#1189

It feels like your statement is always true. Unfortunately, the last Dune movie/tv show was disappointing is also always true.

#1190

Sebastian Junger’s Tribe was a breakthrough book for me.

#1191

Ooh. The sneer from nowhere. How fitting. Hope it made you feel good.

To recap: We’re in a thread about things we’ve read. I pointed out that you’d mischaracterized an author’s era and work in consequential ways. You responded with an insult and earned a heart from a moderator (@alanza ) for it. “Empathy is the core of communication on lines,” eh? Isn’t that supposed to be what separates this place from those mean forums where regulars freely troll the periphery?

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#1192

Hi. Let’s keep it civil here. If you read @nutritionalzero’s other posts about Mark Fisher, you would know that they have a great deal of respect for Fisher’s writing. I read your post—which digs up content from months ago only to critique it without sympathy!—as a needlessly combative misreading of @nutritionalzero’s musings about a book.

I’m sorry if you were offended that I liked @nutritionalzero’s reply. To me it seemed like a cheeky response to a combative provocation. I love your passion for Fisher’s writing! I would love to see more discussion of it and other writers generally on Lines. I will say that I think a tone of scholarly debate seems like a poor fit for this thread.

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#1194

Haha yeah! It had that cheap made for TV movie feel to it. I’d say the only good parts were 1) it was the movie that introduced me to James McAvoy and 2) I appreciated the the different interpretation—focusing more on the political aspect (which really just made me love the Lynch version that much more haha). I wonder how they’ll treat this next one. I hope it’s not just a plain ol’ action movie.

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#1195

My favorite ever: Tom Robbins - Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

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#1196

Thanks for your reply @nutritionalzero. I didn’t realize it was from March, and wasn’t trying to start something, but took your reply to mean that you were. I was wary to comment in the first place (‘emotional reserves’) but felt obliged to push against the apparent suggestion (not just from you) that Fisher’s work belongs to the past when, for many of us, the urgent question is how to develop and propagate that ‘Fisher-Function’ now and into the future. I wrote about that here. In any case, no hard feeling on my end. It sounds like we can we put it down to crossed wires.

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#1197

I read a small excerpt of this (the part about the parisian underground) and it was fantastic. really looking forward to reading the whole thing.

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#1199

Yes, I love the Audible versions of his books. They are so meditative. Landmarks is a remarkable book and sonically, it is tremendously invigorating. I am not exactly sure why, but it filled me with musical ideas.

#1200

For me, I wasn’t saying that Fisher’s ideas and writings are dated, but are about the “just past.” Sometimes it is tricky work for me as a reader to move from reflecting on the moment the author is writing about, especially if it is recent events, to current conditions, and to apply the powerful complex thinking to the here, now and tomorrow.

Also, I was thinking about watching an individuals thinking develop over time on a format like a blog to watching a group of people’s thinking develop on something like this forum.

#1201

currently ~two-thirds of the way through Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson and absolutely loving it, already picked up some paperback editions of the sequels. it’s a very thoughtful exploration of what colonizing mars might look like in the context of earth’s late-20th/21st-century world order. equal parts politics, science, and breathtaking descriptions of the martian landscape. robinson’s strong eco-socialist bend (same!) and apparent agnostic-mystical religious views (same!) come through all over the book, which is very pleasant if you’ve been reading any sci fi that isn’t le guin recently, but it’s far from a picture of a lefty utopia.

highly recc’d for sci fi fans!

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#1202

Greta Thunberg - “No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference”

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#1203

Just started “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating.” By Elisabeth Bailey.

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#1204

Pretty tweaked volume on how to achieve sexual ecstasy as a woman. Advances unpopular points in service of its aim. Recommended if you like books about psychotic anxiety and sexual ecstasy framed in psychoanalytic terminology.

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#1205

Spectres ‘Composer l’écoute / Composing Listening’ (SP103 ...
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picked this up on a whim and I’m really enjoying it. a nice collection of essays on the composing process.

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#1206

*respect increases

just received a copy. love the short manifestos.

#1207

New Neal Stephenson is out today:

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#1208

Seems like the book is in both French and English? The site doesn’t explain much and there’s no option to choose one language over the other, so I assume it’s both. Right?

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#1209

Yes! Half the book is the text in French, the other in English. Just flip it over to switch :slightly_smiling_face:

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#1210

I’m barely a few pages in and he’s already talking about the Norns, so the book is, indeed, Lines-oriented. :slight_smile:

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