What are you reading now? (Chapter 2)

Post by **Rum** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:39 pm

SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

Post by **Jason** » Tue Nov 17, 2015 9:05 pm

I'm just now diving into Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

Post by **Jason** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:29 pm

Făkünamę wrote:I'm just now diving into Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard

I read the first half of this yesterday and it is the most brilliant piece of writing I have ever read. Jean Baudrillard was a genius of the highest order.

Post by **Tero** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 2:42 pm

Neotropical book
http://www.amazon.com/Neotropical-Compa ... +companion

Post by **Jason** » Wed Nov 18, 2015 9:40 pm

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

Post by **Clinton Huxley** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:14 am

Rum wrote:SPQR: A history of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard

What do you think? I enjoyed it greatly.

Currently on Robert Massie's enormous biography of Peter the Great and Memoirs of Hadrian by Margeurite Yourcenar.

Once those are done, need to go back to a few I started and then got side-tracked from:-

Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway
Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

Post by **rainbow** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 8:50 am

Magic Bus

Post by **Jason** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 2:17 pm

Post by **Jason** » Thu Nov 19, 2015 9:33 pm

"For reading a text is never a scholarly exercise in search of what is signified, still less a highly textual exercise in search of a signifier. Rather it is a productive use of the literary machine, a montage of desiring-machines, a schizoid exercise that extracts from the text its revolutionary force. The exclamation "So it's...!", or the meditation of Igitur on race, in an essential relationship with madness."

That's some good sauce.

Post by **Thurston** » Sun Nov 22, 2015 1:35 am

I've just finished Jonathan Bate's biography of Ted Hughes which was very interesting

Post by **Jason** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 12:53 am

Discipline and Punish - Michael Foucault

That is I'll be starting it as soon as I stop wasting all my time posting on Ratz.

Post by **JimC** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 1:45 am

Făkünamę wrote:Discipline and Punish - Michael Foucault

That is I'll be starting it as soon as I stop wasting all my time posting on Ratz.

Have they been flogging that book hard at local bookstores?

Post by **Jason** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:26 am

I'm just a sucker for punishment.

Post by **Jason** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:30 pm

I swapped out Foucault for Firestone: The Dialectic of Sex. She presents a neat quote from Simone de Beauvoir in the first chapter:

The theory of historical materialism has brought to light some important truths. Humanity is not an animal species, it is a historical reality. Human society is an antiphysis - in a sense it is against nature; it does not passively submit to the presence of nature but rather takes over the control of nature on its own behalf. This arrogation is not an inward, subjective operation; it is accomplished objectively in practical action.

Good stuff.

Post by **Svartalf** » Thu Dec 10, 2015 5:39 pm

reading the Demon Princes by Jack Vance, an oldie but a sure value set

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