On Mar 2, 2004, at 1:53 PM, geert lovink wrote:
(Would it include Empire, Crowds and Power, Male Fantasies, a Foucault,
Ahrendt or even Deleuze? How much history (of science)? How much would
politically correct and which titles would really be useful? Geert)
hm, a few from a garden pest:
Rather than a definitive list of books (which implies that there is a
starting and end point to reading) I would first emphasise the importance of
the continuing impulse to read. In the movie 'Shadowlands' which is based
on the life of C.S. Lewis, a student of Lewis makes the profound remark We
(Would it include Empire, Crowds and Power, Male Fantasies, a Foucault,
Ahrendt or even Deleuze? How much history (of science)? How much would
politically correct and which titles would really be useful? Geert)
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There are so many books...
I would offer - definitely:
Koran, Bible, Analects - at the least. I don't think it's possible to
understand contemporary culture and fundamentalisms without them.
There's a series of Verso books - the No-Nonsense Guides - I've read the
one on Islam, which brilliantly
