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2011

October 26, 2011

  • Finished Inscription and Erasure, which I enjoyed very much. Chartier ends on a nice quote by Borges: “A book is not an isolated entity; it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships" (143).

October 25, 2011

  • Finished Domination and the Arts of Resistance, which I enjoyed very much.
  • Inscription and Erasure

October 24, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance

October 23, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance

October 22, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance, working on Chp. 5 still on the train this morning. The footnotes in this book are fantastic; circling lots of citations for a future when I have time to do lots of exploratory reading in labor and anthropology.
  • Barbara Fister does it again: "Occupy Knowledge: It's Ours, After All"

October 21, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
  • Began Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century by Roger Chartier

October 20, 2011

  • Lots of teaching today, not much reading.

October 19, 2011

  • The Business of Enlightenment

October 18, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts
  • More Darnton too

October 17, 2011

  • Domination and the Arts of Resistance: Hidden Transcripts

October 16, 2011

  • Scott's Domination and the Arts of Resistance

October 15, 2011

  • A tiny bit more of The Business of Enlightenment

October 14, 2011

  • A tiny bit of Robert Darnton's The Business of Enlightenment, while waiting for talks to start at MobilityShifts

October 13, 2011

  • At MobilityShifts: John Willinsky on Open Access and specifically scholarly publishing
  • Lots of talk about ebooks and proprietary systems of downloading and reading at a Coutts ebook presentation for the LACUNY Collection Development Roundtable Fall meeting

October 12, 2011

  • Finished The Nature of the Book, as best as I can skim the hundreds of pages of it.

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May 22, 2013

May 12, 2013

  • Lots of reading, amidst the cracks of life as it goes, changes. Halfway through E. Biella Coleman's Coding Freedom, started David Graeber's Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology, and wanted to start, but probably have to wait until after the thesis, bell hooks' Where We Stand: Class Matters.

April 24, 2013

  • A piece in the New Yorker about Noah Baumbach, a person whose work I have a lot of sympathy for somehow, but in this piece he sounds like he wants to be a vampire sucking the energy off of his girlfriend's ideas. Is that a great way to have a relationship, or a terrible way?
  • I've also been reading Living Anarchy on the train, while very tired lately.

April 23, 2013

  • Zines from the Brooklyn Zine Fest: Alex #4 and #5, Deafula #5, and Indulgence #11.

April 22, 2013

  • Jeppesen, Sandra. "Becoming Anarchist: The Function of Anarchist Literature." Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies 2011.2
  • Imhorst, Christian. "Anarchy and Source Code - What does the Free Software Movement have to do with Anarchism?"

April 19, 2013

  • Going to try to finish In Praise of Copying today. This book has pleasantly surprised me in many ways and I'm greatly enjoying it. Highly recommended if you would like to think more deeply about copying (and its mimetic, ever-present nature) on a philosophical level.
    Many of the books about intellectual property I've looked at recently discuss the absurdities of various IP situations, or examine IP clashes via specific (often outrageous) legal cases. This book, on the other hand, talks more about the practices and traditions of copying, collaging or appropriating through many different perspectives, going back to the work of philosophers who are long dead but also looking for the mimetic in religious practices, theory, art, and even inside the human body. Totally fascinating.
  • Also this article on drone, also by Boon.

April 11, 2013

  • More Moonwalking with Einstein, enjoying the history of the book (as related to memory) section.

April 10, 2013

  • Inching my way through Moonwalking with Einstein, which I've only read over BC lunches in the office.
  • Insomnia had me reading Fosterhood in NYC

April 9, 2013

  • About half of In Praise of Copying by Boon, which I am enjoying.

April 8, 2013

  • Read the introduction to Common as Air by Hyde.
  • Last week watched the documentary, Kind Hearted Woman. Among many powerful scenes, was struck by those where Robin took family to go walking through the U of M, and how looking at the university and thinking about what it offered was a powerful activity for them.

April 1, 2013

  • While fighting some kind of bug finished Please Kill Me and ripping through Cometbus Omnibus and Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

March 23, 2013

  • Been reading Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. Not sure if it will help the thesis, but it's a good pick up/put down at random book.
  • Also still moving very slowly through Moonwalking with Einstein, my official over-lunch-at-work book of the moment.

March 13, 2013

  • Still finishing up Getting Things Done
  • Thesis reading: Living Anarchy by Jeff Shantz
  • Democracy Now! and WBAI, who could sincerely use your help.

March 9, 2013

  • Been reading Getting Things Done and trying to get things done.

March 6, 2013

  • Broke open Getting Things Done on the train. Still in the intro parts where there's talk about overwhelming obligations and the ever-increasing nature of the amount of things that are related to work these days. Tell me about it.
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