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Hybrid Sequence Media's avatar

There’s a lot of good books in this post.

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Hybrid Sequence Media's avatar

We’re building a Street Team for upcoming releases. We publish all genres and could really use more book lovers on board.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Thank you, I like to read very widely. I didn’t include a few bangers though (In Praise of the Whip A Cultural History of Arousal, Niklaus Largier, Zone Books, 2007 most notably at the moment)

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Saved this list, as well as the Supplemental, and the Supplemental of the Supplemental. Thank you for putting this together. It'll give me to research and read and think for a while. Also, great page you've got on here. The Autopsy thing is a marvellous idea.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Winter has come, the least prosperous and productive month is upon us, and the snow is falling hard outside. The Autopsy experiment went off so well that it’s now a feature, and, I really wish I could find some other short story compilations I KNOW I have. But I tried to cover some extra and uncommon ground in the supplemental and supplemental to the supplemental.

And thanks! It’s a ramshackle shithole, but it’s my trap house.

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Silvio Castelletti's avatar

Well, you're doing a remarkable job, Emil. Thank you!

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

No, thank you. I’m just doin’ random stuff hopin’ it vibes. And I’d promised this list to Inigo like, over a month ago? In November?!

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Nick Winney's avatar

You arthurian legend of a man. dont you have a BUY ME A COFFEE button somewhere Emil? fuck.sake.

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ARC's avatar

Dope list

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Thank you, really. I believe in reading widely. But there's never enough time and it's all never wide enough.

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

God damn you. DAMN YOU! Now I have what? TWO DOZEN collections to read, all with compelling cases to read them?! I love it.

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Oh, so you'd like the supplemental WOKE/Novel portion of the list then?

1. Edible People: The History of Consumption of Slaves and Foreigners and the Cannibalistic Trade in Flesh (Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, 11), Christian Sictkes

2. Tours of the Black Clock, Steve Erickson

3. Wittgenstein's Mistress, David Markson

4. Terminal Boredom: Stories, Izumi Suzuki

5. The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World. Lewis Hyde (Actually, just read everything he's ever written)

6. Valuable Humans in Transit and Other Stories, QNTM

7. Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human Society (Symbol, Myth and Ritual), and The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, and From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play (Performance Studies), Victor Turner. (Actually just read all of Victor Turner as well)

8. The History of White People, Nell Irvin Painter

9. Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow, Var. (Short stories written in the future tense.)

and last but not least, the grand dually.

10. The Invention of the White Race, Vol. 1 Racial Oppression and Social Control, and Vol. 2. The Origins of Racial Oppression in Anglo America.

Oh fuck, bonus (be happy I left out brain sciences)

The Neural Basis of Free Will: Criterial Causation, Peter Ulric Tse (The best case for a hard concept of free will and a spit in the face to orthodox neuroscience.)

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Supplemental to the Supplemental

(Fiction as hyperobject, Anthropology, and Reference/Research Section)

1-2-3. Aannex, 300,000, DOX.ME, Blake Butler

4. Massive, John Treefry (warning, the name is a descriptor)

5. Counterillumination, Audrey Szasz

6. Madness in Civilization, Andrew Scull

7. Unamerica, Cody Goodfellow

8. Animal Money, Michael Cisco

9. Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima

10. The Novel a Biography, Michael Schmidt

11. Complexity and the Arrow of Time, Charles H. Lineweaver (Editor), Paul C. W. Davies (Editor), Michael Ruse (Editor)

12. i Of The Vortex From Neurons to Self, Rodolfo R. Llinas

13. Hyperobjects : Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Posthumanities), Timothy Morton

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M.P. Fitzgerald's avatar

I’m angrily writing all of this down.

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Inigo Laguda's avatar

Picture's cool as fuck! Thanks for these! Gonna try and start with Amy Hempel

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

She is truly a sentence level writer. She can put more punch and meaning into 2000 words than most people manage in a career of novels. For a while she was heading the the creative writing MFA program at Bennington. Yes, the very school that Brett Ellis skewered in his second novel, the rules of attraction. Which is both a fantastic novel and a really good movie.

I had a whole other list of woke or disturbing non-fiction that I may not serve up as a Post but maybe as a note.

I'm also disappointed that there are a few collections here that I was not able to find in the stacks, including what I thought was a fantastic collection of afrofuturist sci-fi, accompilation of Chinese science fiction, and a compilation of world speculative fiction that includes fantastic work from all over the f****** globe.

As it stands aside from the fact that I read a lot of women. I will admit this is a pretty white f****** list. And I wanted to piss someone off by throwing in a few things like the afrofuturist sci-fi collection just so that maybe someone somewhere would accuse me of being "woke" And inclusive for inclusivity's sake (which for some reason woke is apparently now a slur at least on some of this platform.) So that I could then tell them exactly why they should shut the f**** up, because I read the books and they didn't. But alas My library is scattered in like 500 places and I lost track of where everything is in 2019 when I took a significant portion of my then current reading list to California when I moved there for college. I operate on the vague heuristic of I know I bought that book so it has to be somewhere. Not the best filing system in the world I know.

But I also didn't include any textbooks or heavy books on anthropology. I can't be the only person who was interested at one point, very specifically in the intellectual and social history of cannibalism can I?

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Jon T's avatar

sheesh. this is great. thanks

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

I have a mild problem with reading, as you can probably tell.

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Zani D's avatar

Why does Amy Hempel ring a bell?

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Emil Ottoman's avatar

Told you to read her.

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Zani D's avatar

lies and slander you know better than to tell me to read anything.

it was probably one of your less caustic edits, imma go check.

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