/lit/ - Literature

>>22492687
as for you it's chuds <- paleocons <- burkeans/maistreans <- hobbesians <- machiavellians <- assyrian oriental despotism <- nimrod babelism <- lamech and cain <- luciferian serpent satanism

>>19738135
So hard to pick. tlön is dope af, but the dude dreaming a man is comfy af and the library of Babel is also pretty cool
>mfw there is my diary desu in one of the books but also infinite my diaries NOT desu

Point of horror isn’t to be scared, it’s for the aesthetic experience of something dark, it can be a delicate and delicious aesthetic flavor when constructed very well. I find them incredibly cozy. Example lovecraft is very comfortable. As for why they’re so popular? Everyone’s a bit edgy OP. Better to express that in fiction than acting edgy in real life. Besides if you’re reading good horror there’s a refined aspect, the supernatural and pessimistic lend themselves well to horror as does highly aristocratic stuff which people normally would feel too low class to normally consume. Consider bloodborne, no ones scared of the bloodborne games but they love the aesthetic.

The Count of Monte Cristo
Plutarch's lives
My parents having to bury me

>>13806349
good art can still be found. just today i watched Francis Bacon's portraits, good shit

actually, Jacques Ellul is a lot like that portrait. even tho he talks pretty calmly he scream inside like Bacon's "The Screaming Pope"

that what a true intellectual does, scream like like an animal before slaughter. that what we are now. animal for the slaughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOCtu-rXfPk

>Baudrillard
>I suppose George Fox
>Francis Bacon, the painter

I really ought not judge how many people are willingly snuffing out God's light within them through indulging in soul-sucking ideologies, but it's genuinely unclear how to get people to see through our constructed world of lies and start looking into God's light within. We live in a truly horrifying world, I really ought to pray that God lend me the strength to make it through whenever he deems my life to be over.

>>13103772
Bacon came a bit after the modernist movement, but still kinda counts. I like his popes.

>>10921234
that stuff is there nearly a priori, if youve seen a commercial youre susceptible to most of what film will deliver, its not at all a surprise to say lynch that many moviegoers are baffled by his films

nietzsche said that art predates philosophy, what is meant by that is that philosophy is the field of conceptual knowledge, art is mostly intuitive and non-verbal, to the early wittgenstein ethical or aesthetical propositions were "nonsense" because they arent propositions at all, they dont have meaning in the sense that "the apple is red" does, similar to that art or film conveys something that isnt articulated

i know nothing of painting but i know that something about this painting attracts me, a good assumption would be theres something i "get" out of it intuitively which i cant put into words that easily, partly because theres nothing that can be put into words and partly because i lack the introspection to conceptualize what im feeling

how do you start? just watch movies, watch terminator, then aliens or something, if they bore you move on to something else until you find what you enjoy, you will "get" what you enjoy, if you then move on to films that youd like to enjoy but cant, then the issue isnt that you havent found the key to unlocking the enjoyment, a better theory or worldview is that you arent susceptible to what is conveyed, a part of that can be a lack of film understanding but another part can be purely aesthetic differences you and the target audiences have

maybe gummo is a trash film or you just dont """""get""""" it, epistemologically youll never be satisfied, so all youve left is to enjoy what you enjoy

I think Bloom is a classist, poncy snob who never stopped being mad at hippies.
in other words, the honorary king of /lit/