posted the Zizek + Harman debate yesterday, it's aight. GH didn't have enough time to talk and Z kind of took over the show. Some of the coolest philosophy is, I think, really being done by the accelerationist guys, those ultra-miserable dudes at Urbanomic and so on. The dark side of Marxism.

I think the danger is that beyond a certain horizon all of that stuff can simply become indistinguishable from literature, from a kind of highly stylized journal-writing exercise, totally divorced from reality. Fun to contemplate, but while you're contemplating it the robot arms learn an interesting new trick.