/lit/ - Literature

>>14936612
>Also just remember, during quarantine, summer is here all year round.


>>14936635
no friend, ur query is in good company tho.

>>14936973
>I'd love to hear girardfag's take on the world right now though, even if he's a buddhist monk now or something
me too. me too, anon. dave chappelle made a skit about this behavior and he nailed it, but god damn it. im scared2death but i still want to dance,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc
>where the FUCK is Ja Rule?
but unironically. around the new year he said he would make #15 but ostensibly decided against it. i don't think i'm even ready for such a thing yet either. but anything is better than these threads.

>>14662690
this

>>11831754
all right. i could make a list of authors and books i've read that i think are pretty good. it would skew towards the acceleration guys, but i could include some notes about why they matter.

for me the story begins with nietzsche and heidegger. before i got into philosophy i read a lot of history, sort of all over the place, w/ev i was interested in. the first philosophers i read were the stoics, and i was cozy with those guys, esp after i read plato and i felt like my head had gained about eight pounds. that led into nietzsche, then baudrillard from him, and then heidegger, who truly gave me the phrase i was looking for: the metaphysics of production.

>cue the hallelujah chorus

there was a lacan/zizek/hegel moment, since lacan does a lot of things heidegger does but shifts the focus from truth as Being to truth as *meaning,* along with other things. but they both connect to nietzsche, who is the sorcerer supreme of all that follows from him, which is to say, damn near everything. but heidegger was a kind of event and i think he still is.

after him land, land, and more land. plus some land on the side, and an order of land to go. then everything that connects to acceleration, including another atomic bomb of continental philosophy, that being anti-oedipus. that one roflnuked my whole scene and landed me in china for a bit, and i kind of read my way back to the west on a long tour that went through india and southeast asia. and i was losing my shit completely over this until girard showed up and clarified a few things about this party that apparently never stops. i've been girardfag ever since and the rest of the story has pretty much played out on /lit/ in clouds of shitpost.

but maybe the contours of one or two interesting questions can perhaps be seen through the factory-produced Smog of Unknowing that i basically am. it's still the question concerning technology, but also the question concerning simulation, the question concerning memory, the question concerning [x].

with all that said, and as it has been remarked before (truthfully!): if you read your marx, hegel, nietzsche, heidegger, freud, et al none of what we talk about here is really that mysterious. we're just having conversations about ideas that still hold up after a century+ and we talk about them because a lot of these concepts are still useful today. there is, emphatically, no magic in it. you don't need ginormo-brain to have fun shitposting in a land thread, i'm proof positive of this. i've always been a mediocre student and a bear of pretty average brain. i have perhaps more of an obsession with this stuff than some, but really all i'm doing is sharing what vastly more interesting people than me have said about a couple of things.

once you know the Masters of Suspicion and a few of their disciples, the rest of this stuff pretty much writes itself, for better or for worse. but if you think a bibliography would be useful to you, i'll see what i can do.