Comments on: on books http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html making connections where none previously existed Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sascha brossmann http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html/comment-page-1#comment-12018 sascha brossmann Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:52:36 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html#comment-12018 erm... i meant to address nick, actually, not jeremy. the divider lines are confusing, they should be positioned between different posts, not between post and poster. erm… i meant to address nick, actually, not jeremy. the divider lines are confusing, they should be positioned between different posts, not between post and poster.

]]> By: sascha brossmann http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html/comment-page-1#comment-12017 sascha brossmann Sat, 05 Nov 2005 13:03:27 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html#comment-12017 there has already(?) been a more than readable book on this phenomenon and similar ones: pfaller, robert (ed): interpassivitaet. studien ueber delegiertes geniessen, wien/new york (springer), 2000, ISBN 321183303X. unfortunately, afaik there is no english edition, but some translations of the contained essays can be found on the net, e.g. the one by slavoj zizek (www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-the-interpassive-subject.html). have fun. ;-) @jeremy:i can assure you that this phenomenon exists in europe quite as well... (sadly, also in respect to the public library fundings) there has already(?) been a more than readable book on this phenomenon and similar ones: pfaller, robert (ed): interpassivitaet. studien ueber delegiertes geniessen, wien/new york (springer), 2000, ISBN 321183303X.

unfortunately, afaik there is no english edition, but some translations of the contained essays can be found on the net, e.g. the one by slavoj zizek (www.egs.edu/faculty/zizek/zizek-the-interpassive-subject.html). have fun. ;-)

@jeremy:i can assure you that this phenomenon exists in europe quite as well… (sadly, also in respect to the public library fundings)

]]> By: ario http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html/comment-page-1#comment-12016 ario Wed, 02 Nov 2005 01:00:43 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html#comment-12016 Wow, that is so right on the money. I definitely find myself guilty of such behavior. Wow, that is so right on the money. I definitely find myself guilty of such behavior.

]]> By: Nick Douglas http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html/comment-page-1#comment-12015 Nick Douglas Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:20:40 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html#comment-12015 My friend Cole and I were talking about the American tendency to consume vs. the European tendency to experience. Could this be a reason for the decreased public funding of American libraries -- the feeling that now that everyone can buy books, no one needs to borrow? My friend Cole and I were talking about the American tendency to consume vs. the European tendency to experience. Could this be a reason for the decreased public funding of American libraries — the feeling that now that everyone can buy books, no one needs to borrow?

]]> By: jeremy hunsinger http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html/comment-page-1#comment-12014 jeremy hunsinger Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:36:06 +0000 http://ubuntu.my/wp30/archives/2005/11/01/on_books.html#comment-12014 But unread books promise a future, full of reading, but... still a future. But unread books promise a future, full of reading, but… still a future.

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