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yaspora wrote
Give us a review when you finish! (If you want to.)
topa wrote
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I have been reading some sections from Hardt and Negri's main books, Empire, Multitude, and (next) Commonwealth.
It's been unimpressive, and sad how they have crammed Deleuze's ideas into a Marxist-Leninist frame.
kano OP wrote
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I reread Islam and Anarchism in its complete entirety which was still worth it the second time around. Maybe I gonna remember some parts better now.
I also read most of They Recognise no Superior Chief from William Angelbeck which is an analysis of the practice/technology/culture around/of warfare among the Coast Salish. Its pretty interesting. The author seems to have a reasonable analysis and spends like the first 3 chapters laying out his whole methodology shit which includes a reasonable analysis or way of understanding power. He goes in kind of a different direction than Clastres does so far but I think they kind of go together and the author is definitely aware of Clastres shit having cited it in the book. Also the archaeological evidence of various defensive structures was also quite interesting. Interesting that the Coast Salish seemed to be as likely to war amongst themselves as with other non Coast Salish groups, but that defensive infrastructure also seemed to be structured in ways such that the various Coast Salish villages could also defend themselves together from external threats as well as from each other.
zip wrote (edited )
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House of Leaves. had the book for a while, finally got around to actually reading it. it's a complete fucking mess of a book and I love it for that.
there's this one part where Johnny (one of the characters; I can't even say "main characters" because there's so many layers that I don't know who's main and who's not) goes on a rant in one of his footnotes about how much he loves this girl for like 2 pages, and I'm sitting there like "ok I've had enough please talk about something else" (I'm aro), and then the fucking book reads my mind and Johnny says (paraphrased) "and for anyone who hates this stuff, you have a heart of a TV dinner. Go crawl into a microwave and turn it on. Actually, even if you tried that, you're stupid because humans can't even fit in a microwave." and I was thinking like "ok fuck you". that's like one of the most insignificant parts of the book but it's so memorable because it went out of its way just to insult the reader.
Xenosplitter wrote
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To sleep in a sea of stars, by Christopher Paolini
Not far in yet, but reminds me a lot of his way of setting up the world/plot he did in Eragon
NOISEBOB wrote
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raddle
ignored a TW and got triggered.
:/
yaspora OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by VirgoVendetta in List of some popular/well-known Zionist authors (compiled by RM Virtues) by yaspora
JK Rowling is a Zionist and did Holocaust Denial???
Yeah, there's always been a tendency of "pragmatic" Zionists collaborating with openly anti-Jewish colonizers.
VirgoVendetta wrote
JK Rowling is a Zionist and did Holocaust Denial??? The inner machinations of her mind are truly an enigma.
And Stephen King took me by surprise but in hindsight it really shouldn't considering his reputation.
thistornflesh wrote
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The clouds for todays weather
PeacefulAnon wrote
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What is anarchism - Alexander Berkman
PeacefulAnon wrote
Reply to Reading "The Annotated African American Folktales" here is one of my favorites so far. This one an African tale from the Ashanti: How Contradiction came to the Ashanti cw:violence, genitals by asterism
Halfway across the world, our bellies are full of his flesh.
idioomsus wrote (edited )
Makes sense. Many of the "major publishers" who are holding the worlds knowledge hostage for profit are indeed based in the Netherlands (e.g. De Gruyters, Brill, John Benjamins, etc. - also famous for asking extortion prices).
These types of illegal shadow libraries are very harmful. The only ones who benefit are the anonymous owners of these illegal services.
If no-one is "benefiting",not even the prospective readers of those books from around the world who would otherwise have no access to them, then what's the problem? /silly rhetoric
But, really, is the argument that Anna's Archive and LibGen teams are making bank? How?
I'm sure the dutch will figure out how to use a VPN.
yaspora wrote
Reply to comment by anoonymous in I have finished reading "Anarchist Against Democracy In Their Own Words" by jus74hu3m4n
I think it's a tentative expression of joy, like "I guess?".
anoonymous wrote
what do you mean by "poly-rational"?
what are you asking about Joy?
asterism wrote
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
PeacefulAnon wrote
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UG Krishnamurti or Jiddu Krishnamurti?
ArgueVanquisher wrote
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I prefer conceptual interactive media which is fact based rather than immersion in single minded interpretations.
asterism wrote
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shorthand for the "Greek Magical Papyri"
Basically a collection of Papyri from 100 bce to 400 ce Egypt. that have been grouped together thematically by scholars (that is these papyri are not from a single ancient collection its just scholars found it useful to group all the magical texts together)
ruminator wrote (edited )
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- Nadia Abu El-Haj’s new book, Combat Trauma. It is good.
Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans’ trauma would also shift, moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile public upon their return home.
- Gillian Rose’s collection of philosophical essays, Judaism in Modernity.
kano OP wrote
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what is PGM?
asterism wrote
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still reading both Grimm Fairytales and African American faiytales
Still slowly reading the PGM and one of the Krishnamurti books
Just picked up "Magikon Zoon: Animal and Magic from Antiquity to the Middle Ages" which has been fascinating. a particularly "fun" essay was showing examples of societal misogyny in Sumeriam texts in like the early 3000 BCE via spells related to pigs and dogs. Also the insult "son of a dog" apparently goes back to at least 2000 BCE
kano OP wrote
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I finished reading Palestine a 4000 year history. I have to say I kind of like reading history, because you get a lot of events and shit that happened and can try to interpret them in a way which is more appropriate. It's a bit nicer than straight up political theory shit I'd say. And historians talk about shit that the political theory ppl didn't really get too.
I've also been rereading Islam and anarchism from Mohamed Abdou because it's that worth it imo. Read the first 3 chapters and am on the 4th now. There's a lot of good interesting shit in there.
jus74hu3m4n OP wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Tequila_Wolf in I have almost finished reading the Structural Anarchist Manifesto by jus74hu3m4n
What resonated with me: -Actually explained the logic of capitalism as it is today -Acknowledged that the current political-socioeconomic relationship of capitalism is essentially slavery. -That this form of capitalism is a soft-totalitarianism that assimilates and extracts from all -In contiuing to reproduce the micro-fascist networks of oligarchic control into every recess of Human activity it pushes the workforce/population to its antithetical substitute: structural-anarchism.
For the structural part it gives an idea of how to marginalize capitalism through acts of micro-revolution.
What those micro-revolutionary acts are varies from place to place(still looking for examples to implement within my life i.e. stealing booze from corporate chain stores, journalling my thoughts, reading, drawing and learning tech to recreate myself)
I guess it said in the text what I cannot say at coercion(employment) or family.
It helps me imagine a world beyond what we have now and take steps to live instead of waiting around to be saved.
I just have to be cautious, that's all.
Apologies if incoherent, still learning to unlearn.
Edit:spelling, grammar, additional words.
Tequila_Wolf wrote
Interested to hear parts that resonated with you.
Also, what does "structural" mean in this context?
VirgoVendetta wrote
Reply to My copy of "No Spiritual Surrender" arrived today. by jus74hu3m4n
Just looked it up. Sounds rad. I should check it out.