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12月19日
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读过
The Angel Esmeralda
Delillo对短篇小说形式的拿捏真是炉火纯青,又字字直中要害。感觉又回到了当年总读短篇集的日子,从短篇中抓取一些妙到毫巅的瞬间,像是小小水晶里折射八方光芒的一个点。好喜欢Midnight和Starveling,像是姊妹篇,spectators of spectators,层层嵌套,绝大篇幅里无事发生,until it explodes, and still goes nowhere in its ruins. 好喜欢同名故事,很不一样的一篇,a quintessential American story, 想到Ethan Canin的一些久远的温暖。也好喜欢creation和Ivory Acrobat, 某种被抛在陌生遥远的环境里浮游的复杂情感,处理得太精准了。
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12月10日
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读过
Orbital
Booker prize选这本书的用意蛮清晰 - 在这个充满conflict和suffering的世界, let’s turn our gaze towards an outer-space, birds’ eyes’ view, pure and untainted beauty. The beauty of the Earth, existence, our Earth, our existence. 书写得真的很美,但也是真不像本小说,六个宇航员讲得零零落落,没有哪怕一个留下了比较深刻丰满的印象。
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12月3日
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读过
An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems
看完Gödel without too many tears顺手也来补充了一些这里的延展内容。尤其impressive的是最后几章聊Church-Turing thesis, Entscheidungsproblem, Turing machine, the nature of computation, and the impressive squeezing argument that formally pins down the intuitive notion of computation. Mathematical logic这个世界好神奇。
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11月29日
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读过
The MANIAC
What an ambitious book, 可能不完美,但震颤灵魂。A mad dream of reason indeed. 好喜欢写Ehrenfest的前传,结构妙极了,a literal circular ruins of an epoch of political and scientific craziness. 他的长句绵延得好长,短句则很短、非常punchy。von Neumann, the most inhuman human intelligence giving birth to a truly inhuman intelligence, 历史的剧本多精彩。
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11月27日
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读过
Gödel Without (Too Many) Tears
分就不打了。最近因为闲着在看von Neumann回来研究了一下Gödel,这本小册子绝对是one of the most accessible and useful handbooks of his incompleteness proof (and its ramifications). It’s a shame that Peter Smith the person is such a scum and falls so far from measuring up to his work…
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11月11日
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读过
Facts and the Function of Truth、A Girl's Story
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10月30日
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想读
菌络万象
丁丁老师翻译的、看起来好酷的一本书
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10月29日
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读过
Truth and Objectivity
Deep and searching. When Wright emerges out of Dummett. Wright太聪明了,擅长从各色第一性原则里推出一些substantial的东西,比如说单从disquotational schema推出traditional deflationism的错,不觉得完全convincing,但certainly impressive。不喜欢的是有些处重复、有些处的语言不必要地晕头转向、和对traditional realism debates毫不怀疑的坚持。下游也引发许多有趣的debate,Rorty, Blackburn, Price都有对这本书很有趣的response,也顺手delineate了这三位彼此之间的异同。
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10月25日
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读过
Intermezzo
Hands down her best work till now… 喜欢她的new style,写Peter的章节,flowing, on the confusion a veneer of swimming light. 喜欢每一句欲言又止。喜欢the tenderness and warmth of it. SR一直讲how interpersonal relationships form us, 这本写这个母题尤其清晰动人。How we’re at once made better and worse, and in any case *made*, in the presence of others. Aching almost.
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10月14日
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读过
Consequences Of Pragmatism
确实不像是PMN在前或者CIE在后那样的masterpiece,但也是很好的essay collection。Introduction最有意思,feels right that he took Nagel and Cavell (rather than Kripke and Dummett) as pragmatism’s interesting opponent。但当他写他的pragmatism as ethnocentrism,当他present his answer to the charge of relativism and irrationalism, 如果去对比Bernard Williams的相似篇章,就觉得Rorty还是有点simplistic, simplifying。
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9月30日
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读过
Orlando
这版的插画也太美了!idea很酷很先锋,笔法很细很绵密 (也觉得自己配不上做她的读者),Woolf的好完全认得,但也不太是我的菜;don’t have the taste for the old-fashioned deliberate dramas and pretences put on by the ‘biographer’, they do nothing for a modern sensibility like mine. (Orlando asked as much: Why not simply say what one means and leave it?) Orlando很好,但真心说,要看一个人一生的故事,我倒更愿看stoner。
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9月20日
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读过
Atomised
No it doesn’t work for me at all. The philosophy’s so fishy - I can’t see any half-good philosopher taking this book very seriously. The science too - 即便不和文学大家去比,他写science既比不上写科幻的Ted Chiang也比不上写科学的Labatut,一点charm都没写出来。And the sex, idk, yes it’s so deliberately depressing, but being depressing isn’t the same thing as being deep…
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9月16日
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读过
The Foucault Reader
What a selection! Cover to cover读完了,中间还去补了一些discipline and punish 和sexuality,好久没做自己实质的research,但总算是入了福柯的门 。(比平时看的这些contemporary analytic people可有趣太多了!)
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9月14日
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The History of Sexuality Volume 1
这本倒是蛮好读,大雨天关在家里两天读完。讲得多好:it’s not about whether you say yes or no to sex, but account for a discursive fact that it’s thus spoken about; not (simply) whether sex is repressed or not, but trace the complex texture of power that’s woven into it. Truly very liberating to think along this line!
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9月12日
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读过
Discipline & Punish
The complex of it, the daring and meticulous eyes for it all. ‘In fact, power produces; it produces reality; it produces domains of object and rituals of truth.’ 也后悔没早读,也觉得早读或许并不能懂。
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9月6日
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读过
A Heart So White
前半本书几乎每章都是一个little coup de coeur。浑然天成的故事。在纽约的跟踪让人想起Auster,写Custardoy让人想起Bolaño的Carlos Wieder,但竟比这两位都更喜欢些。有些scene有些小到不能再小可能这辈子都不会忘掉。所有的草蛇灰线,motifs and variations and repetitions, 扔出去的harpoon都在某一刻正中目标。
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8月27日
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读过
Against Marriage
Clare的书,行文如其人:凝练、凌厉、切中要害。其中洞见让人眼前一亮,开拓了很大的想象空间。也在她marriage的proposal里找到我这些年来对relationship的反思的确证:她讲marriage不应该直接一捆子规定好duties and rights, 恰如relationship不该一捆子规定好obligations and commitments;两者都完全应该以更piecemeal的形式对待,更free,也更equal。
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8月23日
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Power and Freedom in the Space of Reasons
是朋友的书,给分generous一点 - 认识Tuomo是一起聊了几次Pitts people,后来才发现他主业是福柯。书里的想法很好,但很少;把Sellars Brandom对rule-following的solution拿来parallel福柯其实很有启发;但总共就那么两三个idea,车轱辘转,文如其人一样慢吞吞,竟也转出一本书来。
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8月20日
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读过
Death in Venice
Aschenbach, the ash river: all the discipline, self-mastery, ‘a closed fist always’, burnt up into ashes at the sight of beauty. (To say beauty is truth and stop, rather than to eat it.) Who ever wants soberness in intoxication? One only wants soberness in soberness. (九月要去威尼斯啦!)
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