/lit/ - Literature

>>10160006
Rain drop
Drop top
Smokin cookie
In the hot box

>>10159934
This

>>10159661
Yeah the real girardfag is probably gay. I just like the name for the lulz. I wish we all change our names to girardfag desu

>>10159097
Good book. My gf read all the long listers and said 4321 was her fave, but Exit West should've won

>>10156618
I love him. His writing is easy to follow, but there's depth there if you're willing to work. Maybe all his characters are 30 y/o men, but hey, that should be right up lit's alley. I think I like him primarily because he unironically deals with love with sentiment but not with sentimentality. I appreciate it. Try reading Kafka on the Shore

>>10157893
Worst Murakami. No pathos, just memeing. Wtf are INKlings?
1Q84, Kafka, Wind-Up are best HK

Thomas Pynchon

shameless self bump :^)

might as well leave one more image here. until next time gents. & good luck in meme wonderland

*activates handle*

>>9934778
what's up homeboy

>>9934887
>I called him out for being a histrionic plebshit fucking imbecile and he started crying and left
I'll bring down any of you if I need to
n-no way man
cool guys never cry
*sniff*

>>9934916
have another

>>9935106
i love this place

>>9935146
big fags, that's who

i'm just taking a breather to digest for a bit. practicing dat silence. i check this place daily but IRL life has a few added dimensions to it now. working out the silliness in a slightly different form, mostly trying to prevent nick land's wet dreams from destroying what remains of my sanity

you guys are wonderful
this place is wonderful
memes are wonderful
& we are forever happy we came to /lit/

i am trying to retire this handle but when i am desperate for attention again i will surely invoke it

but it is more than likely that i will be so obviously me that you will know me anyways

the Great Shitposting of 2016-2017 was absolutely awesome and supremo fun. more paranoid memefagging surely to come at a later date

much love, many keks, so memish

>>9915525
harris is a way cool guy. i like him. he's completely right about this

>you need to stop taking yourself so seriously
you're 100% right about this also

>I don't like that you have an ID on an anonymous board
wasn't the plan. other anons were mistaking me for other people tho. i didn't like that. i say enough dumb things on my own

>your need to attach your posts to an identity like a mark of pride is just another example of taking yourself seriously
all true. you're not wrong

>you seem behind the times in regard to neuroscience and identity itself
probably true

>stop being a whiny bitch
good advice tbqh. i'm fine with this

i feel cheered, thx bro

>>9915543
>i seriously hope you dont consider this good philosophy
the age of derrida et al was enervating af. nick land does two things i like

1) opens up a giant chasm underneath the floor of red team/blue team histrionics. the more silly & reactive both sides get, the worse things get for both of them. true, rooting for skynet accordingly is ridiculous, but that's not the point. the point is

2) philosophy actually means something again. again, this after much much exhausting horseshit w/r/t What Did He Mean By This. if acceleration is real then suddenly thought seems interesting again. true, in horrifying ways. but at least it clears out of the way some very foolish old roadblocks that allow for interesting conversations again. and lots of other stuff

i can be fairly direct about this: personally i think landian thought is something to be transcended and overcome, not despairingly surrendered to. i think it makes a lot of wisdom philosophy cool and interesting again: if the spice must flow, it's not crazy to think that something like Virtue might be worth thinking again. or, just as deleuze says:
>become worthy of that which happens to you

so land's thought is scary but i think there's a lot o positive stuff that follows from it: nihilism as speculative opportunity. good scene i think. and i'm not an academic, i gain nothing from this. but if it makes intellectual life worth taking seriously, i think that's cool. it's a sea-change in intellectual culture in many ways and he is a part of it

the point, however, i would say, is aesthetics > metaphysics. art - a good piece of art - does more for this than all of the hysterical shitposting in the world. art is the place to put philosophy imho. but you have to be on reasonably consistent terrain before that is possible, or else you wind up with ideology. it's why i came here in the first place

so silicon valley reich will not last 1000 years, but tech is a thing and the spice must flow. thus sanity & the tao for me. and trying not get trigged by everything i see in the news

>>9914959
that's very kind anon. no chaotic genius tho. i checked. i'm extraboring & plan to become moreso

paranoid girardfaggery now goes into shit-tier pulp fiction with plots blatantly and shamelessly ripped off from final fantasy games. the dialogue is atrocious & i couldn't be happier. but getting over a world-class lump of writer's block and embracing my karma as a living shitpost wouldn't have been possible w/o having first talked out much Fun here. 'twas good times indeed and i love this place 4ever. there's no place else like it

maybe when that's done we'll try academia. who knows. life is mysterious but it's probably a bad idea to try and pay your rent with opinions about the feels. especially when one is as neuroplastic as me

props to nick land tho for making continental philosophy great again. we're all going to die but at least we can have the appropriate facial expressions & meme references on deck during the cranial drilling procedures

>>9915025
hi jon

anyways silence > girardfag. /lit/ is the best. hope you guys are enjoying writing weird fiction or philosophy, it's the coolest

>>9914081
in case anyone was wondering...

i've been trying to maintain a vow of /lit/ silence for a while. i still check /lit/ daily and have ofc been following this thread and others - land, chinese stuff, et al. but i mostly only read taoist stuff these days. calms the butterflies.

'twas a great deal of shitposting done in 2016-2017 & i am eternally grateful for having been able to work out no small amount of neurosis here v/land, bannon (RIP), capital, acceleration, mimesis & all the rest. basically, pandora's fucking box.

so i'm withdrawing from /lit/ for a while to digest. and to give threads some space to breathe also so that i don't fucking opioninize things to death like a hysterical retard. good luck to all you sexy motherfuckers tho in the meantime. hope the daily battle with sanity goes well for all.

>>9863473
yo

i'm supposed to be on a self-imposed vow of /lit/ silence the rest of this month. silence is a good look for me atm. very rewarding. am cheating on it to respond

there's no need. gratitude is good but i will take this comment and transmogrify it: thank yourself on my behalf. render causality a little more free. thank yourself for something. i am a ttc-reading, neoplatonist-admiring, post-accelerationist traveling defective-sphinx roadshow now b/c of this site. this site and no other. all praises be to /lit/ & cool anons like you for the many many thoughtful conversations here in which a few mysterious knots were untangled

i love the dark now. wholly and not partially. laozi did nothing wrong. i have 200K+ words of schizo hijinx on a file on my PC and someday it will be all finished in a wonderful big meme & sacrificed to the amazon gods for a sexy $3.99. do not hold your breath for this

in the meantime life continues to be impossible. i think that's the point

will be back later ofc. once i figure what i want to get fucked up over next

girardfag@gmail.com

>>9857503
thank you anon.

this then will be my final post on /lit/ for a while. lets's say until next month. enjoy the thread.

>>9857386
yeah. i'll track down a copy soon. got a few other things to take care of first before i start on what may well be a long-term neoplatonic adventure. neuroplasticity, you know.

i don't know what it is tho, these quotes that you are selecting just resonate with me like you wouldn't believe. maybe it's because i've ventilated all my shit that needed to get ventilated at this point. connecting signals, connecting dots. girard into deleuze into mcluhan into land into laozi into baudrillard into sheng-ji yang into ???. into into. maybe it's this.

it's been a fucking long time in the darkness is what i mean. on planet meme. wherever it is that you're getting these quotes from, they're awesome as fuck and wonderful to read. i read the republic some time ago and my head felt about three pounds heavier afterwards. then later nietzsche & all the rest.

but these days? i don't know man. i feel like i could happily drive a garbage truck around the post-apoc wasteland and just have the neoplatonist broadcast coming over the radio. i will be in that place and reading the Little Red Book of Chairman Yang for a while yet i think, or at least i've had enough of all of these things i chase after that ruin my life. it's just nice to think that there might also be an alternative to that fuckface oroboric tail-chasing.

whatever it is, it's pretty goddamn wonderful. so thanks once again for the awesome thread, and the thoughtful quotes. it's very much appreciated. and please do not let me & my dumb shit interrupt the signal. i need to work on my silence.

>>9857389
you don't have to go in order, you know. just read whatever you like.

i mean i say this b/c i am self-taught with all this & obviously it shows. i'm pretty much settled now on what i like & think is cool but honestly i recommend just reading what you like. do what you gotta do for school or whatever but philosophy is so dope that it's not worth it to put off the good stuff for too long

whatever tho. it's all good

fantastic four yo. we should be embarrassed that we don't make superheroes this fucking awesome anymore

>>9857328
just steal it from yarr matey, he won't mind.
you know catholics
they're not into guilt

>>9857345
noice, might have to check that out. thank ye sir

seriously tho look at this shit. the fantastic four were legit pretty fantastic. batman ofc is where it's at today & spider man is in a state of permanent adolescence

but the fantastic four were fucking adults. Reed and Sue are like the only goddamn functioning adults out there with a stable marriage. they're mutants, whatever. it's not a thing. they live

i must be getting old that this is now what appeals to me about marvel comics

cannot find a flaw with sue storm
good shit reed
good job my man

>>9857304
i mean i guess we could talk about baudrillard & lacan & seduction & the feminine mystique & so on

but sometimes a cigar is just a cigar you know

maybe reed richards had the right idea

>>9857214
>I know there's a lot of shitposters trying to detract from your posts
wouldn't be /lit/ without it. it will be a bad day when this place is a lovey-dovey cosmic freakfest. dat Cosmic Balance. and i mean if people cannot call you a raging pseud faggot dipshit then what the fuck is the point. well-intentioned censoriousness & hair-triggers & CTRL are exactly why i am here and sounding the way that i do

this place is neither my blog nor my soapbox. it's just where i go to vent shit & echolocate. and this has been quite a wonderful and illuminating experience. i'm now mostly Ventilated.
>but strange things grow in the depths

>I always appreciate them, fag.
mutual. thx for the kind thought. good luck out there then.

>>9857132
i have made a grand total of one (1) post on reddit, and it will be the only one. i roll /lit/ and only /lit/

>and i keep telling myself i am going to roll out of this place but it's just too darn fun
>y so much fun /lit/
>y so much fun
>but roll i must
>argh
>must roll
>hate rolling
>being covered in moss > rolling
>hnng moss
>hnng swamps
>hnng weird fungus-thing

>take your pills josh
>ok

>>9857091
as a wise person once said, new discoveries in philosophy are not made by proving anyone wrong, but by proving everyone (or at least a good portion of them) *right.* we haven't hit the limits of philosophy yet and we are not *going* to hit those limits for a very very long time. there's too much other shit in play: culture, economics, tech, you name it. just too much shit
>and it wigs us out trying to incorporate it all

>I can accept what I greentexted (several years ago) as well as the existence of something like a god.
awesome. and you know what else? *it's pretty fucking interesting too.* but if it is destroying your will to live, or your curiosity, or whatever else, then maybe that is worth paying attention to. maybe some new gods need to come in. or maybe no gods. or maybe a career in the WWE. who knows.

dead ends feel dead because they are dead. but *good luck keeping things that way* - because we live in a world of constant and ridiculous change & it fucks with us. we have to keep adapting. and the more we adapt, the more interesting things happen. until you get lucky and get to die on a waterbed surrounded by prostitutes and blow. or whatever. you get what i am saying. when you have had Enough.
>but i am not yet satisfied

>Agree with pretty much everything you said. That's where I want to be.
cool. and here's the funny thing with me: i don't like change. i want to be a boring lighthouse keeper in a world where nothing really happens. excess chaos messes with me. i dislike too much contingency. it can't be avoided, but it screws with my head. i like based tranquility and cheeseburgers. that is literally *all* i want. and maybe a holodeck

>Actually, I wish I had a mentor like you.
kek. *no you do not.* here's the thing with me: *i do not do mentoring.* no mentoring! none. i will tag along with the party & do what i do but no mentoring. i used to be in the advice-giving business and i am out of that now. trying to give *less* advice
>& it is not easy either
>& so one must be *humble*
>v v *humble*
>& v v *quiet*

>I mean, I can get excited for the doors nihilism opens up because I'm human, but thinking about it this fades rather quickly
it will come back. bet that. unless you are doing everything right, in which case - do more that

>I can never feel positive about it deep down.
nope. you can not. but that's how it is. it's not about all-in positivity. it's about *balance* in *chaos* pic rel: how about this? how about this. the slogan of based captain nemo. and captain nemo did nothing wrong:

>his emblem, as given in a description of the flag he raised when claiming Antarctica, is a large golden N on a black field. the motto of the Nautilus was Mobilis in Mobili, roughly translated from Latin as, "moving amidst mobility", "moving within the moving element", or "changing in the changes"

>>9857102
yep

>>9856974
>dude what the fuck are you saying
acceleration a thing
deleuze is interesting
also laozi

using your brain to make fun & interesting stuff is cool, thinking interesting stuff is interesting. try not to lose your shit in the process. it's not easy. consciousness is mysterious. depression is real. we know little

>I don't understand anything that is coming out of your mouth
that's ok. i'm not always trying for coherence. i echolocate. sometimes i just make whale-sounds. i'm weird like that

>>9856984
>Care to elaborate?
the problem is that we cannot say we do *not* know because we know exactly how it feels when we encounter someone who *does* now and then suddenly, we also know.

some other wise anon said this: until you actually understand the laws of quantum physics, they might as well not exist for you. now: i am going - with great trepidation - to suggest that something *analogous* to this process has also been my experience v/theory. i didn't know why anyone should care about heidegger until i read him. then i could not shut up. i did not know why anyone should care about plato until i read him. then i could not shut up. i did not
>you get the idea.

people *do* discover *ridiculous* things in the world of metaphysics. everything with me is butterflies in my stomach. it happens time and again. i think, I'm The Only One Who Sees This. much neurotic static follows. and then i realize lacan or deleuze or girard or whoever not only knows this, but has articulated it all far far far better than i can. and then i share what little i can with the next guy, and they go, Wow, That's Fucking Cool, I Thought So Too. and you are *alleviated* of that feeling, and able to - do what? fuck i don't know. *get fucking bent up with something else*

it's like that, imho. shit is *not* supposed to be obscurantist, arcane, or invite *snobbery.* very very much the opposite: it's about busting people out of private panopticons, of ideology.

the real thing: is there *any alternative to ideology?* i would say no, unless it's something much much different: vast networks of Interesting people being collectively Interested.

i will shitpost this clip *again:*

McLuhan: Good Luck Bucko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x6725NW8vw

>What I meant is while all philosophy is pretty much a dead end in the sense of true if something else is true

>Mongol General: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
>Mongol: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcons at your wrist, and the wind in your hair.
>Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?

what is best in life, anon? is it conan? conan too has existential problems. even when he is sitting on that giant throne:

>hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, sword in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the jeweled thrones of the Earth under his sandalled feet.

gigantic melancholies, gigantic mirth.

(cont'd)

the invisible woman did nothing wrong