Literary criticism greatest hits
- Thread starter sadmanbarty
- Start date
well that's the problem with the left isn't it? zizek is a dumpsack of shit but he did diagnose their pathology when he said the left needs a Thatcher. greatness always means one sees themselves in a higher rank. which actually makes one even more servile.
craner
Beast of Burden
I know you can do better than that.
I don't like Camus I think he was boring but pure nothingness and absurdism is the logical endpoint of literature as an individualised art form. why do we do anything? well, we just do.
the point now is to overcome that. an irrelevant question. that's why the first step is to kill the author entirely.
sadmanbarty
Well-known member
third is immune to the aesthetic.
he doesn't listen to music, he listens to ideas.
he doesn't listen to music, he listens to ideas.
No because he was a romantic. his modernism is a technical affectation.
luka
Well-known member
This was Wyndham Lewis' take, more or less.
craner
Beast of Burden
It's a better argument, too.
I somehow think this is supposed to rile me, but strangely, i find myself completely agreeing with it. my insufferable dad wants me to go to jumma and listen to the snotty nosed twat educated in medina extemporise for an hour on absolutely nothing but his own puffed up sense of self-righteousness (as if you aren't going to hellfire with us you piri piri sauce glittering like gold in a pigsty...)
so yes, pursue this line of argument further whilst I'm out.
Last edited:
sadmanbarty
Well-known member
classic third-barty miscommunication of intent.
it was a complement.
pretty much everything i've written that you thought was supposed to rile you wasn't that at all. it was genuine and positive.
no no not at all. I took it positively! sorry if I didn't communicate that well. i was winking and smiling when I said I think this is supposed to rile me.
