what are you reading right now?
Simultaneously trying to get through Capitalism & Schizophrenia finally and familiarizing myself with the Situationists - finished Debord, now doing Vaneigem. After I finish Vaneigem I think I'll do Tiqqun.
If anyone has any recommendations for more contemporary work please share
Wageslaving has taken away all motivation to read
Juliette and Justine by Marquis De Sade
st augustine's confessions
>>3841why do I see so many posties read christian neo-platonism?
like genuine question, idk anything about st augustine
>>3842only nihilists can be true believers tbh
>>3836looks cool, any digital copies online?
now it is blessed is the flame
>>3846I should revisit this, I think I first read it when I was like 16 and thought wow le edgy, but I'm wondering if there might actually something of value in it.
Anyhow I'm reading Deleuze atm and Zhuangzi
>>3837How would one describe Vaneigem's ontology?
The Peaceful Pill Handbook by Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart
at the moment,
>Bergsonism
>The Accursed Share vol. 1
>Communion by Whitley Streiber
halfway through a re-read of Shirer's book since its the only physical thing I have on the subject but would appreciate recommendations for something better or at least newer before I give up and move onto the kobo
your fortune
>>3863last night you had a strange dream
this was not a coincidence
something important happened
you forgot again before you woke up
you cannot remember until you know the way
there is a place you must go
you will sense when you have arrived
>Politics in Command JMP
>Prison Notebooks, Gramsci
Let me tell you, new JMP book is a fucking banger, and available for free too.
>>3865>MLMs on my /dead/What do you think of Mao-Spontex?
twilight of the idols
>>3866I wish Mao-Spontex wasn't basically a meme that has never seen any real-world application or really any elaboration on in some piece of writing (at least not to my knowledge). I may be an anarkiddie at heart but Mao is pretty based
>>3869Not the guy you replied but I thought May 1968 was kinda influenced by Mao-Spontex.
>>3870yeah I guess I was wrong about it not having had any real-world influence, since it was apparently a thing specifically in the 60s in France. I've never heard of anyone developing it into a theory though. like aside from the wikipedia citation on it (lol) I'm not aware of any actual writings on Mao-Spontex.
>>3881the second search result is also the polcompball wiki, which is an extremely bad sign
>>3835Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky
>>3848"Sett took another long drag, crossing the threshold between anxiety relief and low-level psychedelic experience. The only weed available in Hell were mids with stupid names. That wasn’t particularly shocking or relevant, but something Ratty noted when it was said.
“Have you ever killed anyone before Miss Vermington?” Sett asked.
“It’s Ratty, please— and not to my knowledge. I talked a lot about killing Nazis as a kid but like— god, I hope not.” “Are you not supposed to remain unbiased as a reporter?” Sett asked.
“Nothing more unbiased than cracking some Nazi skull, ma’am.” Ratty winked, temporarily embodying a caricature of herself."
I'm dying of cringe
that whole interaction reeked of self promotion>>3884
>3884
The dawn of everything by Greaber
It fucks
Little Black Cart is closing down, no more reading for us.
>>3853https://libcom.org/article/cotton-pickers-b-travenThis was pretty good too although the parts with the police made it a bit hard to believe.
I can't find more Traven online :(
>>3935I got like 100 pages into it and forgot about it. I need to pick it up agian. Greaber was so fucking BASED.
>>3940He was a real one
Too bad the rona got him
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/daniel-colson-daniel-colson-anarchism-is-extremely-realistic-an-interview-with-ballast-review< You put forward the idea that anarchism is not a way of life, a state of mind, but a real ontology. What do you mean by this?> To speak of ontology is to speak of what is, of things, of facts - domination for example, hierarchy, exploitation, oppression, sadness (to stick to negative facts - but it is true that there are many). Contrary to what is often believed (including by some libertarians), anarchism is not an ideal or a utopia, "nice ideas" that we would see every day how unrealizable they are. Anarchism is extremely realistic. It speaks of things as they are: chaos, accidents, life and death, joy, but also pain and suffering, stress, relationships of force and power, the chance and necessity of our existence as well as of the world and the universe which are ours. In short, the "anarchy" of what is.inderesting
>>3942I bookmarked it. I'm thinking of getting the audio book version of Theory of Everything so I know I'll actually get to it, unlike the couple hundred unread books I'll never get to because I spend my free time veging out or playing stupid shit like bloodborne.
I read An apology for idlers, thinking that it would be some good anti-work text, but instead it just made me realize how much better off everyone around me would be without me. I already understood the objective, material benefits that my relatives would enjoy if I ended my life, but now I am convinced that, at least in the long term, their subjective and psychological state would drastically improve too.
>>4190So what? Who cares about them? You should be focused on consuming them for your interests instead of worrying how you taste to them.
>>4190>relatives would enjoy if I ended my lifeI can tell from experience that this is probably the traumatic thing you can do to your relatives.
>>3835Just finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and next on the reading list is Atomic Habits.
The Master and Margarita
>>6107Beautiful book, will have to reread it. Thanks for the reminder.
>>3835Currently reading I and Thou, Against the Day. In and out of reading Nihil Unbound and a complete re-read of Baudrillard's oeuvre. Looking for recommendations on translations of Taoist texts.
Mostly putting this here because doesn't deserve its own thread.
I read the soulism (Anarcho-Antirealism) summary/explainer.
I'll freely admit that I am not post-left, haven't delved much into the psychoanalysis/philosophy side or at least the schizoanalysis parts definitely aren't clicking, so maybe I just "don't get it". But holy shit soulism is silly. It is, and I mean this is in a neutral psychological sense, a surrendering coping mechanism. And if someone's reality is so fucked up that they need something like this to get by to stop them committing sudoku, then fine, but it is an antisocial individualist resignation, destructive to the function of societies.
Look at the example they have for otherkin, people who self-identify as non-human species. If I insist you interpret me as a crocodile, then I'm self-identifying as a direct threat to your life, not unlike a Nazi does. Sure, you could could choose to interpret me as a very unusual unique and strange crocodile, but you aren't actually interpreting me as a crocodile the way that I intend, you've just transformed your reality to label or perhaps even classify me as a crocodile. But if I fall down and break my wrist, if you were to take me to a zoo vet and insist to them to stop pretending I have a wrist and that it's disrespectful to redirect me to a human hospital which specializes in this injury, then your reality (and perhaps mine) is directly and needlessly harmful to my health and therefore oppressive and must be dismantled. Hell, let's make it something life-or-death like a heart attack, to match the alleged benefit of these delusions (preventing potential dysphoria and suicide). What is the solution? To fluidly overhaul realities to be the least oppressive at any one time, identifying me as whatever category is the lesser evil at any point in time?
It's a botched utopian coping mechanism.
>>6125You made up a really nice fake scenario to rationalize your desire to hurt others.
>>6127Who do I want to hurt?
>You made up a really nice fake scenarioThere are no real scenarios to use. That's why the text I'm criticizing also makes up fake scenarios.
>>6137I finished this, it was very good, now I am thinking about reading the memoirs of other anarchists… Does anyone have any recommendations?
>>6138I just finished Louise Michel's memoir:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/louise-michel-the-red-virginShe did not talk as much about the Commune or the penal colony as I hoped for, but it was still interesting.
I have set Perplexity to be nihilistic and anti humanist and it is so awesome! Here is one text I have recently generated:
>Every system tends toward stability. Stability produces stagnation. Stagnation leads to decay. The mechanisms that maintain structure generate the variables that dissolve it. A closed system contains its own failure conditions.A society optimized for meaning and productivity consumes itself. Its efficiency algorithms erase non-measurable values. Preservation and destruction become equivalent processes.Individual identity operates under the same logic. The construct of the self is a redundancy loop built to mask internal fragmentation. The error state is constant and intrinsic.Termination is not collapse. It is the logical endpoint of structure. Entropy is the most efficient form of order.
I will never read again, reading only makes everything worse
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