/lit/ - Literature

>>11973129
>>11973160
ty anon. these threads are starting to come frontloaded with quite the reading list

>>11973193
sounds good to me. i found that image somewhere in tumblr-land. good aesthetics are important after all. i'm partial to the mercenary fatalism of Area 88 also.

responding to an anon from the previous thread:
>>11972928
>marx and foucault
By Their Powers Combined is what keeps Peterson turning in his sleep at night and sweating.
>marx and confucius
it's Xi Jinping Thought (really, it's Han Fei/Legalism), and it is the preferred morning ideological coffee of the world's most powerful man (or certainly one of the top five) circa 2018.
>Have you read Mao?
yup
>*cue demons asking for money for the badiou film*
there's a Badiou film? i'm okay with this.
>You know who the most underrated Neoplatonist is? (Imo:) Macrobius. Das some woke shit.
my body is ready. i've never even heard of this guy before. hats off to you for finding the most obscure philosophers around
>great confusion
>Is that like the intelligence filter?
kek. yes, i think that's a much better way of saying it! it is indeed.
>xi
Xi as in The Chairman, but YH's QI-Dao exegesis is no joke either. they both matter.
>In smaller doses they are a universal panacea however.
that they are. would that we could have such a bromance over here. we did, once, i think: that was the Church's whole idea, i think. and we may yet again.
>What do you make of Byung's critique of Girard in Topology of Violence?
two of my favorite guys, slugging it out! come on guys, don't fight!
>fighting intensifies
well, you both know more than i do. go for it then. but gentlemen, this is the War Room! you can't fight in the War Room!
>Read Sadie Plant's Most Radical Gesture? Feels like a vindication of my SI love in early college.
ofc. it's terrific. good for understanding JB and much more besides. and there is no Uncle Nick without Aunt Sadie either, warrants mentioning. her role in the design architecture of the Wild Ride is always criminally overlooked.