/lit/ - Literature

>>17444492
>Has the political aspect of this came up in Mary's writings though?
Yes. In 2017 there was a massive chimpout about it all. Mary claimed Britain was always a diverse gay polity of many colours, twitter people lost their shit, then the greatest hero of the white race Nassim Nicholas Taleb told her she was a dumb bitch. Mary backed down and wrote an extended article about how she was threatened with death by evil racists and notorious fascist Taleb. Basically Beard is just a run of the mill writer who is tacking on bits of modern political orthodoxy to the study of ancient history to both be more "relevant" but also curry favour with the regime. As a side note with the "decolonisation" or "decolonise X" trend in academia, university admins are taking the opportunity to axe departments seen as frivolous under the guise of them being inherently racist etc etc. What could be more DEAD WHITE MALE AND STALE than the study of Latin and classical history? Beard is probably a true believer in the modern political religion but she may also be shrewd and understand that in order to keep these departments alive they have to make overt concessions to current talking points. Maybe I'm being generous, she could just be boring

What does he mean by antifragility and how can it apply to human behaviour?

>>12118953
>It's actually a 50% chance that he is, dumbass, either he is or he isn't.
thats not how stats work retard

>>11731105
The way you understand things is much more important than understanding that is passed onto you, because personal untranslatable understanding enables you to act, it is pragmatic knowledge, while university understanding is just hot air. Any artisan will explain their work in very cryptic, non-straightforward ways. Leather tanners will explain how you must let the leather "breathe." When Micheangelo was asked how he made "David," he said "It was easy. I simply removed everything that was not David."
Knowledge should be measured by the output it brings, and not the feast of indulgent neurotic twists and turns that plague so many humanities people.

Books where the protag is a flaneur, especially if he is described as one in the book

>>11404270
>If this is the best Taleb has to offer I’m sorely disappointed.
you'll be sore in a minute, fragilista, gabish?

>>10393199
also