Clay's Ark, Octavia Butler — 180 Proof

This looks good. I read one of her series and liked it a lot.

Currently reading:
"Hidden in Plain Sight: 6 Why Three Dimensions?", Andrew Thomas
"The Transhumanist Wager" , Zoltan Istvan
"The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory", Brian Greene
"Balancing on Blue - Thru-Hiking the Appalachian Trail", Keith Foskett

@180 Proof I'm looking for a Cioran quote, can't quite remember which book it was in, but the quote was basically about how he wanted to kill himself by 30 but he didn't do it. Ring any bells?

The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge by William Poundstone.

RIP John Conway.

may readings

• The Transhuman Wager, Zoltan Istvan

still reading

• The Žižek Dictionary, ed. Rex Butler (plus tics, sniffles, obscene jokes, etc)
• God, Existence, and Fictional Objects: The Case for Meinongian Theism, John-Mark L. Miravalle
• Capital and Ideology, Thomas Piketty

@180 Proof I'm looking for a Cioran quote, can't quite remember which book it was in, but the quote was basically about how he wanted to kill himself by 30 but he didn't do it. Ring any bells? — Maw

I found these on a Cioran wikiquote page:

"I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away." (All Gall Is Divided)

"If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned — a saint or a corpse." (History and Utopia)

"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late." (The New Gods)

Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. Mark Blyth.

Me too.

:up:

Thanks for checking, although I don't think any of these are quite right, I'll keep looking

Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States edited by Ira Katznelson and Aristide R. Zolberg

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Working-Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Western Europe and the United States edited by Ira Katznelson and Aristide R. Zolberg — Maw

:cool:

Huxley's Island for a bit of a change

GH Mead's, Mind, Self, and Society

What We Can Never Know, David Gamez

Thanks for your OP (re: this book), jorndoe.

All Things Are Possible aka The Apotheosis of Groundlessness by Lev Shestov.

I finished A Thousand Plateaus! Two and a bit months! What an absolutely wild, infuriating and edifying book. The longest I've taken to read something since maybe the Phenomenology of Perception. One more bit of secondary reading, then a palate cleanser after...

Eugene Holland - Deleuze and Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus
Ann Pettifor - The Production of Money: How to Break the Power of Bankers

Started on The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. I'm sure some of you have read it?

Started on The picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. I'm sure some of you have read it? — Rae

Yes. A couple of times. I wish Wilde had written more books!

I'm reading Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson by David Lapoujade

Yes. A couple of times. I wish Wilde had written more books!

I'm reading Powers of Time: Versions of Bergson by David Lapoujade

@emancipate Cool! I actually just signed up on this forum, not sure how everything works yet. Hope I'm getting the quoting and mentioning right.. Want to read more of the classics and love to discuss deeper questions :)

Hope I'm getting the quoting and mentioning right — Rae

One quick way: When you highlight text a quote button will appear.

One quick way: When you highlight text a quote button will appear. — emancipate

Ah! Thanks!

Made it through Capital, volume I in about seven weeks.

Starting Capital, volume II. It's the smallest of the three volumes, weighing in at a meagre 600 pages....

edit: finished Mind, Self, and Society - one of the best books I have ever read. I'd highly recommend this for anyone with an interest in social psychology.

On to Weber's Economy and Society now. I'll need to do another big book buy soon.

edit: throwing Sartor Resartus into the mix for good measure

Covid summer days:

sat - Cormac McCarthy°
fri - Albert Murray
thurs - William Faulkner
wed - Toni Morrison
tues - José Saramago
mon - Samuel Beckett
sun - George Steiner

ANTIFA summer nights:

sun - Spinoza, Epicurus, Nussbaum ...
mon - blues (while (re)writing an essay/story)
tues - Cioran, Rosset, Arendt ...
wed - jazz (while (re)writing an essay/story)
thurs - histories / sciences
fri - blues & jazz (while (re)writing an essay/story)
sat - movies, documentaries or tv shows

What We Can Never Know by David Gamez. Thank you for thanking , the title piqued my curiosity. Very interesting read!

throwing Sartor Resartus into the mix for good measure — Pantagruel

Nice. I remember bumping into that in an anthology. Flavor.

(while (re)writing an essay/story) — 180 Proof

:chin: :up:

Mariana Mazzucato - The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy
Mariana Mazzucato - The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths

Sicc'd on to these by @Maw I believe.

Escape from Freedom - Erich Fromm
Do the Work - Steven Pressfield

:up:

What should I read I'm kind of at a loss

The Anatomy of Fascism was good.

Verso have a bunch of their books on the police for free download here atm:

https://www.versobooks.com/lists/4732-abolish-the-police