culture ⁽⁵⁾

Writers on culture, society, and other outcomes of thw worlding urge

In my late twenties my reading moved to include more non-fiction. By my forties there was very little fiction, even if this is still more than most people read… I read a lot. So before my third decade I would wander the State Library of Tasmania’s reference section and browse and sit and read. Soon I would be expecting babies…

This follows on from reaction 1 to Peter L. Berger : meaning is a lazy ritual. There's no introduction here and ends up way more anti-clerical than I had imagined. We start from about page 35 of: Cultural Analysis : the work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986) which…

Books I've ordered are arriving, and as is traditional, they arrive in order of least desperately wanted first. So, the first is a general introduction to four writers on culture, which came out when I was 21 years old. Back then I was reading Stirner and anarchist SF. Cultural Analysis : the work of Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel…

Once upon a time in the beginning was the word and everything was the text. A sublime mechanick whose logicks, predicated on magicks, preyed on our prayers. But… —if, as I have been saying, much of what we do and name, and seek cause for, are outcomes of an urge we do not name, but just live wordlessly, then when…