Posted: 26 Jun 2014, 19:45
I dig his rhythm, always done
I dig his rhythm, always done
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I dig his rhythm, always done
Posted: 27 Jun 2014, 02:50
I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
Posted: 27 Jun 2014, 15:34
Interesting article on The State of Goth on the Grammy website of all places : http://www.grammy.com/news/the-state-of-goth.
Time for a lifetime achievement award ?
Time for a lifetime achievement award ?
Posted: 29 Jun 2014, 23:43
When drugged-up Time Traveller and '80s musical burnout Rock Section and his fellow English hooligans get kidnapped during Italia '90, there are ruinous implications. But now Rock has returned to Sardinia one final time to settle some scores and uncover the truth. He believes only Dutch cult leader Judge Barry Hertzog, still incarcerated on the island for the crime, can provide the answers. But through drugs, the persistence of his driver Anna and a quest for the hidden ancient doorways strewn around Sardinia's only highway, the 131, Rock will discover that a greater truth awaits him.
Judgement, consequences, hoodwinking on a grand scale, Gnosticism versus agnosticism … 131 is a Gnostic whodunit that pursues readers' memories of all previous fiction into a peat bog and impales them with seven-foot-long pikes.
Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 08:25
And?
Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 11:01
Hi Sultan, you may be interested in this..sultan2075 wrote:I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1
Documenta 12 used "Bare Life" as one of it's themes, some of it very successfully.
Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 11:02
Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 11:05
Currently reading..
Posted: 01 Jul 2014, 22:41
Many thanks!
I'm still Reading itHom_Corleone wrote:And?
So far it reminds me of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (for the Road Novel/Drugs aspect) and Glue (for the 1980's/1990's flashbacks) by Irvine Welsh.
You can read the 1st 5 chapters on Amazon where after the 1st Chapter (it's only 2 pages) you should just stop and go and buy yourself a copy. I'm 100 pages in and so far it's thoroughly enjoyable
http://thequietus.com/articles/15594-ju ... -interview
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b047lqcf
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b048ry5p
Posted: 02 Jul 2014, 13:56
Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
Posted: 02 Jul 2014, 14:39
Interesting - and related to Agamben, I'd say, who finds the concentration camp and the "state of exception" to be the fundamental condition of the modern state. I'm sympathetic to his critiques, though I haven't read a lot of the guys he refers to in Homo Sacer (like Benjamin or Schmitt. Schmitt is probably next on the list, though).Dr. Moody wrote:Hi Sultan, you may be interested in this..sultan2075 wrote:I just read Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life . It is intriguing.
I'm currently reading Flannery O'Connor's short story collection Everything That Rises Must Converge. Brilliant, but awfully bleak.
http://www.documenta12.de/leitmotive.html?&L=1
Documenta 12 used "Bare Life" as one of it's themes, some of it very successfully.
Posted: 02 Jul 2014, 23:27
I bought my copy in my local Waterstones, but I've just seen that you can order a signed copy from the publishers hereHom_Corleone wrote:Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 09:05
Cool. Thanks mate. That's a birthday present sorted.Big Si wrote:I bought my copy in my local Waterstones, but I've just seen that you can order a signed copy from the publishers hereHom_Corleone wrote:Excellent. Thanks Si; great article.
I shall order it - looks suitably Cope-esque.
Posted: 04 Jul 2014, 12:51
i am reading this atm
Posted: 17 Jul 2014, 09:03
I've been into Public Enemy for a while and this is a good read and does give some food for thought. The best bits cover the PE/Anthrax tour and then goes onto mention touring with The Sisters with Eldritch getting alot of respect from Chuck D. It's a pity he then goes on discuss touring with U2 and going all gushy over Bonio
It kinda discredits the nice things he said about Eldritch As a matter of interest did anyone here see TSOM and PE?
Posted: 17 Jul 2014, 09:05
I've got that at home - on my 'to read' list.
And no, alas I did not.
And no, alas I did not.
Posted: 17 Jul 2014, 09:57
I'd be really interested to hear your opinion on it when you've read it.Hom_Corleone wrote:I've got that at home - on my 'to read' list.
Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 02:23
Wonderful reading
Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 03:53
fiction -currently revisiting this, a book i first received as an xmas present 30 years ago:
fact - going through these (in parts) as part of my re-examination of the 100 years war:
and
fact - going through these (in parts) as part of my re-examination of the 100 years war:
and
Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 10:26
I've just finished "CONQUEST" by Juliet Barker which deals with the 100 Years War post 1415 - that was rather good
Posted: 30 Jul 2014, 16:49
Biography (with fictional details) "Lucky" Luciano by Paul Sherman (although I can't find English title inside, but guy also wrote biography of Houdini). So far (in about 1/3) nice to read, some interesting details.
Posted: 02 Aug 2014, 22:02
An unusual travelogue and the chapters on Ukraine (written after the orange revolution) make for interesting reading in the light of recent events.
Posted: 02 Aug 2014, 23:48
Posted: 04 Aug 2014, 14:44
Not a fan of The Charlatans particularly - but an interesting read.
Posted: 05 Aug 2014, 11:54
Just finished China Mieville's Perdido Street Station.
Whoa.
Whoa.