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Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Herbert Marcuse
Beacon Press, 1974
Indispensable reading
+ interesting parallels
+ Interesting predecessor to Deleuze and Guattari
Marcuse's attempt to combine Marx and Freud, and his vision of a non-repressive civilization (as well as his views on phantasies, art, myths and even perversions as anticipiations of such a society) is one of the masterpieces of utopian thought. After reading it your daydreams will never be the ...
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
Schocken, 1969
Just a quick note
+ Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels
+ Clarity and Brilliance
+ Brilliance
+ Indispensable reading
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
One of the best books non-fiction released in 2008
+ The many foibles we have and didn't know about.
+ Fun and interesting read
One of the most eye-opening books I have read in a long time. This easy-to-read and digest book is a nice introduction to behavioural economics. It follows some threads that were in Freakonomics, which was good, too, but I like this one even better.
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
Valuable for General Reader
+ Freud's Politics
+ thx
+ "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Lawrence Lessig
Vintage, 2002
Important book for IP lawyers and internet architects
+ This is Now Creative Commons
+ Good review
+ Best on the subject
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The Ongoing Moment
Geoff Dyer
Vintage, 2007
superb look at photography
+ The Ongoing Moment
+ A glimpse upon the photographic moment
This book is not a history of photography--nor is it meant to be--though it does look at photography over a large span of time and so is by default a history of sorts. But the book is really one writer's meditation on photography. As such, much is left out, but the omissions in no way mar the book; ...
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Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes
Fontana Press, 1993
STRONGLY recommended for anyone with insomnia
+ Death of the Author, Rhetoric of the Image, etc.
+ An excellent introduction to Barthes
Roland Barthes strikes me as an unreliable logician and a philosopher that one should be wary of. His premises are largely unsupported (or supported only weakly) and his statements often paradoxical or vastly generalized. His vocabulary is of such an unnecessarily high level that it strikes me as ...
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Eros and Civilization : A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud
Herbert Marcuse
Beacon Press, 1974
Indispensable reading
+ interesting parallels
+ Interesting predecessor to Deleuze and Guattari
Marcuse's attempt to combine Marx and Freud, and his vision of a non-repressive civilization (as well as his views on phantasies, art, myths and even perversions as anticipiations of such a society) is one of the masterpieces of utopian thought. After reading it your daydreams will never be the ...
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Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
Walter Benjamin
Schocken, 1969
Just a quick note
+ Of Benjamin, Dwarfs and Angels
+ Clarity and Brilliance
+ Brilliance
+ Indispensable reading
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Dan Ariely
HarperCollins, 2008
One of the best books non-fiction released in 2008
+ The many foibles we have and didn't know about.
+ Fun and interesting read
One of the most eye-opening books I have read in a long time. This easy-to-read and digest book is a nice introduction to behavioural economics. It follows some threads that were in Freakonomics, which was good, too, but I like this one even better.
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud
W. W. Norton & Company, 2005
Valuable for General Reader
+ Freud's Politics
+ thx
+ "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
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The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World
Lawrence Lessig
Vintage, 2002
Important book for IP lawyers and internet architects
+ This is Now Creative Commons
+ Good review
+ Best on the subject
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Image-Music-Text
Roland Barthes
Fontana Press, 1993
STRONGLY recommended for anyone with insomnia
+ Death of the Author, Rhetoric of the Image, etc.
+ An excellent introduction to Barthes
Roland Barthes strikes me as an unreliable logician and a philosopher that one should be wary of. His premises are largely unsupported (or supported only weakly) and his statements often paradoxical or vastly generalized. His vocabulary is of such an unnecessarily high level that it strikes me as ...
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The Ongoing Moment
Geoff Dyer
Vintage, 2007
superb look at photography
+ The Ongoing Moment
+ A glimpse upon the photographic moment
This book is not a history of photography--nor is it meant to be--though it does look at photography over a large span of time and so is by default a history of sorts. But the book is really one writer's meditation on photography. As such, much is left out, but the omissions in no way mar the book; ...
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