What book(s) are you currently reading?

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Great stuff, I just had a peek at it and it says what we expected. They come down on Wittgensteins side, so I am looking at it as a way into Wittgenstein mostly.
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Just got myself a copy of 'Gender Trouble' by Judith Butler. I'm interested in Butlers' 'performative turn' which links her to Foucault, as well as Queer Theory, which may shed more light on Derrida.


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Arrived today. Its a record!
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Got a copy of Monique Wittig's 'The Straight Mind' today.
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I'm reading lots of stuff as usual. A really nice one is this thin little book called 4000 Bible questions and answers.

For Philosophy or Mysticism its a book on a Korean Buddhist named Taego.

Tons of other books aforementioned and continuing to be read.

I have a big pile of books next to my head on the bed. One pile deals with all sorts of Semitic language family stuff and includes the Bible there. I want physical copies of transliterated religious texts though.

I have lots of stuff I am bookmarking on my phone. The reading seems endless and worthless, as I won't be able to use it for anything communicative for the most part or anything anyone cares about. I just read to keep finding things to be inspired by or to wrestle with. I don't even particularly like any of it. I think slapstick is much more profound than anything anyone could ever say. Just tripping and smacking ones face into table being the ultimate truth made manifest.
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