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Just some short notes for myself on this book NONOBJECT by Branko Lukic with words by Barry Katz and a foreword by Bill Moggridge. I’ve been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Nonobject, a book that reveals quite a number of … Continue reading
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From the Laboratory’s Blog All Kindle ‘Dog-Earred’ Pages Desk, I bring you a few call-outs, quotes and passages from the brilliant bit of chronodiegetic gooeyness called “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe” by Charles Yu. Great good … Continue reading
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Just a super short set of notes from Steven Johnson’s book, Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. I don’t have anything too much in-depth mostly because it’s a fast read, when I found time to … Continue reading
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This looks like a fantastic book that will look great next to my Norman Mailer: MoonFire: The Epic Journey of Apollo 11 (GO) Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo In Spacesuit, Nicholas de Monchaux tells the story of the twenty-one-layer spacesuit in twenty-one … Continue reading
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…and apparently available only in the UK presently. John Marshall and I have a manifesto-y essay towards the end of this. Marshall and Bleecker, in their essay, propose the term “undisciplinary” for the type of work prevalent in this book. … Continue reading
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Well, I missed the Week Ending last week so I’ll capture a couple of the things that happened then, now. There were a cacophony of tasks to be done, some fun, some that should’ve been fun, and all that tipped … Continue reading
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A curious book won the Pulitzer Prize, I just heard. It’s called Tinkers What I found most intriguing about the news story is that the book was published by a small specialty publisher — Bellevue Literary Press, which is associated … Continue reading
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The book that resulted from the ‘inter_multi_trans_actions: emerging trends in post-disciplinary creative practice’ symposium at Napier University in Edinburgh, Scotland on Thursday 26 June, 2008 is nearing publication. The book ‘Digital Blur: Creative Practice at the Boundaries of Architecture, Design … Continue reading
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The second guy to walk on the moon — Buzz Aldrin — has been doing the rounds, signing his new book Magnificent Desolation talking about how his life was destroyed cause he was famous for being the second guy to walk on … Continue reading
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Plastic slippers, found in Seoul, South Korea To go along with the previous *blog all dog-eared pages* post, an additional description of *what plastic is* — to include alongside of all the others chemical, political, economical, historical, technical, medical, fictional, … Continue reading
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I just finished Richard Powers’ intriguing industrial historical novel Gain, which was brought to my attention by a couple of passages in Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social, which was brought to my attention by..&c. One of the passages in the … Continue reading
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Roberto Verganti’s Design-Driven Innovation, a business book on how “firm’s” can participate in larger networks of design discourse in order to achieve radically innovative stuff. Mostly an argument with a three-step “how-to” addressed chiefly to executives. An intriguing argument with … Continue reading