The Existence Machine

"The endeavor to live in a shared, peaceful agreement with others is an extension of the endeavor to preserve oneself." — Spinoza

About Me

Name: Richard
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

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Email

    yolacrary@gmail.com

Previous Posts

  • "a sense of wonder and disbelief at his own temeri...
  • TBR
  • Books Read - 2011
  • Ritual
  • Follow-up to What Ever Happened to Modernism?, par...
  • Ethan on Caliban and the Witch
  • More Directions
  • Directions in Feminism
  • "Hey, didn't you used to have a blog?"
  • Notes on What Ever Happened to Modernism?

Ongoing Reading

  • The Journal, Henry David Thoreau
  • The Infinite Conversation, Maurice Blanchot
  • Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution, Kolya Abramsky, ed.
  • The Moral Economy of the Peasant, James C. Scott
  • The Death of Nature, Carolyn Merchant
  • The World Turned Upside Down, Christopher Hill
  • The Modern World-System [multiple volumes], Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Books Completed 2006
  • Books Completed 2007
  • Books Completed 2008
  • Books Completed 2009
  • Books Completed 2010
  • Books Completed 2011

Books Completed 2012

  • 1. Lightning Rods, Helen DeWitt
  • 2. Feminist Theory: from margin to center, bell hooks
  • 3. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia, James C. Scott
  • 4. Zone, Mathias Énard (Charlotte Mandell, trans.)
  • 5. Liquidation, Imre Kertész (Tim Wilkinson, trans.)
  • 6. Stoner, John Williams
  • 7. Dreaming of Dead People, Rosalind Belben
  • 8. Mavis Belfrage, Alasdair Gray
  • 9. Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and self-recovery, bell hooks
  • 10. I., Stephen Dixon

Literature

  • This Space
  • Spurious
  • Waggish
  • paperpools
  • The Reading Experience
  • Ready Steady Book
  • Tales From the Reading Room
  • Asylum
  • A Piece of Monologue
  • Letters from a Librarian
  • The Mumpsimus
  • Jacob Russell's Barking Dog
  • Contra James Wood

Politics, Theory, Philosophy, etc

  • BLCKDGRD
  • Feral Scholar
  • Who is IOZ?
  • Uncomfortable Science
  • American Leftist
  • An und für sich
  • Disaster Notes
  • zunguzungu
  • Voyou Désœuvré
  • speculum criticum traditionis
  • I cite
  • Object-Oriented Philosophy
  • Larval Subjects
  • ladypoverty
  • 6th or 7th
  • Lenin's Tomb
  • I Blame the Patriarchy
  • Wis[s]e Words
  • jews sans frontieres
  • Al-Jazeera English
  • Black Agenda Report
  • ZNet
  • Monthly Review
  • MRZine

Music, Movies, etc

  • Last Plane To Jakarta
  • Destination: OUT!
  • Pretty Goes With Pretty
  • Simon Reynolds
  • Then Play Long
  • No Trivia
  • scanners

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