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06/17/2005 Archived Entry: "What I'm Reading"
What I'm Reading
The Culture of Cities - Sharon Zukin. Study of the city as cultural capital. Ok. Sometimes too dependent on her grad students' research. Needs to broaden her observations more.
Chorology - John Sallis. Thomas recommendation. Going to use it for a piece on chora and Detroit I'm working on. Very interesting, but I hate it when writers use the Greek spelling for words. What do I do when I see this word? How do I sound it out mentally? "And then the notion of GRGLABRG is ..."
The Shark Invested Custard - Charles Willeford. Steve recommended this a week or so ago. Found it in the used bookstore on 9 Mile. It's hilarious. Bachelors in Miami get into all kinds of hijinks: murder, adultery, lots of drinking. Love it.
The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture - Mark Taylor. I hated Taylor's vision of higher ed and technology he shared with us at Computers and Writing two years ago. I also remember him flirting with Jenny at a bar ("Oooooh. I love your tattoo"). But after reading good friends' very insightful pieces on Taylor in the latest JAC, and being very interested in network theory for my own work, this seemed like essential reading.
Achewood. Every day. Somehow Teodor has been talked into doing gay porn; but he doesn't realize it yet.
