/lit/ - Literature

hobsbawm
*braudel*
febvre
wallerstein

blood meridian is worthy of melville's moby dick
and underworld is a great book

stick to rilke, mayakovsky, and alexander pope

musil...doblin...sebald

Something I wrote earlier today, hope you like it.

Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the Angelic Orders? And even if one were to suddenly take me to its heart, I would vanish into its stronger existence. For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, that we are still able to bear, and we revere it so, because it calmly disdains to destroy us. Every Angel is terror. And so I hold myself back and swallow the cry of a darkened sobbing. Ah, who then can we make use of? Not Angels: not men, and the resourceful creatures see clearly that we are not really at home in the interpreted world. Perhaps there remains some tree on a slope, that we can see again each day: there remains to us yesterday’s street, and the thinned-out loyalty of a habit that liked us, and so stayed, and never departed. Oh, and the night, the night, when the wind full of space wears out our faces – whom would she not stay for, the longed-for, gentle, disappointing one, whom the solitary heart with difficulty stands before. Is she less heavy for lovers? Ah, they only hide their fate between themselves. Do you not know yet? Throw the emptiness out of your arms to add to the spaces we breathe; maybe the birds will feel the expansion of air, in more intimate flight.

i think theyre called palindromes

aliens invade middle earth!!! that woudl eb so sick!! the elves and orcs have to ban together to fight the aliens and secretly the alien princess and elf prince fall in love but cant develop a lasting relationship because there parents wont approve

>greeks were black
is that why their paintings and painted statues depicted them as white or were they "trolling"

omg en media res and using "fine morning" on a BAD morning
this kafka guy DOES make joyce and proust look like worms, comparatively

>>3337228
imagine if tertullian never got laid and didnt understand a thing hegel or kant said

teilhard de chardin, jesus, nietzsche

joe pesci would play the perfect derrida

The best-selling "synthesis of Christly conduct and Cartesian method to Machiavellian ends" (498-34-35)

approached as a long response to the 'whos there' of hamlet

>>3329011
you dont need to edify an arbitrary standard to justify your actions and have u read fernand braudel?

>>3328993
would an affirmation to your question imply an affirmation to my question

was achilles fucking patroclus?

its like a pandirectional inertia or being a paralyzed trout in a rapid
but when actual sadness looms for whatever reason its actually cathartic because its like that paralysis has been ruptured, if even at some insignificant point

>>3326105
a hypothetical situation wherein two prominent queer theorists are endowed with two classical forms of strength, one being of a 'physical' nature and the other 'magical.' the former goes to butler and the latter to ronell. could butler slay ronell before ronell could whip out her wand? is it perhaps the case that ronell has a "soulstone"?

who would win in a fight between avital ronell and judith butler if judith butler had the strength of achilles from all the testosterone she probably ingests every hour and avital ronell actually was a disciple of salazar slytherin

>>3319233
or maybe to clarify:
epistemologically: intuition precedes knowledge of independently existing world
ontologically: they both (subject and object) presuppose each other insofar as cognition needs to be located in spacetime and spacetime's being is contingent upon us

despite their circular nature, the logical choice is that of the subject due to the interdependent nature of epistemology and ontology and epistemologys gravitation towards the subject

>>3319195
last quick reply
>the independent existence does not
Hegel would say that the independent existence of something does depend on (not the act of asserting it exists) but the act of intuition as such. consider in quantum physics how the very act of intuition can retroactively change the state of being. in all likelihood objects do exist independent of human cognition, but hegel would say, foremost, we can never know the things in themselves and, secondly, that idealism is logically superior since intuition has to precede the knowledge of an independently existing world. one of my qualms with philosophy in general is that ontology and epistemology are inherently interdependent but i dont think its really something that can be reconciled

>>3319074
I just opened my computer to find porn but fuck i saw this. the paradox kant addresses, and the idealism/materialism dichotomy concerns itself with, is that any assertion that objects exist independent of human intuition necessarily presupposes a human intellect to make that assertion. Hegel critiques Kant because Kant theorizes that the human intellect presupposes space and time; while Kant's position seems to make sense, that someone isn't going to cognize without being in spacetime, it is necessarily metaphysical insofar as it asserts this state of being outside human experience. Hegel would say that the consciousness is logically first despite that "i am" is equally axiomatic; Hegel definitely wouldn't say that his philosophy is valid on some metaphysical ground, he just wants to say that the kantian notion of space and time preceding cognition isn't the primitive axiom since it relies on the earlier axiom of a subject. he recognizes the circularity, that all knowledge is essentially axiomatic and his critique essentially surrounds which axiom is the correct one. the "correct" axiom, Hegel's access to "truth," is a method of verifying your system is logical, that there is no incongruity between axioms and whatever else which he develops in Science of Logic. im sleep deprived, my answer is probably insufficient, but feel free to reply to this and when i wake up ill try to articulate anything i need to better