Přečetl jsem
Musím hodně číst. A když už musím přečíst hodně médií a článků, tak se snažím to proložit knihami, hlavně non fikcí, komiksy a horory. Základní zápisky si vedu až posledních pár let a najdete je na Goodreads, tady najdete moje delší úvahy a shrnutí o knížkách.
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Books in December 2025
December! Time of celebrations, cats, the very special retreat with my closest people and other shenanigans. And of course, books. Many trains to take while visiting relatives, many books to read. And many of them were exceptional. Burial Tide, Lovesickness and Corn Maiden were absolutely captivating horrors. Economica and Doppelganger were excellent nonfiction books with…
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Books in November 2025
Spent November partly on two episodes of honeymoon (Brno – Vienna – Mariánské Lázně), in Orlické hory, Hamburg and Norway, parts for work, parts for fun. That means plenty of time to read while travelling and longer reflections on books, especially the Caliban and the Witch. The thumbnail for the month comes from Norway. Giuffre’s memoirs…
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Books in October 2025
October was special. Managed to run purges.rolling.cz in both Czech and international versions, do lots of work and well, got married, hopefully for the final time. Good point to realise how blessed I am. Banger of the month was certainly Project Hail Mary, loved that one (not really looking forward to the movie due to the…
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Books in September 2025
September was good to me. Reasonable amounts of work, starting of the Pirate Academy, prepping the wedding and passing some exams in my doctoral studies. Nothing to complain about, reasonable time to read. Decided to re-read some classics (Kesey, Foucault) and found a lot of new value there. Rereading is now officially good. The Archeology of Knowledge…
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Books in August 2025
I spent August teaching, vibing, working on a still secret project and most importantly: running 97 Poets of Revachol (poets.rolling.cz) again. And it was a great, even if tiring experience. Also, moving furniture around the hospital in Terezín meant that I managed to listen to quite a few books. The biggest surprise was Creative Historical thinking, the weirdest and…
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Books for June-July 2025
I spent June organising battles, running an intense experiential learning course with great people (https://exp.camp/) and, well, working. I read just two books in June – so connecting June with July seems logical. Even if big part of July was spent at pair.camp, instructing, learning, walking around English countryside, I managed to do _some_ reading. After some…
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Abundance – Yes, We Can for 2020s
Abundance, but for whom? I finished Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson with a slightly odd feeling: I liked it, I agreed with most of it, I even underlined a few passages — and I still don’t quite know who this book is actually for. Because if you’re already in the “progress is good, build things, let’s fix problems instead…
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Conspiracy Against Human Race
(cover of The Conspiracy Against The Human Race by Chris Mars) Thomas Ligotti’s The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (2010) occupies a singular space at the intersection of literary horror and philosophical pessimism. Subtitled A Contrivance of Horror, the work draws heavily on the thought of Peter Wessel Zapffe, Arthur Schopenhauer, Philipp Mainländer, and Emil Cioran,…
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Knižní shrnutí – květen 2025
Květen byl ve znamení příprav Bitvy pod Horou, uvádění Requiemu a poměrně intenzivní práce, včetně bezpečnostní konference v Kyjevě.Protože jsem ale při tom dost cestoval, stihl jsem i nějaké ty knihy. Největší banger? Asi Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts. Cenu za umělecký dojem a kontroverzi si odnáší Natasha’s Dance. Taky jsem napsal víc delších reflexí než obvykle, což je…