<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Here in the Southern Hemisphere it’s winter and mid academic year so reading tends to be marginalised. Books I currently have open are:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Karen Barad, Meeting the Universe Halfway.</div><div class="">Roberto Simanowski, Digital Art and Meaning</div><div class="">Tim Ingold, Being Alive</div><div class="">Markku Eskelinen, Cybertext Poetics</div><div class="">Diana Coole & Samantha Frost, New Materialisms</div><div class="">Franco Moretti, Distant Reading</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Simon</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
<div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; widows: auto; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">Simon Biggs</b></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><a href="mailto:simon@littlepig.org.uk" class="">simon@littlepig.org.uk</a></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://www.littlepig.org.uk" class="">http://www.littlepig.org.uk</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><a href="http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs" class="">http://amazon.com/author/simonbiggs</a></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><a href="http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs" class="">http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/homepage.asp?name=simon.biggs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Helvetica" class=""><a href="http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs" class="">http://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/school-of-art/simon-biggs</a></font></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; orphans: 2; widows: 2; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" class=""><br class=""></span></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 13 Jun 2016, at 12:30, Renate Terese Ferro <<a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" class="">rferro@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<br class="">Thanks to Sean and all of you who this past week posted your to read bookshelves. Sean wrote this snippet that I think is worthy of reposting. <br class="">Sean Cubitt wrote: <br class="">Snip<br class="">Reading time becomes precious, therefore tied to projects, which in the age=<br class=""> of automated search and recommendation destroys the serendipity of wanderi=<br class="">ng through libraries.<br class="">Snip<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Reading time is precious and for me punctuated by too many other demands. I have really been enjoying perusing through all of your lists and have found some interesting titles that I have added to my own list. I am headed to NYC for the next few days and am looking forward to reading some of The Botany of Desire. <br class=""><br class="">For all of our -empyre subscribers please join in and share. This one is for all of you. Post your bookshelf of titles you hope to read over the next few months. <br class=""><br class="">Best. Renate<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Renate Ferro<br class="">Visiting Associate Professor<br class="">College of Architecture, Art and Planning<br class="">Department of Art<br class="">Tjaden Hall 306<br class=""><a href="mailto:rferro@cornell.edu" class="">rferro@cornell.edu</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">empyre forum<br class="">empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au<br class="">http://empyre.library.cornell.edu<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>