luka
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Yup. It's a central text for @sadmanbarty @vimothy and @poetix too. It changed their lives. They all say it's even better than the matrix
what are you reading now?
luka
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Barbelith - Wikipedia
The Bomb - Grant Morrison's Invisibles [barbelith]
Reading resource for Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, published by DC Comics Vertigo.
www.barbelith.com
luka
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"Here's this stupid comic book, I think it's shit, talk about it if you want"
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I can't really imagine droid on ecstasy. I mean, I guess I can, if it's possible to be absolutely lovely in the most serious way possible.
voliviavv24
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Rebecca West - Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Corpsey.
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@catalog you still reading 1000 years of nonlinear history? Im rounding out the first section, I like it. It is cutesy like Luka was saying but I appreciate De Landa's cogent style and the light theory element keeps it fun
think Im going to work in Swanns Way along side, Ive read the first couple pages a few times over the past days and theyre great.
think Im going to work in Swanns Way along side, Ive read the first couple pages a few times over the past days and theyre great.
I finished it a few weeks ago. I thought it was ok, very readable, but I didn't find myself being swept away as I did with, say, 'spinal catastrophism', which I read a few months ago.
Be interested to hear your thoughts.
Around the middle section when he starts talking about viruses was good and also the language section has some good bits.
Normally, with whatever book I'm reading, if it's good there'll come a point where I start copying bits as notes, or taking photos of the pages, but I never did that with this one.
I read very little non fiction tho and the semi-academic tone put me off a bit, it felt like 'work' at times.
But overall good stuff. The concluding chapter is very satisfying and has a memorable line.
I think @vimothy is right tho, it's a good and simple way into d&g and the idea of flow, basically you understand the idea of decentering the human.
I read a chapter of 'war in the age of intelligent machines' a few months ago and that seemed more exciting.
Be interested to hear your thoughts.
Around the middle section when he starts talking about viruses was good and also the language section has some good bits.
Normally, with whatever book I'm reading, if it's good there'll come a point where I start copying bits as notes, or taking photos of the pages, but I never did that with this one.
I read very little non fiction tho and the semi-academic tone put me off a bit, it felt like 'work' at times.
But overall good stuff. The concluding chapter is very satisfying and has a memorable line.
I think @vimothy is right tho, it's a good and simple way into d&g and the idea of flow, basically you understand the idea of decentering the human.
I read a chapter of 'war in the age of intelligent machines' a few months ago and that seemed more exciting.
Power to the People
Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state.
global.oup.com
I was initially annoyed by this, but it quickly moved onto a fascinating account of gunpowder, dynamite and anarchists lobbing bombs.
Power to the People
Never before have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology (robotics, cyber weapons, 3-D printing, autonomous systems, and artificial intelligence) to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state.
I was initially annoyed by this, but it quickly moved onto a fascinating account of gunpowder, dynamite and anarchists lobbing bombs.
The chapters on early Irish Republican and anarchist bombing campaigns and random attacks from 1866 are disturbing and, to me, surprising
1867 clerkenwell bombing
1885 London underground bombings
1885 dynamite Saturday in London
1886 Chicago Haymarket massacre
1906 royal wedding bomb in Madrid
On and on it goes
Top hats blown off and monocles dropped everywhere
They mostly steamed over from the USA into Liverpool
william kent
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I've noticed more and more talk of anarchists being a threat these days. Reminds me of the opening of The Man Who Was Thursday.