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Books

This is a page for books that I’ve read each year, I used to be an active goodreads user before it was bought by Amazon. Since then I have not used the service and have not really put my short form reviews of books anywhere except my own journals and notebooks.

Here is where these thoughts on my reading each year will live from now on. I’ll update little reviews for each book as I go along the follwowing links will have notes, thoughts, and commentary.

These aren’t formal reviews, if something is good enough to warrant that it will get a real post on the front page. These are instead just little notes on each text that I take as I read them and my personal impressions of each. None of these are going to be very formal or structured so don’t go in expecting that.

My aim is generally to read 100 books each year if I can as a kind of minimum bar that I try to cross. This might feel like a lot but a lot of these books are short ~100-150 pages which pads out the count a bit. I read books of a variety of different lengths, and many I don’t read fully if they don’t warrant it.

2024

Books Read 2024:

  1. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Kenneth O. Stanley
  2. Eumeswil by Ernst Jünger
  3. The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
  4. In Search of the Miraculous by P. D. Ouspensky
  5. Magick in Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley
  6. Art and Artist by Otto Rank
  7. The Key of Solomon edited by Liddell MacGregor Mathers
  8. Nietzsche Apostle by Peter Sloterdijk
  9. A Book of Surrealist Games by Alastair Brotchie
  10. Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization by John Zerzan
  11. The Hard Life by Flann O’Brien
  12. Starry Speculative Corpse by Eugene Thacker
  13. I Hate The Internet by Jarett Kobek
  14. The Origins of Consciousness In The Breakdown of The Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
  15. Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille
  16. Heart beat, Drum beat by Somnath Bhatt with Moad Musbahi
  17. Heavy Traffic IV by Various Authors
  18. Contempt (Il disprezzo) by Alberto Moravia
  19. The Hermetic Deleuze: Philosophy and Spiritual Ordeal by Joshua Ramey
  20. BORDERLINE Special Edition by Acky Bright
  21. Mannahatta: A Natural History of New York City by Eric Sanderson
  22. Xoros: Exploring a Time and Place in Greece by Anonymous

Planned Reads 2024

  1. Dark Deleuze by Andrew Culp
  2. The Uberfication of the University by Gary Hall
  3. Philosophy of the Tourist by Hiroki Azuma
  4. The Question Concerning Technology in China by Yuk Hui
  5. Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics by Fernando Zalamea
  6. Introduction to Evolutionary Computation
  7. Black, Brown, & Beige: Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora by Franklin Rosemont
  8. The Totality Is Incomplete: Collected Essays of Alex Gorrion
  9. Little Anatomy of the Physical Unconscious by Hans Bellmer
  10. Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by Arthur Evans
  11. The Little Typer by Daniel Friedman
  12. The Mind’s I by Douglas Hofstadter
  13. The Red Army Faction, A Documentary History: Volume 2 by J. Smith
  14. Conspiracist Manifesto by Anonymous
  15. Dividuum: Machinic Capitalism and Molecular Revolution by Gerald Raunig
  16. When the Word Becomes Flesh by Paolo Virno
  17. The Last Messiah by Paul Wessel Zapffe
  18. Boredom and Art: Passions of the Will To Boredom by Julian Jason Haladyn
  19. Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy by Graham Harman
  20. Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium by Jason Mohaghegh
  21. Aesthetics After Finitude by Various Authors
  22. The Revenge of Reason by Peter Wolfendale
  23. Applied Ballardianism by Simon Sellars
  24. A Short History of Decay by Emil Cioran
  25. Male Fantasies: Volume 1 & 2 by Klaus Theweleit
  26. The Power of Nothingness by Alexandra David-Neel
  27. Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  28. Philosophy in the Boudoir by de Sade
  29. The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead by William S. Burroughs
  30. LIVEBLOG by Megan Boyle
  31. Banco by Henri Charriere
  32. Papillon by Henri Charriere
  33. The Devil’s Anarchy: The Sea Robberies of the Most Famouis Pirate by Stephen Snelders
  34. Sade: A Sudden Abyss by Annie Le Brun
  35. Corrosive Consciousness by Bellamy Fitzpatrick
  36. Black Blossoms at the End of the World by Invecchiare Selvatico
  37. Writing Degree Zero by Roland Barthes
  38. The Fight for Turtle Island by Aragorn Moser
  39. Max Stirner’s Political Spectrography by Fabian Luduena
  40. The End of Anarchism? by Luigi Galleani
  41. Questioning Technology: A Critical Anthology by Various Authors
  42. The Right To Be Greedy by For Ourselves
  43. The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus
  44. Women of Plogoff by Anonymous
  45. Freedom’s Disorder by Massimo Passamani
  46. Tame Words from a Wild Heart by Jean Weir
  47. Mesrine: The Life and Death of a Supercrook by Carey Schofield
  48. Eternity by The Stars by Louis-Auguste Blanqui
  49. Cop-Out: The Significance of Aufhebengate by Sam Fanto
  50. Civil or Subversive: Individualist Writings from the UK by Anonymous
  51. Cracks in a Grey Sky by Do or Die
  52. Beneath The Underground by Bob Black
  53. Outrage: An Anarchist Memoir of the Penal Colony by Clement Duval