#4281

Hitler posted:

does anyone have opinions on calvino? im prbly gonna read invisible cities i guess



he's been on my to-read list forever but it's never been enticing enough to beat whatever else i have wanted to read. report back

#4282
this is the socialist party of ohio's website:

http://socialistpartyofohio.com/
#4283

Hitler posted:

does anyone have opinions on calvino? im prbly gonna read invisible cities i guess



yeah he Owns. invisible cities is kewl & the second chapter of if on a winters night a traveller is one of the peaks of human literary achievement

#4284

getfiscal posted:

this is the socialist party of ohio's website:

http://socialistpartyofohio.com/

#4285

ggw posted:



#4286

Hitler posted:

does anyone have opinions on calvino? im prbly gonna read invisible cities i guess



invisible cities is fantastic, the writing is sumptuous

#4287

deadken posted:

Hitler posted:
does anyone have opinions on calvino? im prbly gonna read invisible cities i guess


yeah he Owns. invisible cities is kewl & the second chapter of if on a winters night a traveller is one of the peaks of human literary achievement



i haven't heard of/read the latter so i will now, thanks d00d

#4288
calvino is very good. my favorite thing by him you can buy as a book besides the two already mentioned is the short stories collections cosmicomics and t minus they are like, about science and math and shit
#4289
i'm torn...i love calvino but i hate science and maths
#4290

getfiscal posted:

this is the socialist party of ohio's website:

http://socialistpartyofohio.com/



Stop the white genocide

#4291

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Hitler posted:

does anyone have opinions on calvino? im prbly gonna read invisible cities i guess

invisible cities is fantastic, the writing is sumptuous



adj. 1. of or pertaining to a sump

#4292

jools posted:

getfiscal posted:

this is the socialist party of ohio's website:

http://socialistpartyofohio.com/

Stop the white genocide

half of the posts on their front page have facebook screencaps in them or mention revleft

#4293

Ironicwarcriminal posted:

i'm torn...i love calvino but i hate science and maths


Im all out of faith... This is how i feel

#4294
Cool Amazon sent me 2 copies of no logo instead of the amount of copies I ordered (one copy) .
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#4296
more like the COCK doctrine
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#4298
Some of my ideas for the election:

#4299

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#4300

tpaine posted:

check your math; that's still the right amount of logos.



holy shit

#4301

jiroemon1897 posted:



watch this w/o sound first for a bit before you turn it up for a fun time

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#4303
invisible cities is a lot like goblet grotto
#4304
todaey i raeciaevaed ae copy of daebt, by, daevid graeber, its kaewl imo
#4305
boering
#4306




NUFF SAID.
#4307
to be fair i dont think its right to discount the actual content of a work of an at least half arabush author just because a widely known white idiot was brought in to write an introduction praising her work so people would pay attention to a brown woman
#4308

deadken posted:

todaey i raeciaevaed ae copy of daebt, by, daevid graeber, its kaewl imo



I order a sopft cover copy but its not here yet. Sorry.

#4309

EmanuelaOrlandi posted:

to be fair i dont think its right to discount the actual content of a work of an at least half arabush author just because a widely known white idiot was brought in to write an introduction praising her work so people would pay attention to a brown woman

he writes most of the forewords on this issue. So smart lol

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#4311

HenryKrinkle posted:

https Doesnt work.

#4312
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#4313
whoa i just started invisible cities and it's just sublime
#4314

The Black Forest comprises primary forest of the Second Hemisphere. The exact dimensions and makeup of The Black Forest are unknown. The Black Forest is estimated to encompass 144,000 hectares of width and 144,000 hectares of length although the exact boundaries of this forest remain undiscovered. Each hectare contains 30 wolves. Every fifth hectare contains a village. Every ninth hectare contains a Ruin. Every twentieth hectare contains an entrance to the grotto. Every twenty-fifth hectare contains a Ziggurat forming focal point for all wolf distribution in surrounding sector. The thick sludge of the forest floor is highly prized by peasants and ascetics. The trees of the Black Forest emit a toxic gas when chopped or burnt, making them unusable for any task. This is all currently established information about The Black Forest.





In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city's life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationdhip of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. From a mountainside, camping with their household goods, Ersilia's refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.




You feel a benign presence enter your brain... "I can see you still have a lot of questions about the pyramid! Ha ha ha... The impetuousness of Youth... But this old man will do his best to explain. What is Crystal Pyramid? The length of each side in Crystal Pyramid is Infinite. The total height to Crystal Pyramid is Infinite. The absolute area encompassed by Crystal Pyramid is Infinite. There are Infinite corners to the pyramid although a maximum of four can be seen at any moment. Now do you understand? The positions occupied by Crystal Pyramid consist of All Positions. The Crystal Pyramid is hollow and the walls are Infinitely thin. The concept of externality is alien to Crystal Pyramid. The age of Crystal Pyramid is Infinite Age and the place it comes from is Infinite Place. All skeletons represent a side of Crystal Pyramid. There are Infinite sides. The aim of skeletons is to produce Infinite skeletons in order to attain the grace of the Pyramid. Well, I hope this answers all your questions." The voice recedes...

#4315

Hitler posted:

whoa i just started invisible cities and it's just sublime



“Ze author confeys ze beauty of zese cities mit such mafzifigance. Order ze Luftwaffe to find and bomb zese cities at once!

#4316
i read debt in like two days. its enormously readable and very entertaining... graeber does seem to be advocating a kind of market socialism though, based on what is i think an overly utopian analysis of the islamic golden age... his idea that the islamic prohibition against usury resulted in a glorious free mercantile economy deviates quite a bit from the generally materialist thrust of his work, and im not sure if he adequately explains why a similar prohibition caused underdevelopment in europe other than a 'distrust of merchants'.... also he basically ignores the soviet union and other 20th century attempts at radically reforming social relations, especially given the amount of space he gives over to discussing medieval christian communism; i'd be interested to read more about debt structures in socialist societies.... graeber clearly knows his critical theory but doesn't show off about it, his only reference to d&g is in the endnotes for instance, which shows a level of restraint i wish i were capable of..... anyway next im reading Forget Foucault, by, Jean Baudrillard, published by, semiotext(e). this is how i have chosen to spend the only life i have
#4317
i think graeber is at his best when takes a kinda benjaminian position and treats debt as a central problem or antinomy and the entirety of human history as a series of ever more convoluted and ineffective attempts to solve it, its a rly interesting way of looking at things
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#4320
I'm currently reading the prequel: You Want The D Jeany? Suck It. by Michel Foucault