/lit/ - Literature

Hello

I am looking for essays against wage-slavery, in the original sense of the term, from the early industrial era when it was not taken as a given and mandatory aspect of human life that we should be working for the System for most of our lives.

More modern literature on the topic could be also acceptable, but if you want to Tedpost at least branch out and post some of his lesser known work please.

>>7242145
C'est assez mauvais. Le texte n'a aucun sens : pourquoi un « trésor gaulois » ? Où est le rapport entre les salamandres et les vers précédents ? En quoi les sens «s'épandent» ? Qu'ils s'éprissent, je l'aurais compris et même approuvé. La concordance des temps n'est pas respectée – quoique ce n'est pas très grave – mais ce qui me dérange le plus est l'usage de tournures usées à la corde. « Sérénité, bonheur, contemplation ! » ou « O, (…)» sont lourdes et semblent être une tentative assez pâle de copier les auteurs romantiques du dix-huitième siècle. C'est dommage, les troisième et quatrième vers sont excellents. Le reste est à jeter.

>>7242152
Attention, de nombreuses espaces fines ne s'affichent pas sur 4chan et doivent être remplacées par une espace ordinaire.

>>7242135
Silence. I can read anywhere as long as no noise distract me.

>>7242122
Sans certitudes, je dirais que le texte est formaté sous LaTeX. Il a une bonne connaissance de la typographie, en revanche. Peu utilisent encore une espace fine avant un point-virgule.

17th century French poetry!

>>7241746
Le texte souffre de plusieurs erreurs de sens, ainsi puisque les épines de poisson – en supposant que votre personnage travaille en Europe, ce sera certainement le cas avec les épines caudales du thon blanc – ou les coquilles des huîtres et autres espèces crustacées provoquent des blessures, et sachant son métier, nous pourrions attendre de votre personnage que la douceur perdue de ses mains soit moins le fait de simples échardes que de coupures et autres manifestations de callosité. Pourquoi voudrait-il voyager en laissant de côté le « travail strictement intellectuel » ? Sa sensibilité est-elle binaire au point de les opposer ? Comment pourrait-il y parvenir, d'ailleurs ? C'est encore plus curieux en supposant que son instruction soit de bonne qualité. Pierre Loti n'a jamais renié son esprit en entrant dans la marine. Vous avez également des lacunes de vocabulaire de taille. « Enseignant privé » ne se dit pas. C'est « professeur particulier », « maître » ou « précepteur » ou « instructeur » et « éducateur » selon la nature du cours enseigné. Un « labeur » n'est que « manuel » et ne nécessite pas cette précision. « Échauffer » est incorrect. Ce mot, l'avez-vous trouvé dans vos lectures ou dans un dictionnaire? J'ai déjà vu ce défaut de sens chez certaines personnes qui utilisent abusivement un dictionnaire des synonymes ou cherchent des termes exotiques dans le dictionnaire. « Voyage de pêche » a le même problème et « pêche » est de toute façon superflu. Dans son ensemble, ce texte n'est pas très bon et manque de maturité.

>>7241563
This sounds grotesque.

You should learn all the meanings a word can have and how to employ it correctly rather than seeking an obscure and artificial lexicon.

>>7236122
>>7236151

I can hardly find a common thread in this list.

What the hell is this thread?

What do you mean by asking if it's “worthwhile” to get into? Do want to know about the job opportunities or the quality of the degree itself? Personally, I was quite quickly enrolled in a young graduate program in a library but I guess you need to have excellent grades. If you're the kind of student who is contended with the minimum required, I don't think neither classical studies nor any humanities degree is for you. Getting a job isn't really hard as long as you're not one of those “I'm fine with just passing the year” guys.

Expect to spend most of your time on your workload. I went to the lectures or the library to study from 8h30 to 20h30 each day and still had to work on week-end. You will be required to remember an insane amount of knowledge as soon as the first year begins. It is assumed—at least in my country—you already took Latin courses in high school and the whole two semesters will be dedicated to learning Latin, Ancient Greek and French. We started to go through French literature during the second year and Latin and Ancien Greek ones in the third.

>>7205075
Luddite did.

>>7203715
• The money is a mean that creates possibility and lets us diversify the ways we can spend our time. Those who have a lot of money have many possibilities; those who don't have no choice but let the fate decides for them.
• Stocking is the same process. When we pile up movies, books, cars, food or properties, we give the future's possibilities a specific configuration and secure a debt that, without being too restrictive, is still a kind of pre-use of our time.
• This lets us believe we have much time, virtually an infinite amount of time but those possibilities can't be all met; there are movies we download we won't watch, activities we won't do, books we won't read. The more we accumulate possibilities by stacking plans, objects or even relationships that are all promises of incoming happiness, the more our “real” time is suffocated by those debts.
• There's a difference between this differed time and the actual time. Having the first one cropping the second isn't dangerous, it gives a sensation of liberty, of organization. However, there's a limit.
• When the differed time made of possibilities is threatening the real time left, the possibility evolves into anxiety. If everything is virtual, then the real is always further and further. (S. Kierkegaard, “The Concept of Anxiety”, 1844).
• There isn't only an obsession for a higher degree of connectivity and travelling but a need of novelty, of perpetual update.
• It suggests once again we're living in an institutionless society that hasn't received anything from the past and won't leave anything to the future. All we have are technologies able to convince us they're able to save everything up.
• The development of world-wide communications can't maintain the humanism. There are people left behind due to being “useless” to the technology, and we leave parts of our body. It is eating part of our society it declares obsolete and prepares those who are useful to a transhuman-like evolution. Technology isn't thus technologic; it is also almost religious, gnosistic. (J-F. Lyotard, “The Inhuman: Reflections on Time”, 1988).

• In every society, the trust lies on the feeling of longevity. We need institutions able to last that survive our sole existence; the world is older than us. (H. Arendt, “The Human Condition”, 1958).
• The new form of capitalism causes the society to give up the durable institution for short-term activities, able to draw in people and ressources for a fixed amount of time.
• This led to rapidly increase the number of connections, pushing pressure on people and accelerating their life which is more and more seen as a succession of planned activities. Now, we exist because of how much projects and connections we have. (L. Boltanski, E. Chiapello, “The New Spirit of Capitalism”, 1999).
• The time in a society of connectivity is inherently unequal and leads to an extreme dichotomy: on one hand some are getting more and more stressed, flexible and “connected”—thus loosing their freedom to the technology—while on the other hand others are sinking and getting forgotten, being virtually erased by the means of communication themselves. (H. Bergson, “Matter and Memory”, 1896).
• The whole goal of the technology is to accelerate natural processes and even shorten them. We move faster, longer, further. (M. Heidegger, “Being and Time”, 1927; J. Ellul, “The Technological Society”, 1954).
• This led to distort our perception of time which seems shorter the higher the degree of connectivity is. The more human operations there are, the more we need to synchronize and coordinate them, the more important the time factor is. In Africa or rural areas, we almost physically feel the time passing by differently. (N. Elias, “An Essay on Time”, 1984).
• In populated areas, the need for an almost instantaneous synchronization requires a more and more powerful temporal apparatus of coordination and standardization. (H. Marcuse, “One-Dimensional Man”, 1964).

>>7063167
What language do you want to read in?

>>7061244
>quelques problèmes de pieds

Le pied est une unité de versification tonique inadaptée au français. Le français est oxyton et ne considère de ce fait que la syllabe dans sa métrique.

>>7061371
Ce n'est pas une diérèse. La diérèse ne concerne que la décomposition des consonnes spirantes et n'a aucun lien avec baudroie et amies qui ne se réalisent [amij] et [bodʁwaə] que dans le français de Belgique, quoi qu'il en soit. D'où tirez-vous vos informations, si je peux me permettre ? Je lis beaucoup d'âneries jusqu'à présent.

>>7060220
I'm not sure taking notes significantly helps me understand what it is talking about. I chiefly write down the key points, thoughts and sentences, words or idioms I liked for memory purpose rather than increasing my comprehension.

>>7060258
There must be a large amount of notes to rebuild up the previous owner's mindset.

>>7060012
No.

>>7059409
There's nothing beneficial to so-called “4chan's spirit”. From what I witnessed over the years while lurking, many users act cynical or employ irony—deliberately writing like a retard, for example— in any situation to cover their flaws or lack of knowledge. Any behavior involving acting superior to its interlocutors rarely ends up productive and fruitful to anyone.

>>7058451
I didnn't think about that.

>>7058600
Few likes their book covered with notes and you won't keep your books forever.

>>7058412
As long as I remember I never came across remotely useful notes left by previous owner. Most repeat what the commented text said, add meaningless symbols, underlines random sentences or share their emotion, which is of no help. I bought an old hardbook of 1930 and it's written “croix means cross”. Thanks.

>>7056764
Apart from ruining the book, that's quite funny. You should try compute a graph showing the amount of happiness as the story develops.

>>7056692
No, I take them in a notebook instead. Damaging the book is highly disrespectful towards the next owner. In extreme case I leave papernotes between pages but it's slowly damaging the spine so I avoid it too.

>>7056491
I would be a fool not giving a try. Thanks.