Capitalist realism

book really changed the way I look at things

reading Society of the Spectacle right now and plan to reread Capitalist Realism after

Society of the spectacle is also a rly great read

I do lowkey feel like everyone should read this at least once but I’ve yet to

Mao’s On Contradiction
Marx’s Grundisse
Lenin’s What is to be Done?
Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus
Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks

Marcus Tullius Cícero - De Officiis

Stranger - Albert Camus
Essai - Montaigne
Meditations- Marcus Aurelius

Couldn’t be more wrong. Skepticism and cogito ergo sum is the foundation for all modern philosophy.

that Calvin Warren caught my eye! 👀

edit: there's also this other Christina Sharpe book I'd like to get that speaks on Blackness maybe you read it?

interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake."

I have it on my kindle but haven't read it yet. I've seen nothing but praise though.

I read this book, but I did not understand it at all

Hee man,

Do you have some other book recommendations?

Anything specific? I mostly stick to existentialism or just general classics, but these have a little variety to them:

Hunger - Knut Hamsen
Ward No.6 - Anton Chekhov
Siddharta - Herman Hesse

Okay thanks

Why are you so into existentialism?

I mean, part of it is because it very much aligns - or at the very least did - with where I am in the world currently as a young adult; concepts of authenticity and what my 'role' is in the world are key themes in such writing.

But I think more specifically, I (and I would assume many) view it more as a side-strand of literature. Whilst popular, existentialism is certainly far less of a scholarly or academic theory than most philosophies. It is very I based, and often finds itself laced in fiction; i.e. something that most academic philosophy would not lend itself toward. My favourite writer, Camus, referred to himself as an "artist" rather than a philosopher. I'd say that aptly sums my viewpoint.

great list but shouldve included the myth of sisyphus imo it lays the philosophical groundwork and reading camus novels afterwards is even more rewarding

prob one of the books that literally everyone should at least read once in their lifetime