/lit/ - Literature

Blindsight.

the quran

>>11905849
Please explain. I was just about to read this.

>>11905820
How did GEB make your life worse? I don't get it

the book of disquiet

>>11905820
frankenstein. almost made me give up on literature, what a shitshow

>>11905857
It exacerbated my pre-existing depression. Cosmic insignificance, hardcore physicalism, pointed questions about the usefulness of consciousness. I guess I was an easy mark, but it's still a genuinely disturbing read no matter your mental state.

>>11905820
It was only temporary

>>11905998
What's it matter if consciousness isn't useful, or if life is meaningless etc etc? You're stuck with it

Badiou's essay Ethics made me an incredibly jaded person, along with one Zizek book where he redefines grace as the circumstance in which you can be ethical (i.e. you can only be moral insofar as you can afford to).

>>11906080
>i.e. you can only be moral insofar as you can afford to
This is a ridiculous thing to say. People who would (and do) sooner die than put their morals aside are not 'afforded' morality

>>11906089
You don't always have the choice to die.

>>11906089
they are though. I believe the context was technology advancing to the point in which you can produce the ultimate Sadian subject; a torture subject that can suffer indefinitely without even the possibility of death. Under such extreme torture, you can be forced to do anything.

Revot Against the Modern World. Got a framework of Aryan philosophy and mentally prepared for death

>>11906114
Zizek is blackpills on blackpills. I read like 5 of his books back to back last summer, starting with Less Than Nothing, and it changed to be honest senpai

His reading of Hegel's negation of the negation is heavy

>>11905856
plus one

>>11906114
>>11906108
This is the problem with that whole line of thinking. It totally redefines human action. It's like the idiots in utilitarianism threads who claim everything a human does is in pursuit of raising their utility: but only if you redefine actions as that which is perceived to maximize utility

>>11906037
>You're stuck with it
No you're not

>>11905820
every book I've read instead of doing something fulfilling and productive

>>11906749
>reading
>not fulfilling or productive
What are you even doing here

Fiction
>Blindsight
>The Elementary Particles
>Labyrinths

Non
>The Manipulated Man
>The Antichrist
>The Kolyma Tales

Kolyma Tales was probably the worst.

>>11905820
Does that book get better? I gave up a couple of chapters in because I found it stupid how seriously he was taking Zeno's "paradox"

>>11905849
>>11905857
Blindsight is reddit's favorite "2deep4u" book.

>>11906749
wat kind of books do you read that you dont gain anything in return for?

>>11906824
yeah it does get better. The introduction is quite annoying but once you are past it, its gets good.
You will see yourself turn back to the introduction to re-read it after a chapter.

>>11906824
>Does that book get better?
I went tripping after reading the book and discovered (no I WAS) the algorithm for life/consciousness/existence for a few hours. can't remember it now though

>>11906774
>>Blindsight
are you talking about Blindsight (Fireball)?

>>11906037

>>11905820
This is the book that infected me with Existentialism. Thankfully I'm clean now.

>>11905820
>>11905859
I, too, would like too know.

>>11907028

You mean you thought up a bunch of nonsense because your brain was malfunctioning and then you assigned some deep meaning to it afterward.

>>11906024
Industrial Society and Its Future is life-changing in a very bleak way.

>>11907566
what was the answer out ?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, because it made me think doing drugs all the time and being a total degenerate was cool.

Better and worse, really. But it was more eyeopening than I expected.

>>11906080
The funny thing about redefining is that it changes what words mean.

>>11907705
more like this?

>>11907593
Tomayto/tomahto

>>11905885
honestly i found it comforting

>>11909222
checked

i couldn't put down the tractatus. that shit was really, really good

>>11906080
>google it
>first chapter is "Does man exist" or some shit
y'all need to stop

>>11906774
What did Borges do to you??