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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 what I read each year will live from now on. I’ll update little reviews for each book as I go.

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 many 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.

2025

Books Read 2025:

  1. The Question Concerning Technology in China by Yuk Hui
  2. Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics by Ludwig Wittgenstein
  3. Flatline Constructs: Gothic Materialism and Cybernetic Theory-Fiction by Mark Fisher

Planned Reads 2025

  1. Sleeveless: Fashion, Image, Media, New York 2011-2019 by Natasha Stagg
  2. Homotopy Type Theory by Univalent Foundations Project
  3. The Sacred Conspiracy by Alastair Brotchie
  4. The Society of Mind by Marvin Minksy
  5. Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick
  6. K-Punk by Mark Fisher
  7. Philosophy of the Tourist by Hiroki Azuma
  8. After Death by Francois J. Bonnet
  10. The Philosophy of Redemption by Philipp Mainländer
  11. Inventing the Future by Nick Srnicek
  12. In the Swarm: Digital Prospects by Byung-Chul Han
  13. Topology of Violence by Byung-Chul Han
  14. Our Mathematical Universe by Max Tegmark
  15. Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
  16. Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings by Marquis de Sade

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
  23. Schizo-Culture by Various Authors
  24. HR Giger by Andreas Hirsch
  25. Spinoza: Practical Philosophy by Gilles Deleuze
  26. Trip by Tao Lin
  27. Nadja by Andre Breton
  28. Slug and Other Stories by Megan Miles
  29. Confessions of A Mask By Yukio Mishima
  30. Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian
  31. Kappa by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
  32. Eeeee Eee Eeee by Tao Lin
  33. Hunting Leroux by Elaine Shannon
  34. Theorem by Paolo Pasolini
  35. Everything is Cinema by Richard Brody
  36. Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti
  37. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of AI by Max Tegmark