The Democratic Surround: A Conversation Between Fred Turner and Clay Shirky | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-democratic-surround-a-conversation-between-fred-turner-and-clay-shirky/
Apparently Lachman has a new book: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/06/dark-star-rising-magick-and-p.html
Thread by @GalaxyKate: “Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I’ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
Thread by @GalaxyKate: "Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I‘ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes
The Art Of Sci-Fi Book Covers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7Qm_UJML54
take a page out of the hollow earthers’ book, not the MRA’s: if you’re gonna be wrong, at least be wrong in an interesting way.
Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/05/07/The-puzzling-empathy-of-debugging.html
The Book No One Read - Issue 28: 2050 - Nautilus http://nautil.us/issue/28/2050/the-book-no-one-read
This one is good too – you know somebody’s taking it seriously when they include a book of random digits: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/george-dysons-selections-for-the-manual-for-civilization-3efb5ab3db
Oh hey one of these is actually good: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/megan-and-rick-prelingers-selected-books-for-the-manual-for-civilization-1853c7b93f2d
Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html
The Verge Book Club 001 -‘Ubik’ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBiHiShnhso
Samin Nosrat’s ‘Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat’ and the Best Books for Learning How to Cook - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/04/the-why-of-cooking-samin-nosrat/523923/
Jordan Peterson & Fascist Mysticism | by Pankaj Mishra | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/19/jordan-peterson-and-fascist-mysticism/
Book Towns Are Made for Book Lovers - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-a-book-town
GitHub - tuhdo/os01: Bootstrap yourself to write an OS from scratch. A book for self-learner. https://github.com/tuhdo/os01
Bauhaus - Monoskop https://monoskop.org/Bauhaus#Books
Invisible Algorithms, Invisible Politics | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/invisible-algorithms-invisible-politics/
I feel like Netflix’s adaptation did a pretty good job of keeping that social & political focus, and even frontloading it a little bit by injecting backstory from the second and third books.
The second and third books are mostly about the political & social ramifications of resleeving technology over centuries. That is, after all, the point of the series.
The first book in the Altered Carbon series hews closer to standard hardboiled structure & is less ‘about’ resleeving but is very much about social inequality at scale.
I keep hearing the awful take that Altered Carbon is shallow aesthetic-centric cyberpunk devoid of social commentary. Did these people rush to skim the book when they heard about the TV show or something?
Why We’re Drawn To Time Loop Stories Like ‘Groundhog Day’ - Digg http://digg.com/2018/time-loop-movies-shows-books-groundhog-day
Bad idea of the day: An ebook reader program in two columns, where the second column is specifically for recording personal marginal notes & is the same size as the book’s text itself – notes pinned to the paragraph, line, or sentence. Call it ‘MARGINAL’.
Foreclosing on the future of the book https://kottke.org/18/01/foreclosing-on-the-future-of-the-book
Bad idea of the day: A book-length work of fiction that contains no nouns
A Tiny New York Town With Not One, But 5 Indie Bookstores - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hobart-book-village
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
Analyzing the Gender Representation of 34,476 Comic Book Characters https://pudding.cool/2017/07/comics/
Old Book Illustrations: Free Archive Lets You Download Beautiful Images From the Golden Age of Book Illustration | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2015/12/old-book-illustrations.html
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Electronic Literature’s Contemporary Moment: Breeze and Campbell’s “All the Delicate Duplicates” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/electronic-literature-turns-a-new-page-breeze-and-campbells-all-the-delicate-duplicates/
Book Review: Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/13/book-review-legal-systems-very-different-from-ours/
How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes | Literary Hub http://lithub.com/how-the-kkk-shaped-modern-comic-book-superheroes/
Some kind of comic book · Issue #54 · NaNoGenMo/2017 · GitHub https://github.com/NaNoGenMo/2017/issues/54
Dark Places: Kier-La Janisse’s “House of Psychotic Women” - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/dark-places-kier-la-janisses-house-psychotic-women
Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated! | Internet Archive Blogs http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-now-liberated/
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
How Blade Runner got its name from a dystopian book about health care - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/4/16416082/blade-runner-name-backstory-ridley-scott-william-burroughs-alan-nourse
A Secret History of the Pissing Figure in Art | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-secret-history-of-the-pissing-figure-in-art
Book Review: Mastering The Core Teachings Of The Buddha | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/18/book-review-mastering-the-core-teachings-of-the-buddha/
Best Dystopian Books http://www.vulture.com/article/best-dystopian-books.html
Book Review: Surfing Uncertainty | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/
“The Sandman” at 200 | Public Books http://www.publicbooks.org/the-sandman-at-200/
Hit App Sarahah Quietly Uploads Your Address Book https://theintercept.com/2017/08/27/hit-app-sarahah-quietly-uploads-your-address-book/
Error 401 (Unauthorized)!!1 https://books.google.nl/books?hl=nl&lr=&id=KnVBTk-hS10C&oi=fnd&pg=PA234&dq=Universe+text+generation+soap+opera&ots=XPAcJYIJhb&sig=6dGDx-TQn248kbUueUjmZ58XbbI#v=onepage&q&f=false
Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves | Books | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2017/aug/01/mumbo-jumbo-a-penguin-classic-2017-ishmael-reed
The Surprising Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction | The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-surprising-things-statistics-tell-us-about-fiction