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Books, fiction or non-fiction, that explore similar philosophical themes as picrel.

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>> No.19591632

Lain is Lilly’s work made into anime

>> No.19591642

Gravity's Rainbow

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>>19591556
Generation P

>> No.19591748

>>19591632
lilly who

>> No.19591833

>>19591556
this anime doesn't explore any "themes" whatsoever

>> No.19591908

>>19591748
?
If you watched the anime you would know?

>> No.19591914

>>19591556
i never watched that shit.

>> No.19591932

>>19591914
good. you dont deserve to and wouldnt get it anyway.

>> No.19591944

>>19591932
well now i'm gonna watch it and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

>> No.19591955

>>19591556
Simulation and Simulacra
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
Fanged Noumena
Cyberspace, Cyberbodies, Cyberpunk: Cultures of technological embodiment.

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>>19591632
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>>19591908
who the fuck is lilly

is this some kind of meme? being deliberately cryptic just to annoy me?

>> No.19592074

>>19591833
Extraordinary comment anon. Would you like to explain to the class what you think a “theme” is?

>> No.19592083

>>19591998
Was also going to suggest land

And Simulacra and Simulation

>> No.19592178

>>19591556
The Phenomenology of Spirit

>> No.19592192

>>19592022
Why are you so interested if you haven’t even seen the show?

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>> No.19592375

>>19591556
Snowcrash, except instead of the virtual becoming real, the Sumerian language is a firmware package for the human brain. Still has VR and a cyberpunk setting though.

Neuropath - actually getting at the opposite side of things. Not "what if virtual information could become synonymous with reality," but "what if the eliminative materialists and epiphenomenalists are right and meaning is just illusory and we face a semantic apocalypse. The author has a fantasy series that gets at the same idea, plus others, but it's long as shit and not sci-fi.

Borges was fascinated with the Gnostics and a number of stories get at somewhat similar ideas, but at a deeper level. Dude is considered one of, or the best writer of the 20th century in literary circles for a reason. It's all short stories so they are quick. Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, The House of Asterion, The Library of Babel, The Book of Sand, The Lottery of Babylon, The Roses of Paracelsus, The Writing of the God, The Circular Ruins (this last one is a good story but so many works have since copied Borges' twist that it doesn't have the crazy impact that it did for reviewers back in the 40s).

Also Victor Pelevin for weird philosophical semiscifi fiction. Helmet of Horror is all one chat log and is quite good. Sacred Book of the Werewolf is meh. I liked Homozapiens, but he obviously hadn't matured as a writer yet.

>>19592178
Ha, there is actually overlap here, but probably not what OP is looking for.

>> No.19592378

>>19591978
The fuck reading list is this