/lit/ - Literature

Yes, you. From a beloved promising child to a shitposting failure on 4chan

I’m convinced the internet is like the Bermuda Triangle for literature. Any author who interacts with it significantly becomes a total brain dead retard. It doesn’t create any type of literary creativity beyond shitty substacks.

>>21886779
most philosophers in history would've been shitposters today. motherfucker, you think socrates wouldn't have been one?

>>21886779
You know why Pynchon has this mysterious intangible aura? One reason is because he doesn't post his banal political opinions on Twitter.

>>21886779
that's a glow-up in my book

>>21886779
It sounds like he stayed the same

>>21886837
this fills me with sadness. is the medium real everything? has the human spirit been reduced to shitposting?

his philosophy becomes more and more real as AI advances. I dont really care about his twitter

>>21886837
No he wouldn't nor would the other philosophers. Do many current ones shitpost?

>>21886788
This is true, but applies more broadly. The internet makes retards of us all

>>21886786
>From a beloved promising child
Jokes on you anon, I was neither beloved nor promising....
Now what?

>>21886933
If it was an upward trajectory it's even sadder somehow

>>21886937
Kinda.
I was always a retard, so me ending up on the chans isn't a surprise.
Imagine some genuinely smart motherfucker getting lost and ending up here.
Tragic when you think about it.

>>21886779
>from fringe philosopher
I've read his Fanged Noumena. There are, like, 3 articles worth reading ("Delighted to Death", "Circuitries". "Machinic Desire"), while the rest is just shit.
Likewise with The Thirst for Annihilation. The first 2 chapters are okay, the rest of the book is just 'why?'
Similarly with his blog writings. The overall majority of his writings is pure shit with rare occasional rough gems.

>>21886976
>I've read his Fanged Noumena
...why?

>>21886947

>>21886947
>Imagine some genuinely smart motherfucker getting lost and ending up here.
Literally me

Im writing my master thesis on his Trakl-Heidegger essay unironically.

>>21886779 they be hating on Nick but all his views are correct and helped me to break free from leftwing brainwashing. He made me a rightwinger when before I recoiled from the very word alone.

>>21886933
This. I don’t know why people throw out the “le gifted child” scenario so much. Smells like another sneaky layer of cope to me.

>>21886982
Which Lisp dialect is this supposed to be?

>>21887136
>but all his views are correct
He believes in Austrian economics theory, because those clowns kept throwing words like 'spontaneous order' and 'catallactics', which they in turn very superficially stole from the Complexity Theory to fit into liberal/libertarian doctrine of free contracts.
He believes that if he replaces utils with IQ, the marginal utility theory would work - because he is too retarded to google what 'psychometrician fallacy' is.
He keeps acting as if economics is a sphere separable from politics, and as if it is a rigorous science instead of intention-guessing astrology ritual with random numbers and zero predictive power.

>helped me to break free from leftwing brainwashing
>rightwinger when before I recoiled from the very word alone
My leftwing conditioning was broken by Nietzsche and Alain de Benoist. And after reading them through, it helped me understand that aside from shrieks 'cybernetics/eugenics/bitcoin are cool' there is nothing substantial that Nick Land can really offer.

>>21887136
>being mesmerised by one of the most superficial edgelords
At least you'll grow up some day

>>21886779
I read the Essay "Hell-Baked" because some anon posted it, only Land I have ever read, and it was like reading my diary entries from when I was a teen, 15-16 years old.
I had the exact same insight that evolution is a blind process of unending cosmic death and suffering that he wrote in that essay, and I got it from a Tool song.
I've found the same fundamental pessimism expounded by the TV-show Rick and Morty.
I think it is very stunted and juvenile, and it has put me off from reading anything else by him. I do still enjoy Tool from time to time, however. I find the lyrics mostly cringy, but I just try to ignore them.

>>21887391
>and it was like reading my diary entries from when I was a teen, 15-16 years old.
That's all of philosophy desu

>>21887429
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche for sure, Schelling and Husserl, not so much.

>>21886779
jordan peterson

>>21886786
... its... too... late...

>>21887437
not even philosopher

>>21886911
Yeah

>>21887450
he sure thinks he is

Why do you guys care about these burn-outs? No one is going to even know their names in 100 years, so why should you know them today?

>>21887469
daughter dead lol

>>21886842
Ironically Pynchon is/was almost certainly an obsessive internet trawler, if Bleeding Edge is any indication.

>>21887664
Oh hi tranny glowie

>>21887469
100% schizo.

>>21887469
>According to Dugin, the fifth column promoted the breakup of the Soviet Union as a land continental construction, seized power under Boris Yeltsin, and headed Russia as the ruling politico-economic and cultural elite until the 2000s. The fifth column is the regime of liberal reformers of the 1990s and includes former Russian oligarchs Vladimir Gusinsky, Boris Berezovsky, former government officials Mikhail Kasyanov, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Ryzhkov, artistic, cultural, and media workers, the Echo of Moscow, the Russian State University for the Humanities, the highest ranks of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, a significant part of teachers of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and a minority part of teachers of the Moscow State University.
>According to Dugin, the whole Internet should be banned: "I think that Internet as such, as a phenomenon is worth prohibiting because it gives nobody anything good." In June 2012, Dugin said in a lecture that chemistry and physics are demonic sciences, and that all Orthodox Russians need to unite around the president of Russia in the last battle between good and evil, following the example of Iran and North Korea. He added: "If we want to liberate ourselves from the West, it is needed to liberate ourselves from textbooks on physics and chemistry."
>In 2008 Dugin established a Center for Conservative Studies at the Moscow State University. The Center focused on counter-Enlightenment and conservative ideas of authors such as Guénon, Evola, Schmitt and Heidegger, and on their application to Russian politics.
>Dugin's first wife was Evgenia Debryanskaya, a Russian activist. They have a son, Artur Dugin, whom they named in honor of Arthur Rimbaud.
This nigga would be hilarious if he wasn't taken as a serious imperialist Russian pundit.