“The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills.” – Ray Bradbury
The leaves have finally settled on the forest floor, transitioning from the time of summer sunlight, to the deep set chill that winter brings. Autumn is always a time of transition, a time of introspection, a time of cycling down for the deep hibernation to come. I feel like this season has forced me to do a lot of processing, questioning, and paring down recently. From cutting out Instagram to minimizing my use of technology. It’s been a long journey from having a mind that felt jumbled with an overabundance of dopamine and a need for constant surface level input to one where I can finally see technological devices as tools again.
I’m still working on rebuilding my reading habit. I start and stop, I can’t focus for more than a few pages. But it’s getting better and it’s lead me to crave deeper levels of knowledge and to want to explore more purposefully the links that interconnect topics. Below, you’ll see a lot of books I’m currently reading. I’m cycling through them. Some days I’m slower than usual because I’ve gone back to a previous chapter to write up literature notes. Other days, I’m furiously arguing with the author in the margins of the page. It’s a conversation now instead of speed reading contest. It’s an education as I type of the notes in Obsidian and connect various ideas. It’s a springboard as I jot down questions for future research and posts. Each day is a deliberate act in rewiring my brain against the constant stream of advertising and social media. Each day is an attempt to recreate and reinvent the self.
Links:
- Writing Rituals of Octavia E Butler
- Organizing a polymath life
- How I’m becoming a Polymath
- Nosferatu’s Contracts: A Linguistic Deepdive
- Nosferatu 2024
- Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and the Death of Ambiguity
- Matin d’Octobre – Fracois Coppee
- an academic with no institution
- Writing Rituals of Jane Austen
Reads:
- ‘Killing The Dead: Vampire Epidemics From Mesopotamia To The New World’ John Blair
- ‘Sonnets to Orpheus’ Rainer Maria Rilke
- ‘Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell’ Susannah Clarke
- ‘Ecological Feelings’ Joshua Trey Barnett
- ‘Eco-emotions and Psychoterratic Syndromes: Reshaping Mental Health Assessment Under Climate Change’
- ‘What Makes “A New Mental Illness?”: The Cases Of Solastalgia And Hubris Syndrome’ Seamus P. MacSuibhne
- ‘Solastalgia’ A New Concept in Health and Identity’ Glen Albrecht
- ‘Solastalgia: the distress caused by environmental change’
- ‘The Voice of the Earth’ Theodore Roszak
- ‘Living Matter: Seeking New Physics In The Biological World’ Alex J. Levine