#Kagge

[accuratepicuresofanthropologists]

Erika Fatland studies anthropology at the University of Oslo and is now a travel writer who has produced very interesting looking books about Russian Central Asia. Via Kagge

[canesenzafissadimora]

Cercare il silenzio. Non per voltare le spalle al mondo, ma per osservarlo e capirlo. Perché il silenzio non è un vuoto inquietante ma l'ascolto dei suoni interiori che abbiamo sopito.

[feralchaton]

"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting."

Milan Kundera | Slowness

[ahosia3]

(...) radość z drobnych rzeczy. Docenianie jedzenia, kiedy wygodnialem po długim dniu. Słuchanie i dostrzeganie niuansow, na które zwykle nie zwracam uwagi. Odkrywanie nowych myśli i idei. Spokój. Łowienie małych rybek. Jedzenie małymi kęsami.

Pozwól światu zniknąć, kiedy w niego wchodzisz. Wsłuchiwanie się jest poszukaniem nowych możliwości, poszukiwaniem nowych wyzwań. Najważniejszą książka jaką możesz przeczytac, jest ta o Tobie samym.

~Erling Kagge:"Cisza. Opowieść o tym, dlaczego straciliśmy umiejętność przebywania w ciszy i jak ją odzyskać"

[pejmurdee]

Konfor dürtüsüyle sadece nahoş deneyimlerden kaçınmıyoruz, aynı zamanda pek çok iyi deneyimden mahrum kalıyoruz.

Yürümek Adım Adım - Erling Kagge

[juliaitp]

To be an explorer is not something you become; it is something you are when you are born. Nobody starts to climb, or to wonder what's hidden deep in the oceans; it is a natural state of mind. But if you are not careful in your daily life, you will quit early on. Years of school, parents' expectations and society's demands slowly grind your original spirit apart and you eventually start to behave in a civilized way.  It can feel both unpleasant and somewhat risky to explore the world. But perhaps it's even more risky to do nothing. What you will regret in times to come are the chances you didn't take, the initiative you didn't show, what you didn't do. If you say it's impossible and I say it's possible, we're probably both right.

Erling Kagge. Mapping it Out

[dipnotski]

Erling Kagge – Bir Kâşifin Felsefesi (2023)

Son derece zorlu koşullarda hayatta kalmak, tatmin edici bir yaşam sürmek için öğretilerle doludur. Bunu “Üç Kutba” da (Kuzey Kutbu, Güney Kutbu ve Everest Zirvesi) yürüyerek ulaşan ilk kâşif olan Erling Kagge’den daha iyi kimse bilemez. Kagge son derece akıcı ve samimi bir dille kaleme aldığı kitabı ‘Bir Kâşifin Felsefesi’nde, onu dünyanın ve insan dayanıklılığının sınırlarına götüren keşif…

[to-the-manner-born]

Silence in the age of noise

[acidchicken]

Daniel Troberg - Trans Pacific Acid EP on Digital and Vinyl with remixes from Dataline, Kagg, Annika Wolfe, Pepe Mogt, Tilliander, Ramón Amezcua.

[neoneun-au]

A post for my book recommendations, to be continuously updated as I read and remember more. Because without reading, I would not be writing. 

All time favourites are marked with a ☆

All are sorted by genre and will be linked (if able) to their Goodreads pages so that you can dig deeper into whatever catches your eye.

(ps if you have a Goodreads account, you can add me here)

Anthology/Short Story Collections

Behold This Dreamer - Walter de la Mare ☆

Love Letters of Great Men - Ursula Doyle

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories - Ken Liu

The Elephant Vanishes - Haruki Murakami

Essays

Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay ☆

Bluets - Maggie Nelson ☆

On Freedom - Maggie Nelson

In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

Malleable Forms - Meeka Walsh ☆

Fiction (Classic)

Persuasion - Jane Austen ☆

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Awakening - Kate Chopin

North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell ☆

Siddhartha - Hermen Hesse

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera ☆

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Fiction (Modern)

All’s Well - Mona Awad ☆

Bunny - Mona Awad

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

The Pisces - Melissa Broder

White Oleander - Janet Finch

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Vegetarian - Han Kang

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova ☆

Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Road - Cormac McCarthy ☆

Under the Hawthorne Tree - Ai Mi

The Song of Achilles - Madeleine Miller ☆

After Dark - Haruki Murakami ☆

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage - Haruki Murakami

1Q84 - Haruki Murakami ☆

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Boy, Snow, Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Mr. Fox - Helen Oyeyemi ☆

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki

The Overstory - Richard Powers ☆

The Godfather - Mario Puzo

Blindness - José Saramago

How To Be Both - Ali Smith

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ☆

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

Ru - Kim Thúy

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín

Big Fish - Daniel Wallace

Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto

Horror/Thriller

The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty

Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton

Gerald’s Game - Stephen King

The Shining - Stephen King

Audition - Ryū Murakami

I’m Thinking of Ending Things - Iain Reid

Manga/Graphic Novels

Basilisk - Futaro Yamada, Maseki Sagawa

Death Note - Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata

Eureka Seven - Jinsei Kataoka, Kazuma Kondou

Nana - Ai Yazawa ☆

Paradise Kiss - Ai Yazawa

Uzumaki - Junji Ito

xxxHolic - CLAMP

Memoirs/Journals

Everything I Know About Love - Dolly Alderton

Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books - Azar Nafisi

Henry and June - Anaïs Nin ☆

The Glass Castle - Jeanette Walls ☆

Non-Fiction (General)

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking - Susan Cain

The Red Market - Scott Carney

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern - Stephen Greenblatt

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right - Jane Mayer

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

The Elements of Style - William Strunk Jr, E.B White

Non-Fiction (Philosophy/Spiritual)

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge - Carlos Castañeda

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Erling Kagge ☆

The Kybalion - Three Initiates ☆

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo - Chögyam Trungpa

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

Plays

The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Poetry Collections

I Love My Love - Reyna Biddy

Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen

The Prophet - Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy of Being - Shinji Moon

The Beauty of the Husband - Anne Carson ☆

Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Night Sky with Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

Speculative Fiction

Dune - Frank Herbert

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel ☆

Battle Royale - Koushun Takami

True Crime

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders - Vincent Bugliosi

In Cold Blood - Truman Capote ☆

Young Adult

A Great and Terrible Beauty - Libba Bray ☆

The Diviners - Libba Bray

The Sun is Also a Star - Nicola Yoon

[viktorbezic]

Please try to be ahead of your own taste. Quality comes with simple, unpremeditated beauty.

- Erling Kagge

[canesenzafissadimora]

Ciò di cui ci pentiremo con il passare del tempo sono le possibilità ignorate.

[feralchaton]

"It is completely possible but, when considered with our conventional calculations, extremely unlikely. Philosophically, there is a chasm between the impossible and the fantastically unlikely...Every now and then, the unimaginable happens to us. " - Arne Næss

[ahosia3]

Rozmowa i słuchanie muzyki potrafią otwierać drzwi, lecz mogą ale również te same drzwi zamykać przed tym, co istotne. Jeśli ukochana osoba nie rozumie cię, kiedy milczysz, to może jeszcze trudniej jest jej cię pojąć, kiedy mówisz? Sądzę, że właśnie taki jest.

~Erling Kagge:"Cisza. Opowieść o tym, dlaczego straciliśmy umiejętność przebywania w ciszy i jak ją odzyskać"

[pejmurdee]

“Bir yerden bir yere sekiz saat yerine iki saatte gittiğinizde zamandan tasarruf etmiş olursunuz. Hesap kitap açısından doğru olsa da benim deneyimim tam terisini gösteriyor: Yolculuk hızını artırdığımda zaman da daha hızlı geçiyor. Hızım ve zaman birbirine paralel ivmelenmiyor.”

Yürümek Adım Adım - Erling Kagge