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Tell us about yourself, /lit/.
What did you major in?
What is your favorite philosophical book?
What is your favorite piece of literature?
What is that one image that you really like but never get the opportunity to post it?

>Molecular Biology
>The Technological Society by Ellul
>Mumu by Turgenev
>pic related

>> No.10646807
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Medicine
On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense - Nietzsche and Ancient Eugenics - Allen Roper
Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turguenev

>> No.10646868

>>10646807
Ancient Eugenics is actually a great read. What's your political stance?

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>>10646770
>What did you major in?
failure you know i dont care sorry i like drukqs and pretty things- things so fragile you cant even touch them you can only think about them and i dont mind that one bit
>What is your favorite philosophical book?
deleuze on leibniz i liked the baroque fold i could always feel that kind of soft ornate lattice in bach
>What is your favorite piece of literature?
im liking Gravitys Rainbow a lot feels like the meaningless vortex of psychadelia and inert 30s aesthetic ive always wanted
>What is that one image that you really like but never get the opportunity to post it?
ohhh no i cant post that one

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>>10646892
>Google gives nothing
>Suggests "Flesh"

>> No.10646994

>>10646868
Center-Left

>> No.10647060

>>10646994
Then what's the appeal of eugenics?

>> No.10647066

>>10647060
I want to kill every single frogposter and I was wondering if this could be done through eugenics

>> No.10647069

>>10647066
And can it?

>> No.10647073

>>10647069
I'm not sure yet

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>>10646770

Comp Sci
World as Will and Representation Volume I
Steppenwolf

>> No.10647100

>>10647060
Pretty much all social decisions have an effect at the biological constitution of the population. Eugenicists recognize that and aim at directing or at least parameterize those changes.

>> No.10647125

>>10646898
*nervous laughter*

>> No.10647560

>>10647094
>Steppenwolf
I was really dissapointed in this desu, what do you like about it other than the obvious comfy pixie dream girl

>> No.10648322

>>10647560
Not him but you really have to get past the first 50 pages, it's sort of like Notes from the Undergound in that respect, also remember it's from the 1920s so there weren't any edgy cliches

>> No.10648917
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Philology
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky
1984 by Orwell (yeah, basic, fuck your mom)
The Decline of Medieval Hellenism in Asia Minor is my favorite historiography
pic related
>>10646807
did you make it to become a doctor?

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I dropped out of high school my senior year.
The World as Will and Representation 1&2
He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace

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>>10646770
Management of Information Systems
Revolt Against The Modern World
Crime and Punishment

>> No.10650306

>>10650299
Will we find jobs as MIS?

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>Philosophy
>CPR
>The Recognitions

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>>10646868
>What did you major in?
History/Russian
>What is your favorite philosophical book?
Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard
>What is your favorite piece of literature?
Life and Fate (for the feels)
>What is that one image that you really like but never get the opportunity to post it?

>> No.10650366

>>10650364
fugg didn't mean to reply to that post

>> No.10650367

>>10650306
At the very least we'll have IT

>> No.10651695

>>10650299
My absolute nigga

>> No.10651715

>>10650364
>Simulacra and Simulation - Baudrillard

Great taste anon

>> No.10651746

Physics
Fear and Trembling - Kierkegaard or The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
The Complete Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino or Gold Boy, Emerald Girl - Yiyun Li

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Forensics/Biology/Literature
The Book of the Courtier
McCarthy's "The Crossing" (or the border trilogy as a whole, if it counts)
This image

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>>10651746
forgot pic

>> No.10651774

>>10646807
>>10650364
>>10651746
>>10651765
Cool

>>10646770
>>10646892
>>10647094
>>10648917
>>10650112
>>10650299
>>10650344
Trash

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>>10651774
Trash
Not cool

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>>10646770
>What did you major in?
Data Science
>What is your favorite philosophical book?
Nicomachean Ethics
>What is your favorite piece of literature?
Petersburg - Andrei Bely
>What is that one image that you really like but never get the opportunity to post it?

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History
Nausea
Mason & Dixon

>> No.10653640

>>10652016
>Petersburg - Andrei Bely
nice