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releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1138

started "organization theory" by kevin carson...i gotta see if i like it enough to keep reading it cause its over 5 or 6 hundred pages

theres a book on transnational labor history i'm waiting to get in the mail.
and one on "communitarian anarchism"

i don't know what the hell i want to do as far as reading besides these... too many options...

saul newman has a book coming out this month i hope, its about max stirner... i like newman, some don't cause he's postanarchist or that he writes about a poststructural/postmodern anarchism...

my interests are strange i guess

davka · **Joined:** Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:58 pm **Posts:** 46

lol. mediocre, who was in that collection?

Manly P. HOLLA · **Joined:** Mon Jan 02, 2006 3:59 am **Posts:** 145

lol at what mediocre posted

abcking · **Posted:** Fri Nov 04, 2011 8:33 pm

AmR2m · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 5:51 am

I'm reading Beleet Parus Odinokii by Valentin Kataev, a USSR novel for kids

then, on the side, Viaje Al Pirineo De Lerida by Camilo José Cela and, Life Of The Archipriest Avvakum As Written By Himself

mediocre at best · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 10:36 am

davka wrote:

lol. mediocre, who was in that collection?

http://www.amazon.com/Best-American-Short-Stories-2008/dp/0618788778

amazon.com wrote:

The Best American Short Stories 2008 includes KEVIN BROCKMEIER • ALLEGRA GOODMAN • A. M. HOMES • NICOLE KRAUSS • JONATHAN LETHEM • STEVEN MILLHAUSER • DANIYAL MUEENUDDIN • ALICE MUNRO • GEORGE SAUNDERS • TOBIAS WOLFF • and others

A few of the stories were ok, but it wasn't really my thing. Maybe I'm just not used to the short story format, it just seemed like they took the first chapter of a longer novel without wrapping anything up. An example story would go something like this:

(There would be about 10 pages of back story explaining who I am, where I was raised, what my family is like.) Then I would decide to take a trip to the supermarket. On my way I would witness a horrible car accident. I would continue my shopping trip. The end.

The book got surprisingly good review though, so maybe I'm just not enough of a book snob to appreciate it.

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1138

george caffentzis -- exciting the industry of mankind, george berkeleys philosophy of money.

theus · **Posted:** Sat Nov 05, 2011 11:38 am

theus · **Posted:** Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:25 pm

Quote:

The Cyberiad: Tales for the Cybernetic Age, Stanislaw Lem's fictional collection of the mishaps of the constructors Trurl and Klapaucius, uses humorous and impossible scenarios to critique modernization's attempt at achieving perfection through technology, showing the destructive power of the techno-scientific machine. In other words, The Cyberiad makes a case for values-driven culture over the schizophrenic nature of techno-scientific capitalistic modernization.

this book is really funny.

theus · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:53 am

reading the chapter on campbell and probably the one on frazer. might try reading the golden bough over the summer.

brandonlogic · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:01 pm

Finn · **Posted:** Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:46 pm

I cried.

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1138

a subject to truth by peter hallward

maybe then i'll read being and event for the 4th time

theus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 2:36 pm

the hare krishna people who i get lunch from were giving these out today along with copies of the bhagvad gita. i love those guys so much. if i can learn a few of these recipes over christmas i'll never eat meat again, their food is so nice.

Finn · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:02 pm

Hooray for not eating meat.

I just got a card to my local library. First book I took out, which I'm almost finished with:

theus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 3:04 pm

lol what do you think of it?

Finn · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:25 pm

It was sort of a serendipitous thing to grab. I had been thinking about agnosticism recently, and how I no longer felt comfortable belonging to that school of thought, and then I saw the book on the floor next to the shelves and had always wanted to read something of his.

I rather enjoy it, and don't think he deserves his reputation, which is that he's some sort of cold, brutal serpent. He's obviously very well-read and I have a list of like five other books that I want to read after he mentioned them. I agree with something like 90% of his observations. I would like to read something from the other side of the fence, written by a really sharp and honest theologian. He mentions a few whose work he respects; I'll have to comb through it before I return it and see if he makes any recommendations. The Selfish Gene is also on my list.

theus · **Posted:** Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:59 pm

Finn wrote:

I have a list of like five other books that I want to read after he mentioned them.

what are these, out of interest?

Finn wrote:

I would like to read something from the other side of the fence, written by a really sharp and honest theologian.

i feel i have to point out that there are more than two sides to this discourse. i'm lazy, so i'll just quote an essay from contemporary theories of religion:

armin w. geertz wrote:

the problem is that they (dawkins and dennett) are not scholars who have produced scientific books and articles arguing their particular theories of religion in the peer review contexts of the academic study of religion. both books (the god delusion and breaking the spell) are popular books with clearly formulated ideological, apologetical, and polemical agendas...

dennett’s and dawkins’s books have no regard for, nor are written to, other scholars of religion. their knowledge of religion is woefully limited and spotty, they reference comparative religionists from more than a half century ago, and they ignore the highly relevant and theoretically sophisticated scholars of religion who have been active since the 1970s. when they do refer to scholars of religion, it is only to the pioneers of the cognitive science of religion, especially pascal boyer...

put simply and highly generalised: dawkins builds on dennett, who builds on boyer, who refers to dawkins. all three build on darwin.

not to sound all snooty or anything, but it's important to know where dawkins stands. it's a big field and there are lots of fences.

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