/lit/ - Literature

>>13284228
>mysticizes 'beings'

>>12750881
>I actually plan on writing a really postmodern novel
Let me just already tell you to stop right there you absolute pseud ingrate

>>12678691
unironically this
>A German friend of Heidegger told me that one day when he visited Heidegger he found him reading one of Suzuki’s books; ‘If I understand this man correctly,’ Heidegger remarked, ‘this is what I have been trying to say in all my writings.'

>>12668193

Can anyone source this anecdote for me? Can't remember where I heard it and too much of a faggot to google.

A friend invited ol Martin over for dinner and found the philosopher scanning through the bookshelf. Martin shelved the book he was reading -- DT Susuki's Essays in Zen -- and said "if I understand this man correctly, this is what I have been trying to say in all my philosophy."

Thoughts? Is this even true?

>>12659819

>>12615241
it's a good list but i think the massive volumes of Kant at the start will put people off, as will Nietzsche. you don't really need Nietzsche for Land, imho. you don't even really need Kant, i think; my own sense is that the Kantian stuff comes with the BTC book, and of course in the first essay from FN, but i don't know if there's a need to feel like you have to have Kant down inside and out before reading Land. if anything you can read Land in order to read Kant later, maybe...

the Overy and Greenspan theses are the way to go, plus the Accelerate reader for the Fragment on Machines and Teleoplexy. then Fanged Noumena and Thirst, Capitalism and Schizophrenia in there somewhere also. it's honestly *Lacan* and Hegel who make, imho, the best precursors to reading Land, because once you understand the Lacan-Hegel relation, and are convinced that It Could Not Be Otherwise Socrates, D&G will blow your shit completely to the moon. *now* you're ready for Land!

and then, later on, after maximal Land-obsessing, maybe Heidegger - to see where the Gestell takes you. i read Heidegger first, and others might enjoy that also, but late-Land is returning to Heidegger again (in the Murphy interview, even in the BTC book) - so whether you read Heidegger before or after, meh, it doesn't make much of a difference.

and then...more Hegel! but of course this is only because i'm enjoying re-reading Hegel-Lacan stuff again, so...

>>12593153

if anyone wants to read some poor theory-fiction ill post some. (critique threads gone down-hill a bit)

>>12247465
try a more "performative" approach to women. treat everything you say like scripted dialogue. this helped for me. consider each action like youre seeing it from the audience, invested in the romantic scene youre witnessing. eventually it'll seem more "authentic" and "you" than just a 3rd person.
also: even if you are a sperg, if youre clever you can make it quaint and charming

>>12247635
it's better to write something that we could've done without, than to not write something which would've been worthwhile. the lack of good books is worse than the abundance of bad books. just write something, if it's shit -- it'll quickly be forgotten so it wont embarrass you.

>>12246893
NI has literally 0 fucking economy. if it wasnt for london hand-outs NI, wales and scotland would be 3rd world desu. there's a reason none of them want independence despite being horribly mistreated by england

>>12246680
do you know any algebraic topology?? try understand something a bit more elementary first.

>>12246245
unless what's wrong is an external fact of the world, rather than your perception of it. eg: if your problem is the death of a loved one, suicide wont help. if your problem is grief of a loved one, it will. remember, most peoples problems are about providing for their children, not being a lonely dweeb

>>12245640
i wouldnt recommend tinder for this guy -- it's basic setup is hypergamic hookup of the most superficial kind (i dont disparage it, it serves a purpose).

>>12245595
it's not women that caused original sin, but gender dichotomy itself. the utopia is rolling hills from coast to coast, over which skip immortal androgynous nymphs. it was adam's folly in wishing a unequal co-part.

>>12245564
forgive your mother, for your own sake.

b u m p pls

someone post poetry

I've been reading books the wrong way my whole life and I want to share this tip in case anyone else is making this mistake.

Let's say I'm reading a book and the author is describing a place and two characters are speaking to each other. All I will picture is two blank faces talking to each other in a blank vacuum. There's no imagination involved other than what is explicitly in the text.

Instead what I found that helps is making the scene come to life - pretend it's a movie and you're reading the script. This makes the imagery much more vivid.

>at work, helping a child (about 8 years old) with homework
>read through one of the pquestions while mumbling
>"wow" she says "how can you read so fast?"
>"I've been reading for a long time"
>"Good for you."

What did she mean by this?

Is there a word that can be used describes a text that "excessively requires a prior understanding of a particular subjective experience".

Colloquially this refers to talking about "my uncle Jimmy" and other shit nobody has any clue about, and making that the focal point without disclosing any background information.

In writing, it's basically anything that is so terse or vague that it has no inherent meaning to anyone other than its author (however, readers may attach their own meaning, which will vary so much we can't even call it meaning - we might as be looking at a photograph).

What are some worthwhile books published in the last 5 years?

Shakespeare

>>10912789
>Current year
>Using your radical freedom to stir up shit on the internet

THA TING GOES

I can't be bothered to take a picture, so I'll just list what I've picked up over the past week. Mostly to cover the numerous trips I'll have to make over the Christmas period.

Amulet by Bolano
Annihilation by VanderMeer
Hello America by Ballard
Dhalgren by Delany
War and Revolution: Rethinking the Twentieth Century by Losurdo
The London Hanged: Crime And Civil Society In The Eighteenth Century by Linebaugh

(last two were Verso sale pickups)

I just read Amulet, did so in one sitting. It's fantastic can't wait to delve into his more famous works.