Of interest:
“Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?” (article)
Avenir - Primitive Maxi Trial (album)
“The economics of self-publishing a book on Metalabel” (article)
“How to become a runner” (article)
Klein: No Degree, No Budget, No Problem (lecture)
“What actually improves your photos” (article)
032c’s “ABC of AFX” (article)
“Why talk about the creative life?” (podcast)
“The Expanding Borders of Area X” (article)
2025
Watching
Robert Frank
Jon Jost
Alan Rudolph
Reading
I Remember (Joe Brainard)
Ocean of Sound (David Toop)
Burning Chrome (William Gibson)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Linda Rosencrantz)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin)
Perfection (Vincenzo Latronico)
Seeing <—> Making | Room for Thought (Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels)
Goblinhood (Jen Calleja)
Highway Cottage (Ralf Webb)
Flowers (Ed Atkins)
Steering the Craft (Ursula K. Le Guin)
The Drowned World (J. G. Ballard)
Here is Information - Mobilise (Ian White)
Ways of Seeing (John Berger)
The Pits of Hell (Yoshikazu Ebisu)
In the Country of Last Things (Paul Auster)
Playing
Red Dead Redemption 2 (Steam Deck)
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Steam Deck)
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut (Steam Deck)
Promise Mascot Agent (Steam Deck)
The Last of Us Part II (PS4)
Fulcrum Defender (Playdate)
Despelote (Steam Deck)
The Whiteout (Playdate)
Notes
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~ Digital garden docs and examples ~~~ Civilisation on BBC ~
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“Our lives are no more than the sum of manifold contingencies, and no matter how diverse they might be in their details, they all share an essential randomness in their design: this then that, and because of that, this.”
- Paul Auster, In The Country of Last Things
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Il Cinema Ritrovato Top 5
Strike / Stacka (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
The Postman / Postchi (Dariush Mehrjui, 1972)
Wife! Be Like a Rose! / Tsuma yo bara no yô ni (Mikio Naruse, 1935)
The Return of Amílcar Cabral / O Regresso de Amilcar Cabral (Flora Gomes, 1976)
Al Ôrs / La Noce (Collectif Nouveau Théâtre de Tunis, 1978)
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