/lit/ - Literature

>>4634233
>Well, why not reduce everything to love?
Love is a form of power, power is not a form of love.

>>4082746

/lit/ gold

What should I read / study before I start this book? Only thing I've read by Joyce prior is The Dead.

mes côtés

>>2369899
Hey guys what's going on in here?

What is an author?

"Free political action from all unitary and totalizing paranoia. Develop action, thought, and desires by proliferation, juxtaposition, and disjunction, and not by subdivision and pyramidal hierarchization. Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which Western thought has so long held sacred as a form of power and an access to reality. Prefer what is positive and multiple: difference over uniformity, flows over unities, mobile arrangements over systems. Believe that what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic. Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. It is the connection of desire to reality (and not its retreat into the forms of representation) that possess revolutionary force. Do not use thought to ground a political practice in Truth; nor political action to discredit, as mere speculation, a line of thought. Use political practice as an intensifier of thought, and analysis as a multiplier of the forms and domains for the intervention of political action. Do not demand of politics that it restore the 'rights' of the individual, as philosophy had defined them. The individual is the product of power. What is needed is to 'de-individualize' by means of multiplication and displacement, diverse combinations. The group must not be the organic bond uniting hierarchized individuals, but a constant generator of deindividualization. Do not become enamoured of power."

What does /lit/ think of Foucault?

so my thread didn't work on /pol/ so i might try with more literate people. I'm reading history of sexuality, volume I by michel foucault. What do you think of this author? and of this book?

Hey, guys:

Is it just me or is the entire study of PHILOSOPHY pretty much bullshit?

Like, I've read Focault, Nietzche, Malthus, Bentham, Machiavelli and Mill, as well as Sartre and Camus, and I realized I've kind of been wasting my time reading this shit. There are some interesting ideas.

But for the most part it is utter bullshit phrases like "Post-Structuralism," "Existentialism," "Utilitarianism," and other ideas that have no practical application in the real world. It really just seems like intellectual wanking.