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Champion J. · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:18 am

For Whom The Bell Tolls is one of my favs.

After growing weary of billionaire biographies, I figured I would ship out to sea for a while. This is a well-researched account of the true story that inspired Melville's Moby Dick. Good fun for fans of sailing and cannibalism, alike!

OBLIO · **Posted:** Fri Jan 06, 2012 12:36 pm

Dude, you should totally check out "the terror"

Based on the true life expedition of the HMS TERROR that vanished along with another ship and its entire crew.

conga · **Joined:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:01 pm **Posts:** 370

www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/index.htm

slooth · **Posted:** Mon Jan 09, 2012 3:00 pm

cool photos of personal libraries here
http://bookshelfporn.com/

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1144

slooth wrote:

cool photos of personal libraries here
http://bookshelfporn.com/

cool site...alot of the pictures look like they have about the same amount of books here...i can't see titles

my basement is supposedly getting fixed up this week for habitation... shelves soon

conga · **Joined:** Sun Jun 08, 2008 7:01 pm **Posts:** 370

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1144

networks and the brain by olaf sporns

i don't know what the fuck to read next.... either, "computational mind" and i have no idea who wrote it.. well ivancevic i think was close to the last name of the two authors... it gives a lowdown on what computation is, it talks about chaos dynamics and the brain, the quantum level of the brain, like such structures as cytoskeleton and microtubles...

or i could go with an older book, paul d. maclean's "the triune brain in evolution"...

i post these things on here in case anyone checks for books to look into... i realize this is heavy stuff, hard to read etc...
s'all good

Z-0 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 18, 2012 12:47 am

Neuromancer

it's been on my to read list for years (i even had interplays 1988 C64 computer game back in the day). finally picked up a copy today.

theus · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 1:14 pm

kuroshima denji's militarised streets.

Quote:

Militarized Streets (武装せる市街 Buso seru shigai) is a 1930 novel by Japanese Marxist writer Kuroshima Denji (1898–1943). Researched in China, the novel focuses on the so-called Jinan Incident, one of the early armed clashes that would eventually lead to a full-scale war between Japan and China.

Kuroshima's novel sympathetically depicts a broad array of people, including mercilessly exploited Chinese factory workers, impoverished Japanese residents, and increasingly radicalized Japanese soldiers. Staunchly antimilitarist in tone, the novel was instantly banned, censored again fifteen years later by the US occupation authorities, and not reprinted in full until 1970, four decades after its initial publication.

Militarized Streets unobtrusively offers a penetrating analysis of an exploitative system in action, cautions against an impending imperialist war, and suggests a path to a humane and peaceful world —- through forging powerful bonds of international solidarity. Although written decades ago, Kuroshima’s book remains startlingly and tragically timely in a world of nationalist-driven military intervention.

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1144

alien theory: the decline of materialism in the name of matter by ray brassier, doctoral thesis, 2001

http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4034/

bigsole · **Joined:** Tue Oct 18, 2005 3:25 am **Posts:** 1792

The story of The Dispossessed is set on Anarres and Urras, the twin inhabited worlds of Tau Ceti. Cetians are mentioned in other Ekumen novels and short stories. An Anarresti appears in the short story The Shobies' Story. Urras before the settlement of Anarres is the setting for the short story The Day Before the Revolution.
In The Dispossessed, Urras is divided into several states which are dominated by the two largest ones, which are rivals. In a clear allusion to the United States (represented by A-Io) and the Soviet Union (represented by Thu), one has a capitalist economy and patriarchal system and the other is an authoritarian system that claims to rule in the name of the proletariat. Further developing the analogy, there is in A-Io an oppositional left-wing party which is closely linked to and supporting the rival Thu, as were Communist parties in the US and other Western countries at the time of writing. Beyond that, there is a third major, though underdeveloped, area called Benbili — when a revolution breaks out there, A-Io and Thu invade Benbili generating a proxy war. Thus, Benbili comes to represent south-east Asia, an allusion to the Vietnam War.
In the last chapter of The Dispossessed, we learn that the Hainish people arrived at Tau Ceti 60 years ago, which is more than 150 years after the secession of the Odonians from Urras and their exodus to Anarres. Terrans are also there, and the novel occurs some time in the future. A date of 2300 has been suggested, while the complexities of Urrasti history hint otherwise.

theus · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 5:09 pm

self-explanatory. doesn't look like a great book, but it's short and has a nice big font so i picked it up.

walter gross · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 6:43 pm

war on art: steven pressfield

just finished BLOOD MERIDIAN...holy shit that was a crazy book. savage

tryin to read Trinity by Leon Uris but the stupid cover really is so stupid, i gotta get over it

theus · **Posted:** Fri Jan 27, 2012 3:05 pm

found this second hand today and am very happy.

Arvind-Pal S. Mandair and Markus Dressler wrote:

The project out of which this volume emerged was initially framed under the title "Politics of Religion-Making." We conceived of "religion-making" broadly as the way in which certain social phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion(s) discourse. In other words, the notion refers to the reification and instituitionalization of certain ideas, social formations, and practices as "religious" in the conventional Western meaning of the term, thereby subordinating them to a particular knowledge regime of religion and its political, cultural, philosophical, and historical interventions.

the wabi-sabi book was not particularly good in case anybody was interested.

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1144

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i'm reading "nihil unbound" again for the 2nd or 3rd time...i thinks its one of the better books i've read in the last 3-4 yrs
he gets into eliminative materialism, correlationism. for instance.

theus · **Posted:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 10:53 am

finn, if you're still interested in reading a contemporary theologian this guy sounds good:

Brian Goldstone wrote:

Notable among those who have pointed to such inadequacies is Christian theologian William T. Cavanaugh. In a series of recent articles, Cavanaugh's critical energies have been directed at, on the one hand, a radical reappraisal of the historiography surrounding early modern Europe's wars of religion and, on the other, an attempt to undermine the analytical sustainability of the "religion" in contemporary discussions of religion and violence. Surveying the vast archive dealing with these issues, he convincingly shows that even the most sophisticated attempts to "separate a category called 'religion' with a particular tendency towards violence from a putatively 'secular' reality"—and hence to distinguish religious aggressions from those generated by supposedly secular commitments—are ultimately doomed to failure, leading him to conclude that such attempts comprise and contribute to the persistence of what he provocatively terms "the myth of religious violence." And this myth, he goes on to argue, not only has long underwritten the modern nation-state's persistent contrast between irrational forms of violence and those more enlightened cruelties considered necessary to contain them but has also served to consolidate the secularist demand that religion be done away with, or at the very least be made private, so as not to infect public and political life.

releaseyet · **Joined:** Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:24 pm **Posts:** 1144

reading that triune brain book since yesterdat... so far i'm almost 200 pages in and its talking about removing parts of the brain or creating lesions on certain surfaces of the brain to find out what part of the brain does what, generally speaking, as the dominant view in my mind is that the brain is all tied together rather than being explicitly made of strict modules ... so far the author examined behavior in komodo dragons and some other lizards, he did a short thing on birds and also squirrel monkeys... emergence from slumber, copulation, defecation, hunting prey... i can't wait to read the rest

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