/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10984979]

If I have the opportunity to take a class with a famous figure /lit/ shitposts about sometimes should I take it? Even if I'm a brainlet who probably wouldn't be able to keep up?

[Anonymous No.10984985]

>>10984979
Yes.

[Anonymous No.10984998]

>>10984979
No.

[Anonymous No.10985001]

>>10984979
Yes, even if it's Tao Lin.
I missed a Eugenides reading back when I was in college and I still feel regret to this day.

[Anonymous No.10985074]

>>10984979

[Anonymous No.10985221]

It's an opportunity you'll likely never have again. Unless taking this course will literally cause you to fail out of college, I'd say definitely take it.

[Anonymous No.10985394]

>>10985221

Agree.

Any opportunity you have to interact with someone who is
a. published
b. on /lit/'s radar
c. willing to share their experiences and views on the craft,

you should take it.

[Anonymous No.10986011]

>>10984979
Is it Hegel?

[Anonymous No.10986015]

If you mean Dr. Greg Sadler pls do it

[Anonymous No.10986114]

>>10984979
If it's Peterson then go in there, call him a hack, say that he and anybody who consider him an intellectual should kill themselves, and leave.

If it's anybody else then sure. Go for it bud.

[Anonymous No.10986676]

>>10986114
Nah someone more serious, more hated, less talked about.
>>10986015
I did meet him once desu. He's even kindlier than he appears.

[Anonymous No.10986712]

>>10986676
Who is it? Why keep it a secret?

[Anonymous No.10986729]

>>10986712
So anon doesn't find me and violate my boyhole. but mainly that it's not that's relevant.

[Anonymous No.10986750]

>>10986729
How would telling the author's name give up your identity? So what if some random kid from some university posts on /lit/. Presumably you won't be the only person in your class.

[Anonymous No.10986752]

Zizek hasn't appeared in a lecture hall for over 5 years.

[Anonymous No.10986757]

>>10986729
Won't there be dozens of people in your class? We wouldn't be able to find you, anon. Plus there's no reason for people to fuck with you.

[Anonymous No.10986763]

>>10986752

Le sniffy ideology man gives lectures all over the world

[Anonymous No.10987161]

>>10984979
Yes, but if it's a white man, don't expect to learn about anything except him, him, him.

[Anonymous No.10987695]

>>10986757
No really I didn't want to namedrop and have the thread derail into a discussion of him rather than my question, but since the thread is ded anyway I can say it's Dennett.
>>10987161
Fug

[Anonymous No.10987812]

>>10987695
I disagree with him on just about everything, but I'd still take the class.
New atheism is so gay though...

[Anonymous No.10987978]

>>10987695
where does he teach? he reminds me of a friend of my parents who runs a local college's photography department—complete windbag

[Anonymous No.10988090]

>>10986676
My calculations keep saying Judith Butler.
I say 'that's wrong desu, calculate it again' but I just can't think of someone other than Butler.
Maybe Agamben.
OH SHIT MAYBE BLOOM. Wait, does he even still lecture?

[Anonymous No.10988098]

>>10987695
Denett's a huge fucking pleb, go home enjoy a movie you idjit.

[Anonymous No.10988103]

>>10984979
Care to extrapolate?

[Anonymous No.10988116]

Do it.

[Anonymous No.10988153]

>>10987695
well, at least you'll learn straight from the horse's mouth about the embarassing post-war period that started with promise and ended in self-parody with people like Krauss and the hordes of retarded adolescent redditors

[Anonymous No.10988210]

>>10987695
Just don't snicker at him in class
and youll be fine

[Anonymous No.10989717]

>>10987695
He's like the school of ressentiment for people who are too dumb to do science. All of his rhetoric about "intuitions pumps" and "tools" and shit just make him look pathetic. A lightweight as far as the actual discipline of philosophy is concerned.

[Anonymous No.10989725]

>>10985074
As if the University of Soviet Canuckistan would ever give him his job back after the shitstorm he kicked up.