/lit/ - Literature

>>4184484
It's kinda hard to seperate a lot of shit from good in contemporary non-fiction without further peer review, since the publishers need to appeal to the stupidest possible buyer to actually sell something. Even if the title is slightly vague it might scare off a desperate family member on the day before Christmas.

>>4183059
>He must live in Japan or some shit.
>one must be living in an oriental country to know basic respect for your own fucking home
my god

>>4182991
so, a non-existant one then?

>>4180637
Ah, but you see, this marketing in fact would be a great work of art in this post-modernistic, capitalistic world, symbolising both the decline of the public opinion of marginal changes in opinions of their seed, but also seek kind of despair/redemtion restart to world, where the bourgeois drop their schackles, seeing their offspring in a turmoil never to be witnessed since or again.

>>4179348
goodbye comrades

>>4179344

>>4179342

>>4179341

This has been a fruitful discussion but, of course, my time has come to an end and I must go
my home planet needs me

>>4179323
thank your mother for validating my point

>>4179319
this is the one of the classic response of the anarchist 'radical' left
my equally classic response is that you should say that to my face pretty boy and see what happens

>>4179292
>implying I, slovene philosopher and cultural critic slavoj zizek would spend all my time on this hellhole
>implying the 4chan ride goes anywhere and isn't a symptom
>implying you shouldn't enjoy your symptom as in my book available at many leading retails for a reasonable price

>>4179266
>not understanding the context in which liberal was used
>my god
>>4179254
The Stones, whose brief classic era provided the highest peaks of its musical age; the consistency of the Beatles output has fewer troughs but this is stupid music-as-commodity reasoning
coca-cola
of course dogs
sativa of course

>>4179238
Hikkikomori and the NEET users of 4chan are the defining Lumpenproletariat of the digital age; alienated not only from capital but the entire social and public sphere but able to be provided with their basic needs (food, shelter, electricity) which have become trivial to provide in developed countries
the standard tragic postmodern american lumpen figure is the black gang member who has no real economic escape and thus must turn to drugs, crime, etcetera- No! what we see in the unemployed middle class youth is much worse in that they have none of the ties of community, none of the social experience afforded to the gangster- who in a way has as full a life as any bourgeois. The NEET has all the surface characteristics of a fairly well-off, middle-class lifestyle but is envious of the classical figures of poverty, the gangster, the junkie etcetera- these are men who lack even the connections for a life of petty crime which would of course be much more satisfying

>>4179160
the intolerant atmosphere of 4chan is symptomatic; the post-millennial generation of middle class white males which makes up the bulk of the site feel enormously disenfranchised by postmodern liberal politics- and rightfully so, to an extent; while there is a lot of stupid conservative blame put on these groups and liberals in general for economic conditions beyond their control, there is basically an entire generation of young men who were given no chance and no support in an incredibly traumatic time of cultural change- this new Lost Generation will be the ones to usher in whatever age comes after postmodernism and liberal capitalist democracy. They should already be proud of the culture they have collectively created in the frontier of virtual space, epitomized in 4chan

>>4179133
I think it's pretty clear I would not

>>4179103
imposters
my god

>>4179093
I engineer dissent which doesn't really do anything but result in resignation and i get paid th big bux for it, u mad, kys, etc

>>4179076

>>4179074
I am unfamiliar, in slovenia we do not have Tal In, The Hardy Boys, Government of any kind, friends, and we have to walk ten miles to school in the snow
>>4179081
Charlie, the most handsome and stylish of the four
>>4179085
forest opal

>>4179072
I was introduced to this website by the 'anonymous' collective protests which I participated in, not for any interest in community action but simply love of masks
the internet is a hostile and unfamiliar place and I am often deceived by claims of attractive women looking for casual sex in Slovenia or low-cost korean brides

>>4179067
>wow
I invented doge
this is well known in academia

>>4179050
Who is 'joyce'
What is 'the 21st century'
Where am I

>>4179045
I initially acquired the cold as a kind of marketing gimmick to promote 'enjoy your symptom' but it got quite out of hand, i agree