/lit/ - Literature

Amusing ourselves to death
Manufacturing consent
5000 years of debt
Bullshit jobs: a theory

Check out Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa

>>17401346

By now it's cliche on /lit/, but Capitalist Realism is a definite starting point for this

>>17401346

>>17401346
Plato's Republic
Lasch's Revolt of the Elites

>>17401381
What's the deal with this? I can't find much info on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh2cDKyFdyU

>>17401373
Yeah, I've seen it mentioned. It's definitely in the to-read list

>>17401404
This seems great. I like its thesis. Will check out

>>17401346
society of the spectacle is a good start, which is why i'm assuming you chose that image for OP

>>17401367
Did he write it in Spanish? I'd like to start reading Spanish again and this seems like a good opportunity to do so.

>>17401346
Media Control

-Noam Chomsky

He lays out exactly how his Jewish compatriots view the masses and fuck us with propaganda.

adorno culture industry essay

Foucault - Discipline and Punish
Derrida - Specters of Marx

>>17401346
All of the must read non-fictions are philosophy. Socrates, Marcus Aurelius. Stuff like that.

Bowling Alone

Baudrillard - Consumer Society
McLuhan - Understanding Media
Lasch - Culture of Narcissism
Pierre - On Television
Kaczynski - Industrial Society and its Future
Ellul - Technological Society
Byung Chul-Han - Burnout Society
Chomsky - Manufacturing Consent
Packard - Hidden Persuaders
Wiener - The Human Use of Humans

mein kampf

>>17401346
This is basically Joseph Campbell on easy mode.
It dovetails nicely with the Noah rainbow.

Joseph Henrich - The WEIRDest People in the World

>>17401346
>tfw forever vilified just because you went to see a movie once
What a nigger Debord is.

>>17402868
the real villains are moreso the producers and corporations than the consumer who is a subject of the system

>>17402878
Yeah but you're the idiot in the picture no less.

>>17401346
Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism

Albert-László Barabási - Linked: The New Science of Networks

Spengler - Decline of the West
Bryan Caplan - The Myth of the Rational Voter
Hoppe - Democracy: The God that Failed
Dugin - The Fourth Theory
Strauss/Howe - The Fourth Turning

dawkins selfish gene

K-Macs jew trilogy

baudrillard - simulacrum and simulation
althusser - On The Reproduction Of Capitalism: Ideology And Ideological State Apparatuses
marcuse - one dimensional man

>>17401848
It's in english as well

any zizek book

>>17401485
check out his other films too. adam curtis is one of the best to ever do it

>>17402829
checked

>>17401346
Decline of the west

>>17401346
Demons - dostoevsky

>>17403181
>how to be a pompous retard

>>17401346

>>17403595
nah i dont fuck with this nazi shit

>>17401346
Marx reading list:

Brumaire
Manuscripts
Value, Price, and Profit
Gotha
Grundrisse
Capital 1, 2, and 3 (yes you need to read all of them. 1 is not self-contained.)

Further Reading:
Michael Heinrich's Introduction (note: not an introduction)
Heinrich's 3-4(?) volume biography of Marx that he is still writing (vol 1 is out)
Love and Capital (another biography)
Isaak Illich Rubin's Essays on Marx's Theory of Value
Time, Labor, and Social Domination by Postone
Value by Diane Elson
Workers and Capital by Tronti
Law and Marxism by Pashukanis
Notebooks by Gramsci
The Principle of Hope by Bloch
Arcades Project by Benjamin
The Production of Space by Lefebvre
The Making of the English Working Class by Thompson (also read his essay on time.)
Poverty of Theory by Thompson
The Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Hobsbawm tetralogy
Antiquity to Feudalism and Lineages of the Absolutist State by Perry Anderson
The Essential Lenin
The Essential Stalin
On Contradiction and On Practice by Mao
Dialectical Logic, Intelligent Materialism, and The Dialectics of the Abstract and the Concrete in Marx's Capital by Ilyenkov
Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays, I and IS Apparatuses, and Philosophy of the Encounter by Althusser
H and CS by Lukacs
Marx: Towards the Centre of Possibility by Karatani
Eclipse by Gilles Dauve
What Was the USSR? Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value Under State Capitalism by Aufheben
Reading Marx Politically by Cleaver
Marx's Inferno by William Clare Roberts
Moneybags Must Be So Lucky: On the Literary Structure of Capital by Robert Paul Wolff
In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution by Geoff Mann
Crack Capitalism by John Holloway
The Origins of Capitalism as a Social System: The Prevalence of an Aleatory Encounter by John Milios
Critical Theory and the Critique of Political Economy: On Subversion and Negative Reason by Bonefeld
The 4 volumes of Open Marxism
There's No Such Thing as "The Economy": Essays on Capitalist Value by Samuel A. Chambers
Marx at the Millennium by Cyril Smith
Critiquing Capitalism Today: New Ways to Read Marx by Frederick Harry Pitts
The Dialectical Imagination by Martin Jay
Money and Totality by Moseley
Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic: A Reexamination by Moseley
The Constitution of Capital: Essays on Volume 1 of Marx's Capital by Bellofiore
The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View by Ellen Meiksins Wood

good recs man

Atomised by Houellebecq paints a nice picture of the results of the 60s

>only 2 spengler
Baka

>>17403595
se non è vero, è ben trovato

>>17403620
refute the book then, you ignorant

>>17401346
The Machiavellians, James Burnham
The Ecclesiastes
The Spiritual Combat, Lorenzo Scupoli (the most important one)
A Scanner Darkly
That Hideous Strenght, Lewis

Capitalist realism - fisher
Sublime object of ideology - zizek
Plato’s republic - badiou

Don’t listen to all these niggers recommending 68’ era theory, you’ll either become an SJW or an incel. If youre going to read them please realize that their dialectic is incomplete, resulting in conspiracy theory level thinking; only you have agency over your subjectivity, not mcdonalds or starbucks.

>>17401346
Sociobiology, Wilson
The evolution of civilizations, Quigley
The case against the fed, Rothbard

>>17403633
wow, that must be the longest and most detailed fantasy book list I ever seen, I always admired how Marx proceeded ab absurdum to create a quasi-verosimile world from litteraly the most retarded of axioms.

>>17403595
>>>17401346 (OP)
What book is this?

>>17405162
OP's book is the Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, and the anon's book is The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which was released anonymously, and is generally thought to be a hoax.

>>17402829
Based Wiener poster. God & Golem is good too.

>>17405007
its anti semitic schizo horseshit, not relevant

>>17401346
Dialectic of Enlightenment.

Horkheimer and Adorno were not the first to notice the way that the enlightenment of the 18th century reorganized our entire subjectivity, but they're probably the first to explain it so thoroughly. The way seemingly all modes of being prioritize instrumental and totalizing logic and the dehumanizing efficiency calculus that this invariably spawns is an essential idea for understanding the history of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. They're not prophets and there are definitely aspects they got wrong, but its still very impressive that their analysis can provide insights into everything from why did the soviet union fail to bring about its early vision of a truly equitable society, to why are we all so miserable if by every objective metric we're wealthier and more safe and secure than ever, to even why #activism and contemporary radical political movements never seem to accomplish anything (left and right).

He treads the same ground, but Foucault also has a similar project with his various archaeologies from what I've read. Attempting an analysis of why do we have the type of subjectivity we do, and where did the ideas that dominate it come from, and what do they accomplish. He also ends up pointing to the late 18th century for the most part.


The big 19th century Russian novelists arrived at a similar critique of enlightenment, although by different means and their solution is pretty undercooked religious metaphysics. Still, the reduction of the human from a sacred being to a secular object of rationalized discourses, and the way this affects how we look at ourselves and the world, is a profound observation and a thematic throughline in things like Gogol's Dead Souls, Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, and Tolstoy's War and Peace.

Fiction writers for whatever reason tend to pick up on the currents of an age far before theorists can present a thorough exegesis and analysis of them, so don't shy away from reading (good) fiction in your efforts to understand what is happening in the world.

Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control
It lays out very convincingly, with all the historical background, how modern man is being manipulated and controlled through his passions/desires.
>“Thus, a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but what is worse, as many masters as he has vices.”
St Augustine
The book’s thesis is that the man who is a slave to his own vices is easily manipulated, hence why they are pushing degeneracy on us and disintegrating the old figures of authority such as family, tradition, and religion.
This is a much more effective method of political control than coercion.

>>17405194
oh nos they said a meany about dreidels

been there OP, but let me tell you this path only leads to more sadness and despair, we are helpless and impotent and there's nothing we can do about it, ignorance is bliss

Leviathan - Hobbes
The Machiavellians - Burhnam
Man, Economy and State - Rothbard
Democracy The God that Failed - Hoppe
Decline of the West - Spengler
The Dark Enlightenment - Land
Culture of Critique - McDonald
Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations - Moldbug

>>17405263
they have nothing worthwhile to say but drivel you can read on /x/

>>17401848
>Check out Notes on the Death of Culture by Mario Vargas Llosa
https://book4you.org/book/2638132/2d6fec

>>17405162
>>17405194
The FBI taught me
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

>>17402944
yes

a lot of marxist, french 68ers, fascist, and ancap stuff itt

>>17405735
they all have critiques of the current system

>>17401402
The curse continues
.............

>>17401373
I always found him a pseud but maybe it's just meme.

>>17403181
That is a lot better outcome that being a depressed blackpill fag tbqh.

>>17405735
It is necessary to progress the anti neoliberal movements forward. this system is crushing the planet.

‘True Believer’ by Eric Hoffer

>>17405799
t. poorfag

i make $97k a year. bitch. plus stocks.

>>17406247
Pray you die before the monetary system collapses.

>>17405183
How was he so smart bros

>>17406291
leftwing doomsayers are so tedious

>>17406897
You think the monetary system will last until the death of the universe? Institutions and social systems aren't eternal anon. One day or another they collapse, all you can do is pray you won't be there when it happens. Surely this can't be that hard to understand.

>>17406907
entire civilizations collapse too

>>17406922
Of course. So do species and ecosystems. It's all a matter of timeframe, but being close to the point of collapse sucks mightily.

>>17406942
we're nowhere near close to the collapse and even if we were it's not that bad

>>17401346
Nassim Taleb’s first, Fooled by Randomness

>>17407038
>>17406942
ITT: these 2 guys argue and call each other retarded faggots

>>17406942
The truth is nobody knows. The main comforting thing is that collapses tend to happen on relatively large timescales. The main disquieting thing is that by the time we'll be positive it's coming it will probably too late to do anything about it. Hence the praying.

Spengler, Decline
De Jouvenel, On Power

Anti oedipus

>>17406907
Pussy faggot.

>>17403633
You have to be mentally ill to read that

>>17405735
Based, fascist/ancap/marxist unity against the neoliberal status quo

>>17408902
t. jreg

>>17401346
Henry Ford-The International Jew
Orwell - 1984
Huxley - Brave New World
Baudrillard - Simulacra & Simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_ys_tIHTF8

>>17401356
Tranny Trilogy.

>>17403595
its a fake document, retard

>>17405149
great post anon, the discussion has been so livened up with you here!

>>17403633
based and actually reading books pilled

>>17401346
>ctrl + f
>no D&G

wtf

read anti oedipus and thousand plateaus

>>17410052
this

>>17409508
But he listed 4 books.

>>17401402
Lol

>>17408902
ancap is fairly close to neoliberal ideology, read the austrian school fren

>>17410131
yeah ancap kind of sucks. it seems like it would just lead to further control by private interests which would exacerbate many of the current problems. i am more inclined to side with a sort of nationalist socialism but not the hitler esque version

>>17410131
Lol no, there is nothing austrian about neoliberalism, it's all Keynesian/MMT faggotry

>>17410144
do you mean in an anti-globalist kind of way? Most socialists/commies are like that

>>17410156
then explain why Reagan was very inspired by hayek

>>17410170
Hayek was a faggot and so was Reagan
https://youtu.be/ymQoIt5k2AI

>>17410162
yeah essentially. not so much racial superiority or anti semitism stuff but more for sovereignty, cohesion, management of resources, and workers interests

>>17410179
all three of them are faggots

>>17410196
pussy

nationalism without racism isnt nationalism. a nation is built around an ethnic group

>>17410291
>In a covenant concluded among proprietor and community tenants for the purpose of protecting their private property, no such thing as a right to free (unlimited) speech exists, not even to unlimited speech on one's own tenant-property. One may say innumerable things and promote almost any idea under the sun, but naturally no one is permitted to advocate ideas contrary to the very purpose of the covenant of preserving and protecting private property, such as democracy and communism. There can be no tolerance toward democrats and communists in a libertarian social order. They will have to be physically separated and expelled from society. Likewise, in a covenant founded for the purpose of protecting family and kin, there can be no tolerance toward those habitually promoting lifestyles incompatible with this goal. They – the advocates of alternative, non-family and kin-centered lifestyles such as, for instance, individual hedonism, parasitism, nature-environment worship, homosexuality, or communism – will have to be physically removed from society, too, if one is to maintain a libertarian order.

>>17410301
go back to the 1820s

>>17410301
True. Civic nationalism is for anglofags

>>17402730
>He lays out exactly how his Jewish compatriots view the masses and fuck us with propaganda.
You really read between the lines, didn't you?