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I borrowed Jenny Hval's Paradise Rot from a friend and finished it in a few days. I enjoyed it more than Girl's Against God, I think she does better writing a more straightforward narrative. Wasn't expecting the body horror towards the end – that was interesting.

Started to re-read William Burrough's Junky for the 3rd or 4th time, and also have PKD's The Galactic Pot Healer set aside for a re-read.

Im reading lo lola lolita, idk if that puts me on a list.

I'm reading watmm random threads...

  On 9/17/2023 at 4:29 AM, logakght said:

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@bronchuseven

oh btw mister op, books still exist but trees are dying...

Movement as Perception: Bergson, Deleuze, and Hybridity Between Electroacoustic and Intelligent Dance Music:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Movement-as-Perception%3A-Bergson%2C-Deleuze%2C-and-and-Smethurst/b5ceb694786175c3fcfc142682a36fa5555f5e03

  On 10/6/2023 at 3:43 PM, logakght said:

Movement as Perception: Bergson, Deleuze, and Hybridity Between Electroacoustic and Intelligent Dance Music:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Movement-as-Perception%3A-Bergson%2C-Deleuze%2C-and-and-Smethurst/b5ceb694786175c3fcfc142682a36fa5555f5e03

Me as an IDM Scholar.

Finished reading 1Q84 recently, don't remember reading a series that fast since Harry Potter when I was a teenager. It was very good, loved the story and how each book had its own pace and atmosphere. Highly worth your time.

Just started Erewhon right after that (because OPN) but interrupted it because I got caught in an extremely interesting, well-written but chilling essay on incest ("Ou Peut Etre Une Nuit", not sure it has been published outside of France yet).

just started "The Monk: A Romance" by Matthew Gregory Lewis (1796). Already pretty good and I'm only two chapters in... can't wait for the ghosts, cults, demons, debauched nuns, and general insanity. my kinda romance.

  On 10/6/2023 at 3:43 PM, logakght said:

Movement as Perception: Bergson, Deleuze, and Hybridity Between Electroacoustic and Intelligent Dance Music:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Movement-as-Perception%3A-Bergson%2C-Deleuze%2C-and-and-Smethurst/b5ceb694786175c3fcfc142682a36fa5555f5e03

I uploaded the actual paper in are.na if anyone wants to read it: https://www.are.na/block/24220736

  On 10/18/2023 at 5:58 AM, logakght said:

 

I uploaded the actual paper in are.na if anyone wants to read it: https://www.are.na/block/24220736

hehe really interesting read

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Stockhausen claims music should be pure and not tied to a specific purpose; it should not be used as a drug (Cox & Warner, 2013, p. 382)

I am guilty of that 

a visual history of angelology. loving this. very well researched. the author also has this book out that i haven't checked out yet but now definitely will

Next Garth Marenghi soon. 

  On 10/21/2023 at 4:50 PM, Summon Dot E X E said:

Blood. Red blood. Blood, blood, blood, blood.

 

And bits of sick.

Yeah, the audiobook/s are read by Matthew Holness himself, so they're definitely the version you want to get if you can.

Hugo Awards where just announced:

https://www.thehugoawards.org

just got this from the list:

Sounds like a nice necromancer story 

"Children of Time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky is an amazing piece of sci-fi. It was published back in 2015 when it won the Arthur C Clarke award and just last week the series (of three books) won a Hugo

It deals with generation ships, geoengineering, uplift of other species. The FT review said "tackles big themes—gods, messiahs, artificial intelligence, alienness—with brio." which is also a good way of summing it up.

I'd never read the guys stuff before so I didn't know what to expect but it was so tense and interesting and so well crafted. The book has perhaps the most satisfying use of a "Chekhov's gun" plot point that I've ever seen.

I was always really into Iain M Banks and, to me, Adrian Tchaikovsky, while different, seems to be in the same vein. Same sort of confidence - takes on big dark crazy ideas and nails them. The other two books in the series are also really good, although all three books are deliberately quite different.

So there you go, "Children of Time", starting to become one of the most acclaimed sci-fi novels of the last decade.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19862742-cosmic-currency-the-greatest-wealth

I have not read it, but seems interesting. The russian ambassadors supposedly gave the author a medal of Friendship in 2015, and a notable mention for that book, which was considered "best informative book" in some important russian literature contest that year I think lol.  Probably Putin hasn't read it yet

Benoit-Timeless_Realization.pdfFetching info...

privacy is set to become a thing of the past. even if you have been scrupulous since day one and never uploaded a picture of yourself anywhere ever, the technology has gotten so good now that you can be cross-checked and identified in an instant. and it's been out there and in secret hands for a while already.

  On 10/10/2023 at 11:10 PM, Stock said:

Finished reading 1Q84 recently, don't remember reading a series that fast since Harry Potter when I was a teenager. It was very good, loved the story and how each book had its own pace and atmosphere. Highly worth your time.

Just started Erewhon right after that (because OPN) but interrupted it because I got caught in an extremely interesting, well-written but chilling essay on incest ("Ou Peut Etre Une Nuit", not sure it has been published outside of France yet).

I have very fond memories of the 1Q84 trilogy. A special time in my life. For some reasons, I was expecting similar greatness from his latest, The City and Its Uncertain Walls, but it left me kind of cold. It's expanding on an older short story, and it felt quite drawn-out to me. Legions of blueberry muffins eaten and furnaces lit with not too much happening in-between. Maybe he's getting old after all ...

I haven't read a single book in my whole life... would u recommend me something? pls and thank u!

well, actually I did read 2 twin peaks books if I'm not mistaken...