innerspaceboy

Saw an xkcd comic referencing Prof. Lawrence Lessig's seminal text, Free Culture which inspired me to take it back off the shelf and read it again. I was delighted to see him directly acknowledge Richard Stallman's Free Software, Free Society, of which I have a signed copy, as Stallman was the father of the Copyleft movement and his book paved the way for Lessig's work and the founding of Creative Commons.

For a book on the history and future of copyright law penned by a lawyer, the text is surprisingly inspiring and accessible. And though it was published back in 2004, it's still arrestingly relevant today.

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Ernest Cline - Ready Player Two. I’m enjoying what I have read so far but have had to remind myself to pick it up and get reading. Really wondering where the storyline is going to go. I am only around 100 pages in, generally don’t like the first stage of a book because I worry that it’s going to be ****. Has anyone here finished it?

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jadis

Of Foucault's academic mentors, all of whom were major figures in their own right, Dumezil is probably my favorite so far. Fascinating exposés of Roman religious ideology placed in the broader context of what he reconstructs as the Indo-European civilization. Difficult to follow at times because he could read over 30 languages and was very adventurous with etymology (not to mention various pantheons of deities and details of that sort) but worth it overall.

BassoonPlatoon

The Walking Dead Book 1. Where it all begins....again.

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ando here

Haven't dipped into Foucault in ages. But it's good to see a reference - and a mentor to boot. Thanks.

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ando here

We Tell Ourselves Stories In Order To Live Joan Didion

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jadis

During my two years in NYC that was the writer all the cool girls (and their gays) liked. She's great!

adidasss

I only read The year of magical thinking and thought it was a weirdly neutral report about the loss of her husband with some emotional clarity thrown in at the end as an afterthought. Last night we watched The centre will not hold on Netflix and after seeing how weird she was, it all made more sense. I figure she's "on the spectrum" or something. She writes very well but not sure if I would connect to any of her other writing.

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“Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.

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Frownland

The bulk of Slouching Towards Bethlehem really captures the essence of California in a way that I've only seen Pynchon achieve. Thank God I'm retarded enough to find something relatable in her writing.

She is the platonic ****lib in a lot of ways though.

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ando here

She was constantly scoping the terrain; mental, physical and certainly the sociological. It gave her broad appeal. The Netflix doc is lopsided and ill conceived, imo. Of course she was weird. The personal lives of these mostly solitary types are rarely intriguing so the nature of your inquiry is important. Unless you’ve got a highly social figure like Sontag or Baldwin whose relationships with a wide array of people can contribute to whatever framework you’re constructing there’s the constant danger of a myopic view - and a deadly dull experience. People keep attempting them and unless their aim is something above and beyond recounting the life of the writer, boy are they tough to sit through!

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