EPTWhat Are You Reading 2014 - Page 72
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
Not high on my to-read list in any case. | ||
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MtlGuitarist97
United States1539 Posts
On December 09 2014 07:03 dmnum wrote: One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, anything by J.L. Borges(you may stumble upon some philosophical terms, but his writing isn't very complex; plus, he only wrote short stories), short stories by Cortázar(he's the hardest to read out of all three authors, but he's nowhere near complex on a grammar level). Cool, thanks for the suggestions. Hopefully my Spanish isn't too awful to read these, and I think it will definitely be an interesting experience to attempt to read something in another language. | ||
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On December 10 2014 06:28 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I think I'd much prefer to read it in English. If I were to read it in Chinese it would be driven by necessity :'( Not high on my to-read list in any case. How long have you been studying Chinese? Any books you'd recommend? I'd like to learn it after my french is good enough for reading literature. MtlGuitarist97 I have and advantage because Portuguese and Spanish are very similar but none of those books seemed to difficult in the original. Have fun, Spanish is awesome. | ||
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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dmnum
Brazil6910 Posts
On December 10 2014 09:29 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: I'm Chinese it's my first language ORZ  I thought you were 'murican. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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farvacola
United States18834 Posts
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Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21244 Posts
On December 12 2014 01:39 {CC}StealthBlue wrote: Anyone find it odd that the Brits are always writing about this man: Gotta relive past glories somehow~ | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
War an Peace is pretty great btw, not Anna Karenina, but still  | ||
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farvacola
United States18834 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
Reading Libra by Pynchon right now -- I'll gift it to my brother for aksmas and I want to finish it before :D | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/City_of_Quartz.jpg) | ||
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babylon
8765 Posts
Now reading Hawk by Steven Brust, which is amazing so far as per usual. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
I feel like DeLanda is really just continuing the work of Nietzsche (under the guise of Deleuze, of course) of providing science with the tools that are necessary in a world where the death of transcendental god entails perspectivicism and, as such, the genealogy as supreme method of science (hence 1,000 years of non-linear history). When I read that text linked above, by contrast, all I was reminded of was blatant obscurantism. "This is not only not right -- it's not even wrong!" Is e.g. Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani a real text or are these people just stuck up their own asses? PS: http://gaas2015.com/workshops-2/workshop-2/ this is happening at my university, its too bad I won't be in Bonn by then anymore or I'd totally write them a paper proposal | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
the best thing to do with academic theory fashions is to ignore them IMO. The academy is full of people recycling old thoughts dressed up in neologisms trying to get people to notice them. I guess I have no use for 'new materialisms' because im STILL a materialist. The only good thing to say is that people seem to be a little less satisfied with linguistic idealism, but the solution to that is just to go be a marxist... but I dont really know , my department is in a 90s time warp zones so they only do identity politics type theory, nobody talks about speculative realism anyway | ||
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