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I'm finding Sianne Ngai's Our Aesthetic Caregories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, which is C-SPAM as all gently caress, really hard to finish. It's just very dense.
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:I'm finding Sianne Ngai's Our Aesthetic Caregories: Zany, Cute, Interesting, which is C-SPAM as all gently caress, really hard to finish. It's just very dense. Based on the title I thought it was going to be evopsych nonsense. What’s the argument?
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Jun 10, 2018 21:50
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Just picked up the novel Honey from the Lion by Matthew Neill Null. I really loved his short story collection Allegheny Front which I read a couple years ago.
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Jun 16, 2018 03:46
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Goon Danton posted:So due to recent events, all my reading time is going to be replaced by house-renovating time for the next few months. Is there a good audiobook version of Capital, by any chance? Or other lefty audiobooks generally, I suppose. not sure about the book, but listen to the podcast of david harvey’s lecture series if you haven’t already: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/reading-marxs-capital/id283038015?mt=2
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Jun 16, 2018 20:01
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Working through Abaddon's Gate and lmao, how is there still 250 pages left, it's been loving nonstop the whole time
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Jun 19, 2018 17:32
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Annual Prophet posted:not sure about the book, but listen to the podcast of david harvey’s lecture series if you haven’t already: Oh yeah, I listened to that before I started reading it. It gives me a good basis going in to know where things are headed. I got his companion book for volume i at a used bookstore too.
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Jun 19, 2018 17:46
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Annual Prophet posted:not sure about the book, but listen to the podcast of david harvey’s lecture series if you haven’t already: man what other podcasts are like this because this is good as hell
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Jun 19, 2018 17:48
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nah posted:man what other podcasts are like this because this is good as hell yeah Harvey is really great; others like this would depend on what you like about the series, but a few I'm partial to are Partially Examined Life (if the angle is close examination of interesting texts) Zero Squared (podcast of a left publisher, if the economic / theoretical substance is what interested you) Revolutionary Left Radio (much more conversational than the above, but still interesting; content self explanatory) Also, I believe Harvey has available lectures on volumes 2 and 3 of Capital If it's more that you're interested in well presented lecture series in general, there are probably a number of decent ones on iTunesU and similar platforms. There used to be recordings of many of Professor Dreyfus's philosophy classes at Berkeley, for example, but it's been ages since I've dug around for graduate or undergraduate class material, so I can't recommend anything in particular. eta: lefty podcast thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3838404 Red Dad Redemption has issued a correction as of 21:23 on Jun 19, 2018 |
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Jun 19, 2018 21:15
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Epic High Five posted:Working through Abaddon's Gate and lmao, how is there still 250 pages left, it's been loving nonstop the whole time im watching the show, which is up to that book, and also reading solaris at the same time
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Jun 20, 2018 05:15
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Debt: The First 5,000 years is pretty interesting so far. I didn't finish it last time so maybe now I will. Graeber's new book about bullshit jobs seems interesting too
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Jul 2, 2018 05:51
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Zesty Mordant posted:Debt: The First 5,000 years is pretty interesting so far. I didn't finish it last time so maybe now I will. Graeber's new book about bullshit jobs seems interesting too Debt was awesome at painstakingly showing how the language of debt and that of morality has been intertwined for centuries, leading to some weird contradictions about how we're brought up to think about debt. And it pretty well annihilates the barter stories you get in economics class. Every year or two, I read I.O.U.: Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay by John Lanchester and am going back through it now. It's a very detailed breakdown of the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis written very much for the layperson. It was written just a couple years after the crisis, and I don't know if Lanchester has written updated editions, but there's galling stuff in there as-is. MeatwadIsGod has issued a correction as of 06:32 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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Jul 3, 2018 06:27
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just finishing up The Stars, My Destination right after the first two books from the Gateway series not sure why fate has driven me to 50's sci-fi with huge piece of poo poo protagonists but it's p fun so far
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Jul 4, 2018 03:31
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I just finished beloved curmudgeon Peter Watt’s new novella The Freeze-Frame revolution and it is really good. The secret message story is fun and there’s a few free short stories in the same universe on his website. Also, Dickinson’s The Traitor Baru Comorant and while it’s neither really sci fi nor particularly leftist it was also very good and deserves a heads up. like ASOIAF if gurm was a good writer
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Jul 4, 2018 04:31
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gurm writes pretty good dialogue, which is probably why his books translated so well to TV until it got ran into the ground due to him never actually coming through on finishing his story
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Jul 4, 2018 05:54
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Debt was awesome at painstakingly showing how the language of debt and that of morality has been intertwined for centuries, leading to some weird contradictions about how we're brought up to think about debt. And it pretty well annihilates the barter stories you get in economics class. Lanchester just wrote a piece called Ten Years On or something which you can find in the latest issue of the LRB.
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Jul 10, 2018 04:17
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Epic High Five posted:just finishing up The Stars, My Destination right after the first two books from the Gateway series That's the one where corporations rule the Earth, right?
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Jul 10, 2018 14:23
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CountFosco posted:That's the one where corporations rule the Earth, right? the prevailing economic and power structures weren't really explored in each beyond the scope of the narrative, unlike how you get in the Expanse in Gateway there seems to be federal authority enough at least that the courts are functional, with the only huge corp of note being Gateway Corp, which is immensely rich and powerful by virtue of getting first crack at all the Heechee stuff in The Stars, it seems like it's all corps that run it, but it's more like mafia orgs than corps, and the structure of the rest of the world doesn't really seem like they're running everything in a governmental capacity
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Jul 10, 2018 19:44
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Zesty Mordant posted:Debt: The First 5,000 years is pretty interesting so far. I didn't finish it last time so maybe now I will. Graeber's new book about bullshit jobs seems interesting too I should reread that, I hope the guy I lent it to has finished it by now. Also I hope that I actually lent it to him and not someone else, otherwise I have no clue what happened to that book.
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Jul 10, 2018 19:59
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Hostess Snack Cake posted:I should reread that, I hope the guy I lent it to has finished it by now. lol I have like 3-4 books I end up having to rebuy over and over because they're my go-tos for lending out, but then I forget who has them i've probably even bought the same one I've lent out before because my first source is the local used book store lmao owned
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Jul 10, 2018 20:27
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This was probably mentioned but I didnt read the thread :heh: How Democracies Die is a fantastic book if you have low blood pressure, if you like yelling, or if for some reason you really want to know how rich ivy league professors view political struggle.
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Jul 11, 2018 02:34
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A long but well-written and interesting book about the founding of Australia, The Fatal Shore, is on sale right now for 3 smackers: https://www.amazon.com/Fatal-Shore-epic-Australias-founding-ebook I enjoy it thoroughly and the hard copy version is my nightstand reading because it's just interesting enough to be enjoyable, but not so much that it will keep me up highly recommended
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Jul 11, 2018 18:05
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Marxalot posted:This was probably mentioned but I didnt read the thread :heh: Lemme guess - poor people having a say destroys democracy?
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Jul 11, 2018 20:51
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Business Gorillas posted:Lemme guess - poor people having a say destroys democracy? The only thing that maintains a democracy is norms. Respect the process. Respect the norms. This is the only important thing. It's been about 2 months since I read it so I really can't pull anything specific and amusing/dumb
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Jul 11, 2018 22:06
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Marxalot posted:This was probably mentioned but I didnt read the thread :heh: My favorite moment in that book comes close to the beginning when they pretty much call the US intelligence agencies pillars of democracy and democratic institutions, and then pivot to a discussion of Allende's overthrow in Chile. On the same page.
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Jul 12, 2018 05:46
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I started reading The Ego and Its Own but I've not made much progress yet. I think I'm not in the mood for anything serious right now.
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Jul 13, 2018 04:40
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Helsing posted:My favorite moment in that book comes close to the beginning when they pretty much call the US intelligence agencies pillars of democracy and democratic institutions, and then pivot to a discussion of Allende's overthrow in Chile. On the same page. Oh god yes I remember the bits about south america being dumb. Also I think the US civil war's cause was given a very brief handwave about the breakdown of norms and some dude being caned on the senate floor?
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Jul 13, 2018 04:41
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Marxalot posted:Oh god yes I remember the bits about south america being dumb. Also I think the US civil war's cause was given a very brief handwave about the breakdown of norms and some dude being caned on the senate floor? iirc he was caned because he called a slave rapist a slave rapist
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Jul 13, 2018 04:45
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the more that i think about it, the more i realize that the civil war started because a bunch of fat southern rapists talked themselves into thinking the north was a bunch of dandies they could roll over in like 30 minutes not at all analogous to today, no sir
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Jul 13, 2018 04:49
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Epic High Five posted:iirc he was caned because he called a slave rapist a slave rapist lmfao Business Gorillas posted:the more that i think about it, the more i realize that the civil war started because a bunch of fat southern rapists talked themselves into thinking the north was a bunch of dandies they could roll over in like 30 minutes Given how a lot of the conservative thinkers of the time thought of the southern lifestyle/moral code/volcel powers this isn't too far off base.
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Jul 13, 2018 04:53
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btw all books at Haymarket are half price right now: https://twitter.com/haymarketbooks/status/1017838003471966211
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Jul 13, 2018 19:37
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Epic High Five posted:btw all books at Haymarket are half price right now: Any particular recommendations?
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Jul 13, 2018 21:12
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im on the net me boys posted:Any particular recommendations? if you're even tangentially interested in the NFL stuff I recommend Things that Make White People Uncomfortable The Case for Socialism is a good one to lend to people someone who reads more political poo poo than I do could probably chime in with better ones
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Jul 13, 2018 21:16
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Radical Technologies by Adam Greenfield is a good book.
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Jul 14, 2018 07:51
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halfway through Cibola Burn and I'm continuing to be amazed that Corey wrote the most perfect characters in Caliban's War and then was able to not just make the whole series about Amos and Avasarala going around and dunking on people
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Jul 21, 2018 17:40
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I think this story will be of interest even for people who didn’t attend college or grow up in Pittsburgh, but Caliban Books apparently stole like millions of dollars worth of rare and antique books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Post Gazette story in the link. Caliban was (is?) a really great place to buy beautiful old editions as gifts or keepsakes. Just a super weird development.
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Jul 21, 2018 18:02
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gently caress that's insanely depressing. Ruining old books for a couple grand. hosed up.
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Jul 21, 2018 18:18
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God drat. That store is an institution, but I'll be surprised if it survives this.
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Jul 21, 2018 19:27
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last book was too fun, so now I'm punishing myself by re-reading Wolf in White Van, which is an excellent and beautiful but horribly depressing and empty and hopeless book with only pain and no answers
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Jul 25, 2018 00:25
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I'm thinking about buying a copy of The Autonomous City. Have any of you read it?
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after watching Ken Burns (fantastic) documentaries on The West, the American Civil War and the Vietnam War I'm in the mood to do a lot of reading of 60s-90s American History and how we ended up here I'm not particularly interested in anything too recent (Obama or later) but I wouldn't turn my nose down if there's a good book slamming George Bush Jr you wanna recommend. So far I've got Rick Perlstein's trilogy, Before the Storm, Nixonland, and The Invisible Bridge, which seems like it'll be a great focus look at the evolution of conservatism through the 60s and 70s, and I've got a LBJ biography named Portrait of a President by Robert Dallek.
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