Literature Thread #9

no one who says that has ever read Tolstoy =I

What the fuck are you doing here Rebel?

Great essay by a great man. Wilde is bae.

Not reading anything political at the moment. Last lefty thing that I read was "The incoming insurrection". Was a bit meh.

I like anarchism, but never read anything decent besides Kropotkin. Should I try Emma Goldman?

I might give Rosa Luxembourg's "Reform and Revolution" a go. I already have the epub on my phone, ready to be read during commute.

read first line of OP pls

Both Luxemburg and Goldman are great no matter where you are on the spectrum. I think you'd benefit from either!

Cursorily reading works from Hegel, Lacan, and Žižek. Probably gonna open up Bordiga next, specifically the Battaglia Comunista publications, maybe restudy Marx along hitherto unobserved interpretations.

i'm reading stupid shitposts on Holla Forums

tell me why i'm too depressed to work myself through books i used to enjoy and spend entire days with
yet i'm still here

Doing a general reading on the history of the 19th century using The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century I am only reading the chapthers that are relevant to my interest like the Living Conditions, Agri-Cultural revolution, Famines, The state and so on.

Ganne continue my re-reading of Ego in his Own in the upcoming week and the collected works of Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber)

=( hello cancer comrade. =(
Sadboys?

misery loves company

Reading Sickness unto death, Kierkegaard. Uses the word despair a lot. Was thinking of reading stirner or the wikileaks files afterwards. I read some stirner when I was around 15 years old, and I hated him, but maybe I've matured enough to appreciate him now.

I tried. I got bored.

With dostoyefsky I didn't get bored even with the first part of the underground, AKA your average channer.

State & revolution by Vladimir "Memelord" Lenin.

Also, is this really you, rebel?

Oh good, you've not killed yourself yet.

Or are you just looking for a target?

Only if you are a qt trap with no lewd intentions but only suicide bombing wallstreet while romanticly holding hands.

Good choice! What did you think about the necessity of overcoming despair to become one's self *through* infinite subjectivity?

I'm not a trap, but I've been called a femboy?

pics

Are you actually Rebel and do you actually have cancer?
I know this is avatarfagging shit but man it would suck if one of the outwards faces of the community who produced above-average content went and died.
I had a teacher "recovering" from cancer for 5 years before she died.

On-topic, I'm reading a book by a local doctor of philosophy about Democracy as a political system and as an ideology, and the schisms that necessarily exist between the two. Pretty good, but I went into it expecting it to do more than the very cursory and very statist covering of direct democracy that it did.

But can you recover from cultural marxism?

8ch.net/pol/res/7285779.html

YES YOU CAN

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Honestly, not completely getting it. Let me get back to you when I finish the book.

Here's my trip. Lying is a sin desu.

Tankies don't get to see. Only for qt anfem traps and depressed annils with cancer.

LOL small world

I understand user. I had to read Unscientific Postscript before I *really* got Kierkegaard.

I think, maybe, someone was projecting a bit there. Are you circumcised?

N-no.
Why?

Was the cancer ever life-threatening?
If it was, did it have any influence on your faith? Or did your faith even factor in heavily when dealing with it?
I'm asking because I'm actually (despite being an atheist for my entire life) somewhat informed on Christian (protestant at least) theology, since my mother is a priest in a country that actually places intellectual demands on its state religion priests.
She would regularly speak with people facing death about their faith, and therefore speak with me about it as well, but the far far majority of people she spoke with about mortality and death were theologically uneducated.

Categorization.

Yes it was life-threatening, no it didn't have an influence apart from perhaps realisation that I need to take it more seriously, and of course my faith factored in dealing with it just like in life.

I don't understand what you mean by projecting. Projecting what?

You tell me this. Is it about the mother?

I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS CONVERSATION =(

But I mean, like, for most believers, in my experience, their relationship with the Christian paradise is pretty vague or undetermined.
Like, of course you got the people who go full 72 virgins mode and ask about whether or not their dogs will be with them up there in heaven.
But most people just never put much thought into it, before being confronted with their imminent death. Meaning that this usually prompts some change in their faith.
Did you have a solid belief regarding paradise? Do you see it as necessary to the Christian faith? What's your opinion on the biblical rapture?

I don't tend to worry about that. I do my best to think about what it is God wants me to do. That's just how I live; I focus on how I live.

I'm sorry but I can't answer your question. I just don't put much thought into it.

Sure thing. It's just something that's been on my mind for a while.
A friend of my mother recently published her Ph.D thesis that's somewhat related to the topic.
It's pretty esoteric, (meaning: I haven't read it because I'm not a fucking theologian, a translation of the title would be something like
"Presence as refiguration, event and materiality - A reread of Martin Luther's Dass diese Wort and Vom Abendmahl Christi in discussion with modern systematical-theological interpretations of nova lingua"
) but from speaking with her it's related tointerpretation of the Bible as a piece of language, rather than as a literal historical work.
Which is sort-of taking it a step further from just interpretation of intention/message, which I would argue is needed to console the differences between modern Christian faith as practiced (i.e. the biblical rapture is pretty silly) and theological grounding for the modern protestant.

I'm no genius whatsoever when it comes to theology, nor am I a big fan of Luther, but I'm still convinced that faith is a subjective thing and can't be reduced to systematic analysis of language.

Has anyone here read Endgame by Derrick Jensen. I saw a video where he talked about his book and seemed to be the most sane of the anarcho-primitivists or whatever the he is, and he did have some interesting points. Is it at all worth the read?

Then I don't either. I'm really bored when not reading tbh.

How was "The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists" anyway?

Sorry, no.

reeeee hmph.

Still haven't finished it. It's pretty accurate compared to my experiences growing up in the working class.

I'm reading Dracula. It's the first book I've picked up in several years.

I couldn't have picked a less interesting book if I tried.

heh you are like a little baby

Dostoevsky have the writing talent to make reading about masturbation more thrilling than masturbation itself

Is Judaism the original Trotskyism?

i was reading The Last Superstition by Edward Feser, but it's too polemical and kind of weirdly political.

My next book to finish is Pornland by Gail Dines. I'm not reading theory for a while :(

Bump for Harry Potter

Currently reading Infinite Meme, I'm struggling with it. After every 'and so on' I read it with Zizek's accent. And collection of Witkiewicz's plays.

NICE.