- This does not contain every book I've ever read. I don't remember most of them. It's more like, every book I've read in the last few years, plus some I happened to remember from a long time ago.
- There is no order or categorization other than completed/unfinished, because I don't remember the order I read everything, and sorting was too much work. I think I will update by adding new books to the top.
- I am only considering written text, so no manga. Longform essays and articles and other dubious not-technically-books may or may not be included.
- FNaF books are in this txt file instead.
- I don't have a completely consistent cutoff for how deeply I must have read into a book for it to get in the "Unfinished" category, but I've excluded some books I've only read a few pages of. There are some listed that I haven't read very far at all, and some I've read more than 90% of. The average is probably something like 3 chapters.
Completed:
- Inadequate Equilibria
- Spacetime algebra as a powerful tool for electromagnetism
- Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
- That Was Then, This is Now: An Introduction to Contemporary Psychodynamic Therapy
- The Triflers
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
- A Brief History of Time
- Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory: The Theoretical Minimum
- Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum
- Complexity: A Guided Tour
- Story of the Eye
- Introduction to Systems Theory (Luhmann)
- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years
- Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
- The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future
- Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
- The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption
- General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications (Bertalanffy)
- Xenology: An Introduction to the Scientific Study of Extraterrestrial Life, Intelligence, and Civilization
Short guide to normified psychoanalysis.
Book by edgy youtuber Mumkey Jones, PCP-adjacent back when there was a PCP to be adjacent to. I liked it. Shock value and edgy cringe and a school shooting depicted as pathetic rather than glamorous.
I liked it when I read it as a kid but I don't remember it very well. Angela Collier's video has given me more negative feelings toward it and Feynman in general since then.
Largely boring I think, but there was one chapter about human noticeability from space I remember liking.
Canonical popphys slop.
Frantic, sexual, gross, exciting.
Really liked it in the beginning but got increasingly tired of it as I progressed. It kind of feels like Luhmann is using Scotch tape to stick together his surface-level understanding of a million complex subjects. (Obviously hard to say considering my own understandings are no better, though I've heard similar accounts from others.) I never felt like I got a good grasp on his system; I became more familiar but it never really all clicked together.
.......yeah..........
Very nice characterization of economic activity from a zoomed-out, loosely thermodynamic perspective.
Broad explorations swirling around an illusory foundation for GST. I really liked it, though it doesn't actually seem very good as a foundation for a discipline? Most of the good stuff is zoomed through pretty early on, when he derives a bunch of simple laws from basic fourier series.
Unfinished:
- Permutation City
- Neoreaction a Basilisk: Essays on and Around the Alt-Right
- Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism
- Introduction to Elementary Particles (Griffiths)
- System and Structure: Essays in Communication and Exchange (Wilden)
- Autopoiesis and Cognition: The Realization of the Living
- Luhmann Explained: From Souls to Systems
- Brain of the Firm
- Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
- Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity (Sean Carroll)
- Fanged Noumena
- An Introduction to Cybernetics (Ashby)
- Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories
- The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- Mindfulness in Plain English
- Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities
- Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Laws of Form
- Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications (Zettili)
- Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
- The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis
- Cute Accelerationism
- Beautiful Fighting Girl
- Ccru: Writings 1997-2003
- Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity
- The Sublime Object of Ideology
- The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance
- Clifford Algebra to Geometric Calculus: A Unified Language for Mathematics and Physics
- Physics From Symmetry
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
- Diagrammatic Immanence: Category Theory and Philosophy
- Capitalism's Transcendental Time Machine
- Cognitive Science: An Introduction to the Science of the Mind
- Difference and Repetition
- Bergsonism
- The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
- Lolita
- House of Leaves
- Topoi: The Categorial Analysis of Logic
- Neuromancer
- The Second Sex
- Deleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus': A Reader's Guide (Ian Buchanan)
- Introduction to Electrodynamics (Griffiths)
- Classical Electrodynamics (Jackson)
- The Classical Theory of Fields (Landau & Lifshitz)
- Quantum Field Theory (Tong)
- Structural Anthropology
- The Posthuman (Braidotti)
- Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus: Introduction to Schizoanalysis (Holland)
- Negotiations 1972-1990 (D&G)
- The Intentional Stance
- An Introduction to Symbolic Logic (Langer)
- The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love
- A Field Guide to Earthlings: An Autistic/Asperger View of Neurotypical Behavior
- Guattari Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari's Major Writings
- Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (Somers-Hall)
- Symbolism, its Meaning and Effect
- On the Genealogy of Morals
- The Mental and the Material
- Rationality: From AI to Zombies
- Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1
- Deleuze and Queer Theory
- The Age of Diagnosis: How Our Obsession with Medical Labels Is Making Us Sicker
- Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
- The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy; Volume II. The History of Eroticism and Volume III. Sovereignty
- Geometric Algebra for Physicists
I only read the introduction, but this seems interesting so I want to come back to it.
Read 1/4 of this with no prerequisite knowledge and enjoyed at first, but got increasingly annoyed as they kept whining about psychoanalysis without explaining their own system in a way I could understand. I've since studied around the book a lot, but haven't fully come back to it beyond the first few chapters.
Will come back when I'm in the mood.
Some fun stuff.
Nice exploration of the state-space framework. Didn't read into part 2 much but it looks like that's where he gets into requisite variety stuff.
Too tediously hand-holdy for my patience but it does effectively teach the material in a very accessible way.
It was funny when it randomly started talking about psychic powers.
Did not like the writing style.
I guess this book has been influential to the point of being integrated into common knowledge, because it mostly was just things I consider obvious. Not that there wasn't any insight to be found in having it all laid out with examples.
I get the basic idea of distinction preceding logic but I don't understand how the calculus emerges from that, or what it's good for.
Just a basic good textbook so far.
Very difficult but also very fun. Guattari seems extremely based.
Cute shitpost.
(It's a cult.)
Sad.
Pretty interesting.
Over my head but vaguely interesting.
Reading on LessWrong. Is good.
The ableism is merely concealed.