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Information (top shelf) has been reshelved at last and all library books are back to the library. That Goonatilake book went on a new section, to the right of Containers, that Im calling Eclectics for now.
Eclectics includes Julietta Singh's "No Archive will Restore You" and one of those Shaun Usher books (check them out at your library if you haven't come across them before) as well as a pair of rare and unusual spiral bound books by peace activist Kristin Christman called Overview and Guide to "The Taxonomy of Peace."
The taxonomy applies classification toward the establishment of a "science of peace". Christman aimed to be comprehensive and her project is a massive and relentless collection of texts. These are all published online and the spiral notebooks serve, litwrally, as an overview of the project and guide to its contents. The table of contents is 171 pages, listing off Roots of Violence, Escalators of Violence, and Solutions to Violence.
The original website has been preserved by the Internet Archive.
One page of the guide leaps out to me -- "Skewers: Mental Escalators that Bend the Truth." This describes the exhaustion I feel when looking at most social media posts that pertain to war and conflict. (Upper left corner in photo below.)
I tried to follow the links in the website on archive.org to get into Mental Escalators of Violence to see the classification tools and citations, but their snapshot only preserves the homepage.
I looked for other online repositories of Christman's texts and did not find anything. Wonderful, as always, that Internet Archive has preserved the homepage. While searching, I learned that Christman has been active in writing and speaking about de-escalating in Russia's war with Ukraine. She started a youtube channel in 2022 has written several articles on the topic. In recent monthsz her youtube channel and her writing have looked at the roots of violence in Israel-Palestine.
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Emptying out the grandma room. Found Stephanies box of CDs. And ANOTHER bunch of Diamanda Galas posters... and we have even more tape recorders that we squirreled away.
I need more shelves.
This is gorgeous!
Rose Lazar and Robert A. A. Lowe - Gyromancy.
I wonder what it sounds like. Its online and I listen.... there are funny soft skips and I wonder if thats just how it sounds or if that affects of transfer???
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Do You Have ‘Bookshelf Wealth’?
"to really achieve the look and the lifestyle, someone has to be an avid reader and has to appreciate the act of collecting things, especially art and sculpture"
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“This book is an attempt to show when many network radio shows were on the air and what shows are available today to collectors.”
“Ultimate History of Network Radio Programming and Guide to all Circulating Shows” (2015) by Jay Hickerson
This publication was just shared on the ARSC email list. I do not own this book but I am saving the Archive.org link.
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Wishing everyone
Strength and fortitude
For the adjustment
To Justice
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Wishing everyone
Strength and fortitude
For the adjustment
To Justice
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Yakel. Yates. Yeo.
My "Archives and Information" binders sure have a lot of pages in the Y section!
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Just found this in storage. Sunday NYTimes from Dec 2016 through Feb 2017. Farewell Obama Hello Trump. I will recycle on Monday, 10/30... or you can have them if you like. DM me. Free! Must pickup or pay shipping if you want me to mail. 12" x 14" x 4".
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"An ongoing creative research collaboration between the Palestinian Museum and the School of Architecture at the University of Cape Town, which was produced as part of Sharjah Art Foundation’s annual Publishing Grant (2021)."
This one is not in my library... saw this on Instagram today. From Offset Projects library in Delhi.
Offset Project is an artist initiative based in New Delhi, India working with photography and bookmaking.
"The Offset Bookshop was launched in 2020 in the midst of a global pandemic. It offers a diverse collection of photobooks from the South Asian region (India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Burma, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) from young practitioners to experienced artists, bookmakers and authors."
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Packing books to go to Berlin. These catch my eye this week.
Young Palestinians Speak, a social studies book for 4th - 6th grades.
The Obstruction of Peace by Naseer Aruri, 1995
Children of the Ghetto: my name is Adam by Elias Khoury
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New in the mail from Fonograf Editions.
Audre Lorde LP. Thomas Salto book.
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Random box from my moms house with college textbooks, Arakawa+Gins stuff, Sharjah Biennial schwag, my Boy Scout uniform, and a bunch of books. .. does "To Not To Die" go in Philosophy or Poetry or next to "Architectural Body" in Architecture/Urbanism?
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Random box from my moms house with college textbooks, Arakawa+Gins stuff, Sharjah Biennial schwag, my Boy Scout uniform, and a bunch of books. .. does "To Not To Die" go in Philosophy or Poetry or next to "Architectural Body" in Architecture/Urbanism?
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Ive been excited for the past week to receive this new book about Curtis Cuffie. I remember this character and his work. Maybe we knew his name was Curtis? Probably we just had some obvious descriptive name for him like Trash Artist. Sometimes we met Curtis in the early early morning or shouted with him at The Cube. Curtis knew Jamals brother, Andre and made art out of trash. Other than that, I never knew anything about him. He was one of the human landmarks of the neighborhood, like Hot Dog and Motorcycle Helmet Lady.
Now I have the book and its a little disappointing. 10 pages of text and over 100 pages of photos. There are an awful lot of blank pages and I wonder if there was more text forthcoming? I would like more text. Either other memories from the 90s or relations to other homeless artists from 20th century or today. The blank pages make the whole book feel rushed and the long run of pages with no context feels more like an instagram feed than a book.
This volume just burst the seams of my "Lower East Side" box so that box has split into a new sub-box called "EV art books". Placing this book there next to "Bob Thompson: Meteor in a Black Hat" reveals both how hard it is for the art world to truly recognize the work of outsiders, and also how much this book is a beginning and not an ending.
Get your copy frok from Blank Forms if you are collecting the history of Lower East Side or outsider art. Otherwise, just visit the images on the Blank Forms website. There really isnt much more in the book.
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After 4 years, I have evicted fiction. Why did fiction have the most prominent place in my bookshelves? How did fiction come to dominate our idea of the book. I am putting them all into boxes.
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