What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
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SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
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I'm just now diving into Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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I read the first half of this yesterday and it is the most brilliant piece of writing I have ever read. Jean Baudrillard was a genius of the highest order.Făkünamę wrote:I'm just now diving into Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard
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Neotropical book
http://www.amazon.com/Neotropical-Compa ... +companion
http://www.amazon.com/Neotropical-Compa ... +companion
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
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Atomic man, embossed on hues of
Money greens that swell and ooze, will
Scratch his chin as if to muse that
All this winning meant to lose
Though he slaved and hate his dues
Here he was, no time to choose...Grass for Blades by Wigwam
Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
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What do you think? I enjoyed it greatly.Rum wrote:SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Currently on Robert Massie's enormous biography of Peter the Great and Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar.
Once those are done, need to go back to a few I started and then got side-tracked from:-
Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
"I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled"
AND MERRY XMAS TO ONE AND All!
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Re: What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)
"For reading a text is never a scholarly exercise in search of what is signified, still less a highly textual exercise in search of a signifier. Rather it is a productive use of the literary machine, a montage of desiring-machines, a schizoid exercise that extracts from the text its revolutionary force. The exclamation "So it's...!", or the meditation of Igitur on race, in an essential relationship with madness."
That's some good sauce.
That's some good sauce.
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I've just finished Jonathan Bate's biography of Ted Hughes which was very interesting
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Discipline and Punish - Michael Foucault
That is I'll be starting it as soon as I stop wasting all my time posting on Ratz.
That is I'll be starting it as soon as I stop wasting all my time posting on Ratz.
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Have they been flogging that book hard at local bookstores?Făkünamę wrote:Discipline and Punish - Michael Foucault
That is I'll be starting it as soon as I stop wasting all my time posting on Ratz.
Nurse, where the fuck's my cardigan?
And my gin!
And my gin!
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I'm just a sucker for punishment.
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I swapped out Foucault for Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex. She presents a neat quote from Simone de Beauvoir in the first chapter:
Good stuff.The theory of historical materialism has brought to light some important truths. Humanity is not an animal species, it is a historical reality. Human society is an antiphysis - in a sense it is against nature; it does not passively submit to the presence of nature but rather takes over the control of nature on its own behalf. This arrogation is not an inward, subjective operation; it is accomplished objectively in practical action.
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reading the Demon Princes by Jack Vance, an oldie but a sure value set
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PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping
PC stands for "Patronizing Cocksucker" Randy Ping
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