Crispin Semmens Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Crispin Semmens

read A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. In praise of the unknown as perhaps *the* major source of meaning in life. Luxurious. If you liked this, you might like The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity by Catherine Malabou. #crispinreads2021 https://t.co/r1RGeKFyLs

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read The Awakening and Selected Stories by Kate Chopin. Turn of the 20thC female emancipatory stories set in the south of the USA. Rich and nuanced descriptions, of people, place, relationships, the struggle to be oneself. #crispinreads2020 https://t.co/YIzkkijMp7

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read The Cloud Of Unknowing for Everyone by Elizabeth Ruth Obbard. 14thC Christian mysticism rendered amazingly simply, alluding to a spectrum of lifestyles from fully immersed to fully removed from society, with focus on loving 'God' as inherently unknowable. #crispinreads2021 https://t.co/hjGhCd8CR8

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read The Character Of Rain by Amélie Nothomb, a remembering/imagining of her life in Japan aged 36 to 48 months, taking the toddler's perspective seriously without falling into the trap of making it adult. Would love to find more writing taking this perspective. #crispinreads2021 https://t.co/32kvSZdcSc

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read The Book of Why by @yudapearl. I think it might be the trailer for his textbook Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference. And it's done its job. Flying the flag for reuniting meaning and method in maths… paying back over a century of technical debt. Wow! #crispinreads2022 https://t.co/fXSripvtSl

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read Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson. This is one of those books that succinctly embraces deep, deep wisdom (eg on form and substance among other things), and which society seems able to only very slowly and patchily take up in any meaningful way. #crispinreads2021 https://t.co/wti1kWesl9

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read The Disappearance of Rituals by Byung-Chul Han. Really interesting, sometimes facile, consideration of 'collective-centred' vs ego-centred culture. Translated provocatively, and evocatively (but how effectively? not sure…) for ego-centred culture. #crispinreads2022 https://t.co/FPZvIDVWE6

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read A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit. In praise of the unknown as perhaps *the* major source of meaning in life. Luxurious. If you liked this, you might like The Ontology of the Accident: An Essay on Destructive Plasticity by Catherine Malabou. #crispinreads2021 https://t.co/r1RGeKFyLs

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read The Vegetarian, by Han Kang, translated from the original Korean by Deborah Smith. A woman goes vegetarian, the people in her life go into a disproportionate spin. Next to physical and mental health, this story explores relational health, and its breakdown. #crispinreads2023 https://t.co/pYARUXKVqv

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read The Happiness Problem – Expecting Better in an Uncertain World by @wbandhappiness. Fascinating ontology of happiness ranging through the personal, the community and the political/ecological/global. Key message: 'letting go' is necessary, tricky, and doable. #crispinreads2020 https://t.co/EpolMy7Xlo