[lbo-talk] popularizing philosophy

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Mon Aug 29 08:11:30 PDT 2011



>> But if you wrote that book on the colon, I might find a way to assign
>> it. :)
>
> How about this?
>
> http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3835

My friend wrote this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Re-Search-Guide-Bodily-Fluids/dp/1890451045

(from BookList, via Amazon):

For popular culture mavens, there is really no substitute

for the RE/Search series of guides and homages to various

strange and wonderful components of the contemporary scene.

In this volume, the subject is bodily fluids; fortunately

(?) fluidity is not necessarily the same as liquidity here,

as such chapter headings as "Feces," "Flatus," "Vomit," etc.,

attest. Lest the faint-of-stomach find these terms repellent,

it must be noted that Spinrad's treatment of these subjects

is detached and tasteful, so far as that is possible. Like

previous RE/Search volumes (Incredibly Strange Music and

Incredibly Strange Films, for instance), the book is both

entertaining and informative. There is really no other place

to find information on excreta in medicine and a biography

of Thomas Crapper under the same cover with data from surveys

of various personal excretory habits and a brief life of

Joseph Pujol, the "Fartiste." The appended publications list

and survey methodology and questionnaire comprise the icing

on this, uh, cake. Mike Tribby



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