Books
- auxiliarymemory.com When Tsundoku Meets Döstädning
by James Wallace Harris, 7/9/24 Tsundoku is a Japanese term for buying books and magazines far faster than you can read them. Döstädning is a concept from Sweden that translates into death cleaning…
>Tsundoku is a Japanese term for buying books and magazines far faster than you can read them. Döstädning is a concept from Sweden that translates into death cleaning, advice for how to get rid of your stuff before making other people do it after you die.
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Overview of PKD
> > > At one point Dick believed that when the last of the homeoplasmates were killed off with the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E., “real time ceased.” The plasmate reentered human history in 1945, when jars stuffed with ancient gnostic codices were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. > >
No surprise that Rome time theory is somehow mentioned in relation to PKD.
> > > And since the film \Valis\ clearly emerges from the same pulp ghetto that Dick himself wrote for throughout his mostly marginal career, he sly hints that careful readers of his own trashy paperbacks, with their lurid covers and cheesy titles, may pick up far more than they bargained for. > >
No shit ;)
> > > But Dick never gave up his commitment to the “authentically human,” the “viable, elastic organism which can bounce back, absorb, and deal with the new.” He also recognized that simulacra lie deep in our souls, and that we are not so far from the spiritual paradigms of the ancient world, with their camouflage spirits, talking images, and automata gods. > >
> > > The world is a prison not because of its materiality — which was the opinion of some of the ancient “Gnostics” — but because of the hidden orders of power and control it houses: the various corporate, political, and ideological archons herding us into increasingly compelling synthetic worlds. > >
> > > We feel compassion for and in his characters, ordinary flawed people struggling with impossible emotional and ethical contradictions; we recognize these people and their slapstick dystopias; they are us. And yet Dick’s point of view was extremely alienated and critical; questioning authority (even the authority of the author), he shifted like an ontological nomad between subjects and truths and positions of power, constantly testing for the trap doors in the theater of the world. His was not a gnosis that knows, but one that seeks to know, or rather dissolves its own convictions into the anxious mysterium. > >
Good article to start Saturday.
- thereader.mitpress.mit.edu J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
The renowned English writer reflects on the literature that shaped his imagination.
J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
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>In this respect I differed completely from my children, who began to read (I suspect) only after they had left their universities. Like many parents who brought up teenagers in the 1970s, it worried me that my children were more interested in going to pop concerts than in reading “Pride and Prejudice” or “The Brothers Karamazov” — how naive I must have been. But it seemed to me then that they were missing something vital to the growth of their imaginations, that radical reordering of the world that only the great novelists can achieve.
>I now see that I was completely wrong to worry, and that their sense of priorities was right — the heady, optimistic world of pop culture, which I had never experienced, was the important one for them to explore. Jane Austen and Dostoyevsky could wait until they had gained the maturity in their 20s and 30s to appreciate and understand these writers, far more meaningfully than I could have done at 16 or 17.
Books:
- “The Day of the Locust,” Nathanael West
- “Collected Short Stories,” Ernest Hemingway
- “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The Annotated Alice,” ed. Martin Gardner
- “The World through Blunted Sight,” Patrick Trevor-Roper
- “The Naked Lunch,” William Burroughs
- “The Black Box,” ed. Malcolm MacPherson
- “Los Angeles Yellow Pages”
- “America,” Jean Baudrillard
- “The Secret Life of Salvador Dalí,” by Dalí
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Some appetizers for the book on breaking Enigma.
- www.theguardian.com Paul Auster, American author of The New York Trilogy, dies aged 77
The writer of The New York Trilogy, Leviathan and 4 3 2 1 – known for his stylised postmodernist fiction – has died from complications of lung cancer
Have enjoyed The New York Trilogy
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„Nuovargio visuomenė“: kodėl nuolat jaučiamės persidirbę ir nelaimingi?
>Filosofą išgarsinusi „Nuovargio visuomenė“ (vok. Müdigkeitsgesellschaft) Vokietijoje išleista 2010 m. Šioje knygoje jis dešimtmečiu aplenkė šiandien visuotinai pripažįstamą perdegimo kultūros įsigalėjimą, ypač būdingą vadinamajai tūkstantmečio kartai (gimusiesiems 1981–1996 m.). Kasdien patiriama tokia stipri stimuliacija, ypač internete ir socialiniuose tinkluose, kad sunkiai begebama jausti ar savarankiškai mąstyti. Ironiška, kad Hano knygos populiarinamos iš lūpų į lūpas būtent per internetą.
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Looking forward to reading the book someday.
- share.snipd.com The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson & Robert Shea
cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/1868553
> The Long Seventies Podcast episode on The Illuminatus! Trilogy > > Some topics touched: > > >Exploration of Authoritarianism, Skepticism, and Anti-authoritarian Stance: The discussed band in the book represents authoritarianism, while the author advocates for thorough skepticism and an anti-authoritarian stance. > > >Exploring Convictions, Rationality, and Cult Dynamics: Convictions can limit openness to new ideas and cult dynamics can restrict followers' intellectual options. > > >Exploring the Thought Exercise of 'The Illuminatus! Trilogy' and its Discordian Roots: The book serves as a thought exercise synthesizing eccentric ideas influenced by the Discordian movement. > > >Exploring E Prime and its Connection to Neuro Linguistic Programming: E Prime as a tool to alter thinking and neuro linguistic programming techniques for behavioral conditioning are discussed. > > >Exploring the Origins of Social Media Platforms and Conspiracy Theories: Origins of social media platforms, their names, and potential conspiracy theories are explored. > > >Exploring Mythological References and Time Travel in the Book: The incorporation of mythological references and time-traveling storylines blur fiction and non-fiction in the book. > > >Exploring Mental Habits, Deep Programming, and Brainwashing: The challenge of eliminating mental habits, deep programming, and brainwashing as a real phenomenon are discussed. > > >Exploring Conspiracy Theories and Alternative Views: The podcast delves into conspiracy theories like the Bavarian Illuminati theory and the conditioning effects of exposure to such theories. > > >Decentralized Incentives and Societal Problems: Incentives drive behavior in society, with societal issues often stemming from a decentralized web of incentives rather than intentional conspiracies. > > >Evolution of News Media and Pressure for Immediate Content: The evolution of news media to the 24-hour news cycle has led to a focus on publishing content quickly, sometimes sacrificing accuracy for speed. >
- www.rawillumination.net New hardcover edition of 'Prometheus Rising'
Hilaritas Press has just announced that a hardcover edition of Prometheus Rising is now available, from the usual book channel, such as th...
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The Third Face of V: The Freedom to Starve
>Is V in V for Vendetta good or evil?
- economicsfromthetopdown.com Red Team Blues: Cory Doctorow's Anti-Finance Thriller – Economics from the Top Down
How do you tell the story of plutocratic crime? If you're Cory Doctorow, you write a detective novel about a forensic accountant. It's a must-read book that sheds light on the often-ignored world of elite finance.
Review of a book
- www.independent.org Book Review | GOAT: Who Is the Greatest Economist of All Time and Why Does It Matter?, by Tyler Cowen
Reviewed by Robert M. Whaples | Who is the greatest economist of all time? While there can be no definitive answer, Tyler Cowen’s exploration of this question is a compelling invitation to the history of economics. I still consider myself a newcomer to the history of economics. My formal introduct...
Check out the book page as well (and you can download the book for free) - https://goatgreatesteconomistofalltime.ai/en
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Has anyone else read the Freddy the Pig books?
freddythepig.com Friends of Freddy - Friends of FreddyThe website for fans of the Freddy the Pig books, written by Walter R. Brooks and illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Here you can join the Friends of Freddy, a fan club celebrating the 26 Freddy the Pig books.
They were published from the 20s to the 50s and written for children, so they're quite anachronistic. I find them charming! My elementary school was discarding them 30 years ago and I claimed the whole pile.
I'm reading them to my kids now to their great enjoyment, but I've never met anyone else who's even heard of them.
I will note that I've had to explain some of the social stuff that's very much of it's time. None of the problematic stuff has been mean-spirited, but I do have to break in once or twice per book to say "we don't say things like that anymore because ..." , but my kids are used to my pointing that sort of thing out already.
- boingboing.net Neil Gaiman auctioning off his comic art and collectibles
Comic book writer and author Neil Gaiman is putting some of his collection of original art, toys, and other items up for auction. Much of the collection are memorabilia from…
- www.rawillumination.net New book on Wilhelm Reich
A new book which takes a fresh look at Wilhelm Reich will be released in the spring: Wilhelm Reich versus the Flying Saucers: An American Tr...
- www.404media.co Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring to Appease China
“...if the work focuses on China, taiwan, tibet, or other topics that may be an issue *in* China...that needs to be highlighted so that we can determine if it is safe to put it on the ballot," one email said.
Hmm...
- biblioracle.substack.com A Book I Wish More People Knew About Vol. 10
Isabelle Eberhardt's stories of North Africa, translated by Paul Bowles
Caught my eye as I really loved Paul Bowles *The Sheltering Sky *.
- www.economist.com TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold
This represents a profound shift for readers, authors and publishers
- arstechnica.com The strange, secretive world of North Korean science fiction
Unusual and often breathtaking, the genre is relatively unknown in the West.
Have you read any?
- www.lrytas.lt Kultinis kibererdvės romanas „Neuromantas“ pagaliau išleistas lietuviškai
Amerikiečių ir kanadiečių rašytojas Williamas Gibsonas 1984 m. išleistame „Neuromante“ pateikė tokią įtaigią XX amžiuje sukurtą ateities viziją, kad dabar ji vienoje gretoje rikiuojasi su Aldouso Huxley „Puikiu nauju pasauliu“ ir George’o Orwello „1984“.
- www.insidehighered.com Roundup of offbeat fall books from university presses
Scott McLemee looks ahead to some ‘promisingly weird’ books from university presses due out this fall.
Some tasty bits are coming
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Philip K. Dick: THE GUN🎧📖FULL AudioBook | Greatest🌟AudioBooks
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All dickheads unite ;)
- engelsbergideas.com Sex and death in mid-nineteenth century America
Susan Wels captures a fantastically rambunctious period in US history.
Seems like fun book ;)
- www.rawillumination.net Today is Bloomsday
Today is Bloomsday, the annual celebration of James Joyce and Ulysses . From Adrian Legg on Twitter: "For my @RAWilson23 friends on #Blooms...
(the annual celebration of James Joyce and Ulysses - link to the audio version inside)
- jamestabor.com Tabor BookShelf: Which English Translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls Should I Use?
Geza Vermes, The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English 7th Edition (Penguin, 2012). I bought my first copy of this fine little paperback volume in 1973 in graduate school at the university of Chicago–it was the 1st edition and I still have it–and I have bought every edition since then. It has grown n...
Whois James Tabor? a Biblical scholar that I am following for some reason.
If you don't know what are Dead Sea Scrolls - take a look here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls
- www.rawillumination.net Two literary legacies, two different approaches
Robert Shea died in 1994, Robert Anton Wilson died in 2007, and since then, their work has been in the hands of their literary executors: Sh...
Robert Shea's son has generously released all of his father's novels on the internet under a Creative Commons license.
- www.rawillumination.net Patricia Monaghan, a writer you should know
Patricia Monaghan Robert Shea's widow, Patricia Monaghan (1946-2012), was herself a noteworthy writer and scholar. She wrote more than 20 bo...
Free pdf inside
- www.rawillumination.net Discussion: 'All Things Are Lights'
What "is" the "best" novel of Robert Shea? Opinions differ! Eric Wagner loved Shike but was a bit disappointed by All Things Are Lights , a...
Seems to be an interesting book
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I liked the point of view and feel it has lots of truth in it.
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> ...the authors of these three titles—Kerry Thornley, James Shelby Downard and Antero Alli—themselves had their own roles, both large or small, in the annals of Discordia.
- psyche.co Reading books is not just a pleasure: it helps our minds to heal | Psyche Ideas
Through my own struggles and in teaching bibliotherapy to students, I know that books can help to heal minds and hearts
- www.rawillumination.net What sort of philosophy is appealing?
I got interested in Epicureanism about a couple of years ago, when I read this statement from Bryan Caplan in one of his blog posts: "The ...
Some books mentioned
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The Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy By Robert Anton Wilson At 40
cross-posted from: https://group.lt/post/49465
> > Revisiting the work of the American futurist and self-described agnostic mystic, Robert Anton Wilson, forty years since the publication of his Schrödinger’s Cat Trilogy, Sean Kitching finds the author’s questing vision more vital and necessary today than it has ever been.. > >
- www.rawillumination.net New Brian Dean book, 'Lazy Person's Guide to Framing'
Brian Dean, who writes the excellent RAW Semantics blog , has a new book out, Lazy Person's Guide to Framing: Decoding the News Media. Tec...
>Here is the Official Blurb: "From Futura Pocketbooks, a 'Lazy Person’s Guide' to media framing. This updated and extended 2023 edition explains how headlines and news stories can be decoded with the latest know-how from the cognitive sciences. Discover how media narratives and political spin are unravelled and deciphered by frame semantics – an essential part of what has been labelled, 'Cognitive Revolution'."