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Seasonal Listening
The Small Stakes: http://bit.ly/qUi4NX Summer is the most sonic season for me. (Whoa, holy accidental alliteration.) There are plenty of obvious reasons why: I’m outside a lot more, I find myself in a...
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Think Again: IBM, Eames, Informatics
via http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history While home with my family for Christmas, I read and thoroughly enjoyed John Harwood’s The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945 – 1976 (I...
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Parsing Noise
via funkandjazz on Flickr: http://bit.ly/z7x2aY I have a feeling I’m one of the first people in the universe to have read, from cover to cover, Hillel Schwartz’s 859-page* Making Noise: From Babel to...
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Lewis Mumford, Sensory Historian
Last month I re-read Lewis Mumford’s The Culture of Cities (1938) and The City in History (1961) for the first time in over a decade. I’ve included short excerpts from both books in my some of my...
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How I Spent My Winter Vacation
Visits home mean time spent with the dogs, whom, when I’m not home, I miss terribly. The past three weeks have involved a whole mess of travel — to and from Chicago, amongst its far-flung suburbs to...
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Taking Note of Notes
Back in November the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study hosted “Take Note,” a conference that brought together “scholars from literature, history, media studies, information science, and computer...
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Murdoch on Carnegie: The Wall Street Journal’s Library Coverage
Murdoch with his in-office library. Via NY Times Geez Louise, is the Wall Street Journal ever into libraries. Or so it seems, based on the amount of coverage libraries have received in these first two...
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Sounding Smart — or, Knowing Your Medium
Via Lief Parsons This weekend marked my sixth visit to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. I had the pleasure of enjoying a number of strong presentations on remarkably...
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Libraries Big + Small
Matter Practice Little Free Library; photo by me Noted British architecture/landscape writer Ken Worpole recently published a fantastic book on library design, and he was kind enough to have his...
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Aliens to Armoires: Philosophical Carpentry
[Earlier this evening I accidentally and prematurely published a draft of this post, which consisted solely of my notes. Oops. Here's the final version!] I’ve been carrying Ian Bogost’s Alien...
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Seasonal Listening
The Small Stakes: http://bit.ly/qUi4NX Summer is the most sonic season for me. (Whoa, holy accidental alliteration.) There are plenty of obvious reasons why: I’m outside a lot more, I find myself in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Think Again: IBM, Eames, Informatics
via http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history While home with my family for Christmas, I read and thoroughly enjoyed John Harwood’s The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design, 1945 – 1976 (I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parsing Noise
via funkandjazz on Flickr: http://bit.ly/z7x2aY I have a feeling I’m one of the first people in the universe to have read, from cover to cover, Hillel Schwartz’s 859-page* Making Noise: From Babel to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Aliens to Armoires: Philosophical Carpentry
[Earlier this evening I accidentally and prematurely published a draft of this post, which consisted solely of my notes. Oops. Here’s the final version!] I’ve been carrying Ian Bogost’s Alien...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Lewis Mumford, Sensory Historian
Last month I re-read Lewis Mumford’s The Culture of Cities (1938) and The City in History (1961) for the first time in over a decade. I’ve included short excerpts from both books in my some of my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How I Spent My Winter Vacation
Visits home mean time spent with the dogs, whom, when I’m not home, I miss terribly. The past three weeks have involved a whole mess of travel — to and from Chicago, amongst its far-flung suburbs to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Taking Note of Notes
Back in November the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study hosted “Take Note,” a conference that brought together “scholars from literature, history, media studies, information science, and computer...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Murdoch on Carnegie: The Wall Street Journal’s Library Coverage
Murdoch with his in-office library. Via NY Times Geez Louise, is the Wall Street Journal ever into libraries. Or so it seems, based on the amount of coverage libraries have received in these first two...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Sounding Smart — or, Knowing Your Medium
Via Lief Parsons This weekend marked my sixth visit to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference. I had the pleasure of enjoying a number of strong presentations on remarkably...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Libraries Big + Small
Matter Practice Little Free Library; photo by me Noted British architecture/landscape writer Ken Worpole recently published a fantastic book on library design, and he was kind enough to have his...
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