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on the table next to me: Arturo Escobar's Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes; Flusser's Into the Universe of Technical Images, and Ed Dorn's Hello La Jolla (considering whether to replace it and other treasured Dorn books and pamphlets
with the 1000-page Collected Poems). Next to the bed: Finnegans Wake and Wallerstein's World System, volume 3 (nearly completed, volume 4 to follow).I'm so fascinated by the electronic copy of Enrique Dussel's 20 Theses on Politics I will be getting a hard
copy. Like many, I have a pile of manuscripts and PhDs to occupy lots of the available reading space: one from last year to look out for this Fall is Andreas Broeckmann's Machine Art.
<div>Reading time becomes precious, therefore tied to projects, which in the age of automated search and recommendation destroys the serendipity of wandering through libraries. Thanks for this initiative, restoring the kind of centripetal inspirations we all
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<div>On 11 Jun 2016, at 01:02, Andrew Murphie wrote:</div>
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<div>I have piles of books all around the house but also a number of devices with internet access ... in some of these piles</div>
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<div>Naomi Klein This Changes Everything</div>
<div>Ken Wark Molecular Red</div>
<div>Paul Edwards A Vast Machine</div>
<div>Alfred Whitehead The Aims of Education</div>
<div>Nietzsche Writings from the Late Notebooks</div>
<div>Judy Atkinson Trauma Trails</div>
<div>Roland Faber The Divine Manifold</div>
<div>Pat Barker Toby's Room</div>
<div>Whitehead Process and Reality</div>
<div>Sherburne the key to the above</div>
<div>Erin Manning Relationscapes</div>
<div>Erin Manning A Minor Gesture</div>
<div>Steven Shaviro Discognition</div>
<div>Subhankar Banerjee Arctic Voices</div>
<div>Walt Whitman On the beach at night alone</div>
<div>Zen Poems</div>
<div>Jane Rawson and James Whitmore The Handbook for Surviving and Living with Climate Change</div>
<div>Matsuo Basho Lips Too Chilled</div>
<div>Yuk Hui On the Existence of Digital Objects</div>
<div>Brian Massumi Ontopower</div>
<div>Jason Moore Anthropocene or Capitalocene</div>
<div>Francois Bonnet The Order of Sounds</div>
<div>Isabelle Stengers Thinking with Whitehead</div>
<div>Stamatia Portanova Moving without a Body</div>
<div>Benjamin Bratton The Stack</div>
<div>Peter Fleming Resisting Work</div>
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<div>That should do it .. of course, I'll never read all of this over summer and probably not over the rest of the year but I can give it a good go.</div>
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Hi and thanks, reading and writing on the run -<br>
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Because we're on the road & traveling light (Providence RI to Atlanta Ga<br>
to Victoria BC and back), the books I'm reading (or trying to read) have<br>
had to have a real resonance -<br>
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Red Pine's translation of The Heart Sutra<br>
Sibley's West Birds of course<br>
The Blue Annals, George Roerich trans., 2 volumes (classical Tibetan<br>
history)<br>
Recursiveness, Eilenberg and Elgot (category theory applied to recursion,<br>
incredibly difficult for me)<br>
Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics, Fernando Zalamea<br>
The Portable Hakluyt's Voyages<br>
International Radio Operator's Handbook, 1924<br>
and trying to get something out of three volumes in the Demystified series<br>
- Quantum Mechanics Demystified, String Theory Demystified, Quantum Field<br>
Theory demystified<br>
Just finished an amazing book, Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal, The Tragic<br>
Menagerie, which I highly recommend!<br>
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We have a couple of thousand books, keep trading them in for others<br>
because of lack of space. Several core subjects for me - Buddhist<br>
philosophy (classical, Tibetan, Nagarjuna, etc.), cosmology and physics,<br>
non-western language grammars, mathematics, digital music production,<br>
guqin and shakuhachi texts, philosophy of media, deconstruction, early<br>
geographies.<br>
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On the road I tend to stare at pages a lot -<br>
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- Alan (just finished giving a talk at University of Victoria, Digital<br>
Humanities Summer Institute, on gamespace/edgespace/blankspace; now two<br>
more short presentations for the Electronic Literature Organization<br>
Conference connected to DHSI as well)<br>
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music: <a href="http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">
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