/lit/ - Literature

Can somebody tell me why Kantbot and Logo have both gone so hard into left-wing ironyposting, when they were literally darlings of the alt-right and wrote for sites like Jacobite, only a few years ago? Was it all an act? Is what they're doing NOW all an act, too?

Generally speaking if you have a posting block, it expires, and you can post again, the mods are just gonna hit you with a warning, right?

What book can I recommend a 12 year old who's not very into reading but wants to start or at least give it a shot?
He's interested in "action", but not even he knows what that means. I just need something entertaining to get him interested in reading, but nothing for faggots like harry potter.
Most of what I read is either boring or not suitable for kids, and back when I had his age I didn't read a lot.

>>15432216
I've heard some people say that his manifesto is actually very amusing because he does incredibly cringy, stupid shit and has zero self-awareness. I've heard people compare it to American Psycho, saying that Eliot is basically like Patrick Bateman in that he keeps trying to do things that make him fit in and failing hilariously at them. Is this true? Is the manifesto worth reading if I mostly want to laugh at it?

How can I enhance my daydreaming? I thought I had maladaptative daydreaming, but some people here make it seem like something stronger and I want some of that shit right now.

>>15218840
but i'm the only person who exist

>start with the Greeks
ok but which books?

Can something written in prose be considered an "epic"? Sometimes you see big, long works, like War & Peace, called "epic", but are they truly an epic if they're not in verse?

>>15097853
it isn't obvious? look up phadeo

>>14976432
>claims his perennialist views are above Christianity
>To claim one is above the other is proselytizing pretentiousness

>>14834101
>power of storytelling and eternal laws
>Christianity has left behind

>>14757917
>Reminder: This isn't for shitposting. Serious discussion of Guenon(pbuh) only, brothers.
I wanna invoke this. You faggots have me hooked on this long faced nigga, can anyone elaborate on what, if anything, he has anything to do with Whitehead? And what Parmenides and him had in common? Is there anything of substance to the meme?

Explain differential ontology to me, /lit/. Why is identity inferior to difference? Why is difference always associated with bugman-tier retroactive rationalizations of emancipatory politics like Deleuze's word-salad?

Or, conversely, if self-similarity is chad and difference is secondary and constructed as result of ressentiment, why does it always lead to paradox, contradiction or self-r*futation?

I want a good faith discussion so I'll be here to call you lot retarded faggots for having such shit opinions. Just to keep the thread going, at least for a bit.

>>14431126

Wouldn't Nietzsche be refuted if life after death is real, according to the Christian sense? Nietzsche is only correct in a purely materialistic universe.

>>14214425
So Mary Shelley intends for us to thoroughly dislike Victor, right? At every turn he's shown to be an irresponsible brat who can't let things go.

I think the Monster is entirely correct to despise Victor, considering Victor essentially brought him to life and then abandoned him because he was so ugly. I think the book itself goes out of its way to portray Victor in a negative light and the Monster in a positive one, even though all the characters that encounter the Monster thoroughly dislike him because of his appearance.

Isn't this all just a tacit admission that if you don't believe in God you're doomed to unhappiness, and the only way out is self-delusion?

Is Tao Lin trying to become the American Houllebecq? His most recent book, as well as this upcoming one, make me think so, and there's always been a bit of a Houllebecq-esque strain to him.

Comprehending the immaterial doesn't make it material?

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>>13323894
why? assuming your friends arent cunts do you just express shit super vague? why would anyone hate one a understanable idea that was inspired or adapted from a book?

>>13169478
>Thou shalt not slut shame
>Thou shalt not be a ho

>>12867110
can you explain what a philosophy paper intails?
is it like a math paper presenting proof for a concept or a rebuttal or is it way more extensive?