Readings

1 November 2011 • readings
tags: aesthetics, articles, books, comics, death, hauntology, history, imagination, machines, noise, novels, phonography, psychogeography, robots, science, television, texts, vampires, zombies

• Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard [read]
Tom McCarthy, The Guardian, Saturday 24 July 2010

• El elogio de la sombra [leer]
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki

• Lenore #1-13
Roman Dirge

• Psychogeography [read]
Merlin Coverley

• Words Made Flesh. Code, Culture, Imagination [read]
Florian Cramer

• Jacques Attali, author of Noise (1977). Speaking at the ICA, London, May 2001 [read]

Readings

24 July 2011 • readings
tags: articles, capitalism, chaos, comics, hauntology, music, perception, politics, statements, vampires, zombies

• Mis problemas con Amenabar
Jordi Costa, Darío Adanti

• Las casualidades no existen [leer]
Borja Vilaseca, El País

• Political Music [read]
David Smooke

• Bats, Rats and Packs [read]
Eugene Thacker

• Capitalist Monsters
Steven Shaviro

• Hauntology: A not-so-new critical manifestation [read]
Andrew Gallix, The Guardian

Fiction and paper on a summer’s day

5 July 2011 • readings
tags: books, drugs, fantasy, fiction, humour, life, murder, novels, politics, religion, sex

[just ten, in no particular order]

The Toy Collector, James Gunn.
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi.
The Monk, Matthew G. Lewis.
Vurt, Jeff Noon.
Tales of the Unexpected, Roald Dahl.
Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts, Thomas De Quincey.
The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh.
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler, Italo Calvino.
Leviathan, Paul Auster.

Mis problemas con Amenabar

28 January 2011 • readings
tags: cinema, comics, humour

Nunca he sido mucho de leer cómics, pero “Mis problemas con Amenabar” lo tenía pendiente desde hace tiempo por una razón muy simple, pero como no soy muy dada a soltar improperios contra nadie que cada cual saque sus conclusiones. Hacía tiempo que no me reía tanto yo sola…

Los autores del susodicho son Jordi Costa y Darío Adanti y está editado por Glénat.

Readings

7 September 2010 • readings
tags: articles, body, books, capitalism, civilization, fantasy, fiction, found, history, liberation, minimal, music, novels, plagiarism, poetry, politics, situationism, vampires

• Medicina tradicional china [leer]
Daniel Reid. Ediciones Urano. 1999.

• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction
Colin Ward. Oxford University Press. 2004.

• The Laws of Simplicity
John Maeda. The MIT Press. 2006.

• A User’s Guide to Détournement [read]
Guy Debord & Gil J Wolman. 1956.

• On Found Poetry (A FOUND INTRODUCTION) [read]
John Robert Colombo
From Open Poetry, (Ronald Gross & George Quasha, eds., 1973)

• A Day in the Life of a Musician [read]
Erik Satie

• Dead and Gone
Charlaine Harris. 2009.

Readings

8 August 2010 • readings
tags: aesthetics, analysis, books, death, history, humour, murder, perception, religion, senses, situationism, suicide, zen

• Panegírico
Guy Debord

• Del asesinato considerado como una de las Bellas Artes [read in English]
Thomas de Quincey

• Consciousness and Perception: The Point of Experience and the Meaning of the World We Inhabit [read]
Sérgio Roclaw Basbaum. Revista Eletrônica Informação e Cognição, v.5, n.1, p.181-203, 2006.

• Preguntes a un mestre Zen
Taisen Deshimaru

Readings

3 August 2010 • readings
tags: body, books, fiction, patterns, perception, psychogeography, rain, seitai, space, texts, uncertainty, walking

• Walking [read]
Henry David Thoreau. 1862.

• El cuerpo, su estado y la espontaneidad [download pdf]
Haruchika Noguchi

• The Crimes of the Flaneur
Tom McDonough. October Magazine, Fall 2002, No. 102.

• The Man of the Crowd [read]
Edgar Allan Poe. 1840.

• Théorie de la dérive [read]
Guy Debord. 1956.

• Sensorium
Edited by Caroline A. Jones

Readings

4 June 2010 • readings
tags: aesthetics, articles, brain, consumism, criticism, installations, science, senses, smell, texts

• Sensational technologies [read]
Annet Dekker and Vivian van Saaze. Digital Creativity 2005, Vol. 16, No. 2.

• Speaking of Art as Embodied imagination: A Multisensory Approach to Understanding Aesthetic Experience
Annamma Joy and John F. Sherry, Jr. Journal of Consumer Research, Inc. Vol. 30, September 2003.

• The Aesthetics of Smelly Art
Larry Shiner and Yulia Kriskovets. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 65:3 Summer 2007.

• (Re)Confirming the Conventions – An Ontology of the Olfactory [read]
Helen Paris.

Readings

7 November 2009 • readings
tags: analysis, articles, brain, cinema, dreamachine, flicker, hallucinations, television, video, videoart, visualmusic

• From Stroboscope to Dream Machine: A History of Flicker-Induced Hallucinations
B.C. ter Meulen, D. Tavy and B.C. Jacobs b. European Neurology Vol. 62, No. 5, 2009.

• Décor by Timothy Leary [read]
Mark Alen. The New York Times. January 20, 2005.

• The Touch through Time: Raoul Hausmann, Nam June Paik and the Transmission Technologies of the Avant-Garde
Ina Bloom. Leonardo – Volume 34, Number 3, June 2001.

• Gnosis and Iconoclasm: A Case Study of Cinephilia
Annette Michelson. October, Vol. 83 (Winter, 1998).

• Review: Yann Beauvais (ed.), Paul Sharits
Federico Windhausen. Animation: An interdisciplinary journal. July 2009, Volume 4, No. 2.

• The Films of Peter Kubelka
Earl Bodien. Film Quarterly, Vol. 20, No. 2 (Winter, 1966-1967).