Deep in a philosophy hole, but I enjoy tons of other non-fiction books and a lot of fiction as well.
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Lots of great ruminations on history and rich visuals of perceived landscapes of time, and how people graft themselves to different arrangements of time or try and transcend them. I’m liking the surging back in and out of scenes with The Whole Sick Crew a lot.
Finally finished Thomas Nail's 'Lucretius' series.
For my next read I want to apply some of the ideas around kinetic materialism, pedesis, and mostly what he calls out (via Lucretian thought) as Western history's hatred of motion and fear of death. I'll be doing this through a reading of Tarnas' 'The Passion of the Western Mind'.
I think this will be an interesting exercise.
Really great follow up to the first book. I enjoyed reading this so much, its finally some materialist thinking that I can really get behind more holistically.
Excited to read the final book in the series now.
Edward Bellamy: Looking backward (2000, Signet Classic)
Bellamy's novel tells the story of a hero figure named Julian West, a young American, who towards the end of …
Computer Power and Human Reason is a distinguished computer scientist's elucidation of the impact of scientific rationality on man's self-image.
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Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb …
