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david markson's reader's block. so far so good (30 pages in). unsurprisingly reminds me of wittgenstein's mistress, which is one of my favourites. it's uncanny how he actually conveys feelings through this rambling of factoids. i've found myself having to put down reader's block twice already, cause i was uneasy and felt this light tinge of sadness. and i don't usually react very much to art. at least not to my knowledge

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has anyone read The Sovereign Individual? just saw it mentioned in a wackass vice video. Content sounds interesting, but the only mentions on reddit I've found are by crypto nut-jobs.

The book was literally written before I was born, but apparently is fairly prescient. I'd love to read some more contemporary takes on how neoliberalism is going to fuck us over if anyone has req's.

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On 5/5/2019 at 9:23 AM, MadellisTheSixth said:

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has anyone read The Sovereign Individual? just saw it mentioned in a wackass vice video. Content sounds interesting, but the only mentions on reddit I've found are by crypto nut-jobs.

The book was literally written before I was born, but apparently is fairly prescient. I'd love to read some more contemporary takes on how neoliberalism is going to fuck us over if anyone has req's.

this has to be Brexit trollement

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Human Acts by Han Kang

I had no idea about the Gwangju Uprising so I'm already enjoying the obscure (to me) history lesson. This is written in a very plain and unsentimental style which I vibe with a lot. Still on the first story concerning students using a gymnasium to store and help ID bodies killed in the protests.

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After reading the blurb on Mindfuckers/Acid Fascists in another fred, have got to see if this is in Cardiff's humanities library, where, if it is, i'm gonna xerox every page & leave the £123 paperback w/Amazon.

Admit to being mildly fascinated with the period in question, the themes, music & "the long 60's" perspective", the places tripping can take you anyway on top of all this contextual madness, how ego-heavy brutalism can appropriate psychedelics as a tool to exploit, the gullibility of disciples (vulnerabilities/openness/wtf-ness?), plus the deeply-held belief that hallucinogenic chemicals could, somehow, transform the world. Manson got olde with Genesis P-Orridge & the Process Church always fascinated me, so dearest Mindfuckers, come out of the shadows, my mind is fucked enough already.

Sarah Hill's recent book "San-Francisco & the Long 60's" is an outstanding inquiry into the psychological landscape of the period, equally critical, but far more focused on activist groups, highly recommended:

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not sure if this is the correct thread, but what with all the talk about hamsun's hunger, this norwegian musician released a full-length interpretation of it

 

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Enter the Supersensorium: The neuroscientific case for Art in the age of Netflix

 

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EDIT: it's good enough I can even forgive him indulging in the bougie false binary of "Art vs. Entertainment" and that's saying something, because I don't usually stand for that shit.

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that stuff always creeps me out. reminds me of the faustian themes of how "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" and that we've gotten all these technological advancements at a great cost

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On 5/8/2019 at 6:19 PM, cwmbrancity said:

After reading the blurb on Mindfuckers/Acid Fascists in another fred, have got to see if this is in Cardiff's humanities library, where, if it is, i'm gonna xerox every page & leave the £123 paperback w/Amazon.

Admit to being mildly fascinated with the period in question, the themes, music & "the long 60's" perspective", the places tripping can take you anyway on top of all this contextual madness, how ego-heavy brutalism can appropriate psychedelics as a tool to exploit, the gullibility of disciples (vulnerabilities/openness/wtf-ness?), plus the deeply-held belief that hallucinogenic chemicals could, somehow, transform the world. Manson got olde with Genesis P-Orridge & the Process Church always fascinated me, so dearest Mindfuckers, come out of the shadows, my mind is fucked enough already.

Sarah Hill's recent book "San-Francisco & the Long 60's" is an outstanding inquiry into the psychological landscape of the period, equally critical, but far more focused on activist groups, highly recommended:

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Found a pdf of Mindfuckers. Might spare you the xeroxing. 

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NYRB put out a new edition of David Bunch's Moderan stuff from the '70s. For those unaware, it's kinda like PKD's more wacked-out, Exegesis stuff. Brutal cyborgification, plasti-coating the whole planet, etc. Who knows how the hell Bunch kept getting it published back in the day

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On 5/24/2019 at 8:05 AM, doorjamb said:

NYRB put out a new edition of David Bunch's Moderan stuff from the '70s. For those unaware, it's kinda like PKD's more wacked-out, Exegesis stuff. Brutal cyborgification, plasti-coating the whole planet, etc. Who knows how the hell Bunch kept getting it published back in the day

this sounds fuckin splendid. hopefully i can find a copy

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47 minutes ago, MadellisTheSixth said:

currently reading Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting and kicking myself over not picking it up earlier. was giggling my arse off the whole train ride.

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"The best book ever written by man or woman...deserves to sell more copies than the Bible."—Rebel, Inc.

It took me awhile but I recently finished Skaboys (Trainspotting prequel). The first half seemed slow, but I eventually got into it. Overall, I didn't find it as humorous as some of his other books.

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2 hours ago, whosebrian said:

It took me awhile but I recently finished Skaboys (Trainspotting prequel). The first half seemed slow, but I eventually got into it. Overall, I didn't find it as humorous as some of his other books.

damn, I'm keen to read Porno next. maybe ill give Skaboys the skip.

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27 minutes ago, MadellisTheSixth said:

damn, I'm keen to read Porno next. maybe ill give Skaboys the skip.

Porno was great. As in “proper great tradition” type work. Much, much better than Trainspotting, imho, which was vapid  and gimmicky, albeit with some great scenes.

Haven’t gotten around to Skaboys. Probably never will.

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On 5/24/2019 at 8:05 AM, doorjamb said:

NYRB put out a new edition of David Bunch's Moderan stuff from the '70s. For those unaware, it's kinda like PKD's more wacked-out, Exegesis stuff. Brutal cyborgification, plasti-coating the whole planet, etc. Who knows how the hell Bunch kept getting it published back in the day

Just picked this up. I wish NYRB would put out more speculative/genre fiction because they do a really good job of it – the Aickman collection they put out last year was excellent.

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Speaking of archeology:

Currently plodding through “The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World”

The subject itself is interesting enough: proto-indo-european and the people who spoke it.

But the writing: my goodness. Why do archeologists (this was written by one) insist on bombarding readers with seemingly endless lists of burial sites, numbers of pots found,  types of stone tools registered?

I get that these are their raw data and your peers like to see them, but would it kill you to summarize your findings when you’re writing for a general audience?

It’s something I’ve noticed before with books for laymen written  by archeologists: the endless slurry of repetitive detail without a single overview in sight. Scientists from other disciplines are much better at this, somehow.

Which is a shame, because I would find a birds eye overview of the archeology of a specific region quite interesting. As long as I don’t have to count all the bleeding pots and pans myself.

 

 

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@rhm...such stuff as dreams are made on *wink

people in the not too distant future will wonder wtf some of these texts were trying to achieve, but material culture, settlements, ritual sites & middens are the typical structured depositions of human remnants down through the millennia. The more ephemeral stuff never really features in the same way time is never fully explored conceptually beyond your standard “wheel” archetype. 

The Eurasian model was pioneered by Gimbutas, then ridiculed for decades b4 recent dna research revised the entire Bronze Age/Yamnaya influence across continental Europe wholesale...80+% displacement in some regions. If your dna tests ever throw up an r1b haplotype, part of your ancestry derives from the Ukraine.

These are probably more of the same stylistically, but the following lecture series combine Bronze Age revisions, previous Neolithic myth lols & some of the archetypal themes in Anthony’s text:

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&channel=ipad_bm&biw=1024&bih=643&tbm=vid&ei=KkvxXMusJs6zsAeRjoPgBA&q=waddell+rhind+&oq=waddell+rhind+&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.3...2217.5758.0.6758.11.11.0.0.0.0.143.953.9j2.11.0....0...1c.1.64.mobile-gws-serp..0.10.868...0j41j0i30k1j0i5i30k1j33i160k1.0.x6GANtmd3-o

and if you can handle it, Bronze Age dna expansion and Western Europe:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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