Porno For Book Geeks

Josh Glenn has the ultimate book porn in his Flickr stream: a luscious photograph of all a few volumes in Verso‘s Radical Thinkers series, their shiny silver covers lined up neatly, their titles redolent of postmodern authority. Mmmmmmm, Zizek snuggled right up next to Baudrillard, Williams, Althusser and Adorno! Sounds like a hot afternoon of […]

Bookporno

Josh Glenn has the ultimate book porn in his Flickr stream: a luscious photograph of all a few volumes in Verso's Radical Thinkers series, their shiny silver covers lined up neatly, their titles redolent of postmodern authority. Mmmmmmm, Zizek snuggled right up next to Baudrillard, Williams, Althusser and Adorno! Sounds like a hot afternoon of antiauthoritarian media consumption! Missing, of course, are Butler, Arendt and Goldman. But I'm sure those are coming soon.

This seems like the logical extension of the recent trend where people use LibraryThing as a dating service. You can judge a person by her book collection. Especially a shiny silver one!