Nov-Dec 2022
A list of books, audiobooks, podcasts, television, and more that I am consuming.
A list of achievements, articles, or plans in the shop to showcase my production.
This series also maps my consumer habits: my time on media can lead to more projects and purchases, as well as influences my thoughts.
Reading :: Listening :: Watching
Wanting :: Getting :: Making
What I am Reading this Month:
#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader 2014 (edited by Robin Mackay, Armen Avanessian)
Articles that had an impact:
Nick Cave on Music, Mystery, and the Relationship Between… Maria Popova
The Red Right Hand Files, Nick Cave
The Art of Resilient Reading, Stephen Bradford Long
Walter Benjamin, Violence, Sami Khatib
What I am listening to this month:
Audio Books:
Podcasts:
Acid Horizon
- Dialectics of the Gods — Deleuze, Hillman, Jung, Schelling, and Hegel
- Harlan Ellison’s “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” With Jim
Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour
- Matthew Flisfeder – Algorithmic Desire
Making Sense (Sam Harris)
- #301 – The Politics of Unreality — Ukraine and Nuclear Risk
New Books in Systems & Cybernetics
- Xiao Liu, “Information Fantasies — Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China”
Outsider Theory
- Universal Basic MKUltra With Psyop Cinema
Philosophize This!
- Episode #172 … Simone Weil – Attention
The Philosopher’s Zone
- Philosophy and Travel
Sacred Tension
- Derrida, the Exorcist, and Losing Faith | David Rutledge of the Philosopher’s Zone
Zizke & So On
- For they know not what they do… (Zizek) Matthew Flisfeder
Music:
- Nick Cave
- Arctic Monkeys
- Lord Huron
- Liturgy
- Julian Plenti
- Sharon van Etten
- Lumineers
What I am streaming this month:
- The Peripheral (William Gibson) #Amazon (recommended)
- Visioneers #Amazon (Zach Galifianakis)
- Nekrotronic #Hulu
- too old to die young #amazon (just started) (Nicolas Winding Refn)
Youtube history:
Consuming:
What I want:
An espresso machine and amazing espresso grinder. Looking at tiny espresso machines that are expensive and a hand-press espresso maker, and really fancy grinders. – This will never happen. I am just being a fetishistic desiring machine.
What I got:
2 vinyl albums (on sale): Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon / The Gorrillaz, Plastic Beach
3 philosophy joke shirts
JavaPress hand grinder (coffee), Fellow Stag pour-over set, Hario scale
What I produced:
Podcasts:
Art Stuff
Learning how to draw on an iPad: still messing around with realism vs stylistic stuff, how few layers of color I can get away with, etc.
DIY Stuff
Leigh Dovetail Jigg Box or crate for storage, which doubles as a clamping station and height increase while using the jig.
working on desk elements, but finished a cutting board and did some silly improvements.
Life Stuff
Thanksgiving with family. Spending all of December with my sister and work in Birmingham.
Belly Button Lint
I have also kept up with my daily posts to my naval gazing blog.
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