What are we reading?

[Lara]

I am reading all about the Open Source and free software movement for an essay for college: looking at the gift economy at work in open source alongside the political economy of that pesky porno-writing philosopher Georges Bataille.

Here are some interesting PDFs online I have been looking at:

Open Source - Weber (not Max)
New Hacker Class - Wark
The Multitudes - Virno
Political Economies based on Gift Exchange - Bataille
Free Software Movement - Richard Stallman

What is everybody else reading? Highbrow of lowbrow, skool or home or even podcasts that you're listening to etc.

[Lara]

I'm also reading McSweeney's 18 quarterly journal of American short story writers writing strange and brilliant fiction and watching their new DVD 'magazine' offering the Wholpin.

[bridd]

Lately, I've been reading The Corporation by Joel Bakan, and reading Pratchett/Gaimen's Good Omens for the first time (kicking myself I hadn't read it sooner). Also a whole load of comicbooks, the latest issues of X-Factor written by Peter David being my favourite reading from that particular publisher at the moment.

I'm slowly working my way through some Cinema4D tutorials as well

The comicbooks are making me want to design and animate some giant robots

[vjair]

ahhh.... robots.... im curently working my way back through Isaac Asimovs foundation novels, plenty of quality robots in there. Read them all loads of times, but just cant get enough of Asimov's writing, he rules

[karl]

I just finished most of Asimovs "Foundation" series, he rules but I can get enough of his writing after the last Foundation novels.

I'm also reading "The Right To Be Hostile" by Aaron McGruder and Howard Zinn's "A People's History Of The United States"

[krapolaux]

Originally Posted by karl

I just finished most of Asimovs "Foundation" series, he rules but I can get enough of his writing after the last Foundation novels.

I'm also reading "The Right To Be Hostile" by Aaron McGruder and Howard Zinn's "A People's History Of The United States"

Last time that I read the triologi of "foundation" I got in loved with one of the main characters.....she was such a nice woman, coming from a "gaia" world where the houses didnt have doors, everything was just a collective flow, she said.
Does any body know the name of dat gurl. She was together with one old wised man...

F/

[ToxicOrange]

I've just finished Dan Simmons ~ Ilium (SUPERB!!), with China Mieville ~ Iron Council (none too shoddy) and am currently engrossed in Peter F. Hamiltons ~ Pandora Star. So it's been a bit sci-fi recently ...

[KillingFrenzy]

I just read Stanislaw Lem's "Solaris" and am ready to pick up some more of his work. The math/desciptive stuff about the planet really stuck in my head, so I'm going to try and figure out how to relate that to some sort of visuals experiment. But I think it might be getting a bit "mathy" for my understanding of Jitter.

I'm reading "Keep the Aspidistra Flying" by George Orwell, but finding myself unmotivated because the weather has been getting nice. I haven't really latched onto anything about the characters. If it gets much worse, I might have to jump to a collection of short stories I have by Paul Bowles. But that sounds like perfect summer/lounging on the veranda reading, so I don't want to get ahead of myself.

[spaceman]

currently reading "Siva Sutras-The yoga of supreme identity" by Jaideva Singh.

which basicaly says that the first distortion in perception in when you separate the self from the non-self and then goes on to explain how to get rid of all distortion in perseption to attain enlightment....
I might not attain enlightment but it sure is enlightning reading

[hamageddon]

Edward N. Luttwak:
Turbo-Capitalism : Winners and Losers in the Global Ecomony

Joe Kelly / Christopher Priest
Deadpool No.01-67

Magdalena Holzhey
Vasarely

Christopher Vogler
The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Storytellers and Screenwriters