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Picked up "Devil in the white city".. pretty rad. Eating it up so far

JereFuzz wrote:

dubkitty wrote:haven't been reading shit lately other than Twitter and the You Must Get Them All blog which is sequentially reviewing the Fall discography, but i ordered Homage to Catalonia and The Society of the Spectacle for reading while i'm on vacation. at this point i can't really get into anything that lacks timely socio-political content.

SOS is sitting on my table, ready to be read. Seems hard/strange at first glance. Much thinking will be required. The Simulacra and Simulations by Baudrillard was great but deserves another read.

oh, yeah. it's easy to read linguistically--at least compared to the typical translations of Situationist works--but every page and a half i have to stop and assimilate what i just read. by far the most trenchant political work i've ever encountered.

dubkitty wrote:

JereFuzz wrote:

dubkitty wrote:haven't been reading shit lately other than Twitter and the You Must Get Them All blog which is sequentially reviewing the Fall discography, but i ordered Homage to Catalonia and The Society of the Spectacle for reading while i'm on vacation. at this point i can't really get into anything that lacks timely socio-political content.

SOS is sitting on my table, ready to be read. Seems hard/strange at first glance. Much thinking will be required. The Simulacra and Simulations by Baudrillard was great but deserves another read.

oh, yeah. it's easy to read linguistically--at least compared to the typical translations of Situationist works--but every page and a half i have to stop and assimilate what i just read. by far the most trenchant political work i've ever encountered.

I think this work could have been inspired by The Image by Boorstin, which I haven’t read. But I have it on my list. Boorstin was the one who noted the concept of pseudo-events I believe. The book was written in ‘61.

A few weeks ago I finished Mutual Aid by Pyotr Kropotkin and it was one of the coziest reads in a long time. Only book about politics that kan make you feel alright I reckon

I quite enjoyed Devil In The White City, but like a number of commenters i found myself wishing that the whole book was about the World's Fair. it especially intrigues me because i grew up in Chicago and there's barely a trace of it today other than the Museum Of Science And Industry.

I've been reading Kochland for the past two weeks. It's fascinating and insane at the same time. Charles Koch may be viewed as a monster but some of the stuff this guy accomplished is so impressive I can't stop reading. How he beat out the Union when that was almost impossible. How he has fought the Federal Government numerous times and beat them. How he took a company from his father and took it from profitable to more profitable than anyone's dreams. He is the 7th richest man on the planet. Worth 50.5 billion I believe. That's crazy. I want to know what happened in this. It's something you can read about but this is a compiled version. It's a great read.

Jwar wrote:I've been reading Kochland for the past two weeks. It's fascinating and insane at the same time. Charles Koch may be viewed as a monster but some of the stuff this guy accomplished is so impressive I can't stop reading. How he beat out the Union when that was almost impossible. How he has fought the Federal Government numerous times and beat them. How he took a company from his father and took it from profitable to more profitable than anyone's dreams. He is the 7th richest man on the planet. Worth 50.5 billion I believe. That's crazy. I want to know what happened in this. It's something you can read about but this is a compiled version. It's a great read.

I'm starting to dip into Dark Money which covers the Kochs heavily. Apparently, daddy Koch got rich building refineries for Stalin. He was so horrified by the Totalitarian Stalinist system that he swore to prevent such a system from coming the USA. Got a call from Hitler. Started building refineries for them.

JereFuzz wrote:

Jwar wrote:I've been reading Kochland for the past two weeks. It's fascinating and insane at the same time. Charles Koch may be viewed as a monster but some of the stuff this guy accomplished is so impressive I can't stop reading. How he beat out the Union when that was almost impossible. How he has fought the Federal Government numerous times and beat them. How he took a company from his father and took it from profitable to more profitable than anyone's dreams. He is the 7th richest man on the planet. Worth 50.5 billion I believe. That's crazy. I want to know what happened in this. It's something you can read about but this is a compiled version. It's a great read.

I'm starting to dip into Dark Money which covers the Kochs heavily. Apparently, daddy Koch got rich building refineries for Stalin. He was so horrified by the Totalitarian Stalinist system that he swore to prevent such a system from coming the USA. Got a call from Hitler. Started building refineries for them.

Well, at least that what the author alleges. Who knows.

I'm reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan.

Seance wrote:I'm reading How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan.

Yeah this is a great book.

That sounds interesting.

coldbrightsunlight wrote:That sounds interesting.

It is. Fills out some of the parts of the story that often get overlooked and
connects some of the clinical research that went on in the 1950s-1966 period
with some of the clinical research going on today.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is also worth reading.

Reading this. Very good.

Wow... great stuff on this page. My brother got me the Cigar Box / Junk Guitars DIY project book for Christmas. Looking forward to diving into that.
It's not FUN. It's literally my ideal aesthetic. I just love shitty shit.

Seance wrote:

coldbrightsunlight wrote:That sounds interesting.

It is. Fills out some of the parts of the story that often get overlooked and
connects some of the clinical research that went on in the 1950s-1966 period
with some of the clinical research going on today.

The Omnivore's Dilemma is also worth reading.

Cool! I've read some of Michael Pollan's articles and watched a TV program and enjoyed them, so I will definitely keep an eye out for that psychedelics book, it's a fascinating subject