EPTShort, nice and radical.
A tragedy how unknown Ambedkar seems to be in the western world.
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Paljas
Germany6926 Posts
Short, nice and radical. A tragedy how unknown Ambedkar seems to be in the western world. | ||
thedeadhaji
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Totally agree, haha. Btw I think I was thinking of "Mayoineko Overrun!"  .https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoi_Neko_Overrun! | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17831 Posts
Diaspora is mind-blowing. Almost as good as Watt's Blindsight. Grats on finishing Lód. Attempted it several times, farthest I got was around page 500 (heard the action starts around 700) but I will tackle this monstrosity one day (read everything else by Dukaj so far). You should also try Beckett's Genesis. This blows minds real hard. | ||
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B.I.G.
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Now I'm getting to the point where I'm not sure what to read next, as I have given most of the series that seemed appealing to me based on descriptions and reviews a try by now. Since the collective reading resume of this thread is probably pretty damn huge I'm very hopeful that there is someone in here that can point me to a few books or at least an interesting direction. So let me get a bit more specific about what I'm looking for and what I like/don't like. -So I'm still looking in the fiction category because I just really like a well thought up story. Something dark and mysterious. I have always enjoyed stories like (both film and book) The Ninth Gate, The Da Vinci Code, and Pandorum for creating an exiting "wtf is going on sense". -Another important aspect for me is interesting characters (protagonist ofcourse, but maybe even more importantly, a strong antagonist). Examples of a story with rich characters would be the Malazan stories, and examples of amazing antagonists IMO are the Lord Ruler in Mystborn, Frank Fontaine in Bioshock, and (I'm not joking) Ganondorf from the Legend of Zelda. The key factor here being the powerful antagonist that's operating from the shadows. Sometimes even hidden so well that you don't even know they are there. -Stylistically: I don't really care what the setting is, be it past, present, or future, or impossible planets w/e. However I am looking for something with a bit of a dark/tense/scary atmosphere. Not outright horror but the kind of stuff that might actually get you a little bit unnerved if you are reading alone at home in the middle of the night. I can't think of anything that is similar that I've read (obviously that's why I'm asking in the first place ) but if visuals would be any clue than the style I would think of is something like (again) Bioshock or Bloodborne.-And to top it off: mind you that to me there is a difference between dark and psychedelic. Dark would be some of the stories I just described and psychedelic would be stuff like Requiem for a Dream and A Clockwork Orange. That's just a bit too much mindfuck for me. I'm giving a pretty tall order here I know but I am eager to hear about anything from you guys that comes to mind. I have always found it difficult to describe what I really like about a story but I hope that with a bit of practice like this I will be more successful. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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B.I.G.
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Nyxisto
Germany6287 Posts
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
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nunez
Norway4003 Posts
On June 24 2015 20:59 corumjhaelen wrote: Read and finished : ![[image loading]](http://versobooks-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/000000/335/9781844674428-frontcover-67d859df7d817fa7e29c0737011cd93a.jpg) Against Method (Paul Feyeraband) I'm a fan. This is just so refreshing for me. I obviously wasn't always pleased by his arguments, but his extremism, the humour, the trollness (some notes are as funny as Karl Marx's !!!), the refusal to submit, it was truly worth reading this pamphlet. i had this on my shelf and moved to the front of the queue when i saw your post. reading it now. some books that stuck: whiteout, cia muckraking, jarring(relevant movie: music box): ![[image loading]](https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fcovers1.booksamillion.com%2Fcovers%2Fbam%2F1%2F85%2F984%2F258%2F1859842585.jpg&f=1) some interesting quotes taken out of context from the chapter History of Black "Paranoia": Coloreds with big lips lure white women with jazz and mariuana. Most of the attacks upon white women of the south are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed negro brain. black 'Paranoia' being disinfo rhetoric deployed in the coverup of the Iran-Contra scandal. a case of CIA complicity in drug-running, during the first half of the 1980s, in-lieu of financing the Contras under budget restrictions imposed by Boland amendement. sidenote: in my (american) book on business dynamics there is a chapter on the resulting cocaine epidemic in the 1980s. according to the data used it peaks in 1985 (which corresponds to the peak of Contra drug sales according to whiteout), and a model is developed to investigate the phenomenon. a model which conveniently does not even attempt to deconstruct the cocaine-market, ie look at the supply side of the system, except taking into account seizures, arrests, deterrence from harsh sentencing. hahah, what a joke! a model developed to hide the most important, but least flattering, dynamic. monsters of the market, cool: ![[image loading]](https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fts1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DJN.3SqFg6xZ3FiH93DHg0couQ%26pid%3D15.1&f=1) critique of commodity aesthetics, restrained undressing of the wicked commodity: ![[image loading]](https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fts3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DJN.5gmEkjnHK0nR8e97j85QQw%26pid%3D15.1&f=1) | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UJKbqiRPL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg) Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (René Girard), very good read so far, the thesis is too unilateral for my taste, but it's also more interesting than most. | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
Sadly, court opinions and codes are all I have time to read these days  | ||
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nunez
Norway4003 Posts
@corum i'm already mad as hell, and i'm not going to take it anymore. | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
Ahah, nunez, I knew it, this kind of reaction is why I think Feyeraband is unto something. Maybe the book should just start by the three chapters on Galileo instead of being that harsh from the beginning, but it is funnier this way. And do know that the last chapters would probably make you throw the book at the walls :p There is a note adressed at Popper that I can't remember without laughing "I'm quoting you because of our friendship" (read it in French so this is not literal), ahaha. | ||
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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thedeadhaji
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![[image loading]](http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/covers/9780199603695.jpg) The Point of View of the Universe: Sidgwick and Contemporary Ethics Hardcover – July 22, 2014 by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek (Author), Peter Singer (Author) | ||
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corumjhaelen
France6884 Posts
On July 01 2015 10:40 bookwyrm wrote: If I find the feyerebend in a bookstore on my travels this summer I will pick it up and we can discuss Just imagine you live in a world where Popper and maybe a pinch of Kuhn if you're lucky are the alpha and omega of all epistemology, and not in anamerican litterature department I was a bit disappointed in what I started to read from Benjamin farva, but it was his really early writings, so I'll have to try some more one day or the other I guess. | ||
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bookwyrm
United States722 Posts
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Jerubaal
United States7684 Posts
Best quotation: These kids think fascism is a policeman on a horse in Grosvenor Square. | ||
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Surth
Germany456 Posts
![[image loading]](http://img.xrmb2.net/images/519261.jpeg) although in the case of Braudel, it begins somewhat in medias res, since i accidentally bought vol. 2 first. | ||
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