Aden Evens - Sound Ideas: Music, Machines, and Experience

What Is Populism? by Jan-Werner Muller

Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? - Ian Hacking
Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters - Jonathan Ladd

Robert McKee - Story

What makes a Hollywood baby more than its bathwater? Roll up, roll up...

Catherine Mills - The Philosophy of Agamben
Benjamin Noys - The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (rereading)

Baden, I used to teach scriptwriting in a department using the McKee model. It's like all good writing structures in my opinion: great to learn as long as you don't finally become a prisoner of it. Are you writing scripts yourself?

Scott Sehon, Free Will and Action Explanation: A Non-Causal, Compatibilist Account, OUP, 2016

George Ellis, How Can Physics Underlie the Mind: Top-Down Causation in the Human Context, Springer-Verlag, 2016

Andrea Kern, Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge, HUP, 2017

Baden, I used to teach scriptwriting in a department using the McKee model. It's like all good writing structures in my opinion: great to learn as long as you don't finally become a prisoner of it — mcdoodle

Yeah, I found it very interesting looking at movies through his theoretical lens. Also, helped me understand some things about my own writing in general.

Are you writing scripts yourself? — mcdoodle

Not yet, but thinking about it.

Daniel Heller-Roazen - The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

I have a decent memory. So what I do is read my memories. I'm too lazy to read books. If only I had photographic or eidetic memory I could read my memories, like a machine.

Edward Campbell - Music After Deleuze
Alessandro Ferrara - The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgement
Bonnie Honig - Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy

Democracy in America - Alexis De Tocqueville

Eleni Ikoniadou - The Rhythmic Event: Art, Media, and the Sonic
Paul Patton - Deleuze and the Political
Hannah Arendt - The Life of the Mind

Commonsense Consequentialism: Wherein Morality Meets Rationality by Douglas Portmore

Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Physics

Link: http://strangebeautiful.com/other-texts/batterman-ox-hndbk-phil-phys.pdf

The Gender Knot by Allan G. Johnson. Really good read.

http://community.mis.temple.edu/mis3504digitaldesignsections12/files/2015/01/Gender-Knot-Sample.pdf

All of Edgar Allen Poe's tales of horror and mystery.

The Reasons of Love, Harry G. Frankfurt

Frankfurt is one of my favorite philosophers as of recent. He presents a compelling case for treating love and more importantly self-love as the highest good.

Peeling Potatoes or Grinding Lenses: Spinoza and Young Wittgenstein Converse on Immanence and Its Logic by Aristides Baltas

Foam (Spheres vol. 3) - Peter Sloterdijk
Underworld - Don Delillo

Linda Zerilli - A Democratic Theory of Judgement

Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
Mistress of Mistresses - E. R. Eddison
Lud-in-the-Mist - Hope Mirrlees

In Between the Sheets - Ian McEwan
That Glimpse of Truth (Short Story Collection) - David Miller (Ed)

Both great - if you like short stories - the second in particular.

Just finished 'Le chair et le sang' (Flesh and Blood) by Francois Mauriac.
It was a difficult read, but rewarding towards the end. It captured the ambiguity and uncertainty of human relationships really well.

It felt somewhat Existentialist to me. But it was written in 1926, thus pre-dating Existentialism.

Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics - D. M. Armstrong
Analyticity - Cory Juhl & Eric Loomis

Griftopia - Matt Taibbi

“To sum it all up, the [Ayn] Rand belief system looks like this:
1. Facts are facts: things can be absolutely right or absolutely wrong, as determined by reason.
2. According to my reasoning, I am absolutely right.
3. Charity is immoral.
4. Pay for your own fucking schools.”

“The new America...is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose job is to be good actors on TV and put on a good show.”

Informative. Depressing.

3. Charity is immoral. — Baden

What the good Ms. Rand said was that charity wasn't a moral virtue, not that it was immoral. That is, you are under no obligation to give, and you're not considered good if you do give, but you are not actually immoral if you give. http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/charity.html

See what you did here? You started a conversation about Ayn Rand, just like she wanted you to.

Meh, she can't complain, she's dead.

She lives on through the seeds of kindness she sowed during her life.