/lit/ - Literature

>If you were American who would you vote for
>Trump

https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/794232437337247744

Where are all the soods claiming that Trump is shit? Show your faces

>>8638848
Intelligent people have ideologies.
Theories over facts anyday.

I can barely understand what this dumb faggot is saying holy shit
The most monstrum plebeian philosopher alive

I honestly never read anything he ever wrote, but he's pretty much Stirner at this point. Every person that has an opinion gets called out as "PURE IDEALOGY" instead of "SPOOKS"

After a long discussion about Laotse one of my Chinese students from last year asked me for a 'crash course' in western philosophy reading list. He sometimes struggles to articulate himself verbally but I'm pretty sure he's almost native level in English literacy (far above the average American in this regard). I've come up with this for him:

Heraclitus - Fragments
Plato - Crito, Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, Timaeus
Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, Organon
Epicurus - Letters and fragments
Epictetus - Discourses and Enchiridion
Aurelius - Meditations
Machiavelli - Livyan Discourses, The Prince
Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy
Hobbes - Leviathan
Locke - Two Treatises on Government
Hume - All essays and inquiries
Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation, On Women
Nietzsche - Twilight of the Idols, Beyond Good and Evil, Genealogy of Morals
Heidegger - Being and Time
Deleuze and Guattari - Capitalism and Schizophrenia
Land - Fanged Noumena

Am I missing anything big? Am I memeing him too hard with D&G/Land?

>reading lactation erotica
>10 pages in author is still developing his characters
>get frustrated, boner is fading
>ctrl+f tits
>0 results
>breasts
>0 results
>boobs, hooters, udders, funbags, knockers, ect.
>0 results
>close document

Do these niggers really expect me to sit back and read the life stories of their banal ass characters when I'm in the middle of masturbating? Do they think I fucking care about why their loser self insert wants to drink tit milk? Jesus erotica writers are bad, the ones who know what to write don't know how to write (spelling errors everywhere and those just kill my cock) and the ones who know how to write don't know what to write (50 pages of character development for one sex scene, or better yet a 'CONTINUED IN PART 2').

>>8385135
You feel castration anxiety about the possibility that the "castrated" enjoy more than you.

>>8382181
>implying a 4chan imageboard has that much power

>>8364027
Indisputable.

he and his name are like alternate reality zizek

When is the appropriate age to start introducing your children to the Greeks? I've started reading The Republic to my 6 year old and he doesn't seem to be getting it despite it being easily the most understandable of Plato's works. Is he doomed to be a pleb for life?

Thoughts on Slavoj Zizek?

I had a dream that I met Slavoj Zizek last night and he did nothing but repeatedly insult me for not understanding Lacan. He didn't sniffle, rub his nose or make a penis joke once and had a weird mole on his face so I suspected that he was an impostor and had abducted the real Zizek. I was about to go looking for him before I woke up.

My NY Resolution is to stop subvocalizing (except by choice)

How can this be best accomplished?

lit likes Zizek or not?

Is Zizek even worth reading?

>...Nevertheless, we have to face the fact that antisemitism has existed off and on ever since 1500 B.C. It is not, as a shallow writer in the New Statesman recently declared, an infection spread from the Nazis. As early as the twelfth century A.D. it was rife in this country and flared up repeatedly until in 1290 the Jews were expelled altogether. Elsewhere the attitude towards the Jews has in the last thousand years fluctuated between the extremes of complete friendliness and ruthless persecution, and, before we can begin to outline a solution of the Jewish problem, it seems important to try to account for the periodical outbursts of dislike to which the Jews have been exposed throughout most of their known history.

>Is it, as Joseph Kastein suggests, due chiefly to the scapegoat principle — to mankind's tendency, when things go wrong, to seek the cause in some odd and easily distinguishable minority in their midst?


>I, for one, cannot unreservedly accept this simplistic explanation. There is something more than that in the recurring waves of antisemitism that have marked the history of Europe.

Is he the living embodiment of poe's law?

"So what is it exactly that we find in 4cha?. Until recently nah thing, 4chan wash of course just a sort of uh uh little uh schniff angsty teenager who had kind of an ah what is uh autism! Haha okay okay but then the community of esh 4 esh appears and it is now ash if we see the first truly virtualcommunity. 4chan wash of ccourse schniff always diss but in sort of a reflective way like-like a circle of shitty toilet water or sahmthing but esh 4 esh is not simply a forum in which schniff psuedo autistic anons can rattle on about Japanese ahnumation and post scat porn and so on but is the Christ like ressurection of a crucified personification of internet ignorance itself. What do I mean by this? Schniff basically that on esh 4 esh a user experiences the memes which have been born now completely removed from their real life schniff supplement. You are experiencing pure ironic meme culture!"

Who /Zizek/ here?

IDEOLOGY
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Does he subvocalize?

I don't get anything this guy says.

Is he just a pedant worshipped by other pedants or he has something worthwhile to say?

>>6853050
In principle, yes, but if we were to have a board exclusively on philosophy, I doubt that the users would allow pure ideology to command it. The idea behind a new space like /phi/ is exactly to avoid uniform thought - it should, at least in theory, be a place for discussion free from ideological dogmatism.

Slavoj Žižek, to me, is hilarious and seems to have the beginnings of what could be interesting thoughts

However, in his lectures he seems to repeat himself constantly and despite repeated listens, I can't seem to find what his final point is

Are his books any better? Do they adequately explain the thoughts which he begins to introduce in his lectures?