Metal Reviews

If you managed to handle Debord, you're man enough to get out of Deleuze alive.

Next step would be to try some Michel Onfray.

Sorry rio, he's my new favorite poster.

Edit: maybe. recommending me anarchists isn't really my thing. French theory is something I begrudgingly get into.

Cicero- Letters to Atticus Vol III

*kills self*

Onfray is not an anarchist. Just try his "Atheist Manifesto", it's brilliant.

Wikipedia lied then. Have you read Debord yourself? I was blown way by how horrible Society became after the third chapter.

I've read "la société du spectacle" and "commentaires sur la société du spectacle". Sorry, I'm not going to comment on any of those, I could easily do it in French by my english is not good enough for me to do so.

And, yes, about Onfray, like it happens many times, Wiki was misinformed. Someone who is a disciple of Nietzsche, La Mettrie or Aristippe de Cyrène cannot be just an anarchist.

Same here. Deleuze sounds so interesting in this introduction. Yet ultimately unproductive I'm thinking besides pushing the boundaries and distancing one's self from the current established way.

Actually, there's a series of video interviews around the same theme I find more interesting than the books itself. Don't know if you can find it with english subtitles but it's worth searching for.

Finished A Game Of Thrones and it was fucking incredible, now on to A Clash Of Kings, cant believe that people had to wait two years for the sequel, i dont think i could have waited that long.

There's no real guarantee that George RR Martin will actually finish the series, so you might have to wait a lot longer for the last book if in fact it's coming at all.

Aren't there supposed to be three more now?

Are there?

I dunno, man, however many more there are supposed to be, I just hope he finishes it before he bites the dust.

So how Zizek explain contemporary society with pop culture references, Deleuze and Guattari explain desiring machines and body without organs (concepts which I don't even understand) by referring to disgusting bodily functions, like baby spit, bulimic vomiting and shitting. So far I'm getting a hardcore, post-modernism wankery vibe from it all.

Hahaha. I've been waiting for A Dance With Dragons five long years now, and three years before that for A Feast For Crows (other fans waited the full five years for that book). So awesome as these books are and as much as I love them, take your time. Because after A Dance With Dragons (which will hopefully be released in 2011... Please?) there are two more books to go. I hope they'll take less time since he'll be out of the middle part of the story, which has given him a lot of trouble, but who knows....

Finished Erich Gruen's Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy. Now onto:

David Durham- Acacia: Book 1 of the War Against the Mein

Camus' The Stranger. only like 5 pages in but the whole thing, knowing that he was a philosopher and that the introduction is written by Sartre, kind of gives me the impression that i am in over my head.

hopefully will get my hands on Saramago's "Caim" this weekend.

You'll be fine.

Philosophical Explanation of it all: Mersault is disconnected from his actual existence due to the meaningless of the world. Only through embracing his own existence can he truly value life.

Edit: Don't read it like Frig as a big ode to atheism, albeit a theme and given a mention. Wikipedia has a pretty solid page on it.

haha! screw that lol, just picked up Dambisa Moyo's "Dead Aid".

Just read...

Snow--Orhan Pamuk: oh my Turkey!

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: good thriller. Enough to make me want to see the movie. Thrillers aren't really my thang though.

Old Filth: really good book

Physics of the Impossible--Michio Kaku: Basically a really smart dude explaining some physics concepts and assessing the likelihood of us developing sci-fi-like technologies. We're probably gonna have invisibility devices by the end of the century, which is cool. And quantum computers that have more computing power than all of the digital computers in the world, combined.

Gonna read...I dunno. Dr. Zhivago?

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon. Dropped the Deleuze.