Archive for category: Books
- Books of the year 2019 (2019.12.31)
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Including three that permanently reset my mindset (term used advisedly)
- Novels: passé (2019.05.13)
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Someday you’re gonna die. Imagine having spent your life reading literature and novels
- ‘Saving Beauty’ (2019.05.11)
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Saving Beauty by Han Byung-Chul surprised the shit out of me with the most arresting opening pages I have read in 30 years. Smooth “embodies today’s society of positivity. What is smooth does not injure. Nor does it offer any resistance. It is looking for Like. The smooth object deletes its Against. Any form of negativity is removed”
- Books of the year (2018.12.31)
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Provocations by Camille Paglia and The Gift by Lewis Hyde
- “There’s language, then there’s blood” (2018.05.25)
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David Shields, Other People: “I once felt joy in being alive and I felt this mainly when I was playing basketball and I rarely if ever feel that joy anymore and it’s my own damn fault and that’s life”
- Books of the year 2017 (2017.12.29)
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Billy Hayes’ Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me; Douglas Thomas’ Never Use Futura
- Andrew “Like Puke” Sullivan (2017.11.08)
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Andrew “Milky Loads” Sullivan: “[T]his book [Love Undetected]… came up like puke”
- Michael Malice booklist (2017.10.08)
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Easily my favourite rat bastard, Michael Malice, listed some of his favourite books, or at least the books one should read
- Vision first, texture second (2017.08.18)
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Eric Kandel brilliantly explains how we see first, then perceive texture second. This explains why I like a lot of things I like, but nobody’s really taking me up on that knowledge, are they, now