#1128

On a re-reading jag at the moment!

‘C’ by Tom McCarthy

and

‘The Overstory’ by Richard Powers

#1129

Just finished “Just My Type” by Simon Garfield, a fairly snarky but informative take on type faces and their reception.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10909804

Up next : finish “Biophilia” by EO Wilson

#1130

Don’t recall @Claude or @philmaguire posting about this, but Claude’s doing a zine, which arrived today. Interview with Phil! Easy project to back.


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#1131

Now:

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#1132

Murch is always rewarding.

#1133

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'grief expressed out loud, whether in or out of character, unchoregorephed and honest, for someone we have lost, …is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. -m.prechtel

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#1134

Currently reading:

Music: ‘Be Glad: An Incredible String Band Compendium’. Been a huge fan the last few years, and this is the best book out there on them. Recently finished the Clive Palmer biog too, ‘Empty Pocket Blues’ by Grahame Hood.

Fiction: The Books of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin. Had never read them before, currently on the fifth book, Tales of Earthsea and have been IMMENSELY enjoying the whole thing. Recently finished ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’ by David Lindsay, David Tibet gave me a copy a couple of years ago and it is one of the weirdest books I have ever read!

The tsundoku pile is never ending here…

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#1135

Currently deep in Tim Maughan’s Infinite Detail, which is great even if it feels a little like work (as in, my job, not “effort”) at times. Here, have an extract. It is largely about a world where the Internet went away, and reading it at points feels like it induces a stress reaction; I sharply feel the loss of a place I think of as a place.

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#1136

Did not know this word before - very nice.

I’ll look forward to reading “Voyage to Arcturus,” now, looks interesting!

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#1137

i thought Infinite Details was pretty great - totally know what you mean about it’s anxiety-inducing aspects too; it’s profoundly unnerving, like the best [S]F. As a bonus to lines folks, there’s some lovely descriptions of music distribution/production in there too.

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#1138

I’ve often thought that losing the Internet now would feel like regressing into a dark age. But I might have to check that book out.

#1139

very good thrift store trip set me up for a bit

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#1140

Audint–Unsound:Undead edited by Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou.

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"For as long as recording and communications technologies have existed, the potential of the vibrational continuum that connects sound to infrasound, ultrasound and other inaudible frequencies has been evoked to access anomalous zones of transmission between the realms of the living and the dead.

For the past ten years the AUDINT group has been researching these peripheries of sonic perception (unsound) and the portals they open to new dimensions, activating a continual intersection between fiction and fact, and pressuring thought to become something other than what it has been. The 64 short essays in this volume probe how unsound serves to activate the undead."

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#1141

Probably the most fucked up book I’ve ever read (like, a million miles more fucked up than Dennis Cooper). I don’t know what else to say. Recommended if you want to feel very uncomfortable.

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#1142

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very interesting

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#1143

Some light reading before going to bed.

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#1144

Just finished this one, very interesting perspective on masculinity.

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#1145

Apologies if this is a little tangential but, having just finished my re-reading of ‘The Overstory’ (and without wishing to give away too much of the story) this news is one of the most wondrous things I’ve seen/heard in a long time:

" Wood wide web: Trees’ social networks are mapped"

Research has shown that beneath every forest and wood there is a complex underground web of roots, fungi and bacteria helping to connect trees and plants to one another.

This subterranean social network, nearly 500 million years old, has become known as the “wood wide web”.

Now, an international study has produced the first global map of the “mycorrhizal fungi networks” dominating this secretive world.

#ThereIsNoPlanetB :seedling: :evergreen_tree: :deciduous_tree: :palm_tree: :leaves:

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#1146

Something to read while listening to The Occasional Keepers, of course: https://youtu.be/-PkAfnxcg2c

#1147

Now reading: Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic by Curtis Roads

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