d-a-m-o Posted December 11, 2020 Share Posted December 11, 2020 "Les fous du son" great book about the use of electricity for sonic purpose and the inventors from Edison to nowadays. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KovalainenFanBoy Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Antkind has now devolved into the most sophomoric, unfunny Trump parody one could imagine Edited December 19, 2020 by KovalainenFanBoy why is this required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted December 19, 2020 Share Posted December 19, 2020 The Death & Life of Great American Cities - torn between "Jane Jacobs has some real interesting ideas regarding dynamic structure which could be applied to many different areas of life" and "Jane Jacobs admires the hustle & bustle of urban landscapes in a way that feels dated but I can't quite put my finger on it" Capital as Power - good shit, very dense. Makes me want to read Veblen next in my economic research Creative Evolution (in french, just started) Che Guevara's Guerilla Warfare (this shit is tight) ((on a purely academic level of course)) Sanity, Madness & The Family by R D Laing (they should put a trigger warning on this shit yo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cryptowen Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 top books of 2020, in no particular order: deleuze & guattari - anti-oedipus oswald spengler - decline of the west (probably the only thing from my "absorb the alt right's reading list so i can better critique them" project that was actually interesting) karl marx - capital 1/2/3 (a real slog to get through but i'm glad i did) che guevara - guerilla warfare (do i get the t-shirt now?) 90s nick land/ccru/accelerationist shit (nothing in particular, just the overall vibe) the world as will & representation (strong disagree with his conclusions but it's beautifully written) jacques ellul - propaganda (scary shit) hp lovecraft (again more just the overall vibe) i read close to 100 books this year though so i'm probably fogetting a lot of really big ones Spoiler worst book: xenofeminist manifesto. early 2010s was truly a garbage aesthetic now that we have some distance from it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nil Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 On 9/28/2020 at 6:20 PM, Extralife said: XX by Rian Hughes Fantasic postmodern sci-fi. Loved it. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51075314-xx Finished The Three-Body problem series days ago (amazing reading !), and just grabbed a digital copy of XX. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Extralife Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 8 minutes ago, Nil said: Finished The Three-Body problem series days ago (amazing reading !), and just grabbed a digital copy of XX. I had so much fun reading this. Highly recommended. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 recently: an audiobook of thorstein veblen's theory of the leisure class kenneth waltz's theory of international politics jacques ellul's the technological society rereading a thousand plateaus (opening to completely random pages each time, as suggested) randomly flipping thru marx's grundrisse, various works of aristotle, lacan, heidegger in similar fashion also a bunch of pdfs on evolutionary biology, systems theory, the history of the mp3 file format 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhmilo Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 39 minutes ago, Extralife said: I had so much fun reading this. Highly recommended. Me three. Just finished it as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milkface Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enthusiast Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke - it’s great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 i'd like to read the three body problem at some point. in general i want to expose myself to more chinese media to get a better sense of the country. it feels weird that they make up like 1/5th of the global population & yet the only exposure i get to the culture is through propaganda (both kinds). also it'd be nice to read some fiction. not counting the hp lovecraft story collection, i think the last fiction book i read was neuromancer back in 2019 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 @Cryptowen nice to see someone digging Ellul, he’s underrated imo. absolutely love his crotchety vibe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 2 minutes ago, Alcofribas said: @Cryptowen nice to see someone digging Ellul, he’s underrated imo. absolutely love his crotchety vibe. i've really enjoyed what i've read of his so far! "crotchety" is definitely a fitting word (there's this prevalent feeling of "oh right this was the shit that had ted kaczynski trippin" throughout), but at the same time it all feels very insightful. i remember when i was reading propaganda last spring there were several points where i had to take breaks, it was making me so uncomfortable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 5 minutes ago, Cryptowen said: i've really enjoyed what i've read of his so far! "crotchety" is definitely a fitting word (there's this prevalent feeling of "oh right this was the shit that had ted kaczynski trippin" throughout), but at the same time it all feels very insightful. i remember when i was reading propaganda last spring there were several points where i had to take breaks, it was making me so uncomfortable. yeah he's incredibly ahead of his time in many ways. he has some tedious works (he loves to complain about marxism) but his books on technology are so good. i hadn't read his stuff in a long time but last year i picked up "the political illusion" which i'd had on my shelf for years and i was like "damn this mf could see into the future." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prdctvsm Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted February 15, 2021 Share Posted February 15, 2021 *book has pattern, system, or organization in the title* my brain: bru u should go talk to her Spoiler i've started in on Jean Gebser's The Ever-Present Origin. Liking it so far. Reminds me a lot of Spengler, but with a stronger emphasis on the systematizing potentials revealed by aesthetic development, and less emphasis on the inevitable decline of large societies 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhmilo Posted March 4, 2021 Share Posted March 4, 2021 Just finished Curzio Malaparte's "Kaputt" , in which the author alternates descriptions of lavish dinners with ambassadors, noblemen and high ranking Nazis with stories about atrocities he witnessed as a war correspondent on the Eastern front. Not a fun read, but very good. The sequel (sort of), "The Skin", about the American invasion of Italy in 1943, is also very good and a bit less heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dingformung Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 Started reading Oblomov but was too lazy to finish. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cryptowen Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 just cracked open some pareto, gettin real computerbrain vibes from him so far Spoiler i mean just look at those machineman eyes of his Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcofribas Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 is that dr lopez? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhmilo Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 23 minutes ago, dingformung said: Started reading Oblomov but was too lazy to finish. Too bad. You missed out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QQQ Posted March 6, 2021 Share Posted March 6, 2021 gravity's rainbow + rereading patrick suskind's the pigeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 22 hours ago, Cryptowen said: just cracked open some pareto, gettin real computerbrain vibes from him so far Hide contents i mean just look at those machineman eyes of his Pareto is a super interesting dude who would definitely be on /b/ a lot these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drillkicker Posted March 7, 2021 Share Posted March 7, 2021 Not /biz/? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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