/lit/ - Literature

Seriously, why do people think it's so hard to get a degree after getting a humanities degree?

As soon as I got out of school, I took a gap year to do AmeriCorps, went to grad school, decided I didn't want to do academia as a career, left after I got an MA, and now I'm working in the non-profit sector doing something I sincerely enjoy, with lots of transferable skills that I can take to a wide range of private-sector jobs.

Or, like my friends did, they got Project Management and other meaningless jobs in the private sector right out the gate, making decent pay in low-stress positions. It takes social skills to get jobs, but it's really not that hard.

>>10433564
getting mad at clichés

>>10087667
>Left-wing economics implies that you want a highly controlled economy

>>9814007
>Morality didn't exist before Christianity

>>9688878
>marginalised voices
You do understand that Zizek is both on the left and consistently lambasts appeals muh identity, no? Engage with his work. Even when he's wrong he's wrong in interesting ways.

Are there any books on a philosophy that is pro working class, like traditional vanguard leftism, that also condemns rich white liberal they/them identity politics corporate nonsense?

>>9666034
>D-d-despite what leftists think

>>9664450
>imblying that's all postmodernism is

>>9609456
He's rarely if ever cited in academic papers. Nobody really takes his "self-authoring" seriously. He's a mediocre tenured professor who realized he could capitalize on "anti-PC" culture and complain about things outside of his field of expertise, and people would eat it up.

>>9468399

2001 A Space Odyssey is more enjoyable than the book though the book possesses more intellectual depth. The movie is so visceral to watch for the first time, especially if you see it young enough.

The book and movie were made in tandem though.

>>9407607
>>you read for entertainment
>>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology

Your characterization of "reading for 'entertainment'" as negative betrays your bourgeoisie, intellectually elitist ideology

Although since you've probably just copied the pasta I doubt you've read it, but that is simply indicative of the ideology functioning at an unconscious level

>>9388262
>Paglia characterizes herself as a libertarian.

trash'd

My girlfriend came home from work tonight, and in the middle of talking about her night she says to me: "I think I've renounced feminism," very matter-of-factly.

She then said that feminism "has been co-opted by capitalist opportunists like beyonce and [some other celebrity] and media outlets and others" who "wear feminism like a badge," and "to many it's just an accessory or a talking point wrapped up in identity politics."


Then she asked me something like "What do you think the next philosophy/political movement I get into should be?"

She asked me if I had any books, but naturally I didn't recommend her any so I could first check with you guys what my next move should be.

What should my next move be?

>>8844258
>being this triggered

/lit/ What book should I buy with my first pay check?
I was thinking about the penguin publish version of Rashomon but don't know bout the translation

>>8378537
>is impossible to have a non-sensory experience.
not true

no you can only rearticulate the structures that are always and only exist within you.

there is no escaping, and probably literally everything is ideology

>>8094881
>roasted
I don't know your lingo... is that a food?

>>8082958
I'm going to see him give a speech in two days.

>>8063693
I only regret that your inability to address what I've said results in you pretending to know what I think.

shitstreak

Help me /lit/, I'm driving myself crazy trying to come up with a good honors thesis topic in english/philosophy. Are any of you graduates or college seniors? How'd you come up with a topic to write a thesis about?