February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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November 2011
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October 2011
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“In an old joke from the defunct German Democratic Republic, a German worker gets...”
– Slavoj Zizek Speaks at Occupy Wall Street
Hydra’s Occupy Wall Street Reading List (via hydramagazine)
July 2011
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Text Me Up! - A book of text messages →
“Artist Tracey Moberly has saved every single text message she has ever received since 1999. TEXT-ME-UP! is an autobiographical work using the author’s words and samples from all the texts she has received from people since the start of the SMS text messaging era.”
May 2011
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April 2011
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“‘The computer is the greatest projective system* ever created’, Bales said to...”
– Nelson, Theodor H. POSSIPLEX: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization. Hackettstown, New Jersey: Mindful Press, 2010. (via carvalhais)
March 2011
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WatchNo eBook can do this
Your Book as a Database: A Primer →
Over at Publishing Perspectives, Chris Kubica has an interesting piece on how books could turn into interconnected, interactive and possibly infinite electronic entities. This opens up a whole lot of new possibilities but, aside from all the good things it will certainly bring, there is also a downside: making your book “social” will attract all the usual trolls and spammers who, in...
In pictures: Carl Jung's Red Book →
Last Sunday, I visited the Rietberg Museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and had a look at C. G. Jung’s “Red Book,” a magnificent specimen of a book made all by hand.
The government’s definition of writing is... →
The Dictionary Act says: “writing” includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise.
Art and Text →
an in-depth look at the use of text in modern and contemporary fine art
February 2011
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Heike Fiedler am Salonpalaver im Cabaret Voltaire →
Die Autorin, Poetin und Künstlerin Heike Fiedler trat am 22. Februar 2011 im Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich, im Rahmen der Veranstaltung «Salonpalaver» auf.
“(…) the alphabet was civilization’s first abstract art form. As the actual shape...”
– Shlain, Leonard. Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. 2007. (via carvalhais)
January 2011
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December 2010
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Babylonian texts read aloud →
November 2010
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Mutated Manuscripts: The Evolution of Genes and... →
What has paleography got to do with genetics? A lot, it seems.
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October 2010
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The real cost of free →
Cory Doctorow: “Commenters who claim I tell artists to give their work away for free are wrong – and they should focus on the real online villains.”
September 2010
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A Universal History of the Destruction of Books →
August 2010
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Reading Hegemann in Berlin: Geht nicht auf. Berlin ist nicht Teheran und Hegemann keine Lolita.
Stattdessen lesen: Interview mit Helene Hegemann in der Spex #328 (September/Oktober 2010). Jung wie sie ist, hat HeHe doch mehr Durchblick in Sachen Schreiben / Literatur als die Gralshüter des Authentischen.
Google's count of 130 million books is probably... →
Google recently published its estimate of the number of books that exist. But Google did not actually count books but instead used metadata. As it turned out, the metadata are far from reliable and the real number of books in existence remains an open question.
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Interview: Zizek on Life, Communism, and... →
hazal:
Slavoj Zizek, 59, was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a professor at the European Graduate School, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for Humanities in London and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana’s institute of sociology. He has written more than 30 books on subjects as diverse as Hitchcock, Lenin and 9/11, and also presented the TV series The Pervert’s...
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“Narrative media is undergoing a shift from the traditional model of single,...”
– Chris Arkenberg Transmedia Storytelling and the New Media Convergence
May 2010
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“…opposing the “intellectual property defense industry” is not...”
– Required Reading: Adrian Johns, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates
Fragmente in vielen Sprachen
Letztes Jahr hatte ich mich sehr spontan entschlossen, mal eben an den Solothurner Literaturtagen vorbeizuschauen. Freitagnachmittag 14 bis 20 Uhr, dann musste ich wieder zurück zu anderen Dingen. Es war zu kurz, darum der Plan, 2010 dann drei Tage zu reservieren. Das erwies sich als zu optimistisch, denn Samstagabend um 17 Uhr war wieder Schluss, und andere Verpflichtungen forderten meine...
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Demnächst: Solothurner Literaturtage →
Das jährliche Treffen der schreibenden Zunft in der Schweiz.
March 2010
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Texts Without Context →
Der ganz grosse Rundumschlag gegen die Internetkultur. Enthält viele nützliche Links und lässt kaum einen Gemeinplatz der Internetkritik aus.
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“Actually, I don’t think it would be too strong to say that Shields’s...”
– Bookslut’s review of Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields
February 2010
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Postmoderne Romane →
Eine Liste von Büchern, mit denen ich mich zur Zeit beschäftige - egal, wie tot die Postmoderne sein oder auch nicht sein mag.