Susan Haack 'Evidence Matters:Science, proof and truth in the law', Leval's 'Collectives', Wen 'Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems' and a PhD thesis on Bayesian decision theory in crime investigation.
Junya Yimprasert's work on academia edu and the LRB on Thaksin Shinawatra.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n12/richard-lloydparry/the-story-of-thaksin-shinawatra
Rex Wades Russian Rev
Rabinowichs Bolshies come to power and Bolshies in Power
State and Rev
Brinton and Goodey debate
Marots book on Russian Rev and agricultural issues.
Avrich Anarchists in Russian Rev (skimming for re-read).
I'm lacking books for after 1918 and I also have the PDF of red Petrograd to help sort out exactly what role factory committees played.
Single and Single - an ok modern John Le Carré
Freedomland - Not one of Richard PRice's best, but it's ok.
Invisible Man - IT's a shame he never managed to finish another book, I think I'll order Juneteenth for afterwards.
Edit: just started Chabrol's La Banquise, hopefully it's as good as Un homme de trop (if anyone ever finds a copy of the Costa Gavras film I would LOVE to have it!
trying to keep up with my nursing reading mainly, but outside of that:
Puerto Rico in the American Century by Ayala and Bernabe
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth by Storper and Walker (really interesting, I'm curious what others think about it)
Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States by Orren
From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question by Castel
Ed, i don't know him but can you see some similarites with yourself being abroad/are the themes kinda universal re migration?
Nah, not really.. The Emigrants is really about the experience of black Caribbean migrants coming to London after WW2.. I think it captures a really interesting moment in British history when the country (or specifically, London.. though I guess you could generalise it to most of the urban centres) was changing drastically.. highly recommended anyway..
Reading "the oh really factor" a nice little fact check of all of the shit that Bill O'Reilly said. I find myself chuckling constantly because the book just shows how he literally just makes shit up.
I'm shocked he still has a show given thesexual assault fiasco (well worth the read I must say, especially the bit about falafel) and the fact that his daughter swore in court that O'Reilly dragged his ex-wife by the neck down a flight of stairs.
Anyway it's a fun read because this guy is totally mental and Adam Johnson does a good job putting it all together.
In Search of Robert Millar, by Richard Moore. A biography of Britain's greatest cyclist, who strangely gets omitted from Channel Four's history of British professional cycling.
"If therefore Herr Dühring is able without more ado to let his famous two men conduct their economic relations on the basis of equality, this is so because it seems quite natural to popular prejudice. And in fact Herr Dühring calls his philosophy natural because it is derived solely from things which seem to him quite natural. But why they seem natural to him is a question which of course he does not ask."
That Engels is going on a tirade against people positing popular prejudice as natural or unquestioned suggests that he's being disciplined somehow. Nonetheless, I think it's fairly clear that the main absence in Marxism is that although it is generally accepted that Dühring is farcical (a term which incidentally seems to express quite a sharp critique of Hegel), it is left unspoken which tragedy they may have been a repetition of. This is a serious problem and one not to be overlooked. Indeed, what is it to condemn a Herr Dühring without noting their relation to the tragic form, it may be reduced to pure personal spite if it were not justifiably harsher.
Incidentally, Engels comes off in these later works as sounding quite like the early Marx, especially in polemical contexts, although the content often differs in such cases as these. What stands out about Anti-Dühring, as well, is the highly noticeable lack of enthusiasm. Engels did quite get excitable about their dusty, long books, and people seldom seem to understand such things, although it might have been used to furnish the claim that somebody bothered with reading Marx's book by themselves and completely. Which, I mean, is unfortunate, but Karl Marx's day was a harsh enough time for books that were not only 'boring,' and inaccessible, and also long, but also communist, so you sort of figure that modernity would have been a bit hellish for them. They could still be wandering around the streets and haunting houses occasionally, and nobody would pay them the least heed or think that they were worth treating as a human being. Few would seem to question their motivation, which would obviously imply something outside of and beyond the system, as they wrote. In any case, though, at the least we can rely on Kevin Moore smashing lamp-posts because they feel like they ought to, and also that Marx was a spectre of sorts that people talked about occasionally but wouldn't generally wish to read, certainly in any detail, unless it was just to write some kind of equivalent of cheap graffiti over them about how Karl Marx was inferior to every French person to put pen on paper, which is bizarre, although with their language it might well take them a few tries if they're not accustomed.
So just read that actually this isn't true and it was actually to do with a kidnap attempt on his family, which made me really sad coz it's something I've always believed about Cruyff..
Apparently did choose Barca over Real Madrid coz he didn't want to play for a team associated with Franco though (so he can still play in my All-Star Rebel XI)..
'Marxian Science and the Colleges' by Daniel de Leon, again a re-read. De Leon was, of course, ejected by order from Columbia University, and hence annoyed about such disciplinary measures. He was known for articles with titles like 'Chase that Professor' and 'And This is a Professor,' as well as responding to Oxford University professors giving lectures with his own speeches denouncing and mocking them, as well as condemning them as "private corporations of learning," that, were, "run to suit the private and to the nation disastrous whims, caprices, and INTERESTS of their owners," which interests they were no doubt familiar with after expulsion from this circuit. He characterised their purpose in the terms of the colleges appealing to the capitalists, "you will need the blockheads whom we cultivate; if we do not addle the brains out of these youths then where would you be..." He hence viewed them in harmony with the working sphere or industries, except that their target was to subjugate the mental life of the nation to capital, or at least bother it and discipline it, which other institutions could not do. In this aspect their separation from schools, which as institutions merely prepared people for capital, would seem to be portrayed inevitably. This aspect of his writing - his writings about the topic - is often insufficiently covered in books on his writings, biographies, etc., but this is a collection of his writings on the subject, and as such recommended, especially for people interested in his writings.
Ed
Apparently did choose Barca over Real Madrid coz he didn't want to play for a team associated with Franco though (so he can still play in my All-Star Rebel XI)..
Not sure you'd want to know who those teams are associated with, though. It's not a coincidence that the League had generally been a two-team affair.
Apparently did choose Barca over Real Madrid coz he didn't want to play for a team associated with Franco though (so he can still play in my All-Star Rebel XI)..
Not sure you'd want to know who those teams are associated with, though. It's not a coincidence that the League had generally been a two-team affair.
Always thought Real were traditionally associated with Franco and the monarchy (hence 'Real') and Barca with Catalan republicans (tho did hear there's been a group of ultra-right Catalan nationalist ultras since the 1980s/90s).. no?
Way back in 1999 I saw Real Madrid get trounced 5-1 by Real Zaragosa at the Bernabau. What I remember the most was the 1-200 strong contingent of neo-nazis openly doing the Hitler salute several times in the game. Nobody batted an eyelid...
John Bell's 'Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics', Robert Musil essays, Newman's 'Life of Richard Wagner' volume 4, Jack Trevor Story's 'Morag's Flying Fortress', Beard's 'Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre', Bishop's 'Joyce's Book of the Dark' and Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' simultaneously and Stewart and Tall's 'Complex Analysis'. Just finished Colin Ward's 'The Child in the Country' and 'Talking Schools'.
We've got both of those on DVD (no-TV-holier-than-thou-attitude - surprising eh?) but they're both watched out for the time being. There's nothing between them. Ang Lee's a funny one isn't he.
Susan Haack 'Evidence
Susan Haack 'Evidence Matters:Science, proof and truth in the law', Leval's 'Collectives', Wen 'Quantum Field Theory of Many-body Systems' and a PhD thesis on Bayesian decision theory in crime investigation.
'The Starday Story - The
'The Starday Story - The House That Country Music Built', by Nathan D. Gibson.
Interesting and well written.
Junya Yimprasert's work on
Junya Yimprasert's work on academia edu and the LRB on Thaksin Shinawatra.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n12/richard-lloydparry/the-story-of-thaksin-shinawatra
I'm reading this on the rec
I'm reading this on the rec of a comrade
http://www.amazon.com/Something-Fierce-Memoirs-Revolutionary-Daughter/dp/1771000368
List on Russian Rev Rex Wades
List on Russian Rev
Rex Wades Russian Rev
Rabinowichs Bolshies come to power and Bolshies in Power
State and Rev
Brinton and Goodey debate
Marots book on Russian Rev and agricultural issues.
Avrich Anarchists in Russian Rev (skimming for re-read).
I'm lacking books for after 1918 and I also have the PDF of red Petrograd to help sort out exactly what role factory committees played.
Beowulf
Beowulf
Single and Single - an ok
Single and Single - an ok modern John Le Carré
Freedomland - Not one of Richard PRice's best, but it's ok.
Invisible Man - IT's a shame he never managed to finish another book, I think I'll order Juneteenth for afterwards.
Edit: just started Chabrol's La Banquise, hopefully it's as good as Un homme de trop (if anyone ever finds a copy of the Costa Gavras film I would LOVE to have it!
trying to keep up with my
trying to keep up with my nursing reading mainly, but outside of that:
Puerto Rico in the American Century by Ayala and Bernabe
The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology, and Industrial Growth by Storper and Walker (really interesting, I'm curious what others think about it)
Belated Feudalism: Labor, the Law, and Liberal Development in the United States by Orren
From Manual Workers to Wage Laborers: Transformation of the Social Question by Castel
In Letters of Blood and Fire
In Letters of Blood and Fire by Caffentzis
Seeds of the Earth, space opera by Michael Cobly.
George Lamming's 'The
George Lamming's 'The Emigrants'.. just finished 'In the Castle of My Skin', both of them brilliant..
I'm reading War and Peace
I'm reading War and Peace
^i don't believe you lol. Ed,
^i don't believe you lol.
Ed, i don't know him but can you see some similarites with yourself being abroad/are the themes kinda universal re migration?
Anyone read Terry Crews?
the Suleiman Charitra by
the Suleiman Charitra by Kalyana Malla
The Pilgrim's Progress John
The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan
Demons Dostoevsky
About to start Jack Bragen's
About to start Jack Bragen's essays on mental illness.
wojtek wrote: Ed, i don't
wojtek
Nah, not really.. The Emigrants is really about the experience of black Caribbean migrants coming to London after WW2.. I think it captures a really interesting moment in British history when the country (or specifically, London.. though I guess you could generalise it to most of the urban centres) was changing drastically.. highly recommended anyway..
Reading "the oh really
Reading "the oh really factor" a nice little fact check of all of the shit that Bill O'Reilly said. I find myself chuckling constantly because the book just shows how he literally just makes shit up.
I'm shocked he still has a show given thesexual assault fiasco (well worth the read I must say, especially the bit about falafel) and the fact that his daughter swore in court that O'Reilly dragged his ex-wife by the neck down a flight of stairs.
Anyway it's a fun read because this guy is totally mental and Adam Johnson does a good job putting it all together.
One of Benedict Anderson's
One of Benedict Anderson's last essays on Thailand:
https://newleftreview.org/II/97/benedict-anderson-riddles-of-yellow-and-red
In Search of Robert Millar,
In Search of Robert Millar, by Richard Moore. A biography of Britain's greatest cyclist, who strangely gets omitted from Channel Four's history of British professional cycling.
Harold Pinter complete plays
Harold Pinter complete plays vol. 3
Cruyff's
Cruyff's boycott:
http://sabotagetimes.com/sport/why-cruyff-boycotted-argentina-78
"Do Androids Dream of
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" Phillip K Dick
Next up I'm hoping to read the "Three Body Problem" by Liu Cixin -- on a sci fi tip lately
I just got The Three Body
I just got The Three Body Problem. Looks interesting and I'm wondering why the novel is so popular in China.
Re-reading Anti-Dühring. "If
Re-reading Anti-Dühring.
"If therefore Herr Dühring is able without more ado to let his famous two men conduct their economic relations on the basis of equality, this is so because it seems quite natural to popular prejudice. And in fact Herr Dühring calls his philosophy natural because it is derived solely from things which seem to him quite natural. But why they seem natural to him is a question which of course he does not ask."
That Engels is going on a tirade against people positing popular prejudice as natural or unquestioned suggests that he's being disciplined somehow. Nonetheless, I think it's fairly clear that the main absence in Marxism is that although it is generally accepted that Dühring is farcical (a term which incidentally seems to express quite a sharp critique of Hegel), it is left unspoken which tragedy they may have been a repetition of. This is a serious problem and one not to be overlooked. Indeed, what is it to condemn a Herr Dühring without noting their relation to the tragic form, it may be reduced to pure personal spite if it were not justifiably harsher.
Incidentally, Engels comes off in these later works as sounding quite like the early Marx, especially in polemical contexts, although the content often differs in such cases as these. What stands out about Anti-Dühring, as well, is the highly noticeable lack of enthusiasm. Engels did quite get excitable about their dusty, long books, and people seldom seem to understand such things, although it might have been used to furnish the claim that somebody bothered with reading Marx's book by themselves and completely. Which, I mean, is unfortunate, but Karl Marx's day was a harsh enough time for books that were not only 'boring,' and inaccessible, and also long, but also communist, so you sort of figure that modernity would have been a bit hellish for them. They could still be wandering around the streets and haunting houses occasionally, and nobody would pay them the least heed or think that they were worth treating as a human being. Few would seem to question their motivation, which would obviously imply something outside of and beyond the system, as they wrote. In any case, though, at the least we can rely on Kevin Moore smashing lamp-posts because they feel like they ought to, and also that Marx was a spectre of sorts that people talked about occasionally but wouldn't generally wish to read, certainly in any detail, unless it was just to write some kind of equivalent of cheap graffiti over them about how Karl Marx was inferior to every French person to put pen on paper, which is bizarre, although with their language it might well take them a few tries if they're not accustomed.
James Joyce - Dubliners It
James Joyce - Dubliners
It looks like a lovely little book :-)
wojtek wrote: Cruyff's
wojtek
So just read that actually this isn't true and it was actually to do with a kidnap attempt on his family, which made me really sad coz it's something I've always believed about Cruyff..
Apparently did choose Barca over Real Madrid coz he didn't want to play for a team associated with Franco though (so he can still play in my All-Star Rebel XI)..
Beckett - Krapp's Last
Beckett - Krapp's Last Tape.
By the way, someone voted down for Joyce...?
deleted - stupid comment
deleted - stupid comment
'Marxian Science and the
'Marxian Science and the Colleges' by Daniel de Leon, again a re-read. De Leon was, of course, ejected by order from Columbia University, and hence annoyed about such disciplinary measures. He was known for articles with titles like 'Chase that Professor' and 'And This is a Professor,' as well as responding to Oxford University professors giving lectures with his own speeches denouncing and mocking them, as well as condemning them as "private corporations of learning," that, were, "run to suit the private and to the nation disastrous whims, caprices, and INTERESTS of their owners," which interests they were no doubt familiar with after expulsion from this circuit. He characterised their purpose in the terms of the colleges appealing to the capitalists, "you will need the blockheads whom we cultivate; if we do not addle the brains out of these youths then where would you be..." He hence viewed them in harmony with the working sphere or industries, except that their target was to subjugate the mental life of the nation to capital, or at least bother it and discipline it, which other institutions could not do. In this aspect their separation from schools, which as institutions merely prepared people for capital, would seem to be portrayed inevitably. This aspect of his writing - his writings about the topic - is often insufficiently covered in books on his writings, biographies, etc., but this is a collection of his writings on the subject, and as such recommended, especially for people interested in his writings.
Ed
Not sure you'd want to know who those teams are associated with, though. It's not a coincidence that the League had generally been a two-team affair.
Zeronowhere wrote: Ed
Zeronowhere
Always thought Real were traditionally associated with Franco and the monarchy (hence 'Real') and Barca with Catalan republicans (tho did hear there's been a group of ultra-right Catalan nationalist ultras since the 1980s/90s).. no?
Way back in 1999 I saw Real
Way back in 1999 I saw Real Madrid get trounced 5-1 by Real Zaragosa at the Bernabau. What I remember the most was the 1-200 strong contingent of neo-nazis openly doing the Hitler salute several times in the game. Nobody batted an eyelid...
Some Real Madrid fans before
Some Real Madrid fans before the Champions League final a few years ago
However, while not fascistic,
However, while not fascistic, FC Barça is certainly a tool in Catalunya's right-wing, Nationalist movement.
Khawaga wrote: I just got The
Khawaga
Hey, let me know what you think when you start it! I'm planning on ordering it soon
Will do infekfm, though it
Will do infekfm, though it may take some time before I start it. Finishing this other novel is taken ages...
Ancestor, by Scott Sigler
Ancestor, by Scott Sigler
Fifty Shades Darker by E.L.
Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James...please don't judge me lol :D
Bah! All you lofty
Bah! All you lofty intellectuals show me right up. I'm reading A Good Ride buy Irving Welsh. It's terrific.
John Bell's 'Speakable and
John Bell's 'Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics', Robert Musil essays, Newman's 'Life of Richard Wagner' volume 4, Jack Trevor Story's 'Morag's Flying Fortress', Beard's 'Harrison Birtwistle's Operas and Music Theatre', Bishop's 'Joyce's Book of the Dark' and Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' simultaneously and Stewart and Tall's 'Complex Analysis'. Just finished Colin Ward's 'The Child in the Country' and 'Talking Schools'.
Currently reading Sense and
Currently reading
Sense and sensibility
Once we had a country
The Stainless Steel Rat
Freedomland.
I'd like to thank the
I'd like to thank the Manchester air rifles by Scarlet West.
Edit: Posting cock up!
Edit: Posting cock up!
jef costello wrote: Currently
jef costello
Currently watching
Sense and Sensibility film(Emma Thompson one).
Brilliant but still not as good as the BBC adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.
We've got both of those on
We've got both of those on DVD (no-TV-holier-than-thou-attitude - surprising eh?) but they're both watched out for the time being. There's nothing between them. Ang Lee's a funny one isn't he.