cylinder: rec me nonfiction pls?

cylinder 01.19.25	i need to learn EVERYTHING
Bazman 01.19.25	The Wager Born to Run (book on the origins of running) Consider This - Chuck Palahniuk
Hyperion1001 01.19.25	https://www.amazon.com/K-punk-Collected-Unpublished-Writings-Fisher/dp/191224828X?dplnkId=4a8de708-ed63-4df2-b940-76c5bedd0c54&nodl=1 essential reading
cylinder 01.19.25	can you note the authors too pls
Hyperion1001 01.19.25	sure that’s mark fisher.
CugnoBrasso 01.19.25	Mark Fisher is great, Capitalist Realism shaped my world view, but you do need some familiarity with political lexicon.
Hawks 01.19.25	I read 0 nonfiction damn I should probably change that lmao.
Hyperion1001 01.19.25	what’s why I recommended the k-punk collection first. his writing on music is equally as potent as his political commentary and it’s a really good intro to his way of thinking.
artificialbox 01.19.25	no Hawks stay with me in fictionworld
Calc 01.19.25	I'm veerrry slowly reading the warmth of other suns by isabel wilkerson.
YoYoMancuso 01.19.25	michael jackson - thriller
cylinder 01.19.25	lol
AnimalForce1 01.19.25	I have, like, a single nonfiction book about the history of TSR that I'm slowly working through LMAO
DocSportello 01.19.25	Jean Baudrillard - The Gulf War Did Not Take Place Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space James Baldwin - The Devil Finds Work Marvin Harris - Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture Carl Sagan - The Dragons of Eden Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire Jean-Paul Sartre - Anti-Semite and Jew A few I’ve quite enjoyed : )
AnimalForce1 01.19.25	@DocSportello, what's the Sartre one about? The title got my curiosity piqued
DocSportello 01.19.25	It is a striking and imperfect (what isn’t?) analysis of irrational hatred. “Anti-Semitism is a free and total choice of oneself, a comprehensive attitude that one adopts not only toward Jews but toward men in general, toward history and society; it is at one and the same time a passion and a conception of the world.” I cannot call myself a great fan of Sartre but I did find his insights here very helpful, not only for understanding the history of anti-Semitic logic but also for understanding the various forms of racism and exclusion that have taken place quite close to home, that I have seen happening to others. Hope this helps.
AnimalForce1 01.19.25	Helps quite a bit! I always find that stuff so interesting, especially antisemitism-related stuff since I'm Jewish. I'll probably give it a read sometime soon!
DocSportello 01.19.25	Nice, dude! It is very interesting, but also harrowing. I fear we, we collectively I mean, have become absorbed in fictions to unfathomable detriment.
GiaNXGX 01.19.25	had an awesome rec b can’t find it for the life of me
ToSmokMuzyki 01.19.25	your nearest physiology/chemistry/physics uni textbook, careful with biology tho they cant write for sh*t
FowlKrietzsche 01.19.25	Some very cool reccs in this thread, huge Mark Fisher nod and that Sartre piece is pertinent af Some recent non-fic faves: Aberration in the Heartland of the Real - Wendy Painting imperial life in the emerald city - Rajiv Chandrasekaran SPQR - Mary Beard Faith of a Heretic - Walter Kaufmann Jesus and John Wayne - Kristin Kobes Du Mez How Jesus Became God - Bart Ehrman The Dawn of Everything - David Graeber and David Wengrow
efp123 01.20.25	the looming tower
Squiggly 01.20.25	Reading Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter rn. It’s a bit loony but also mind blowing. My favorite kind of writing. Also anything by Malcolm Gladwell is essential.
budgie 01.20.25	mix of 19th and 20th century: sean mirski - we may dominate the world (american geopolitical history) mark mazower - dark continent (europe from end of ww1 to soviet collapse) mark mazower - hitler's empire (makes fun of nazis) tooze - wages of destruction (makes fun of nazis) max hastings - inferno (big tome of accounts of ww2, interesting but very editorialized) tim wu - the curse of bigness (history of antitrust in the US) daniel imerwahr - how to hide an empire (american geopolitical history, mirski's is better) tony judt - postwar (europe after ww2(and a bit during)) david harvey - brief history of neoliberalism william blum - killing hope (american geopolitics, extremely critical, for the unashamed leftist audience) richard henry dana jr - two years before the mast (account of an american seaman ca. 1830s) dominik - kaiser's reluctant conscript (posthumously published journal of an alsatian who was forced to fight for the prussians in ww1) older world: georges duby - the three orders: medieval society (knights) goldsworthy - the punic wars goldsworthy - pax romana anthony everitt - cicero peter heather - fall of the roman empire david anthony - horse, wheel, language (reviews the indo european origins that shaped basically the west and some of the east) mallory - in search of the indo-europeans (same as above) delbruck - warfare in antiquity VOL 1 - (cool logistical overview of much of caesar's campaigns, a little nationalistic when it comes to ariovistus' germans) jones - pagan history of europe (super interesting if you think pagan cults are cool, covers late antiquity) geary - myth of nations (refreshing analysis of early middle ages that doesnt project nationalist tones on the peoples) all absolutely worth reading but if its overwhelming i'd just put dark continent, postwar, & punic wars at the very top
DocSportello 01.20.25	omg budgie how have I never detected this obscenely well-read side of you before?
DocSportello 01.20.25	I have so much to learn!
Hawks 01.20.25	Very impressive Budg.
budgie 01.20.25	its a music website bro im just here to shitpost and listen to black metal
ToSmokMuzyki 01.20.25	sputnikbooks.com
Zac124 01.20.25	Check The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus if your into philosophy and existentialism/absurdism.
cylinder 01.20.25	soooo much interesting looking stuff here. thank you everyone. will def be hitting up the library this week
kildare 01.20.25	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
CugnoBrasso 01.20.25	"How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney is an eye-opening read.
botb 01.20.25	Have you read the Bible? Hello It’s the son of god Will you answer his call
ToSmokMuzyki 01.20.25	have u read the title
cylinder 01.20.25	haha nice