January 2010
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“Ghosts are, so to speak, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the man who is...”
– Svidrigailov to Raskolnikov, in Dostoeivsky’s Crime and Punishment, p. 346
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"Palms, Kindles, Nooks, iPads – none are as cool... →
This post from today (Friday 29 January 2010) addresses some of the points I am interested in discussing re: print and digital. Once again, I do not see them in competition: media and corporations seem really interested in us engaging with the question of books and ebooks (and the past, present and future of print, really) in terms of old versus new, this will kill that, etc. I believe those...
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Salinger in The New Yorker Archives →
Links to scanned versions of all thirteen stories Salinger published in The New Yorker from 1946 to 1965, surprisingly and fortunately available online for free (at least until now).
I spoke too soon. Though I am not a subscriber, I could see them yesterday. Now they are subscribers only…. Sorry.
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“Do you know what I was smiling at? You wrote down that you were a writer by...”
– JD Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction, 1959
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it,...”
– Rest in Peace, JD Salinger
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British Library Launches New Virtual History... →
The link takes you to the press release. To “launch” the Timeline go here. I think it’s just awesome.
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“Understanding the history of books, and of the communication of ideas through...”
– David Pearson, Books as History, 2008:38
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Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in the Digital Age |... →
Amazing project from the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory.
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"iPad - The best way to experience the web, email,... →
So yes, everyone has seen it. It is exciting. But it fills me with questions. In spite of the fantastic technology that allows you to feel the way one interacts with the device, the “device” (as it’s called by Apple) seems to me mostly passive. The promotional video shows people leisurely looking at their pictures, reading, with the “device” on their laps. What they...
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Today: Cuban Stories @ Rich Mix, London →
My friend Angel Gil invited me to DJ Latin music tonight at the opening of the photography exhibition he put together with Helena Smith and Claire Boobbyer. It’s at the Rich Mix which is a really nice cinema and arts venue in Bethnal Green. I was told there would be nice mojitos! I’ll be playing classic Latin Jazz, son cubano, bugalú, clave y guaguancó…
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The Storyteller at the Johnson Design Center, NYC →
If I could, I’d love to go. An exhibition exploring how artists use narrative to process and explain important social and political events. Includes work by Cao Fei, Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller with filmmaker Mike Figgis, Omer Fast,Mounir Fatmi, Ryan Gander, Lamia Joreige, Joachim Koester, Emanuel Licha, Missing Books (Maria Barnas, Maxine Kopsa and Germaine Kruip), Steve Mumford,...
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Google & the Future of Books - The New York Review... →
Almost a recent classic, to offer another view on the GBS: Robert Darnton’s February 2009 article published on the NYRB.
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For The Love Of Culture | The New Republic →
On the Google Books Settlement by Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard Law School and author of Remix (Penguin, 2009). Nice to read a long(er) essay by him.
“The Internet has greater potential to supplant, rather than supplement, the...”
– David Pearson, Books as History 2008:12.
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Resurfacing
After eight years of daily blogging I decided to interrogate notions of “aura”, fragility and permanence in the digital age by performing a practical exercise: deleting my blog.
I am working on a new personal web site that will work like a more or less static online profile representing all the areas of my life and work, which include academia, journalism, DJing, comics, essay writing...