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Dear <<empyreans>>,<br>
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reading and why:<br>
<br>
Daniel Colucciello Barber's <i><span class="st">Deleuze and the
Naming of God: Post-<wbr>Secularism and the Future of Immanence
</span></i><span class="st">- for arguing for immanence in this
world</span><br>
<br>
Daniel Colucciello Barber, Alexander Galloway, Nicola Masiandro and
Eugene Thacker's <i>Dark Nights of the Universe</i> (with Francois
Laruelle's "Black Universe" ("<i>Du Noir Univers</i>") essay) - for
its commitment to do-it-yourself thinking<br>
<br>
Gilles Deleuze's <i>Cinema 2</i> - for its political imagination<br>
<br>
Charles Dickens' <i>A Tale of Two Cities</i> - for writing<br>
<br>
Roberto Esposito's <i>The Third Person: Politics of Life and
Philosophy of the Impersonal</i> - for not having to be read to be
understood<br>
<br>
Michel Houellebecq's <i>Submission</i> - for a symptomatology that
strays into philosophy<br>
<br>
<span data-ved="0ahUKEwj29pe3zbrNAhUMn5QKHQYLBMMQ2koIigEoAjAR">Karl
Ove Knausgård's <i>Boyhood Island </i>- for assassinating style
(here's <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/26/karl-ove-knausgaard-the-shame-of-writing-about-myself">something</a>)<br>
</span><br>
László Krasznahorkai's <i>Destruction and Sorrow beneath the
Heavens</i> - for visiting China<br>
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Alphonso Lingis's <i>The Imperative</i> - for straying outside
philosophy, an ethical or ethological itinerary<br>
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Michael Peppiatt's <i>Francis Bacon in Your Blood: A Memoir</i> -
for visiting old friends, may their impeccable appetites and
extravagant manners save us from serious people<br>
<br>
Larry Siedentop's <i>Inventing the Individual: The Origins of
Western Liberalism</i> - for its serendipity<br>
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Best,<br>
Simon Taylor<br>
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