/lit/ - Literature

Scholze.

Sean Carroll, perhaps.

>>16401670
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Scholze

This guy? But he's a mathematician dude.

>>16401675
Yes.

>>16401675
You think mathematics doesn't require thinking?

>>16401679
I appreciate his contributions, but I mean the best thinker about the current state of society and stuff like that

>>16401685
Anyway, I consider both Peter Scholze and Grigori Perelman very intelligent people

>>16401667
Christopher Michael Langan

>>16401711
Literally who

>>16401667
Edward Witten, Alessio Figalli, Alvin Plantinga, Noam Chomsky, Alain Badiou, Saul Kripke.

>>16401711
>best thinker alive
>horse rancher
>won a game show
>literal conspiracy theorist
>literal racist
>best thinker alive

>>16401667
I don’t think there are any great philosophers alive at the moment but Saul Kripke, David Chalmers, John McDowell, Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum and Alasdair MacIntyre are notable. Certainly Chomsky is a big one too. People like Zizek, Land or Dugin may be memes but they’re not not notable.

>>16401853
Judith Butler is a pseud.

>>16401898
Yeah but she is probably the most prominent architect of modern leftism. I can’t think of anyone else who can provide anything close to ‘serious’ intellectual underpinnings to the woke wave except maybe Gyatari Spivak. To emphasise, I include these two for their cultural impact and not necessarily their intellectual weight.

>>16401667
On a semi related note, read this about the recently anounced Progressive International, an international organization trying to collaborate with 'progressive' organizations all around the globe, building a resistance against all the reactionary right wing movements that are building steam.
https://progressive.international/wire/2020-09-18-noam-chomsky-internationalism-or-extinction/en

>>16401667
Shaykh Timothy Winter

https://youtu.be/07Ien1qo_qI

>>16401667
He literally plagiarized his better ideas from Parenti and his work on linguistics was already proven to be wrong.

>>16401674
No.

>>16401853
>Zizek

>>16401667
Kevin Solway. He distilled the essence of the teachings of many past sages in his book POISON FOR THE HEART and has for many years been active dispensing wisdom on the internet. Many people alive today have become enlightened, in part because of his efforts.

>>16401995
Yikes

>>16401995
>building a resistance against all the reactionary right wing movements

I know that some people are trying to harken back to 1940s France, but doesn't it bother leftists that their meme of being "the resistance" only took off after the shittty new Star Wars sequels started calling their good guys "The Resistance"? I would have hoped that a group nominally protesting the ever expanding influence of capital would have at least chosen a name/term that wasn't cribbing from one of the largest and entrenched corporate interests out there.

>>16401667
If he's so smart why are all his political oppinions basic white girl tier?
>iraq war bad
WAOW!

>>16401667
James Herod

Me desu senpai

>>16401667
Agamben

>>16401768
all of those things are based though

>>16401667
>Chomsky is the greatest living thinker
>an anarchist thinker
That’s a tautology

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>>16403674
Brain rot from too much neoliberalism.

Peterson
Rogan
Jones

>>16401667
>Parenti
Based

>>16403674
I’d be genuinely impressed if they could get the niggers in prison to read anything

Sowell, Taleb, Kaczynski.

>>16401898
How come ?

>>16401667
>>16401670
>>16401674
>>16401711
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>>16403124
>>16403700
Taleb

>>16401667
Unironically me. I have always thought the best form of government is me as an absolute monarch.

Hbomberguy
Contrapoints
Sean

Thomas Sowell. He's unironically the greatest and most underrated sociologist of the last 50 years, and his training is in economics.

>>16401667
me

>>16404393
He gets cited so often I wonder if it's because he is that great or because there are so few examples of contemporary conservative thinkers that aren't part of the online attention economy

François Laruelle
no contest

>>16404401
His two best works imo are "A Conflict of Visions" and "Knowledge and Decisions." Read that shit and you'll have your third eye opened.

King Terry

>>16401667
John Mearsheimer is pretty great.

Charles Taylor

>>16404403
Just finished a from decision to heresy, definitely the next step after deluze's difference and repitition. The vector/wave/object-in-last-instance is some clean philosophy incredible.

>>16401685
kek

The state of /lit/ everyone

John Cottingham. Because I like him.

>>16401667
Drake Shelton, the greatest educator in the world.

The best thinker alive is undoubtedly Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the Son of God.

>>16401667
>Le linguists known for everything besides his work in his field of study

Bump

Land, with no doubt.

>>16402877
"The resistance" is a rather generic term, and all new, arguably all, Star Wars movies are generic, cliche, hamfisted cashgrabs.

>>16401667
Pynchon or Smolin

Me

>>16402894
How old were you in 2004, anon?

>>16401667
AAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH

Americans and their jokes..Chomsky is a thinker he says.....AAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA...You hear that Friedrich?

Jesús G Maestro.

>>16401930
She has absolutely nothing to do with the left. She even donates to centrist neolib candidates.

Hoppe, nobody else even comes close.

>>16401930
>Gyatari Spivak
you white people are blind
what next Krishnamoorti? Deepak Chopra?

>>16407866
>not real leftism
I guess her recent diatribe against capitalist exploitation and inequality doesn't count because she's not literally Lenin 2.0.

>>16408014
She's literally a Harris donor, retard.

>>16408030
So what. Left is left. Gender bending is clearly leftie shit. No one outside of a coterie of extremely online self-styled marxist pseuds tries pretend otherwise.

>>16408042
You are beyond clueless. Bourgeois ruling class degeneracy is the opposite of the left. She donated to neolib corporate politicians like Harris. The left has no use for "postmodernism" or whatever gibberish about "gender" she spouts in her books. She's 100% pseud and a tool for capital.

Kissinger

Kripke

>>16408061
Ew tankie

>>16408072
There is more to the left than "tankies", libfag.

>>16408014
> I guess her recent diatribe against capitalist exploitation and inequality doesn't count
Bernie says that kind of shit all the time. No they’re not invited to the anti capitalist left. They’re frauds

>>16408079
You're a fag for using retarded shit like "left-right"
what is this
the french revolution?

>>16408089
The same exact conflict is at play today as during the French Revolution: a small entrenched elite versus the rest of humanity.

>>16402051
This unironically

>>16407866
Nothing to do with the modern Left even though they universally believe her views on gender and sexuality to the point of idolizing transgenderism as one of their defining features. The Left is a complete joke, it doesn’t matter if she’s a neoliberal, the Left does nothing but serve neoliberalism’s interests anyways.

Chompsky is a moron.

>>16401667
certainly Kaczynski.

>>16402877
>>16407166
It's not a star wars thing. "Resistance" has been a weirdly prominent word ever since Trump's election, almost a wolf whistle to round up anti trumpers. I think it's just Hollywood leftists and others inserting it into various things. It's actually a pretty weak word compared to REBELLION incidentally. Resistance is very passive.

>>16406630
Why is this meme true for every linguist

No one is just a linguist, they're also a fluid engineer or some shit

>>16409411
When are they going to release more? Where is volume two? And can you make a hardback available please?

>>16403124
hes retarded

Ratzinger.

>>16401667
Pynchon

>>16407866
cringe twitter retard

>>16409386
hes right tho

>>16408069
>Kissinger is still alive

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>>16401683
That's more of a mathematical gift than "thinker" in the sense of a philosopher or serious politican. Perfectoid spaces won't have an impact on anything - not even applied math. Scholze is a talented man, in the same sense that a genius piano players is one. Tom Lehrer and Vsauce unironically had more impact on math than people like that.

Taleb, Kaczinsky and my neighbor Amirani.

>>16401667
Bonnell.

>>16412046
>des Tiny

>>16407866
Oh no no no

>>16408030
Read Lenin, pretender. She’s the best Marxist-Leninist there is

>>16410254
Kill yourself if you believe such thing commie nigger