EPTWhat Are You Reading 2015 - Page 30
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:21 IgnE wrote: I was being sarcastic. ohhh | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:22 Jerubaal wrote: I didn't know you were an English major. I'm not sure I can trust you anymore. You're probably into the deconstruction shit. dude, this is such a long story I can't even begin. let's just say that I am an english major for precisely three more days of my life. I'm a recovering english major what's deconstruction? | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:21 IgnE wrote: I was being sarcastic. Which part. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:23 bookwyrm wrote: what's deconstruction? A Modern pathology I can't be bothered with. Marxism and deconstruction often go hand in hand. You basically go through every piece of culture and look for all the signs of oppression. That's as good as a definition I can give right now. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:24 Jerubaal wrote: A Modern pathology I can't be bothered with. Marxism and deconstruction often go hand in hand. You basically go through every piece of culture and look for all the signs of oppression. That's as good as a definition I can give right now. nah, that's just cultural studies marxism and deconstruction are actually fairly bitter theoretical antagonists. in the hands of american cultural studies it all turns into vague liberal-progressive mush which is why you have this impression of things. But that's just because nobody actually reads anything these days for example. the sort of "cultural studies marxists" you are talking about usually couldn't even explain, say, the difference between a crisis of overproduction and a crisis of overaccumulation. So.. not marxists. Marx is actually not primarily concerned with a moral critique. This confuses my professors too and came up in my oral exam - they have a hard time understanding that the nature of marxist critique is not to say "this thing is unjust" but "this this is incoherent on its own terms." That the thing is unjust is just sort of an obvious starting point - saying this might have polemical purposes, but no important theoretical ones | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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jtype
England2167 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/Beasts.jpg/220px-Beasts.jpg) Pretty interesting so far. I like his style. | ||
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
On June 12 2015 05:14 Jerubaal wrote: The reason they mush together is because they are all branches from the same tree and they share the same characteristics, including the obsession with narrative and elevating the practical to the level of the moral. On June 12 2015 05:19 bookwyrm wrote: yeah idk man. but if that's the story you want to tell yourself I guess that's ok with me ^_~ | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
i mean, you complain about people being obsessed with narrative in the same sentence that you tell me a story about a tree. come on, man. I'm also not really sure what you think the alternative to narrative is. what other trees are growing in this forest you're telling me about | ||
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IgnE
United States7681 Posts
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
He's also one of the most difficult people to read because most people seem incapable of not projecting their own prejudices when they read him. still the funniest part imo. But, we have enough marxists here, probably as many as people who like to discuss grimdark, so Jerubaal sounds cool. ![[image loading]](http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1349818792l/77013.jpg) As I Lay Dying. I love Cash. | ||
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
On June 12 2015 04:22 Jerubaal wrote: I didn't know you were an English major. I'm not sure I can trust you anymore. You're probably into the deconstruction shit. people with latin signatures cant be trusted | ||
thedeadhaji
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AndreWiles
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
As for fashionable nonsense - according to wikipedia noam chomsky, richard dawkins and thomas nagel all like it. if thats not a bad sign i dont know what is. | ||
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AndreWiles
36 Posts
On June 13 2015 16:13 Surth wrote: gonna read some Raymond Chandler again, hell yeah. As for fashionable nonsense - according to wikipedia noam chomsky, richard dawkins and thomas nagel all like it. if thats not a bad sign i dont know what is. It's best to judge books by their content. | ||
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Zergneedsfood
United States10671 Posts
On June 13 2015 22:05 AndreWiles wrote: It's best to judge books by their content. sir, i pick and choose books by cover :3 | ||
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