/lit/ - Literature

>Bataille emerged in Ginzburg’s story as a figure frighteningly close to Dostoyevsky’s Underground Man – a minor civil servant with fantasies that would be dangerous if they had any possibility of being enacted. Thankfully, they didn’t (‘Bataille was not a man of action,’ Ginzburg remarked, in a masterpiece of understatement). The story of Bataille’s ludicrous attempt to become a human sacrifice (he offered himself to three people, none of whom would kill him) is as comic as it is pathetic.
Bataillebros...

Idc about his lack of credibility or originality or whatever, he hit the nail on the head in regards to our current Zeitgeist. CR in particular is something that a lot of people feel but can't make sense of, let alone put into cohesive words.

I remember attending a meeting for the socialist club at my uni after reading Captialist Realism, so I went there and asked if anyone had read it.
Of course they didn't, but they did read the "problematic" "Leaving the Vampire Castle." It's been over 60 years and COINTELPRO tactics still work.

>My depression was always tied up with the conviction that I was literally good for nothing. I spent most of my life up to the age of thirty believing that I would never work. I felt that I didn’t really belong – in postgraduate study, because I was a dilettante who had somehow faked his way through, not a proper scholar; in unemployment, because I wasn’t really unemployed, like those who were honestly seeking work, but a shirker; and in temporary jobs, because I felt I was performing incompetently, and in any case I didn’t really belong in these office or factory jobs, not because I was ‘too good’ for them, but – very much to the contrary – because I was over-educated and useless, taking the job of someone who needed and deserved it more than I did.

>Even when I was on a psychiatric ward, I felt I was not really depressed – I was only simulating the condition in order to avoid work, or in the infernally paradoxical logic of depression, I was simulating it in order to conceal the fact that I was not capable of working, and that there was no place at all for me in society.

Academia is bourgeoisie "leftist" who turned everything into identity politics

What pushed him over the edge /lit/?

Who is the most important philosopher of the 21st century so far?
Pic related

What do you think of Mark Fisher's writings?

why did he do it?

I don't buy the idea that the vampire's castle was the sole contributing factor to his death. did his diagnosis of the slow cancellation of the future make him realise there is nothing good ahead?

are we more doomed than we believe?