Notes from July 2024
Oldest to newest
1. The architecture of transience
2. Things versus sequences
3. Architects vs developers
4. Buildings as layers
5. Some books about asking questions
6. "An Indigenous Present"
7. Sophia Giovannitti's "Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex"
8. John Pham's "J & K"
9. Micaela Tobin
10. "A Highland Song"
11. Works by Anna Kornbluh
12. Mira Bellwether
13. Valentina Grosso's "Pre-Islamic Arabia"
14. The Open Syllabus "Galaxy"
15. Dystopika
16. Key materials of tissue engineering
17. SymbioticA
18. Chants of Sennaar
19. The history of puberty blockers / affirmative care
20. Books chosen by the New York Architecture and Design Book Club
21. Roland Barthes on clothing as a "poetic object"
22. Iñaki Ábalos "The Good Life"
23. Marisa Anderson and Jim White, "Swallowtail"
24. "Design History Reader"
25. One proposed distinction between craft and art
26. Bateson on "aesthetic unity"
27. Arthur Lovejoy's "Great Chain of Being"
28. "Science never proves anything"
29. Science and difference
30. "The map is not the territory"
31. Roland Kayn's "The Ortho-Project"
32. Personal reminder, redacted
33. Fred Frith, "The Technology of Tears (And Other Music for Dance and Theatre)"
34. "Ambient Stories in Practice and Research"
35. "Against Ambience"
36. Billy Mills poem
37. Anthony Braxton, "Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989"
38. Anthony Braxton, "Willisau (Quartet) 1991"
39. Shabaka Hutchings
40. Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou, "L'Bnat"
41. Drop Nineteens, "Delaware"
42. Early Flying Saucer Attack albums
43. 90s Bardo Pond albums
44. Seefeel
45. Ride, "Nowhere"
46. Boredoms, "Pop Tatari"
47. Elgaland-Vargaland
48. Tommy Orange's "There There"
49. Trump v. United States
50. Michel Chaouli, "Something Speaks to Me"
51. Orcas
52. Tacticians of Ahm
53. "The Bloom"
54. Mothership [physical edition]
55. Lia Kohl's "Normal Sounds"
56. Task Newsletter
57. Books from NYT's "100 Best of the 21st Century"
58. Meshes of Light
59. Victor Szabo's "Turn On, Tune In, Drift Off"
60. Early Autechre
61. In defense of building codes
62. Cities are "created around" transportation
63. Brand on "real estate"
64. On brick
65. Concrete's ubiquity
66. Architectural space vs vernacular space
67. Folk design method
68. Lim Jee Yuan's "The Malay House"
69. Cliff May and the ranch house
70. Brand on New York
71. Two books by J. B. Jackson
72. William H. Whyte's "City"
73. Witold Rybczynski's "Home"
74. Christopher Alexander's "New Theory of Urban Design"
75. Christopher Alexander's "The Oregon Experiment"
76. Microstoria discography
77. Rousseau and "The Discouse on the Origins of Social Inequality"
78. The origins of "left" and "right" as political orientations
79. Rousseau and the "stupid savage"
80. Antonina Nowacka's "Sylphine Soporifera"
81. Pierre Clastres and progressive tribalism
82. African habitation
83. The myth of the "original" human society
84. Earliest signs of "culture"
85. Behaviorial complexity in Europe (and elsewhere)
86. Christopher Boehm's definition of politics
87. Early Steve Roden albums

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