What are you reading right now?

[innerspaceboy]

May I present the holy grail of psychological literature.

Carl Jung - The Red Book: Liber Novus is a folio manuscript crafted by Jung between 1914  and 1930. Despite being considered the origin of Jung's main oeuvre, it was probably never intended for conventional publication and the material was not published nor made otherwise accessible for study until 2009.

In 2009, with the cooperation of Jung's estate, The Red Book was published in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation, three appendices and over 1,500 editorial notes.

The enormous text measures 12" x 15.75" closed. (I've included a quarter on the first image for scale.)

I've photographed a selection of 18 page spreads, the cover, and conclude with a sample of the annotated translation from the second half of the book.

An absolute literary treasure.

View all 20 photos in an album here.

[innerspaceboy]

I was in the area so I dropped by a pop up sale of vinyl and music books at a local pub. Took home a 2026 new book from the 33 1/3 Genre Series titled, 20th Century Ambient. (How could I possibly pass that up?) It will be good to see what other people are writing about my favourite subject.

A delightful surprise and I'll read it cover to cover tomorrow!

[Cyber Solutions]

May I present the holy grail of psychological literature.

Carl Jung - The Red Book: Liber Novus is a folio manuscript crafted by Jung between 1914  and 1930. Despite being considered the origin of Jung's main oeuvre, it was probably never intended for conventional publication and the material was not published nor made otherwise accessible for study until 2009.

In 2009, with the cooperation of Jung's estate, The Red Book was published in a facsimile edition, complete with an English translation, three appendices and over 1,500 editorial notes.

The enormous text measures 12" x 15.75" closed. (I've included a quarter on the first image for scale.)

I've photographed a selection of 18 page spreads, the cover, and conclude with a sample of the annotated translation from the second half of the book.

An absolute literary treasure.

View all 20 photos in an album here.

that is a beautiful book

[Hope]

[Emma menacE]

Just finished Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Marie Brown, deeply transformative in its framing of moving towards what elicits an emphatic "yes!" and how to structure our lives, relationships, sexuality around the erotic and re-imagining ourselves... hard to summarize so much but I feel my perception of relationships and so much more, my relationship to myself certainly included, has been changed.

I've also been reading (I tend to do two books at once these days, works best with my ADHD) Nevada by Imogen Binnie which is a fiction novel about a punk rock trans girl deadbeat working at a bookstore in NYC, going thru a breakup with her girlfriend and then leaving the city.  It's been quite a read and the main character is certainly imperfect but also relatable to different extents and the early 2010s trans commentary is interesting to read, if a bit outdated and against my lived experience in certain ways?  She's a bit of a curmudgeon and does a lot of self-destructive shit. and really seems to live a self-serving lifestyle in many ways.  But I'm halfway thru and I imagine what she's about to go thru will probably change her?

About to start reading Entering Hekate's Cave which seems to be mostly about shadow work and magik.  Very excited to dig into it as I've been doing shadow work actively for a couple months now :3

[innerspaceboy]

I was thrilled to read The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow!

Published June 23, it was an instant New York Times Bestseller. They wrote, "[Doctorow] resembles the great rock critics of an earlier era, a high-tech Greil Marcus or even a Lester Bangs."

My idol, Brian Eno said, "Cory Doctorow is the most lucid and generous guide I know of, and this book... is stunning in its clarity and breadth of vision."

It was a challenge to Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and The Singularity Is Nearer, (which I have autographed).

Check out Doctorow's brief rant on why the AI bubble will burst:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/892871050556667

[Hope]

1972.





I'm apparently 3 chapters in and this is a bunch of nonsense. I hope it gets better. I'm getting better at leaving books these days.

[Lisnaholic]

^ I remember being obliged to read that as part of a college course I was taking: John Berger was quite highly regarded back in the 70s.

IIRC, I struggled with it though. Doesn't he lay out the idea that seeing is the fundamental event, and interpretation after that should be treated with caution ? Then he goes on to do exactly what he's criticising: constructing a bunch of verbage all about seeing. The best thing about the book? At least it had quite a few pictures.

Good luck ! (Someone once told me about their 30-page rule: if they don't like a book after 30 pages, they abandon it.) 

Alternatively, here's episode 1 of his associated tv series, with the other episodes available if you feel so inclined:

[Hope]

Good luck ! (Someone once told me about their 30-page rule: if they don't like a book after 30 pages, they abandon it.)

This would throw off my whole universe. I have a history of grit and sticktoitiveness. I've finished many a not so great book just because I started it.

[Lisnaholic]

^ "sticktoitiveness" 

Yeah, I don't follow the 30-page rule myself and very rarely abandon a book, even if it sometimes means flicking ahead and counting how many pages to go. I was doing that with Babel by R.F. Kuang:-



This book had 3 strikes against it, going in: -modern -fantasy -much-hyped.
However, it was lent to me by someone who really wanted me to like it, so I had to go the distance for their sake.

But luckily that's not usually an issue, and it certainly isn't with this one, which turns out to be an easy-to-read page-turner:-

[Weekender]

Raymond Carver-Cathedral (collection)

Wrote an essay on the title story in a literature class, but decided to revisit just as a fan. Carver reaffirmed the short story as the premier medium for academic literature with this one.