/lit/ - Literature

>>15289010
you could probably avoid the cancer through strict moderation, banning phoneposters, banning particular cookies, and maybe some other form of exclusivity. but i'm not sure how sites get enough users to sustain themselves, much less create an endogenous culture. Many of the alternative chans seem to be able to survive based around a small cluster of topics (eg. LC and programming+tech) and even 4chan was tiny at one point. true, the internet has changed since those days, but there still must be some way. people complain on many interest boards about a lack of quality discussion (/ic/, /mu/, /tv/, /lit/, /his/), so it may be with a big tent of fine arts and humanities you could catch enough people to make it sustainable. and presumably you would already have a culture resistant to the very thing that has been making these boards shit in the first place (i.e. a community which shares primarily a desire to be different than current 4chan). who knows, it would probably fail but it might not.

Interesting question. A few years ago i tried an experiment to see whether i could masturbate solely to classical music. My approach was basically to put on normal porn until i was edging, then close my eyes and switch to a classical piece which featured very powerful build-ups and breaks—firetruck composers, as /classical/ would put it. Sure enough, while i was edging, my arousal was guided by the soaring strings and thumping percussion and the impudent and audacious horns all leading towards a final climactic release, and i the same. And i gotta say, the orgasms i had while doing this were especially powerful and would sometimes leave me in involuntary spasms. However, try as i might, i could never get aroused by the music alone. Even the pieces i found were most effective in ushering me towards la petite mort (i remember a particularly lively performance of Saint-Saëns' Danse Bacchanale was most enjoyable) could do nothing for me if i hadn't jerked it to FemDom beforehand. So i kinda gave up after several months, though i sometimes feel a stirring in my loins when listening to Dvořák's Dies Irae or Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave (two more of my favourites), but nothing beyond a half-chub. Anyway, long story short from my experience masturbation is not a very useful conditioning tool—it didn't make me anymore attracted to the pieces i used nor motivate me to listen to them more. So if you want to read more books, i guess i would suggest finding a topic or style that interests you rather than spilling your seed all over the pages and getting a sticky new bookmark.

>>15117025
You only just figured that out?

>>15093029
That's all?

>>14723911
because the homosexual and the talentless never succeed in hollywood, am i right

if you can't refute it, then by what grounds can you call it shallow? surely such judgements should follow from investigation, not precede it.

>>14381586
okay, maybe i'll write an essay comparing erasmus and machiavelli on the topic of honestas and utilitas in government. i assume you'll want a hook linking it to contemporary politics though, right?

>>14333576
do you think that women who drink while pregnant, alcoholics, and drug addicts think what they are doing is good for themselves?
>>14333640
aren't you guilty of exactly what mill was arguing against, of imposing your own conception of how one ought to live on others without knowing their particular situation? how can you know that spending time on social media isn't fulfilling for these people? remember, mill was a utilitarian, and though he thought some pleasures higher than others, if liberty allows the greatest good for the greatest number, he would ask: what does it matter if people find enjoyment in things you consider frivolous, if they aren't harming anyone?

Is there any Hindu political philosophy beyond The Arthashastra? I was looking this up and most articles said that basically all you have are some chapters from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, The Laws of Manu, and The Arthashastra. Can anyone confirm this?

Fascism is doctrinally anti-intellectual (that is, it doesn't like theory without action) so there aren't many theoretical works outlining the ideology. The movement came first and developed somewhat organically as a reaction against liberalism and marxism (fascist claim that it is revolutionary not reactionary). I would recommend:
Outlines of the Philosophy of Right - Hegel (not a fascist)
Reflections on Violence - Sorel (not a fascist)
The Origins and Doctrine of Fascism - Gentile
The Doctrine of Fascism - Mussolini

i've only read Homosacer and State of Exception so far, but i'd recommend reading Schmitt and Foucault before reading Agamben. Does he have much beyond the Homo Sacer project?