/lit/ - Literature

>he hasn't read Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl

>>15336669
Sloterdijk's trilogy

>>15336669
Coma by Pierre Guyotat is fantastic.

>>15336846
Hehe dijk

>>15336669

Sergio Gonzalez Rodriquez' short books on the Mexican drug war are decent, even-handed accounts, and not rife with the bat-shit crazy leftism typical of the rest of the imprint.

>>15336741

The purpose of the text was to criticize capitalism by holding up "the young-girl" as a tragic subject-commodity "created by" capitalism. It completely backfired: when read properly, the book teaches you to hate woman /as-such/, and not the capital-inflected woman. I like to believe that Coupat (or whoever wrote it) was going through a breakup at the time. There are also apparently two versions of the text (the French original appears to differ somewhat, and is available on archive and libcom).

>>15336669
b a u d r i l l a r d

>>15337118

>NOOOOO CAPITALISTS YOU CAN'T POKE FUN AT YOURSELVES IN YOUR OWN SUBVERSIVE ADVERTISING THAT ROBS US OF OUR "POWER OF CRITIQUE" YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE CLEVER STOP DOING THAT WE'RE IMPORTANT NOOOOOOO

>>15337143
lmao did you get pleb-filtered @ not being able to understand baldretard?

>>15337143
Everyone laugh at the illiterate

>>15337143
>please advertise to me! sell me products! any criticism of subversive advertising is useless because it's self-conscious! let me consooooooooooooooooooooom!

>>15337180
>>15337166

That's exactly what he says and what he means in Agony of Power, seethe harder.

>>15337237
Imagine getting pleb-filtered by one of Baudrillard's lectures, not even one of his books. Do you have an aid that helps you put on clothes in the morning? How are you managing to post here?

>>15336669
Signs and Machines: Capitalism and the Production of Subjectivity by Maurizio Lazzarato has made a fine paperweight in my office. The woman on the cover is like an old friend.

>>15336669
TONY
DUVERT

>>15337143
Based (m)admen culture jamming the culture jammers.

>>15336864
I have been searching for an epub of this and i am unable to find one anywhere.

>>15336669
introduction to civil war was great

>>15337331
Genuinely curious, do books like this actually say anything or do they just amount to "here's another reason why I don't like Capitalism" for 1000 pages?

i've only read chris kraus' dick off there. it's a trainwreck. been meaning to read some tiqqun and screwball asses.

>>15339381

Periodically they have some interesting cultural commentary (Gerald Raunig is good for this) but if you were asked to stand on one leg and summarize the entire imprint, "capitalism sucks" would be a fair answer. It's their constant, boring saw. Your instinct is correct.

>>15339342
>>15339443

Introduction to Civil War is probably the "best" of the Tiqqun pieces they've put out, since it actually contains philosophical ideas which are capable of being divorced from the above banality: the notion that various "forms of life" are already engaged in a constant (non-literal) civil war with each other. Despite this, the text is still steeped in the tiresome petulance which typifies them. Thucydides is referred to as "that moron", as one example.

Screwball Asses is old guard hard gay, and seems not to have been written by the person to whom it was attributed. Some Freudian/Lacanian jargon gets tossed around. It's one of the (literally) gayest books I've ever read, and I've read a few. It's gayer than some of the yaoi manga I've masturbated to.

>>15339612
desu i'm more interested in the coming insurrection since it has that anarchist edge. i find critical theory theory just too non-sensical.

>gayest books I've ever read
that's why i wanna read it

>yaoi manga I've masturbated to.
oh honey... link?

>>15336669
>>15336846
>Sloterdijk's trilogy
High quality hardbacks at that

>>15339612
They even have a reader with selections of many of their books called The Hatred of Capitalism, so...

But Screwball Asses is likely not by Hocquenghem? Could you expand?