Books: what are you reading right now?
The story behind the Cambridge Analytica. It tells about the psychological war - a war in which all of us, who use the Internet and social media are pawns as soldiers. About how we are manipulated by taking advantage of human cognitive and emotional weaknesses. One of the most interesting and unfortunately the most alarming books I have read this year. Because in the year of a pandemic, it is extremely easy to fuel human fear and anger.
Wow. This sounds like a must-read. I'll check it out.
In the time since I last posted I've read Bob Woodward's 'Fear', which truly was terrifying.
reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. The first lesbian novel written by a lesbian, very James Joyce like
Well, I'm having to read some texts (historical and theoretical) for finishing up my prospectus for my dissertation.
- An introduction to theories of popular culture by Dominic Strinati
- Domination and the arts of resistance : hidden transcripts by James C. Scott
- Michel de Certeau : interpretation and its other by Jeremy Ahearne
- The Household and the Making of History: A Subversive View of the Western Past by Mary S. Hartman
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Dismal Freedom: A History of the Maroons of the Great Dismal Swampby- by J. Brent Morris.
About escaped slaves who lived and formed communities in the Great Dismal Swamp which was located in Virginia and North Carolina.I'm on a quest to read 200 books this year, so I am reading several things at once...
1. Death's Garden Revisited by Loren Rhoads
2. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
3. Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s by Adam Rowe
4, The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
5. Slavic Kitchen Alchemy: Nourishing Herbal Remedies, Magical Recipes & Folk Wisdom by Zuza Zak
Still reading Nightwood by Djuna Barnes. 1936 high modernist lesbian masterpiece that T.S. Elliott and Joyce loved, takes place in Berlin, Vienna and Paris between the two wars.
This is my favorite book ever, read it a number of times now. Nice to see someone else knows and loves it. I never thought of it as a "lesbian" book despite it being about a couple of lesbians. It is a beautifully written and fucked up love story. I wonder if Barnes herself thought of it that way. Different times though.
"The coddling of the American mind. How good intentions and bad ideas are setting up a generation for failure" by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt.
Three volumes into Mao by Rumiko Takahashi also re-reading The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon along with my upteenth re-read of Attack on Titan by Hajime Isayama.
I revere Rumiko Takahashi. Inuyasha is my one and only.