moronic, possibly. can't say i'm getting the llama thing though.

bitch has a kinda snout. it's subtle, but it's there, and it comes into focus when you are aware of the stupidity of her little brain.

as a child:

Show Me!: A Picture Bok of Sex for Children and Parents





as an adult:

The End of Architecture?: Documents and Manifestos : Vienna Architecture Conference

moronic realism, maybe?

honestly, though... as adult it's still mostly that first book...

as I don't read much non-fiction, I had to spend a long time thinking about this.

10 years ago, I read this:


10 years later, I fear my constant rantings about it on the internet may have caused a backlash.

I'm sorry people, all of the seats are taken.

i only hope you're careful where you read it

I'm required to read "An Inconvenient Truth" over my Thanksgiving break. It's sure to be a winner!

I'm going to admit my shallowness and say Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.

i love legs' book about the porno industry, "the other hollywood"

9/10 books I read are non-fiction. So I have no fucking idea.

for the record: if anyone here claims "the bible" as a non-fiction book, they'll get a slap from me for the crime of functional illiteracy.

yeah. that might not be THE one for me, but it's definitely up there.

The Perfect Victim by christine mcguire
The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion by richard dawkins

I hesitate posting here because I figure I should be able to come up with expressions on how they impacted me to be able to properly say they impacted me at all rather than just limply list names, but I cant really find the words right now, all I know is that they did.

Yes, there are certainly many similarities. A major difference is the way in which they conduct their research - Foucault, of course, is all about histories, discovering how systems came to be a transform, how power is created etc. whereas Laing focuses primarily on lived in experiences. In some ways, I think that they both really complement each other.

I have never read Guattari. Which of his works would you recommended?

Oh, here's another one - Theater and It's Double

happily suprised to see laing mentioned. bought the divided self in a charity shop on a whim and started reading it on the way home on the train. had a moment of terrifying epiphany. when i was an inpatient i was disappointed that none of the staff had read him. it was my impression that he has been basically ignored by the contemporary mental health service so it's encouraging to see some people are still studying him. there is a channel 4 documentary on him in his later years, i had a torrent of it once, he demonstrates a few techniques that didn't impress me and made me wonder how much fidelity he still held to his 60's ideals at that point. there is also the film asylum which is a documentary filmed in one of his experimental communes were the doctors and patients lived amongst each other. anyway since the divided self and politics of experience have already been mentioned i'll choose sanity madness and the family. its essential laing. one of the most unsettling and disturbing books i've ever read. there are about 10 families who each get a chapter comprised of interviews and historys of the child that has been having the problems. what you are basically reading are accounts of families mystifying thier kids into pyschosis. The kid is being manipulated into having to deny thier own perceptions of reality as false. the parents seem only to dimly realise what they are doing. If you haven't already read it you should definitly pick it up demonrail.

The Bible.

If it wasn't incredibly apparent. It bleeds through into most of my posts.