rooneymcnibnug started reading War and Peace (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace delineates in graphic detail events surrounding the French invasion of Russia, and …
Finally doin the damn thing.
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A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the …
Melancholy of Resistance
4 stars
Really interesting. Hadn't read any Krasznahorkai before this.
The format works for the looming dread and general atmosphere. Really liked some of the longer diatribes and pieces of things like Mr. Eszter's hyper-awareness of the hammer and nail, followed by this being intruded on for pages upon pages by his neighbors terrified recounting of the initial descent of the military on the town.
I will be happy to get back to something with paragraph breaks, though!
Really interesting. Hadn't read any Krasznahorkai before this.
The format works for the looming dread and general atmosphere. Really liked some of the longer diatribes and pieces of things like Mr. Eszter's hyper-awareness of the hammer and nail, followed by this being intruded on for pages upon pages by his neighbors terrified recounting of the initial descent of the military on the town.
I will be happy to get back to something with paragraph breaks, though!
rooneymcnibnug started reading Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Quick spoopy audibook to listen to this week!
rooneymcnibnug finished reading The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete …
If you want to read a single book about that lead up to the creation and usage of the atom bomb... this is it.
rooneymcnibnug rated A Nietzschean Bestiary: 3 stars
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, …
Shadow Ticket
4 stars
Content warning general spoilage
This felt like a reach back into pockets of his early work but with his new twist. Always love how the dude really commits to periods and their drawl in his dialogue. The motherfucking Gumshoe Manual in here. Prose of creeping fascism as something looming on the horizon, creeping into even the mundane. A barbarism. This was a good breezy read from Pynchon, but really has me hankering to finally start Against that day.. maybe next year.
rooneymcnibnug started reading The idea factory by Jon Gernter
A interesting history of Bell Labs from its rise to its fall. The author traces …
Found an audiobook copy of this. Something to listen to during less intensive work. I'm interested in it for.. probably less conventional reasons than most people would read this lol.
Found an audiobook copy of this. Something to listen to during less intensive work. I'm interested in it for.. probably less conventional reasons than most people would read this lol.
rooneymcnibnug rated Enshittification: 4 stars
Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify.
We’re living through …
rooneymcnibnug started reading Enshittification by Cory Doctorow
Enshittification: it’s not just you―the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can …
listening to the audiobook version of this.
rooneymcnibnug rated The Figure of the Migrant: 4 stars
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Lines of flight by Stefan Mattessich (Post-contemporary interventions)
Lines of Flight
3 stars
rooneymcnibnug reviewed The Anti-Oedipus Papers by Félix Guattari
Notes and journal entries document Guattari and Deleuze's collaboration on their 1972 book Anti-Oedipus.
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The Anti-Oedipus Papers
4 stars
Pretty decent history of cybernetics and its major 'players', which is what I was looking for, but gets a bit lost in the sauce around certain aspects. Was somewhat (pleasantly) surprised to see Deleuze mentioned in this, since I've been really focusing on a lot of that stuff lately re:philosophy. This seems to really shy away from how capitalism has devoured concepts of cybernetics.. but I think that's maybe not the point of this work anyways.
Pretty decent history of cybernetics and its major 'players', which is what I was looking for, but gets a bit lost in the sauce around certain aspects. Was somewhat (pleasantly) surprised to see Deleuze mentioned in this, since I've been really focusing on a lot of that stuff lately re:philosophy. This seems to really shy away from how capitalism has devoured concepts of cybernetics.. but I think that's maybe not the point of this work anyways.
rooneymcnibnug reviewed Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze
Analyzes the expression and repression of desire in Western culture and tells how to avoid …
Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari
4 stars
Started with lots of notes but ended up just kind of letting it wash over me. I'm sure I'll return to this, and will be interested in reading more Deleuze. There are a lot of cool resources out there and I am part of a reading group for this that is lagging a bit, so I look forward to being a part of those conversations through the year as supplement.
Started with lots of notes but ended up just kind of letting it wash over me. I'm sure I'll return to this, and will be interested in reading more Deleuze. There are a lot of cool resources out there and I am part of a reading group for this that is lagging a bit, so I look forward to being a part of those conversations through the year as supplement.
Found this LibriVox audio recording of Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols to be pretty great, for whatever its worth: archive.org/details/the_twilight_of_the_idols_librivox/twilightoftheidols-06-nietzsche.mp3
Found this LibriVox audio recording of Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols to be pretty great, for whatever its worth: archive.org/details/the_twilight_of_the_idols_librivox/twilightoftheidols-06-nietzsche.mp3