Currently reading: The Blade of Tyshalle, book 2 of the Acts of Caine quadrology.

I stopped reading philosophy or anything serious since I already read contracts or legislation at least 8 hours a day. I go bonkers without an escape into Scifi or Fantasy.

Look forward to philosophically useless updates by me in this thread! :B

8-)

Derrida's 'The Parergon' in which he excellently deconstructs Kant (one my absolute least favorite philosophers).

De Rerum Natura - Lucretius (re-reading this, greatly enjoying it!)

Nietzsche Naturalism and Interpretation - Christoph Cox.
I'm having some difficulties understanding Deleuze's Nietzsche and Philosophy and I happened across this book while searching for an explanation of the way Nietzsche uses being and becoming.
Extremely clear and nicely argued.

An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on which are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic - George Boole

I think I'll go back to Kant's 'Prolegomena' again. It has been a long time since I last delved into it. And maybe I'll start reading Russell's 'The Problems of Philosophy' too, at some point.

There are still some of the 'great philosophers' of which I know so very little, but I'm still focused on the one's that I know a bit more about.

Erin Manning - Relationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy
Erin Manning - Always More Than One: Individuation's Dance

I'm slowly reading the following:
Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin--Ostler
Studies in Ancient Society--Finley, Ed.
The Life and Riotous Times of H.L. Mencken--Manchester
The Wall: Rome's Greatest Frontier--Moffat
Spinoza and the Stoics: Power, Politics and the Passions--DeBrabander

I'm ordering Hume's An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Capital in the 21st Century- Pikkety

Terry Jones, Barbarians (an alternative history) - so far, B+ / A-
Harlan Ellison, Deathbird Stories - so far, A
Robert Paxton, The Anatomy of Fascism - so far A-
Christian Wolmar, The Great Railroad Revolution (finished: B+) about American Railroads, from the beginning to 2000.
Peter Gay, Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - so far, B+ / A-
Victor Navasky, Naming Names - so far, C- for boring; put it down.
Gerard Colby, The DuPont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain - so far B+ (page by page I am enraged)

Francois Zourabichvili - Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event & The Vocabulary of Deleuze

It's really great. When you're hankering for the deep shit, go back to the Treatise, and then if you want to go deeper go back to Berkeley's Principles.

I'm excited to start reading it. I ordered a used copy of it and it is arriving some time this week, just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

Decided to give Difference and Repetition a go as a summer project. Not sure how long I'll stick with it. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Have you done any secondary reading on it? It's a very, very, very hard book.

Regardless, preliminary advice would be this: start with chapter 3 on the Image of Thought.

Damn I was hoping it would only be a hard book. I haven't started yet, for now I'm looking for ways to approach it. I'm part way through Nietzsche and Philosophy which to be honest has not been a walk in the park. Also I've grabbed Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide - James Williams, from the library and plan to read it before hand.

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JW's reader's guide is pretty good, it's a very nice companion to have on you while making your way through the book. Otherwise, I dunno - I've been dipping into D&R for years now and every time I think I 'get it', something else reveals itself to me. If you can make it past the discussion on the 'blockage' of concepts in the introduction (warning: requires a basic grasp of Leibniz and Aristotle), you'll be doing OK.

Thanks for the advice, it's unfortunate that I'm attracted to books which can be difficult. I don't really want to spend 3 months bashing my head against it and going nowhere. For yourself did you find it worth the effort?

I read 'Seven Brief Lessons in Physics' by Carlo Rovelli. Only 50 pages. Does exactly what it says on the tin. Interesting stuff. Didn't expect to see Heidegger, Kant, and possibly a few other philosophers - the names of whom I don't recall - be mentioned.

I'm reading 'The Spanish Civil War: Reaction, Revolution & Revenge' by Paul Preston.

Both available for a reasonable price on the Play Books app on my mobile. I like my relatively new mobile. It can do nifty stuff my old one couldn't.

A hundred times yes! D&R functions for me as a sourcebook, something to continually go back to and discover new things. It's a guide to thinking, hand-manual of intellectual exploration. It teaches you how to think, rather than what to think, and going back to it - or Deleuze in general - always functions as a refresher to dislodge congealed manners of approaching things.

Sounds great, looking forward to it.

Metaphysics - Third Edition: A Contemporary Introduction by Michael J. Loux.

Carrie Noland - Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture
Gilles Deleuze - Pure Immanence: Essays on A Life

Tom Sparrow - Plastic Bodies: Rebuilding Sensation After Phenomenology

Death Note.

Last thing I read was The Sandman. Seems like I can only read picture books these days.

Just finished reading what'll probably be my last book of 2015, so here's the years list :D :

Agamben or books on Agamben:

Giorgio Agamben - Homo Sacer
Giorgio Agamben - State of Exception
Giorgio Agamben - The Kingdom and the Glory
Giorgio Agamben - The Sacrament of Language
Giorgio Agamben - The Signature of All Things
Giorgio Agmaben - Stanzas
Giorgio Agmaben - Pilate and Jesus
Giorgio Agamben - The Church and the Kingdom
Giorgio Agamben - The Highest Poverty
Giorgio Agamben - Opus Dei
Giorgio Agamben - Stasis
William Watkin - Agamben and Indifference
Kevin Attell - Giorgio Agamben

On Francois Laruelle:

Katerina Kolozova - The Cut of the Real
Alexander Galloway - Laurelle
John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith (eds.) - Laruelle and Non-Philosophy
John Mullarkey - Post-Continental Philosophy

Phenomenology, Movement, Sensation, and the Body:

Alphonso Lingis - Foreign Bodies
Carrie Noland - Agency and Embodiment
Renaud Barbaras - Desire and Distance
Michel Henry - Material Phenomenology
Maxine Sheets-Johnston - The Primacy of Movement
David Morris - The Sense of Space
Tom Sparrow - Plastic Bodies

On Merleau-Ponty:

Renaud Barbaras - The Being of the Phenomenon
Jessica Wiskus - The Rhythm of Thought
Veronique Foti - Tracing Expression in Merleau-Ponty

On Deleuze and related themes:

Gilles Deleuze - Pure Immanence
Francois Zourabichvili - Deleuze
Erin Manning - Relationscapes
Erin Manning - Always More than One
Pascal Chabot - The Philosophy of Simondon

Politics and Ethics of Subjectivity:

Adriana Cavarero - Relating Narratives
Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition
Judith Butler - Giving an Account of Oneself
Denise Riley - The Words of Selves
Denise Riley - Impersonal Passion
Mari Ruti - The Singularity of Being
Alphonso Lingis - The First Person Singular

Other:

Martin Hagglund - Dying for Time
Dennis King Keenan - The Question of Sacrifice
Peter Gratton - The State of Sovereignty
Eugene Thacker - In The Dust of This Planet
Eugene Thacker - Starry Speculative Corpse
Vicki Kirby - Telling Flesh

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Currently Reading: Brian Massiumi - Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation

47 books, 14 by women (better than last year, but room for improvement), and lots learned.

Also, I managed to do a write up on almost everything here but Lingis's Foreign Bodies.

Goals for next year: more science, and more politics.

Happy New Year all :)

SLX, the link you provided just points to the ones own product review page, as opposed to your specifically. Yours is here. Good effort though, I'd like to be able to do the same!

Impressive effort SX! I would love to be able to read that much! How do you find the time for such voluminous reading? It makes me think you may be a professional academic, or one of those lucky ones with independent means, but perhaps you are just suitably obsessed ;) ...

Happy New Year to you and all 8-).