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I like a challenge, learning seven programming languages in seven weeks seemed like a challenge. I’m blogging about it. I doubt I’ll finish in seven weeks; at least not seven consecutive ones!
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I saw this at an Oxfam bookfair, read the introduction and laughed out loud at how old-fashioned it sounded and how disturbingly homophobic Britain was in the mid to late sixties. The woman who took my money had a look at the book, laughed and said she studied under Devlin. Apparently he was a dreadful little man. Only in Oxford.
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An ambitious project to investigate points of affinity between psychoanalisis and phenomenology and how they interact with queer and trans theories of the body.
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If you can get past the bullshit corporate businessfriendly language, this is an extremely useful and perceptive guide. And its good to read it again once in a while when you're starting to fall off the wagon (to use Allen's terminology).
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If you’ve not read Charles Stross, imagine a cyberpunk Douglas Adams doing philosophical analysis of futurist sci-fi geek culture. Glasshouse is an insanely imaginative bit of writing, full of beautiful observations of the insanity of our existing society as seen through the eyes of a posthuman historian caught in a simulation of 'the dark ages'. Definite page turner, not worthy at all but massively entertaining and wonderfully thought provoking.