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Gonna finally try Ulysses by James Joyce

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

The Cinema of Béla Tarr: The Circle Closes by András Bálint Kovács

R.I.P Bela Tarr who I had the honor of meeting nearly three years ago :heart: :flower:

The Odyssey by Homer

My annual round-up of what I read this year: On the Theory and History of Ideological Production: Juan Carlos Rodríguez and His Contemporaries by Malc...

Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens by László Krasznahorkai

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow

Fondly remember reading a handful of his short stories a good number of years ago. The Color Out of Space is my favorite.

Finished the book, which I overall enjoyed, although I found the prose to be drawn out at times, which made it difficult to follow. The crux of John H...

The State and the Tributary Mode of Production by John Haldon

Damn, 10 years already. Where the hell has the time gone??

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel Prize for Literature :heart:

Septology by Jon Fosse

Went to France for the first time, including Paris. Wonderful city, really loved it. Visited Emil Cioran's grave in Montparnasse Cemetery on our first...

A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran (rereading)

Genghis Khan’s Greatest General: Subotai the Valiant by Richard A. Gabriel

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

started The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties by Timothy Brook a few days back

Selected Poems of Li Po and Tu Fu that I'm bringing on vacation :cool:

The era of the Tang Dynasty is interesting; a high point in Imperial China from a cultural and religious standpoint. We also see the beginnings of tre...

Started China’s Cosmopolitan Empire: The Tang Dynasty by Mark Edward Lewis a few days back

Neil Davidson has a great book on Neoliberalism, What Was Neoliberalism? Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism, 1973-2008

Germinal by Émile Zola

Very well, particularly in light of the emergence of generative AI, or just in general our ability to view and consume any type of content from high a...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin (reread) China between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties by Mark E...

Anyway @"Benkei", I appreciate your post on the origins and likely outcomes of Trump's Tariff policy. The genesis of his polices stemming from the mis...

lol I am not a lawyer

Not at all - I stated your views amusingly coincide with your geographic distance, not that your geographic distance engenders your views or precludes...

Just wanted to point out how your (over 6K mile) physical removal from the United States coincides with your casually abstract - to the point of callo...

Don't you live in New Zealand?

Holding Fast to an Image of the Past: Explorations in the Marxist Tradition by Neil Davidson

Not interested in engaging with anyone who posts like this. You can either read the book, as I innocuously suggested, or continue to cowardly lash out...

Where precisely in my comment is 'Nationalism" mentioned? Losurdo explicitly acknowledges Nietzsche's disdain for intra-European Nationalism. Maybe re...

Incredible that I made that comment 7 years ago and we're still going through it :death:

Possibly, although I think it's been around 10 years since I've read it, so who knows what elements of the book I've absorbed. Perhaps I'm more invoki...

Just from the précis via Haymarket Books: "In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Dome...

Have you read Nietzsche, The Aristocratic Rebel by Domenico Losurdo?

Typical right-wing tactic of blaming the Left for creating their own ideology. Regardless, I'm not at all convinced that the "alt-right" view of race ...

quite good A History of Judaism by Martin Goodman

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Thank you kindly, sir :blush:

My fiancée and I are going to France this year and I intend to visit his grave in Paris :flower:

Unsure if this is simply a sarcastic remark or sincere and thus asinine, but regardless, Roger Scruton has been dead for over 5 years

We Cannot Escape History: States and Revolutions by Neil Davidson

On the Theory and History of Ideological Production: Juan Carlos Rodríguez and His Contemporaries by Malcolm K. Read My reading list for 2024: The Ear...

Not to take away from the misogyny amongst Democratic voters, but another commonality between Clinton and Harris was that the former ran within a deli...

Market and Violence: The Functioning of Capitalism in History by Heide Gerstenberger

Rethinking Marxist Approaches to Transition: A Theory of Temporal Dislocation by Onur Acaroglu

Probably the greatest thing written in the English language What Was Neoliberalism: Studies in the Most Recent Phase of Capitalism 1973-2008 by Neil D...