/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11113113]

>the door opens and an impenetrable mass of marajuana smoke spills from the room into the hall
>stumbling through the smoke, two shabby shapes reeking of bongwater emerge
>A Thousand Plateaus is held aloft by one of the men as several unshaven hippy french girls, nude save for flimsy veils tied low about their waists and showing mounds of unwashed pubic hair ripe with pthirus pubis, crowd with narcotic idiocy about their ankles and take lazy drags from the remaining roaches
>"we've done it, groovy G!" wheezes the man with the more putrid fingernails as the weed haze languidly disperses
>"*cough cough* we've *hits bong again* saved western philosophy!"
>a gimp-suit wearing, aids-riddled Foucault appears and congratulates the two intrepid french thinkers
>somewhere, Lacan is giving his dick, shriveled by age and impotence, a final and thorough tugging before a crowd of baguette wielding students and communist card carrying intelligentsia who all give an enthusiastic yet appropriately sardonic applause that stretches into a hollow perpetuity, erupting into the final simulacrum of sound the World would ever know before its descent into cosmic schizophrenia

[Anonymous No.11113116]

What did they mean by this /lit/?

[Anonymous No.11113125]

>>11113116
Basically some meaningless bullshit overly prolix way of talking about that part in Nietzsche’s life where he went insane and sent letters identifying himself as various historical personages. Equivalent of masturbation but done with words.

[Anonymous No.11113130]

>>11113116
>the celibate machine of the Eternal Return
That sounds fucking rad

[Anonymous No.11113136]

>>11113113
>the most succinct and accurate summary of french philosophy in the 1960s-1970s is a /lit/ shitpost
terrific

[Anonymous No.11113139]

this one also got me, the fuck are they saying about Kant? This books a trip.

[Anonymous No.11113202]

what thinkers should i have a good grasp on to read them?

[Anonymous No.11113208]

>>11113202
Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bergson

[Anonymous No.11113271]

>>11113125
They're talking about that as a subject with something else tho. Anyone who can read knows it's about Nietzsche's descent into madness, but they're making a point out of it, pseud.

[Anonymous No.11113311]

>>11113139
I haven't read AO, and not all of Kant, but if I remember correctly Kant considers "extensive quantity" as aggregate and "intensive quantity" as degree. That may help you, but I really don't understand what they mean by "schizoid." I know it has something to do with schizophrenic tables that have infinitely small surface area, or something

[Anonymous No.11113324]

>>11113311
I guess maybe it has something to with the idea that the Kantian idea of degree involves the infinite divisibility of matter intensively, which is perpetual production? That's probably bullshit, though.

[Anonymous No.11113463]

Where does Derrida fit into this?

[Anonymous No.11113464]

>>11113113

What makes this image even better is that the film «The Empire Strikes Back» came out in 1980, same year as Mille Plateaux, so that in principle, it is easy to imagine that Groovy G may in fact have been in possession of a Yoda bong, as a piece of very-contemporary popular culture.* This is buttressed by the general references to culture in the work, and specifically to film in at least one case (Mabuse).

*Of course, there could be a slight anachronism based on dates within the year. I fail to find the date of initial French publication of Mille Plateaux (much less when they finished writing it, as in the OP's glorious daze), but the suggestion is far too pregnant. Even the chapter titles fixate on the numerologies of years themselves, so that my observation is germane to the work's method, even if it is a historical inaccuracy. Do, or do not. There is no "try". Voilà.

[Anonymous No.11113473]

Time travelling is smoking weed lmao

[Anonymous No.11113525]

>>11113208
freud & marx desu

[Anonymous No.11113556]

>>11113463
he has his very own version

[Anonymous No.11113608]

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[Anonymous No.11115167]

bump

[Anonymous No.11115215]

>>11113113