the people's republic of sole

fair nuff i liked eternal sunshine.
haven't seen science of sleep though

i'll check it out.

anyway you could hand this over to george lucas and i'd be excited about it.

i thought science of sleep was kinda twee. i'm in the minority, but i liked be kind rewind.

his music videos are where it's at, though.

Yeah, I am aware of that, I'd like to read Dick's own adaptation at some point. I'm pretty sure Gondry is just adapting it himself though.



I liked Be Kind Rewind as well. I love Science Of Sleep but I hear what you are saying and get why you could say that.

And yeah, he is definitely first and foremost a music video director, but I love his style for films as well!

deleuze's difference and repitition along with jean lyotard's libidinal economy

Man I keep hearing about this! What is it? Is it any good?......just kidding, but yeah, I should get around to reading Dune, ha,ha...Currently reading "At The Mountains Of Madness" by Lovecraft.

HA, I finally got around to giving this a shot after blood meridian. I probably should have read this, since it is considered the all-time sci-fi masterpiece...constantly billed as what "Lord of the Rings" was to fantasy, this is to Sci-Fi...The 40th anniversary edition comes with a map and a dictionary, as well as several appendixes.

So far, so good.

To be honest, I found it a bit boring. The author's interest was earnest and his knowledge broad, but the subject matter is a little too esoteric to make for a really captivating historical account. It's quite a complete account, though, and I certainly learned about the history of the region. There's some good stuff about Israel and Palestine in there. The main teaching point of the book is obviously that violent notions of jihad are extremely new -- like, past 30 to 40 years new -- but that stuff necessarily came at the very end.

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I just finished this:



Atrocious writing, but a subject I'm becoming more interested in as I enter the age where I start to think about having children. It has a little bit of that awkward hand-wringing tone inherent to books of a certain sort (college students nowadays are so incapable of handling normal social interaction that they are now doing something called "pre-gaming" -- drinking before they head out to go drinking!). Still, it brings up a lot of good observations about how important it is not to seek your own identity through your child, and does a good job demonstrating of just how many middle- and upper-class American parents these days are failing by doing just that. Raising a child is about forming an independent person. If you don't let your kids fail, they'll be afraid of failure their whole lives. Some good stuff; just wish it was a better book.

Have this checked out, starting it ASAP:

nature "is" fictitious

i'm reading "figuring space" by gilles chatelet

fucking brilliant book about interfacing or interlacing philosophy, mathematics and physics... a goal is to reroute around action/motion(in itself) as instrumental
i paid about a $100 for this thing last yr, the price now is more than double that. fucking brilliant.

buck65 just pointed out that this is real. this lady teaches you how to cut up your books! deconstruction at it's finest. lol

reading Longo and Bailley's - Mathematics and the Natural Sciences: The Physical Singularity of Life

here is the description:


"This book identifies the organizing concepts of physical and biological phenomena by an analysis of the foundations of mathematics and physics. Our aim is to propose a dialog between different conceptual universes and thus to provide a unification of phenomena. The role of 'order" and symmetries in the foundations of mathematics is linked to the main invariants and principles, among them the geodesic principle (a consequence of symmetries), which govern and confer unity to various physical theories. Moreover, an attempt is made to understand causal structures, a central element of physical intelligibility, in terms of both symmetries and symmetry breakings. A distinction between the principles of (conceptual) construction and of proofs, both in physics and in mathematics, guides most of the work.

The importance of mathematical tools is also highlighted to clarify differences in the models for physics and biology that are proposed by continuous and discrete mathematics, such as computational simulations.

Since biology is particularly complex and not as well understood at a theoretical level, we propose a "unification by concepts" which in any case should precede mathematization. This constitutes an outline for unification also based on highlighting conceptual differences, complex points of passage and technical irreducibilities of one field to another. Indeed, we suppose here a very common monist point of view, namely the view that living objects are "big bags of molecules". The main question though is to understand which "theory" can help better understand these bags of molecules. They are, indeed, rather "singular", from the physical point of view. Technically, we express this singularity through the concept of "extended criticality", which provides a logical extension of the critical transitions that are known in physics. The presentation is mostly kept at an informal and conceptual level."


another heady read, kind of related to the last one i read, that chatelet book from above. the references in here are amazing... berthoz and petitot are fucking mind blowing... this book is fucking mindblowing

I just started reading "Ender's Game"

Anyone else read this? After buying it I saw the movie was in post production and coming out next year. Glad I'm reading it now so the movie doesn't plant images of harrison ford in my head.


who am i kidding, those already exist

Is he leaping sideways out of danger in those images like in every harrison ford movie ever?

how is that by the way?

2666?





i'm finishing up



3rd time into it... triangulation...i think i fell asleep with my eyes open during the parts on badiou

2666 is one of the most wonderful books I've ever read if you can stomach a whole section about the murders of women in gruesome detail. The writing is incredibly beautiful. I highly recommend reading it if you don't have a problem with the section in the city based on Juarez. It made me quite depressed to read it but I was glad once it was over. It was a crucial part of the book though.