/lit/ - Literature

mum:
Hasn't read a single book that isn't self-help since her childhood

dad:
Says he read a few classics when he was around 16-20 (namedropped Bridge on the Drina). Nowadays he sometimes reads non-western theology and philosophy. Gurdjeff, hindu stuff etc. The only two books I ever showed him that impressed him were the Dao de jing and the Bhagavad Gita

>>19140370
Shut the fuck up. Yes, the world is so fascinating, did you see the brasilian slums and east European gypsy villages and the barren surface of [random rock floating in space]?
I bet you list "travelling" as a hobby on your Tindr profile.

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>>15489285
For what purpose? To get some space rocks or shit in zero-G? Maybe if there were ayyyliums I'd be impressed but otherwise whatever

So taking a nietzschean proposition seriously. What if truth is not something external to us that we are able to cognize, but rather something we create out of our own particular desires and hopes, out of our will to power.

What would that mean to philosophy and science in general?

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At what point did you realise this board is inherently intellectual and has infinite value?

When did you realize nature is just the Absolute Spirit being alienated?

>>13399526
I don't like his attitude towards the solar system.

>>12963170
>oh god which one do i pick?
If in doubt go with the memes

>>11219574
Communism turned a 3rd world backwards agrarian society into the first society to go to space within like 50 years, lol.

Also who fucking cares, pic related.

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>>10721654
>Fitzgerald's prose game was a fucking abomination
i don't understand how you can think this. i'd listen to a dozen feminist or racial critiques of his work before i read your opinion on fitzgerald for more than a paragraph

>>10721635
>Ayn Rand was a very intelligent woman.
this is a good, defendable controversial opinion.
>Post modernism is trash.
this is uncontestable and, if we were being honest with ourselves, uncontroversial

>>10720411
world is made of language, choose your narrative bro

>>10722201
>James Joyce is overrated. He is a great craftsman and technician but he is shite at storytelling, hence why he's so determined to ground his stories firmly in historical fact.
i agree. i read dubliners and it wasn't anything special.

>>10305542

>>10296084
I bought Leviathan, and only read sparknotes and watched School of Life for my political theory class

>When Hegel defines nature, he says not only that it is the Otherness of the Idea, but that it is the Idea itself in its Otherness—however, what this “idealist” turn means is that Otherness should be displaced into nature itself: nature is not only the Other of the Idea, but Other with regard to itself. (So, insofar as the Idea returns to itself in spirit, one should raise the question: is spirit then also in some mode “Other with regard to itself”? Yes—precisely as what we usually call “second nature,” spirit petrified in spiritual substance.) This is why nature at its zero level is space: not only the Otherness of the Idea (the Idea in its Otherness), but Otherness with regard to itself—a coexistence of points (extensively side-by-side), with no content to it, no difference, the same throughout in its pure extensive in-difference. Far from being the “mystery” of something containing objects, space is literally the most stupid thing there is. And it does not get “sublated” in the sense that it is no longer there: natural objects which “sublate” space remain spatial objects! Where spatiality is negated is in chemism, magnetism, and then organism, where objects are no longer dead composites of elements-parts, where we get an “eternal” ideal unity which cannot be located at a certain point in space: there is no “center” of an organism at some point in space. Here, perhaps, Hegel points towards relativity (it has been noted that his critique of Newtonian space foreshadows the Einsteinian critique): if the zero level of nature is space, then natural objects should develop out of space, not be conceived as mysterious chunks of matter that from who-knows-where “enter” space. The only thing that can happen to pure space is asymmetry, its becoming de-homogenized, “curved”—so the idea that “matter” is the effect of curved space is implied by Hegel’s theory of space.

Citation: Less Than Nothing, pp. 461-462

>Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of fiction
What did he mean by this?

>>9044882
> g, y, p and q

Psychoanalytically speaking, you have repressed the fear of the abyssal darkness of lack within your mother's vagina and have hidden this repression under a secondary repression which is your fear and hatred of gypsies which is hidden under the anxiety you face when confronted with said letters. That will be 10000$, thanks.

>>9027740
does she like Zizzy?

>>8994526
she has BOOK WORM on her knuckles. holy shit.

>>8788526
>"go out there and live your life"

>>8678618
>>8678548
Its pure ideology, there is no apolitical readings of literature