Main shelves:
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Overflow:
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Currently reading stack:
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Close ups:

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So how difficult is Das Kapital? I've heard things.

I'm only a couple hundred pages in, but if you've read any continental philosophy before, you should be able to handle it. It definitely takes focus and could use brevity in places, but his poeticism and the diversity of materials he references make it worth it. I've heard similar things and while there is some dry economics, it's not nearly as rough as I was expecting. I'm also reading David Harvey's companion to Capital, which helps. I prefer it to the manifesto so far, Marx is better when he has space to breathe.

nice book collection, Frown
I don't have much here; I always leeched off my mom's really large collection, basically using it as a library, until corona came and I got stuck here in England without being able to refresh my book pile more than twice a year. So it's only recently that I've had the need to accumulate more books of my own. Also my housing situation is a bit unstable and I don't have a bookcase, so they lie around in chaotic stacks

Geh. I really should start reading all that theory ****. Politically I'm lost and nihilistic aside from being firmly anti-capitalist and grounding my brain with socialist nerd **** might be productive.

Dickinson <3

Are the Bennink and Misha Mengelberg books written by them or about them? My friend and I were just listening to this album yesterday


That Proust set looks really nice. I have an almost 100 year old copy of Swann's Way that I need to get to.

Fanon's very readable, might be a good place to start.

the Mengelberg and Bennink books are about them, gifts from a Dutch jazz friend I made. I spent HOURS tracking down the cheapest copies of these specific Proust editions lol, worth it. Swann's Way is not among them because it's what I'm currently reading (I ordered them weeks ago but one of them got delayed and of course it was book 1)

edit: wait actually no, the Mengelberg book is his own writings! I haven't gotten around to that one yet, now I'm excited

That's awesome, he was a pure soul and I bet his writings capture that.

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I would be concerned about ruining it by reading it, but I got it for cheap at a bookstore that specializes in antique books which usually means that it's mass produced and easyish to find.