/lit/ - Literature

>>23507551
The only real degrees are in math, hard sciences, and engineering.

>>19708435
Sure buddy.
>laughable
Because your whole field is a joke.

>>17067920

>>13235510
That is because the way they talk about it is un-falseivible. Basically the right of this graph. So any theory or "work" in the area just bloats the field with meaningless word saleds that this mistake for sophistication.
I can talk circles around trans people on gender, the first step is to get them to stop committing equivocation fallacies, once you do that, 2/3s of their argument falls apart, and the rest is just baseless opinions

Is this true, /lit/?

Damn...

[This thread again]

>>7462172
Yeah. the whole thread is a troll.

It has been dripping with contempt for its own project since the first post, and everyone keeps falling for it.

pic related: op's project.

LOL

Don't.

His basic idea is that even when I point at something, it's still a form of language. In other words, everything is a million different "language game" or "discourses" or "contexts" crashing and rubbing against each other, all with their own truths. In other words, he claims, there is no reality to compare any claim to. Everything is relative. (Though he would also argue this claim is false as it claims the relativity as an absolute.) The rest of his works is just him picking apart texts by switching context randomly. This even includes noting that "communism" means, say, turtle in Italian, and then going on about turtles to prove some point about left politics.

If you HAVE to read something by him, the go-to book is De la grammatologie which made his crazy career possible. I hope you know your relevant philosophers and thinkers beforehand.

More importantly, I refer you to http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/chomsky-on-postmodernism.html

STEM actually does research and learns things about the world to make it a better place

The humanities is just all about making things up.

What's the easiest thing to be good at?

>tfw STEMfag
>tfw blowing the fuck out of libtards every damn day

it's funny because it's true (even though it isn't)

I just listened to that video. What the fuck is that guy going on about?

Really, I didn't get it. He was throwing around terms like consciousness very lightly, and existence too.

>>4813248

>>4769409

Is this comic true?

and the alt-text says, "If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstructionism."

>>4298897
actually, nuclear fission was discovered by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, Einstein had nothing to do with the nuclear bomb, apart from writting a letter to Roosevelt telling him that the nazis were developing their own bomb

> Take only the term hymen in which there is a confusion or continuation of the term coitus, and from which it gets its double meaning: (1) "a membranous fold of tissue partly or completely occluding the vaginal external orifice", and (2) marriage. In the first sense, the hymen is that which protects virginity and is in front of the uterus. That is, it lies between the inside and the outside of the woman, between desire and its fulfillment. So that although (male) desire dreams of violently piercing or breaking the hymen (consummation in the second sense of the term), if that happens there is no hymen.

"Bodies of the Text", Goellner and Murphy (editors)

How do people take this stuff seriously?

Why would you want to read horrible abuses of language?

>>3309370

>>2872014
>tfw when I just made that up
Pic relevant