reading list

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ A random assortment of books that have impacted me emotionally, helped me make sense of something, caused me to question the world, been a pleasant diversion, informed a necessary clarification, and/or are referenced elsewhere in this Website.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze + Guattari
Stew.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Caliban and the Witch, Silvia Federici
Cauldron.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Simulations and Simulacra, Jean Baudrillard
101.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
A haunting book about abandoning and forgetting everything that makes life worthwhile while living in a police panopticon state.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ The Maddaddam Trilogy, Margaret Atwood
Starts with a haunting book about losing everything that makes life worthwhile as well as your own mind while living in a police panopticon state. Follows that up with a second haunting book on the same topic, from alternate perspectives. Third book is similar, and ties in the past two while providing ... context for the past as well as showing the creation of what is in turns a soul crushingly bleak and hauntingly familiar future. The corporations in the beginning are a fascinating possible extension of the linkedin egregore/permanent underclass virus.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Coping With Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training For Patients and Therapists, Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart
Self explanatory...

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications, with Appendices; Rudolph Carnap
Investigation and translation.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir
Regards the transition from religious ethics to whatever is going on now. New standard for action. Set it.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪۪ Solaris, Stanisław Herman Lem
In which an oceanic planet becomes a reflection pool for its colonialist inhabitants' worst nightmares, deepest longings, and darkest regrets. Written by a visionary science fiction and virtual reality philosophizer.

۪۫❁ཻུ۪ The Machine Stops, E.M. Forster
What will happen when these structures break, when we no longer understand them and cannot survive without them?

۪۫❁ཻུ۪ We the Corporations, Adam Winkler
A book I read for a class on the history and evolution of Businesses, which started as Colonialists and States. It is quite instructive on how to declare something a person, if not a human. I I predict this will soon be in some demand.