Interesting non-fiction you read this year

[Anonymous No.17599067]

Post em

[Anonymous No.17599069]

>>17599067
how do i achieve this look

[Anonymous No.17599087]

>>17599069
>1st step: be born a female

[Anonymous No.17599088]

>>17599069
its just doomer girl

[Anonymous No.17599130]

https://web.archive.org/web/20120204121748/http://www.wbenjamin.org/holderlin.html
>From Wilhelm Waiblinger's essay:
>"Friedrich Hölderlin's Life, Poetry and Madness"

> Conz told me that Hölderlin once leaned over him and read aloud a few verses from Aeschylus, whereupon he then shrieked out in convulsive laughter: "I don't understand that. It's kamalatta language," for the coining of new words is one of Hölderlin's eccentricities.

>His Hyperion can occupy him all day long. Hundreds of times when I came to visit him, I could already hear him outside declaiming in a loud voice. His pathos is extravagant and Hyperion is almost always lying opened on his table; he often read aloud to me from it. And after he had read a passage, he would begin to exclaim with vigorous gestures, "O beautiful, beautiful Your Majesty!" Then he would read some more, suddenly adding, "You see there, Gracious Sir, a comma!" He also read aloud from other books which I put in his hands, but understood nothing because he's too distracted and can't even follow one of his own thoughts, let alone one foreign to him. Nonetheless, he would consequently praise the book excessively in his usual politeness.

>I wanted to give him other books and thought that he would surely read Homer, who he would certainly remember. I brought him a translation, but he would not accept it. I left it with the carpenter and told him that Hölderlin should keep it, that it now belonged to him. Just the same, he would not accept it. The reason for this is not pride but rather fear of upsetting himself by getting involved with something unfamiliar. Only what was familiar kept him calm: Hyperion and his dusty, old poets. Homer had been a stranger to him for twenty years, and now everything new upset him.

> music had not yet abandoned him completely. He still played piano correctly, though in a highly eccentric style. Whenever he plays, he sits at the instrument all day long. He will follow a childishly simple notion, turn it around, and play it back hundreds of times all day until one can endure it no longer. And along with this come quick, spasmodic fits which force him to race like lightning across the keyboard with his long, overgrown fingernails clattering all the way. It is the greatest displeasure for him to have these trimmed, and he has to be tricked like a stubborn and capricious child into having it done. When he has played long enough to stir his soul, he suddenly closes his eyes, lifts his head and begins to sing as if he wanted to pine and waste away. As many times as I heard it, I could never figure out what language it was; but he sang with an excessive pathos, and it sent shivers through every nerve to see and hear him in this way. Melancholy and sorrow were the spirit of his song, and one could tell that he had once been a good tenor.

[Anonymous No.17599142]

>>17599067
‘Weapons of Mass Instruction’ by Gato was interesting

[Anonymous No.17599180]

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier was a real eye-opener. It completely changed how I view and relate to the internet.

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[Anonymous No.17599210]

>>17599088
She looks like the cousin from In/Spectre.

[Anonymous No.17599218]

>>17599180
I want to do everything I can to totally disconnect from modern technology and computers, but especially the internet. It’s just so fucking hard. I read books here. I learn about books here. I listen to podcasts here. No joke the best weeks of my life are the 8 weeks I spent living alone without a phone or a computer.

[Anonymous No.17599232]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

[Anonymous No.17599449]

The Malay Archipelago by AR Wallace

[Anonymous No.17599456]

>>17599069
Ywnbaw

[Anonymous No.17599471]

>>17599087
>implying

[Anonymous No.17599489]

>>17599130
I've always been annoyed at the lack of personal details about Holderlin online, but this is exactly what I've wanted. A fantastic insight, he sounds like he'd fit a NEET meme perfectly.

[Anonymous No.17599518]

>>17599087
Or don't

[Anonymous No.17599537]

>>17599069
>>17599087
>>17599088
>>17599210
>>17599456
It's a guy. Anon could achieve this look by wearing a wig, taking his HRT medication regularly, dropping weight until your collarbones show, dress in black, learn makeup routines from Korean Youtubers, get a choker and septum ring.

[Anonymous No.17599553]

shout out to the anon who recommended this

[Anonymous No.17599559]

>>17599087
its not a girl lmao

[Anonymous No.17599571]

Political Violence in the Weimar Republic 1918-1933: Fight for the Streets and Fear of Civil War

All Power to the Councils!: A Documentary History of the German Revolution of 1918–1919

Both really interesting, learning about the weakness of the leftists and betrayal of the SDP. Failure to turn councils into real momentum and inability to combat the rise of the Freikorps.

[Anonymous No.17599572]

>>17599537
>>17599559
>>17599067

>it’s not a girl
who’s got the link to his ig or twitter?

[Anonymous No.17599590]

>>17599553
Do you have to read Hegel before that?

[Anonymous No.17599598]

The Other Side of the Mountain: Mujahadeen Tactics in the Soviet-Afghan War by Lester Grau

[Anonymous No.17599604]

>>17599572
This I want to go coom

[Anonymous No.17599612]

>>17599537
>>17599559
You brain dead retards say this under literally every photo of a girl posted here. Seek help

[Anonymous No.17599614]

>>17599067

[Anonymous No.17599668]

>>17599590
not necessarily but I wouldn't recommend this book as an introduction to his philosophy. it works as a introduction to hermeticism though

[Anonymous No.17599683]

>>17599180
Did it change how you act in any way?

[Anonymous No.17599711]

>>17599668
Really? Interesting. I've been reading some of the hermetic texts for a while. This is good to hear because I am in fact more interested in Hermes than Hegel.

[Anonymous No.17599713]

Nonfiction is a waist of time

[Anonymous No.17599736]

>>17599713
Indeed. For fiction is time's spine.

[Anonymous No.17600988]

>>17599553
How dense is it?

[Anonymous No.17601072]

>>17599572
infectxdghoul on instagram. Do you retards not know how to reverse image search?

[Anonymous No.17601085]

>>17601072
not her retard

[Anonymous No.17601088]

>>17599067
Just because somebody is reading an author doesn’t mean they agree with them. It’s good practice to become familiar with other groups rhetoric for various reasons. What a fucking pseud you are

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.17601096]

They look greasy, over covered in make-up, vain and likely filled to the brim with mental illnesses.


As for the non-fiction, pic related is from a book which has a bunch of compiled folk-lore, historical cases, trials, court decisions and so forth concerning lycanthropy, witchcraft and wolves in general. Pretty much the entire book was interesting piece of history after interesting piece. A good deal of it being historical (even if it is clearly based on the fears and hallucinations of various peasantry)

[Anonymous No.17601113]

>>17599067
So do people seriously not know who she is?

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.17601191]

>>17601113
Just do an image search, either you’ll get their name or images and names of thousands of others with the same look and dressing.

[Anonymous No.17601295]

>>17599067
>>17599067
This woman does not exist. It's only makeup and angles to look like an aesthetic dream. Do not be fooled into thinking some archetype waifu woman you want is out there.

[Anonymous No.17601334]

>>17601295
ugly woman cope

[Anonymous No.17601348]

>>17601295
I don't think she is that attractive irl, obviously, but I'm just curious about her now that no one knows who she is. She's posted all the time.

[Anonymous No.17601384]

>>17601295
First tranny to actually achieve the anime girl look then I guess.

[Anonymous No.17601401]

>>17601334
>>17601348
I'm talking about the waifuish effect these kinds of images and styles are supposed to evoke (i.e. 'doomer girl'). It's about as real anime. Seeing people agonize over 3D girls styling themselves on a digital-age kawaii dream archetype girl like this is just painful to see.

[Frater Asemlen !XS8vrClKs2 No.17601492]

>>17601384
Again, does it matter? There’s thousands of these you can google. It’s not like it’s even exceptional beauty even with the angle and the pounds of makeup.

Again they look like the type that would apply pounds of make up and then because they’re lazy they won’t take showers for days. Again they look clearly like they have some form of mental illness.

[Anonymous No.17601560]

>>17599180
>>17599218
Currently reading pic related on this topic. Short and to the point
Most of its value for me has come from the citations it provides to research justifying the way I intuitively felt about computers and the Internet. If you feel that way too you might find it worth a read

[Anonymous No.17601801]

>>17599683
Definitely, I've tried moving to alternatives to Google accounts and 4chan is basically the only social media I use now. I've also tried to cut down on my screen time considerably.

[Anonymous No.17601830]

>>17601560
Funnily enough I am reading this right now!

[Anonymous No.17601839]

>>17599067
Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters
Weeping for Dido
Medieval Reading
Cyropaedia

These are by far the best I read in the past year

[Anonymous No.17601844]

https://iea.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Niemietz-Socialism.pdf

[Anonymous No.17601869]

>>17601401
It's more just being attracted to feminine features. No one finds this pic particularly attractive (out of all the other ones on the internet), least of all because it's an exact fetishism.

[Anonymous No.17601988]

>>17601830
Cool anon, what would you say has been the single most salient bit from it for you so far?
For me it’d be the idea that this is just a reversion to the mean. That the couple centuries of the widespread solitary reading of linear content have been an aberration and that in a way we are returning to (digital) monke by moving to a pattern of foraging for lulz on the web.

[Anonymous No.17602012]

>>17599067
jezebel post; didn't read kill yourself please

[Anonymous No.17603370]

>>17601988
that's pretty interesting ngl. i snagged this off ebay for a $1. haven't started reading yet, mostly because of the internet.

[Anonymous No.17603413]

>>17599537
no he couldn't, also ywnbaw

[Anonymous No.17603455]

>>17599612
because he wishes it were true, this self-ordained delusion is the whole basis of a troomer's mind

[Anonymous No.17603472]

>>17599614
how was it

[Anonymous No.17603588]

emperor of maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee. its about CANCER

People of the Deer (Death of a People) by Farley Mowat its about canada injuns

Into the forbidden zone - by William T Vollmann. its about nuclear japs

Erebus - Michael Palin. its about a boat

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Ehrman. its about christians

Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. its about mushrooms. This is the best one. THIS IS THE BEST. this the best book. its about mushrooms and written by a guy called merlin.

andthat is my non-fiction readingfor the year thus far

[Anonymous No.17603627]

>>17599449
>>17599553
>>17599598
>>17599614
>>17603588
these are the good posts in the thread
Thanks.
goodbye

[Anonymous No.17603656]

>>17603627
based. I don't want to sift through all those chucklefucks talking gibberish

[Anonymous No.17603688]

>>17599537
>>17599612
>>17603455
>>17603413
Since 4chan and Reddit are both extremes (YWNBAW vs You look great, Hon!), I'd say that that anon could pass reasonably well since the real world isn't as obsessed with trannies as this place. They just gotta put in the work.

[Anonymous No.17603701]

>>17603656
>this image

[Anonymous No.17603826]

>>17603688
what the eff are you talking about?

if you're not talking about non-fiction GTFO

[Anonymous No.17603831]

>>17599067
female beauty is the most powerful thing in the universe

nothing else matters

the only time i'm happy is when my dick is inside a woman

[Anonymous No.17603969]

>>17603472
Really good, it didn't really take a side judging each individual in the conflict as an individual and went into excellent detail of both major and minor characters in the conflict. It had a couple decades previous explained for good context and a couple decades post conflict for impact plus talking about the longterm impact. It gave me a great picture of Europe at the time and the complex politics and society therein. From Emperor to Peasant it tries to give you a feel of what it was like.

[Anonymous No.17604074]

>>17599067
Walter Benjamin: Unpacking My Library