4451moanaJun 11, 20222 min readDao De Jing: The Book of the Way (book review) Lao Tzu if you like this review, i now have website: www.michaelkamakana.com 220611: this is probably the most academically accurate of the...
4451moanaMar 23, 20222 min readThe Man in the High Castle (book review) Philip K. Dick 220315: 6th review. just cannot help rereading this, though not much new to add, except maybe it is more convincing that life in...
4451moanaFeb 25, 20223 min readBergson’s Philosophy of Self-Overcoming (book review) Messay KebedeThinking without Negativity or Time as Striving 220225: i should not be surprised that reading this text is challenging, dense,...
4451moanaJan 25, 20222 min readDeleuze, Bergson, Merleau-Ponty (book review) Dorothea E Olkowski The Logic and Pragmatics of Creation, Affective Life, and Perception 220124: three of my favourite philosophers, so it is no surprise...
4451moanaJan 17, 20222 min readExtinction: A Novel (book review) Thomas Bernhard 220114: having read a few austrian novels, several jelinek, in particular [book:The Piano Teacher|764953], i have general idea that it is...
4451moanaDec 29, 20214 min read2021 on Goodreads by Various 211227: not quite the end of the year but not likely to read much more. big decision this year was that when i reached an arbitrary...
4451moanaDec 27, 20211 min readTranscendental Ontology (book review) Markus Gabriel Essays in German Idealism 040816: q: why did i buy this? a: well, um, i liked the promise of the title? transcendental, that's kant....
4451moanaDec 27, 20213 min readBecoming God (book review) Patrick Lee Miller Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy 160617: another fascinating brief philosophy text, this summarizing the early greek philosophers...
4451moanaDec 21, 20219 min readHenri Bergson: Key Writings (book review) Henri Bergson (Athlone Contemporary European Thinkers) 201111: have now read [book:Creative Evolution|379659] and can see how it is controversial in...
4451moanaDec 18, 20211 min readOn looking at Simone Elizabeth Saunder's work at Calgary Contemporary Art GalleryI do not know Simone, have never before seen her work, know no history of it, all I can say is that her work is powerful, vibrant, large...
4451moanaDec 16, 20213 min readDeath's End (book review) Liu Cixin (Remembrance of Earth’s Past #3) 090917: i am definitely in a gr minority (this is new?). for me this 'three body trilogy' has become...
4451moanaDec 14, 202112 min readMerleau-Ponty's Ontology (book review) M.C. Dillon 190917 this is a much much later addition (four years): decided to read again 260917 well i have read it again. faster, longer sections,...
4451moanaDec 9, 20212 min readThe Awakening of Intelligence (book review) Jiddu Krishnamurti 211208: maybe not five because it becomes repetitive. when he is on, he is great. i might prefer [book:Freedom from the Known|143877] as...
4451moanaDec 5, 20211 min readThe Song of Achilles (book review) Madeline Miller 240410: this was an easy, quick read, that i had thought was simply a historical novel at the beginning, that i had to rethink what i had...
4451moanaDec 4, 20211 min readParis in the Twentieth Century (book review) Jules Verne 210125: have to up the rating from three, as it persists in melancholy way. this is not Jules Verne as science fiction/engineering...
4451moanaDec 4, 20211 min readFurari (book review) Jirō Taniguchi (Creator)241019: this is very like ‘walking man’ by taniguchi https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/684533.The_Walking_Man but set in shogunate edo....
4451moanaDec 3, 20211 min readThree Day Road (book review) Joseph Boyden 030811: powerful story weaving together the madness of civilization destroying itself by war, and the end of a way of life, beautifully...
4451moanaNov 29, 20211 min readThe Unicorn (book review) Iris Murdochi have not read much gothic(45), so i do not know how it uses gothic structures beyond the obvious: castle, sublime isolation, dangerous...
4451moanaNov 23, 20214 min readBleak House (book review) Charles Dickens 130117: this is a later later addition: as a reading project i have read several dickens this year, as follows: this is a later addition:...
4451moanaNov 22, 20213 min readAnalytic Philosophy (book review) Aaron Preston The History of an Illusion 100818: i do not know if this is a five- let alone on a sort of philosophy i do not much read (analytic) but...