Picked up two books about digital technology, infrastructure, and power from Green Apple Books today: Platform Socialism by James Muldoon and Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang. Both were in a tiny area called “Books about computers” in the Computer Book section. Both challenge us to imagine alternatives to platforms. 🍏 🐓 💻 “In order […]
Category Archives: Books
Books received: LaserWriter II and New York 2140
Saturday, June 4, 2022
Two books started this week, both take place in New York City, both feature fixing failing technologies. LaserWriter II by Tamara Shopsin (2021) is a beautifully printed book, with little pixelated images throughout. I’m behind on my Kim Stanley Robinson project, so I’m going to skip the Science in the Capital series and jump to […]
Books reviewed: Files, The Modern Invention of Information, Memory Practices in the Sciences
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Revising a chapter on the transition from paper-based filing systems to digital data tape and automated record keeping systems. All three books engage with transition, memory, and forgetting through professional discourse surrounding the storage and access of information. Got me thinking about what professional discourse from today’s data work would have us forget next.
Books borrowed: Wirelessness, Piloting Palm, Making the Information Society
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Working on a chapter about early mobile devices, pen computing, wireless network
Books catalogued: Dictionary of the Possible and Recent Writings
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Two small, art chapbooks from our library revisited and catalogued this weekend. The first, Recent Writings (2013) from New Documents is a collection of nine essays about originality, art, and museums…includes a neat bibliography. The beautiful red book is issue #22 from Shifter, Dictionary of the Possible (2016) is a collection of contributions about keywords. […]
Books received: Pure Colour and Disorientation
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Two books received this week: Pure Colour by Sheila Heti and Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou. It’s the last week of classes so I’m celebrating with some new titles. I’m getting excited about reading more fiction this summer.
Book list 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Here are the books that I read this past year. Fiction The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (2013) My Education, Susan Choi (2013) The Woman upstairs, Claire Messud (2013) The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P, Adelle Waldman (2013) Alif the Unseen, G. Willow Wilson (2013) This is how you lose her, Junot Díaz (2012) The Art of […]