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- palimpsest1
- At least this one will come out in English translationGnash
- This month apparently. Tho you shooda learnt French by now. Only one of his I've read, it's worth it.palimpsest
- I know. 12 years of French in school and I still get the hairy eyeball when I try and speak it. Next life I’ll try harderGnash
- Hey thank you Mr Psest, I just read that (in French) and I liked it!omer
- neverscared3
https://www.goodreads.com/book/s…
the Aesthetic Brain takes readers on an exciting journey through the world of beauty, pleasure, and art. Using the latest advances in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, Anjan Chatterjee investigates how an aesthetic sense is etched into our minds, and explains why artistic concerns feature centrally in our lives. Along the way, Chatterjee addresses such fundamental questions as: What is beauty? Is it universal? How is beauty related to pleasure? What is art? Should art be beautiful? Do we have an instinct for art?
- Umberto eco gets into the topic pretty deep as well if you’re interestedscarabin
- oi, thanksneverscared
- Nairn1
I just picked this up in a charity shop. Even from a cursory perusal, its filled with half-baked madness.
- just did a Google, found three letters from that book and want to read more...
https://www.mjt.org/…Bluejam - nice find
+1Bluejam
- just did a Google, found three letters from that book and want to read more...
- AQUTE-2
Tools of titans
- NBQ00-2
- Tai Lopez reads only cliff notesGuyFawkes
- typical "know it all" but knows nothingGuyFawkes
- “The more you learn, the more you earn.” — Warren BuffetNBQ00
- The people that throw money at him are the people I avoid in life, but he.. great! He gamed it, succeed it, well done.shapesalad
- utopian2
Do You Compute?
Selling Tech from the Atomic Age to the Y2K Bug 1950-1999
- sted1
- maquito2
“A History of Heavy Metal”, by Andrew Oneill.
I was hesitant before starting this book cause I didn’t know the writer. Watched a couple of stand-up monologues and decided to give it a try.Really fun read. Addictive. Hilarious stories and a nice hook all along. Not to be taken very seriously, but definitely worth many good laughs. Reading time: 1 week.
- https://youtu.be/-6M…maquito
- Design question ...
When centering a type block on a cover like this, do you centre on total width, or visual centre to spine fold line?Gnash - I would’ve centered to fold line. That “margin” between fold line and spine is neutral imo. Thanks, now I hate it.maquito
- HahaGnash
- Fold line unless nobody is going to bring it up.garbage
- imbecile4
- American Kompromat
How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treacheryimbecile - so sick of this guy, this can fuck offStoicLevels
- does information hurt your wittle head, Bindegal?imbecile
- Im not Bindegal but im mentally rejecting all trump shit except Chomsky's book until 2022 at the earliest. Mental fatigue. And youre a cunt.StoicLevels
- Okay, Bindegal.imbecile
- True to the name I see.StoicLevels
- wow, that was a great insult. the way you used my name against me like that. totally original. i hope to one day recover from... wait, no. go fuck yourself. :Dimbecile
- youre the one that picked your own demise, imbecileStoicLevels
- Oh you are definitely one of the old morons under a new name. One of you always used to use that name "zinger" like it was an actual insult.garbage
- My feelings were always smashed when you called me garbage. Brutal stuff.garbage
- American Kompromat
- Bluejam3
- via https://twitter.com/…Bluejam
- Ha! That's awesome. Just as real as anything these days.toemaas
- grafician2
The Culture series
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cu…
(really hope we will get this into a film/series in the future, as this universe is fascinating - Star Trek comes close, but not close enough)
- Selfish cunt died too soon.
I think Amazon have the rights and are making a series, no?Nairn - Altho when I read the Hydrogen Sonata last year (after having been an IMB fan for decades) I felt I'd read much of it before. Not bad, just more of the sameNairn
- I'm now wondering whether Bezos got the rights to make a TV series on the Culture as a billionnaire fuck you to Musk.Nairn
- For others, more info on the Culture itself as an advanced SF society: https://en.wikipedia…grafician
- I'd love to see the culture on the screen.thumb_screws
- Selfish cunt died too soon.
- neverscared1
- ah wrong thread.neverscared
- TOON TOON TOON TOON TOON!
That's one of those pubs you only go to once, usually entirely accidentally.Nairn