Bopuc Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Want to read some truly terrifying horror stories? "The Monster at our Door" and the sequel "The Monster Enters" by Mike Davis https://thenewpress.com/books/monster-our-door https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-monster-enters/

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"Finite and infinite games" by James P. Carse continue to be a fundamental cocneptual work, core to my world view, and view of myself. I am an "infinite player."

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“ask . . . what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.” Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century – Tony Judt https://t.co/6csBDRDdoi

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Here, from the academic record: "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by Davids Graeber (anthropology, etc) & Wengrow (archaeology) https://t.co/A2FlAKdcHK

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“The obverse of facile emotion in the 14th century was a general insensitivity to the spectacle of pain and death.” “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century” – Barbara W. Tuchman https://t.co/RH4TuoH8K3

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@AbolTaabol If you're feeling poetic, I recommend Carlo Rovelli "The Order of Time", and then stretching out further, transcript/recording of Louis I. Kahn "Silence and Light" at ETH Zurich.

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@TPVogels @Joejpaton I will just leave you with this passage from "The Body in Pain" by Elaine Scarry. :) https://t.co/sTPW6lrl2e

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@tobyshorin "Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia" - David Graeber https://t.co/BpC9af6ztw /cc @hxrts <3

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Immediately bought & started reading @jamesbridle's latest, "Ways of Being" https://jamesbridle.com/books/ways-of-being (putting aside the equally awesome Graeber/Wengrow "The Dawn of Everything" momentarily) Absolutely gold. Get thee a copy.

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Detienne & Vernant commentary on Hesiod's *Theogony*: "There is no cosmic order without differentiation, hierarchy and supremacy but there is no supremacy without conflict, injustice and violence." Pro tip: there is no cosmic order. That's why the rest of it is human madness.