Antilibrarian Follow-Up
Samples from selected particpants in the “Anti-Library” Viral post:
The first is the The Supreme Court Review, 2006. Every Christmas some dear old friends give me the annual edition, published by the University of Chicago, of this series. Reading it enables me to read a little law and get some feel both for what the United States Supreme Court is up to and directions in legal scholarship. It usually takes me the whole year to get around to reading it but I’m always glad I did. And in case you were wondering I read medical books and math books for recreation, too.
So I’m going to winnow it down to books that I really want to read as whole books. And that shame me when my eye falls on them and I realize I haven’t done it. And I’m going to focus on the ones that have been there the longest.In other words, I’m fitting barbs to this innocent gift to turn into a bibliophile’s self-mortification tool.
This is kind of a haphazard tag, but here are my five:
1. Robert Dixon, The Baumgarten Corruption: From Sense to Nonsense in Art and Philosophy (1995)
Untangling the mess around aesthetics in philosophy since the 18th century. Something about which I know nothing, so always a good place to start.
2. Manuel De Landa, War in the Age of Intelligent Machines (1991)
The evolution of man/machine interaction in warfare.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
GW at Wolf Howling, somebody I think you’d be interested in, has also responded.