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Bookmarks for 2012-11-15

von himmel – florid pagoda side a by donkey disk on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
von himmel – florid pagoda side a
(tags:music ifttt soundcloud )

XETROV

An animated film by Max Crow.  I find this kind of visualisation fascinating.  For extra points, the music is by HANDWITHLEGS, who I featured in SPEKTRMODULE 02.

XETROV from Max Crow on Vimeo.

NIGHT MUSIC: Death Blues

I am a great admirer of Jon Mueller’s record THE WHOLE, so when I saw this link posted by Miasmah on Twitter, I was all over it.  An album that comes with a manifesto, in fact.  DEATH BLUES lives up to its name, and this will set you up good for some cursed, oppressive and cobalt-coloured dreams about running away from things you can’t escape.  Good times.  Click through to buy the download for five Yanqui dollars.

Death Blues by Jon Mueller

Bookmarks for 2012-11-15

Geometries of Utopian Desire | Notes on Metamodernism
"The triangular figure that hangs in the night sky in each of these images, a digital cutout of the aurora borealis, is echoed in the equilateral segments of the domed architecture beneath. As a kind of occult ritualistic symbol, the triangle motif here seems to signify the return to a faith in the more primitive geometries of a bygone Euclidean age; one in which truth and beauty appeared one and the same, linear and attainable, yet mystical in their absoluteness."
(tags:art architecture pol )
wearespartacus.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Peoples-Review-of-the-Work-Capability-Assessment.pdf
"The People's Review is presented in order to show the reality

of going through the Work Capability Assessment

for those who are living with sickness and disability every day."
(tags:pol social )
Rhizome | Drone’s Eye View: A Look at How Artists are Revealing the Killing Fields
“the drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together, a medium and an exchange. But the non-human components of the network are not moral actors, and the same technology that permits civilian technological wonder, the wide-eyed futurism of the New Aesthetic and the unevenly-distributed joy of living now, also produces obscurantist “security” culture, ubiquitous surveillance, and robotic killing machines."
(tags:drones war gz )
Meaning: Plausible Utopias | The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution

(tags:talks eco )
First Teleportation From One Macroscopic Object to Another | MIT Technology Review
"…practical quantum routers and the quantum internet that relies on them are just around the corner."
(tags:sci comms )

The GUN MACHINE Audiobook, by Reg E. Cathey

On Friday, recording commences on the GUN MACHINE audiobook.  (I believe this to be the initial Amazon.com page for it.)  We locked the voice actor to read the book a couple of days ago.  I had a short list, and his name was on top of it.  My agent is a marvel.

Reg E. Cathey agreed to read GUN MACHINE.

Motherfucking QUERNS from OZ.  And, of course, since you are all educated people who have seen THE WIRE, the magnificent Norman Wilson:

So what we have here is a crime book read by one of the best actors from America’s best crime television series.  More details as I get them, but, basically, I couldn’t be happier.  I mean, good god.  Reg fucking Cathey.  That’s a hell of a man to have associated with your book.

NIGHT MUSIC: And It Was So

A new record for unsettled post-midnight listening by the excellent Talvihorros.  Click through for physical and digital pre-ordering after you’ve streamed it for free here.  G’night.

And It Was So by Talvihorros

Bookmarks for 2012-11-13

russell davies: the internet of middle-class things
"The point is that – once the bridging/programming/installing problem is solved, hopefully by something like the BERG cloud  - people are going to want this kind of stuff. It's the decorative, furniturey, not exactly useful, certainly not to do with work stuff that people buy in the nicer sort of garden centres."
(tags:comp iot )

THREE PANELS OPEN: Louie Joyce

 

Louie Joyce – @louiejoyce

Bookmarks for 2012-11-13

Between Us | Hollow Press

(tags:music bandcamp ambient )
About the Service Ecology of Resilience

(tags:resilience pol social dooooom )
Resilience Maps – Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps
"Simple Critical Infrastructure Maps is a Creative Commons licenced mapping and analysis tool for evaluating personal and social resilience. It is intended to be used for planning, and is simple enough to learn during a crisis to facilitate cooperation and effective response."
(tags:resilience pol social dooooom )

The Science Fiction Condition

Capture by Justin Pickard, entitled “The Science Fiction Condition.”

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