“Animal Money” by Michael Cisco

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Published by Lazy Fascist Press

Paperback, 780 pages

ISBN: 1621052125

Goodreads: https://bit.ly/3oog8gM

Storygraph: https://bit.ly/3LbNtW0

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Video – YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooayiZ9AYis&ab_channel=WASTEMailingList)

Text – SubStack (https://wastemailinglist.substack.com/p/animal-money-book-review)

Sections

00:00 Intro

00:57 Gratitude, Updates, Plans

03:38 Finding Animal Money

05:30 Who the Hell is Michael Cisco?

07:33 Lazy Fascist Press

09:41 Outline and Structure

11:46 Plot…?

17:47 (In)visible Hands

20:35 Economic Mysticism

26:07 /r/AntiWork, A Novel Reading of Animal Money

31:15 Genre & Influence

38:16 Cover Art

40:01 The Human Cost

46:00 You Owe Me a Bird

51:25 End Notes

Readings from p. 16, 20, 27, 105, 110, 111, 114, 115, 171, 483, 502, 536, 537, 635, 765, 770

Secondary Resources:

1. Michael Cisco – Biography: https://bit.ly/3GwPJDQ

2. Introduction to The DivinityStudent: https://bit.ly/3GwPJDQ

3. Michael Cisco – Bibliography: https://bit.ly/3grmfN1

4. Michael Cisco on Kafka’s Kurau Aphorisms: https://bit.ly/3rqjRfH

5. Farewell to Lazy Fascist Press: https://bit.ly/3skxLzh

6. Invisible Hand: https://bit.ly/3rwEQxE

7. Economic Mysticism - Why People Believe […]: https://bit.ly/3gouzwY

8. AntiWork: https://bit.ly/3uBNsoi

9. An Interview with Michael Cisco: https://bit.ly/3LbGQTI

10. Weird Fiction Review Interview: https://bit.ly/3gruFE1

11. Lazy Fascist Press announces “Animal Money”: https://bit.ly/3Hw9DQJ

12. Mat Brown – “Anthropic History”: https://arthur.io/art/mat-brown/anthropic-history?crtr=1

13. Toribio Romo González: https://bit.ly/3B2X10I

14. Shunryū Suzuki: https://bit.ly/3otipHE

15. The Zen Predator of the Upper East Side: https://bit.ly/3uuATLF

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Music: “I Hate That” by ThisKidsNoGood (https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisKidsNoGood)