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87% complete! colin has read 14 of 16 books.
On a beautiful fall day in Chester's mIll, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest …
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city …
A new manifesto for cyberfeminism: finding liberation in the glitch between body, gender, and technology
The divide between the digital …
The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city …
Performative, improvised, on the fly: live coding is about how people interact with the world and each other via code. …
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an …
There is a great diversity of public reaction to the partnership between the machine and artistic creation. Some people maintain that a work of art cannot result, for by definition it must be 'created', in the whole and its parts, all along the line, by a human being, whereas a machine, being dead, cannot invent. Others again hold that one might certainly undertake the ride by machine just for fun, or to see what will turn out, but the result will not be 'finished' or anything more than an experiment, interesting though it might be. The fanatics, finally, accept without hesitation all the marvels of the craziest science-fiction. The moon? Why not—it's quite within our reach. Longevity, too, is just around the cor-ner... Why not the creative machine as well? These are some of the faithful whose cranky optimism has replaced the myths of Icarus and of fallen fairies by the scientific civilization of the twentieth century-and this civilization does not even prove them altogether wrong.
— Cybernetics, art, and ideas. by Jasia Reichardt (Page 124)
This book was published in 1971 and is basically a bunch of survey of the attitudes of artists and scientists towards technology and its applications towards the arts, and huge chunks of it feel incredibly relevant today.
From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity
Gala, a young trans …
Amateur detective Mallory Viridian’s talent for solving murders ruined her life on Earth and drove her to live on an …
Autistic scientist Yasira Shien has developed a radical new energy drive that could change the future of humanity. But when …
The value of art must disintegrate in a society in which purchasing power outweighs the spiritual and intellectual quality of life.
— Cybernetics, art, and ideas. by Jasia Reichardt (Page 61)
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
It's easy to say that streaming is bad because artists can't make a living, but this book goes way beyond that. Spotify (and streaming in general) has influenced the work of being an artist in all sorts of ways described in the book. It's extremely well-researched and documented, full of quotes from artists, employees of Spotify, music industry professionals, etc. It's obviously focused on music, but it's impossible to read this book without thinking that basically any form of labor which can be commodified will be commodified and strip-mined for all of its value by the market.
The book is pretty bleak, but it's also full of hope for the future. There's a lot here about artist/labor movements, local organizing and things like that. It's good! You should read it.
