/lit/ - Literature

Same thing for Adorno lol.

>>12556470

thought that was a picture of Vonnegut. Does Vonnegut apply?

>>12556515
Not brilliant.

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>>12556500
>all influenced by marx

can't say im surprised :)

Guénon, Pinecone, DFW, Kant, Nietzsche... the list goes on

>>12556470

brap

>>12556470
Marx

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>>12556549
you need a certain distance from the present to keep a fidelity with the abstract possibility of the future. that distance is often similar to, if not the same as, a kind of stupidity

>>12556663
source ?

>>12556500
As much as I love her, I can't deny it

>>12556670
"The point here is precisely that things whose place is at present in shadow de part et d’autre might be cast in a false light when subjected to artificial lighting. I say ‘at present’ because the current epoch, which makes so many things impossible, most certainly does not preclude this: that the right light should fall on precisely those things in the course of the historical rotation of the sun. I want to take this even further and say that our works can, for their part, be measuring instruments, which, if they function well, measure the tiniest segments of that unimaginably slow rotation."
– The Correspondence of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem, 1932-1940

" In the mind, mere entity becomes aware of its deficiency; the departure from an existence obdurate in itself is the source of what separates the mind from its nature-controlling principe. The point of this turn is that the mind should not become existent in its own eyes either, to avoid an endless repetition of the ever-same. The side of the mind that is hostile to life should be sheer depravity if it did not climax in self-reflection . . . To be a mind at all it must know that what it touches upon does not exhaust it, that the finiteness that is its like does not exhaust it. The mind thinks what would be beyond it." – Adorno, Negative Dialectics

>>12556585
But DFW wasn't brilliant. Quite the opposite really.

>>12556736
i like that in both of these it's the quantitive, the mind as 'measuring device' or as something rooted in a 'nature-controlling principle', that is what allows reality to be overcome by mind and realise its abstract potential as something qualitatively different

le ugly depressed french man

>>12556515
Despite his Marxist shenanigans Benjamin's brain would whup Vonnegut's brain from about 14 years old and onwards in just about everything

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>>12557095
Dawkins is the exemplary opposite of brilliant and retarded: the sensible and sane

ladies and gentlemen

Every brilliant person is retarded in some way

>>12556470
pretty accurate desu

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>>12556874
Brilliant observation

>ctrl + f "Baudrillard"
>zero results

He's right about a lot of stuff, but most of his ideas can be intuitively felt just by standing in Times Square for five minutes.

>>12557664
No he was trying to fix Hume's retardation
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>>12557095
the thread is: brillianr AND retarded, not brilliant OR retarded

also dostoevsky for being a monarchist.

>>12556500
I will never have a wife like this.