/lit/ - Literature

>>22942972
>>22943580
Seconding R. Scott Bakker. Some good introductory pieces:

https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/essay-archive/outing-the-it-that-thinks-the-collapse-of-an-intellectual-ecosystem/
(since you have some continental philosophy background knowledge)

https://www.academia.edu/40569466/On_the_Death_of_Meaning
>For centuries now, science has been revolutionizing traditional domains of knowledge. The world has been thoroughly ‘disenchanted,’ and now, at long last, science has begun revolutionizing the domains of the human. Every essay in this collection is betting that this revolution will somehow bypass or redeem some traditional conception of the human, presuming some prescientific notion of meaning will either be confirmed by the science, or left largely unscathed. The present article interrogates the basis of this optimism, and the possibility that these discourses offer no proof against disenchantment. Rather than presuming the best, it considers the worst case scenario, the possibility traditional accounts of meaning turn on various, covert forms of supernaturalism. It argues that massive, systematic deception regarding the nature of meaning is every bit as inevitable as massive, systematic deception regarding nature of the world more generally. It demonstrates how the standard critiques of meaning skepticism beg the question, how the apparent contradiction of ‘using meaning to eliminate meaning’ turns on obvious sophistry. It then outlines a genuinely naturalistic account of semantic phenomena, one that allows us to parse traditional theories of meaning from actual applications of meaning talk—theoretical meaning from practical meaning. Using this distinction, it offers an account of why all our received forms of meaning, theoretical and practical, are very likely doomed.
(If you don't want to sign in to academia, you can find the published version in this pdf: http://library.lol/main/A8DF48F20FAA9EB4871882EC3CA37C5F )

https://sites.evergreen.edu/ftsm/wp-content/uploads/sites/307/2015/12/Bakker-On-Alien-Philosophy-copy.pdf
>Given a sufficiently convergent cognitive biology, we might suppose that aliens would likely find themselves perplexed by many of
the same kinds of problems that inform our traditional and contemporary philosophical debates. In particular, we can presume that ‘humanoid’ aliens would be profoundly stumped by themselves, and that they would possess a philosophical tradition organized around ‘hard problems’ falling out of their inability to square their scientific self-understanding with their traditional and/or intuitive self-under-standing. As speculative as any such consideration of ‘alien philosophy’ must be, it provides a striking, and perhaps important, way to recontextualize contemporary human debates regarding cognition and consciousness.

>>17699697
>there's a gay character

OH MY GOD IM GOING INNSANE

>His little brother called out for him. He found him, grasped him, cold fingers opposite a burning palm.
>And he coupled with the sinuous image writhing before him, arched in answer to the man's black-haired grunting, spilled his seed to the girl's high blonde cries.

Dare I say based?

>Bakkerposting starts.
>Post quantity and quality drastically increase.

Based

>>17434746
Actually based.

Imagine being an incel PhD philosopher.

>she used the only weapon she had, her pussy

books like this?

I like having some ambient music in the background while I read.
What would be fitting for my Second Apocalypse re-read?

>>17088655
Blew out his back fucking cheap sloots.

>>12933630
>he doesn't know bakker is slaying it every night

What's his endgame?

Daily reminder that you will NEVER be Bakker

>>8379295