/lit/ - Literature

>>12231836
Nibba, who cares? He's a PhD and worth following, he talks a lot about Leo Strauss and Dugin

Houellebecq on the great schism.

What are some good /lit/ Twitter feeds to follow besides John Milbank (who is pretty cool, he responds to your comments). I checked out the Royal Society of Literature, but it's trash. So is Joyce Carol Oates.
. Recently became aware of @M_Millerman by his liking one of my tweeted quotes of Heidegger, he's cool.

>>12054238
Politics is innately dichotomic. It's conflict resolution.

>>12054153
Amen, anon

>Modernism is Cartesianism, and Cartesianism is modernism. Thus "post" modernism is not about "going beyond" modernism, but about saving it from the Konservative Revolution. The Konservative Revolution destroyed Descartes, and all postwar French philosophy was about stopping this.

Reposting my twitter thread here for your thoughts

>Those who follow me might have noticed my posts before on Talmudism, "idle talk", postmodernism, etc. My argument was that the principle of all these modes of discourse, was giving primacy to the discourse itself above its subject.

>Well with memes it is just the opposite. They properly function as a means to elucidate the being of their subject, that is, to call attention to it in its unconcealing. The reason "the left can't meme" is because it is antithetical to leftist discourse.

>For Derrida, language is only allowed to be referential unto itself. Meming breaks these chains and shackles the left has placed on discourse. For the left, despite silencing opposition, discourse must still be "dialectical" and "democratic", as it were.

>Memes are authoritarian, they are *decisive* pointing to being in its unconcealing. They brush aside the endless ping-pong of dialectic. In politics, as related by Juan Donoso Cortés, the libs see decisiveness (i.e. "decisionism") as threatening.

>Liberalism is a turn against the decisive, because it means an authoritative conclusion, which means a triumphant and a defeated, or at least an authority and a submission. This simply isn't "democratic" because it means a compulsion, an authoritarianism.

>Even truth itself in the most abstract sense is "fascist" to the lib, because truth is not democratic or consensual. Hense their embrace of relativism. But back to memes: when the left try to meme, they always miss the point.

>To the leftist, discourse is good if it is *productive* (Althusser's work is structured very much around this idea). For the rightist, discourse is good if it is *quality*. This distinction in politics is covered very well by Richard M. Weaver.

>Quality is oppressive to the lib, everything must be about quantity. Everything is fungible, including people, who are all "equal" (the basis of democracy, one vote for everyone). The lib seeks to suppress everything that's not quantifiable or fungible. Even memes.

>So rather than "meme magic", the left tries to reduce memes to formula. This leads to the low quality memes that NPC's are fed by Stephen Colbert, SNL, and so forth.

>>12028086
Angels are creatures, not supercreatures. Their way of being is very much defined in relation to man's way of being, and vice versa.

>>12027943
Yes, and angels can't time travel, they exist *within* creation. Divinities also, in Heidegger's work, are not "eternal" in the sense the Christian God is.

>>12027958
I know. But within Heisenberg's framework, elves correspond more to divinities. They less fit angels to Tolkien because they reproduce and so forth. But his work is not an allegory and so I see nothing wrong with what I say here.

Reposted from my Twitter feed, figure you guys might have some thoughts

>The distinction between elves and men in J.R.R. Tolkien's work corresponds to the distinction between divinities and mortals in Martin Heidegger's work. Theologically, the distinction is between angels and men.

Keep in mind I am quite aware that Heidegger didn't subscribe to the Resurrection or consider theology and adequate answer to the question of being. I do however consider Tolkien to be the most "Heideggerian" (a term Heidegger would object to) of writers

>>12014908
I don't normally tweet about economics, but I added one for you.

>>12015060
gossip is also idle talk.

>>12013692
Are you the guy with that handle?

>>12013802
I will if I write a book, which I won't unless a lot of people end up following me on Twitter. I don't think you would like it, however

>>12013756
I don't like any postmodern thinker because I see postmodernism as a crypto Cartesian reaction to the Konservative Revolution's takedown of Cartesianism. It's trying to preserve dead ideas by dressing them up in drag to seem provocative, as it were. Puntel is a much more relevant current philosopher in terms of coming to terms and moving forward.

>>12013732
Zero

I have posted before regarding Heidegger and the pomos,but this is a new thread,not a repost

>>12013654
Judaism is above reproach? Or do you simply think that's not a valid reproach?

>>12013492
That is not what I am saying at all. Of course "too much" means "excessive", which is bad by definition. What I am saying is that discourse which prioritizes itself over its subject is the model of Talmudism and postmodernism. How "long" discourse is has nothing to do with this, as short discourse can do it.

Derrid the most crucial philosopher to queer theory.i have a lot of bones to pick with this guy, but I will limit my op here to just a couple of thoughts from my Twitter feed

Derrida saw the rising danger of what Carl Schmitt called "absolute enmity". But while both thinkers acknowledge that globalism and "inclusiveness" make the danger more serious, Derrida, unlike Schmitt, says the solution is *more* inclusiveness and globalism!

Derrida's "deconstruction" of justice only actually deconstructs justice in the liberal sense. It is utterly inapplicable to decisionism or traditionalism, in fact it begs the question by presuming those are necessarily a sort of anti justice.

>>12012473
>just the Hindu equivalent of orthodox palamism, or at least the heights of its mystic states
I think I should also point out that no Orthodox would accept this as it is saying Orthodox Christianity is a false religion

>>12012723
I don't what you mean by "stand out". They're all competent thinkers. But their project is primarily damage control in the service of "globohomo". I only give Foucault some slack because a lot of his criticism of the Enlightenment can be applied to undermine the left--however I also oppose the pomo right, aka the "New Right"

>>12012749
Idle talk was not defined with many words, I used many words to observe its presence in the Talmud in postmodernism.

As your definition, it is part of what I am saying, but does not cover all of "idle talk". Fall includes more than talk (simply burying yourself in busyness of any kind in order to distract yourself from being, is fall); metadiscussion includes more than idle talk (Heidegger himself discusses discussed, that is not idle talk); idle talk includes more than metadiscussion (rumor gossip is idle talk). Babbling to distract yourself from a source of anxiety is a very good example of fall.

>>12012630
I have no difficulty understanding pomo, I love Heidegger, who is also advanced. It is *because* I understand pomo that I attack it.

>>12012573
Ever read Luther? He construes penance as trying to be saved by works

>>12012558
Of course both systems fail to capture Orthodoxy, as does idealism vs materialism. But the physical vs metaphysical dichotomy is shit. Even the devil cannot time travel

>>12012509
This is the thread I reposted here

https://twitter.com/ContraEquality/status/1056794606694653952?s=09

>>12012347
Read Saint Ignatius Briachaninov. Dualism is the metaphysical Jew.

>>12012467
Well Nietzsche sees being itself as a mere "vapor", which Heidegger confronts in "Introduction to Metaphysics". Derrida himself denies being certainly. Deleuze I have not read. Tbh I don't think French philosophy has produced anything of value except the Counter Enlightenment (which is invaluable, Bonald is if enormous importance)

>>12012473
I would argue that Orthodox theology mostly based on Apostolic doctrine. If any Greek school was influential on the early Church, it was stoicism. The energies-essence distinction is also not found in neoplatonism. Now Dionysius the Areopagite is very important in theological articulation, but negative theology as a doctrine is expressed numerous times in the Bible. Neoplatonism's greatest contribution was to our terminology, although even most of that came from Aristotle and the stoics.