Temporary Reminders: Recently Read

28 Dec, 2020

• Roadside Picnic (1972)

  Boris & Arkady Strugatsky

  Like the last book, most interested in the afterword that discusses publishing through a government that I really have no understanding of. The mechanisms of publishing, either through larger institutions or independently is something i'll have to spend more time meditating on. I wonder if it also makes sense to move somewhere just to see what it's like to produce things in a vastly differrent context.

  Humans are ants, it's ok, we have desire and morality.
  An interesting enough dichotomy to sustain centuries of inquiry.

18 Dec, 2020

• Our Films Their Films by Satyajit Ray (1977)

  Most interested in the essays towards the begining about the pragmatic aspects of producing films on limited budgets/looking for funding through government agencies. The essays on Chaplin, Kurasawa, Hitchcock, and John Ford in the 'their films' section were interesting/illiuminating, I've never watched any john ford but might've been convinced to.

09 Dec, 2020

• Shikasta 1979
  Doris Lessing

  She's a hero, check out this interview: 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLYbX3R9gls

  Everyone is stupid in it except for her.

04 Sep, 2020

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• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993)
  by Scott McCloud

  Wowow, i've been hooked recently, devouring every comic book mulch has been giving me. This was one that i've had on my radar since art school, it was referenced a lot in certain foundational design courses. I'm glad to have found it again, especially now, it seems to capture perfectly what my interest in design had been in the first place, to communicate and be understood.

  I like how functional everything feels in this, there is a ton of poetry to scott's understanding of how a comic 'works' but it never feels like he is grasping to produce affect that isn't (shouldn't) be there. The whole thing is also hopeful which is comforting right now.

03 Sep, 2020

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• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Part 3, orginally published in 1995)
  Hayao Miyazaki

02 Sep, 2020

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• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (perfect collection 1)

  Hayao Miyazaki

  ive never really had the patience for graphic novels but ironically have a good friend from college that makes comics. i've always admired animation and have seen the ways it has subtlety influenced my visual work. it's nice to find something that i consumed so quickly. the story is beautiful, far surpassing the animated version imo. excited for the next parts.

23 Mar, 2020

• Natural Enemies of Books (2020)

  Not a freelance union, what is a contemporary organizing principle?

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15 Mar, 2020

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• the great derangement, amitav ghosh (2016)

  required reading

16 Feb, 2020

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• 2016

07 Feb, 2020

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03 Feb, 2020

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• Dune by Frank Herbert

25 Dec, 2019

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• Capital is dead is this something worse

  mckenzie wark

  to read:

  the world, the flesh and the devil

  blues legacy and black feminism

  will revisit...

28 Nov, 2019

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• The Night of the Generals by Hans Hellmut Kirst

24 Sep, 2019

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• The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)

  Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

30 Aug, 2019

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• Tunneling to the Center of the Earth: Stories (P.S.) by Kevin Wilson
  Paperback – Deckle Edge, March 31, 2009

  Pleasantly suprised to rediscover this author. I was initially introduced to wilson's work in college by a creative writing teacher.

22 Aug, 2019

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• Sven Lütticken
  Cultural Revolution Aesthetic Practice after Autonomy

  March 2017, English
  14 x 21.5 cm, 184 pages, 32 b/w ill., softcover
  ISBN 978-3-95679-194-9

03 Aug, 2019

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• The Internet Does Not Exist
  April 2015, English
  Publisher: Sternberg Press
  ISBN 978-3-95679-130-7

  (After getting 3-4 essays in)
  So far this is just stirring a desire to have my practice continue to interface w/ som sort of actve applications of: resistance (political), encryption/privacy, freedom, enabling individuals to pursue equitable modes of existance (per there own definitions).

  Most relevant essays (ideally to revist):
  Ursela K. Heise, The Blue Planet to Google Earth
  Geert Lovink, What is the social in social media
  Brian Kuan Wood, “I must first apologize…”: In conversation w/ joana hajithomas & Khalil Joreige
  Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation w/ Julian Assange
  Metahaven, Captives of the Cloud.

  Some essays feel quite self involved, a tinge of neoliberalism left over from 2010...