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This is more whimsical than I imagined

Finished part 2. The dialogue between Kubi Takeo and Mrs Tsuda was the highlight for me. Compared to the first part, the tone feels a bit more ironic and comical. When I think about the clock with the Chinese zodiac on it in part 1, time seems to be something important in this novel. The descriptions seem to focus on the minutiae of particular moments that it feels like time in here is operating at microscopic scale.

第一章完成

Pt2 'revenge arc' 復讐編 is a vast improvement over pt1

Finally, a light read

Comparatively at least

Pretty good so far

Book of revelation type shit

Finished part 3

It got weirdly serene, like a Fosse novel

Finished pt2

Idk if i enjoy this or not. Nevertheless i feel compelled to see what's next. Madness

Oh god. OH GOD.

Sensed a big plot point coming so I decided I'd stop for now and finish it up tomorrow - but so far this has been very beautiful, making me feel really hard

Pg 206 - mention of autopoesis
Here is a fictional academic work that theorizes the possibility of a 'mind without life'
Not sure what this has to do with the story but it's super interesting and everything's been a page-turner so far

Kinda realizing that this has Donnie Darko vibes, both in the general mood and some of the strange esoteric stuff that's obliquely referenced here and there

Had this on my shelf for at least 2 or 3 years i think.. but after watching Weapons, I kinda got the feel for finally startibg it..

Well I guess I'm reading gore now

Up to ch2 - the way Muñoz takes up Derrida's hauntology reminds me of Mark Fisher, but I have yet to really read the latter in detail to understand the difference in the approaches here. Also reminds me of Harry Harootunian's rereading of Marx to think the relationship between past/present/future differently

don't feel like continuing this lol

it's interesting but also reading it is a bit of a pain, somehow

feel like right now I want to prioritize having more fun instead rather than going through the kind of sadomasochistic I used to put myself through

Incest

「…さきの恐怖にみあうほどの至福の思いが湧いて、かれは小便を洩らすほどであったのである」(46)

"Occultures" was pretty cool
"Qabbalah 101" goes kinda hard
But what kind of bullshit went into writing "Introduction to Qwernomics"

"Mechanomics" is such an incomprehensible pile of doodoo despite seeming to have something interesting to say about numbers

Ok uh I guess this is the fictional theory zone

"Meltdown" was a pretty lucid section but everything else was more like speculative stuff I guess

I liked this one line:
438 matter as the intensity of the circuit, not the adequacy of the representation

Ok, this is where he loses his mind

Circuitries: thinking schizophrenia with cybernetics
Machinic Desire: thinking with Freud's BPP
Cybergothic: thinking with cyberpunk fiction