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]

Watchings

8 October 2011 • watchings
tags: capitalism, cinema, comedy, documentaries, drugs, economy, humour, love, music, noise, perception, politics, sound, television, tv series, vampires

• Half Nelson (2006)
Ryan Fleck

• Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
Craig Gillespie

• Sound of Noise (2010)
Ola Simonsson, Johannes Stjärne Nilsson

• The Shock Doctrine (2009)
Mat Whitecross, Michael Winterbottom

• How I Met Your Mother, Seasons 1-6 (2005-2011)
Carter Bays, Craig Thomas

• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Nicholas Stoller

• True Blood, Season 4 (2011)
Allan Ball

• The IT Crowd, Seasons 1-4 (2006-2010)
Graham Linehan

• Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn

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

Arithmomania

3 October 2010 • out of context
tags: brain, mathematics, patterns, science, television, vampires

Arithmomania is a mental disorder that may be seen as an expression of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Sufferers from this disorder have a strong need to count their actions or objects in their surroundings.

Sufferers may for instance feel compelled to count the steps while ascending or descending a flight of stairs or to count the number of letters in words. They often feel it is necessary to perform an action a certain number of times to prevent alleged calamities. Other examples include counting tiles on the floor or ceiling, the number of lines on the highway, or simply the number of times one breathes or blinks.

Arithmomania sometimes develops into a complex system in which the sufferer assigns values or numbers to people, objects and events in order to deduce their coherence.

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Folklore concerning vampires often depicts them with arithmomania, such as a compulsion to count seeds or grains of rice. More lightheartedly, the muppet Count von Count from Sesame Street appears to be a fellow “sufferer”.

Wikipedia

Watchings

20 September 2010 • watchings
tags: cinema, earth, fiction, love, music, television, tv series, vampires

• The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976)
Nicolas Roeg

• The Pirate (1948)
Vincente Minnelli

• True Blood, Season 3 (2010)
Allan Ball

• Sons of Anarchy, Seasons 1-2 (2008-2009)
Kurt Sutter

• Misfits, Season 1 (2009)
Howard Overman

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.

Watchings

16 April 2010 • watchings
tags: animals, capitalism, cinema, consumism, documentaries, economy, found footage, humour, nature, politics, television, tv series, vampires, video

• Simplicité volontaire et décroissance (2007) [watch]
Jean-Claude Decourt

• The IT Crowd. Series 1-3 (2006-2008)

• Full Frontal (2002)
Steven Soderbergh

• Innocent Blood (1992)
John Landis

• Footprints (1992)
Bill Morrison

• The Bats (1998)
Jim Trainor

• C’mon Babe (1988)
Sharon Sandusky

• Swamp (1971)
Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson

• Hyas et sténorinques (1927)
Jean Painlevé

• Science Friction (1959)
Stan Vanderbeek

• Historia Naturae (Suita) (1967)
Jan Svankmajer

• Crossing the Great Sagrada (1924)
Adrian Brunel

• Supermâché, aire de pique-nique (2008)
Laurent Sfar & Jean Guillaud