/lit/ - Literature

the fuck is even a 'liminal space'? everything i've seen regarding this retarded term is pictures of hallways or underground parking lots. get the fuck out with your tumblr made up terms.

>>19033189
dumbass

>>19033192
>dumbass

OH MY GOD GUYS THINGS ARE LIMINAL NOT QUITE THIS NOT QUITE THAT IT'S IN BETWEEN

>>19033170
Oh GOD IS THAT ROOM... EMPTY!? OH GOD HELP ME!!!

>>19033376
it's not a room dipwad, it's a liminal between-room space

>>19033376
>Oh GOD IS THAT
>liminal between-room space...
>EMPTY!? OH GOD HELP ME!!!

>>19033170
>liminality or liminal spaces
Ugh

>>19033459
Portals.

>>19033483
Portals?

>>19033491
Portals...

>>19033170
Aminadab

>>19033170
house of leaves

>>19033170

The Crossing

>>19033411
>Is that an empty hallway? I’M GOING INSANE!!!

>>19033170
Non-places by Marc Auge

>>19033170
Might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but JG Ballard’s Concrete Island.

this uses the description liminal a lot, it is an entertaining book but nothing amazing

>>19034181
>>19034199
>>19034215
Great recs, keep em coming

>>19033200
>>19033376
>>19033439

You people choose such small hills to die on

>>19034338
it's not a hill, it's the valley

>>19034480
the Portal, if you will

>>19034493
THE PORTAL TO THE NEXT REGIME

>>19033439
lol, I always thought this was a stupid thing. I get the idea behind it and I've experienced a similar feeling, but the tumblr-esque nomenclature and mindset behind codifying it makes me cringe.

>>19033189
It's a term meant to describe areas or spaces that are transitioning from being functional and open spaces to becoming abandoned and desolate. The reason it's usually hallways or old building or parking garages is because these are probably pictures of decommissioned buildings that sit in limbo waiting to be bought or leased to become something else.

>>19033483
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DWVUfg2eZ4

>>19034776
kek mogged

>>19035008
pingtrips edits are fucking gold, that's probably my favorite one though

>>19034776
>Jamie could you bring up something called "Boskin Mild vs Wild"?
>Uh...No?
kek

>>19033189
just look up the word liminal

>>19033170
Gass - The Tunnel.

The Horror’s Call series gets into this. The “Back Rooms” creepypasta is a location it.

>>19033170
Low brow: Rant
High brow: The Unconsoled

>>19033170

It is the Secret

>>19033578
This

>>19036075

>>19036997
Waldunian...

>>19036997
based

"Liminal spaces" sounds to me like some US zoomer meme. I don't know what the fuck I am supposed to see in this pictures. An empty corridor in an office building? Sounds cozy, all the normies left, I can just sit and chill and have a smoke in silence.

>>19036997
A true failure of punctuation

>>19037043
Who cares the book is kino. Creepypastas aren’t known for their punctuation and those books are all based on them.

>>19036997
So this explains why Zoomers love F Gardner so much.

>>19037038
It's because normies literally can't into any environment that doesn't have a well defined 'role' because they're immediately thrust into actually having to think and their brains can't handle the stress.

I don't get the weird meme of liminal spaces, but I do enjoy the interiors of run down/old motels.

watching that latest weinstein JRE now
god he's an insufferable prick
every 2 seconds he has to namedrop some shit he can do or knows about

>AAAAAAAH AN EMPTY ROOM WITH BAD LIGHTING IM GOING INSANEEEEEEEEE HELP ME NIGGERMAN

>>19033578
Came here to post this.

>>19037043
Another one filtered by Gardner.

>>19036997
Awesome. Gunna check this out. This is Call of the Cherokee?

>>19033170
the dream sequences in 2666 gave me this

>>19036997
>Did you know my name is Frank Edward Gardner Jr? I am 32 years old, a registered Democrat and a derp faced faggot who calls myself an author and spams my YA trash on 4chan. I am named after my father Frank Edward Gardner Sr. who was a former environmental attorney before becoming the water reclamation district commisioner of [REDACTED FOR JANNIES]. He even tried to sue Fox32 TV station once! I tried to run for the same position as my nepotist daddy when I was 27. My mother's name is [REDACTED FOR JANNIES] Gardner (Her maiden name was [REDACTED FOR JANNIES] before she gave it up to marry my rich city government lawyer daddy). I live in [REDACTED FOR JANNIES], Illinois. My location information is readily available online and unredacted in the archives for all of those anons out there who have finally gotten fed up with my incessant shill campaign over the last few months.

>>19037519
Yes

>>19033170
retard

>>19036127

>cribs the cover design from the University of Minnesota Press' Theory and History of Literature Series

>>19033578
is this readable in e-book/pdf form or do you have to have a physical copy? I've heard that its impossible to do an audiobook version even though I think one exists

>>19038736
i imagine an ebook version would be a huge pain. like a quarter of the book is taken up by a lengthy appendix you need to flip to constantly, annotations that go on for 5 pages, the text printed sideways and upside down

>>19037583
Thanks

>>19033189
Based.

>>19033170
gothic books in general tend to give me liminal vibes. Haunting of Hill House, Dracula, that sort of thing.

>>19036997
>>19037519

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmbpSJ-1iE&t=15s

I just watched this. Wait this is the best one? Why are you guys always going on about Call of the Crocodile then?

Interesting thread idea. "The Terminal" is a great movie about this. I don't know of any books.

>>19039059
People can have different opinions anon. I liked Call of the Crocodile the most because of just how big the surprise was for me.

>>19033170

>>19033189
>Of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold.
>Of or pertaining to a beginning or first stage of a process.
>From Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”)

In other words, thresholds or between thresholds, in our modern world.

first two Houellebecq novels

>>19037839
nice but they're no semiotext(e) interventions

The manga Blame! It has little dialogue and a very unique art design.