c_man posted:glad its not just me. ill probably come back to GR at some point but im taking a pynchon break for a while
GR is definitely worth a read. of his later stuff i've only read inherent vice, which was hilarious and enjoyable but not nearly as substantial.
incidentally i just finished/highly skimmed the dream of the great american novel by lawrence buell, which sort-of explores the GAN concept and its cultural persistence, but does so in a way that ends up being a really interesting and detailed survey of american lit. his writing style is really lucid and his criticism of particular novels is original and interesting. he spends an entire chapter on dos passos' USA, and he also does a cross-analysis of it with moby dick and GR which owns.
HenryKrinkle posted:i'm reading the crying of lot 49 currently i guess.
it's fun
camera_obscura posted:i'm two hours into an audiobook version of picketty's capital in the twenty-first century and so far so good
i was going to link you to the two previous piketty threads so you could read the rich discussion but they're both just 3 pages of people posting "lol"
Petrol posted:Just got Anwar Shaikh's "Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises" from the library. It's fucking huge and most of is going to go over my head but I'm going to do my best nonetheless
I've been watching the youtube series of lectures but I'm sure the book is much better. Please do update us what you think.
Petrol posted:Just got Anwar Shaikh's "Capitalism: Competition, Conflict, Crises" from the library. It's fucking huge and most of is going to go over my head but I'm going to do my best nonetheless
i bought that like a week ago. seems good from what i have read from the introduction, haven't got around reading it more yet as i have mao to read.
camera_obscura posted:i'm two hours into an audiobook version of picketty's capital in the twenty-first century and so far so good
my insomnia's pretty bad as well. realtalk how does it handle the charts
it gives a fairly useful ideological toolbox for understanding the world as a whole but is in dire need of corrective measures to avoid distorting reality to fit into the narrow idea of the world-system at its core. most glaringly it's rather painfully undialectical, and I don't know of any advancements towards a more realistic understanding on the same scope as the original theory, but I reckon good thorough dialectical evolutionary theory has a great deal to contribute to such a projec.t.
littlegreenpills posted:camera_obscura posted:i'm two hours into an audiobook version of picketty's capital in the twenty-first century and so far so good
my insomnia's pretty bad as well. realtalk how does it handle the charts
It comes with a pdf and refers to that periodically. In no way do I look at them.
c_man posted:cars said a while ago that lynn marguilis cribbed from some USSR guy but i dont remember exactly what or who that was about
i dont either, what was the topic specifically, endosymbiosis?
c_man posted:no idea! maybe it wasnt even you, maybe it was someone else, idk
margulis at least seems to owe a lot to vladimir vernadsky and boris mikhaylov kozo-polyansky which is partially what piqued my interest
aerdil posted:i'm reading the newish english translation of althusser's on the reproduction of capital.
i got a lot out of what i read from that too. its a pretty interesting book but recently ive started getting interested in what some of the british historical materialists were writing against althusser, which im finding myself pretty sympathetic to. i appreciate what the 'thusser has to say on social theory etc but i feel like the insights from it would be much more potent if synthesized with more concrete historical analysis, or at least i hope so because thats my plan.
