directory

A curated list of all things media.

Books

Also, see reading.

Le Matin Des Magiciens: L. Pauwels & J. Bergier. 1960
Le Città Invisibili: Italo Calvino. 1972
Ficciones: Jorge Luis Borges. 1941
No.44: Mark Twain. 1916
Kybalion: Three Initiates. 1908
La Ricerca della Lingua Perfetta: Umberto Eco. 1993
Flatland: Edwin A. Abbott. 1884
Blumroch l'admirable: Louis Pauwels. 1976
Cyberiada: Stanisław Lem. 1965
Etidorhpa: John Uri Lloyd. 1895
The Long Way: Bernard Moitessier
Finite and Infinite Games: James P. Carse
Ishmael: Daniel Quinn. 1992

Movies

Also, see watching.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead: Tom Stoppard. 1990
Solaris: Steven Soderbergh. 2002
Wristcutter: A Love Story : Goran Dukic. 2006
The Rules of Attraction: Roger Avary. 2002
Faust: Jan Švankmajer. 1994
เรื่องรัก น้อยนิด มหาศา: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang. 2003
My Dinner with Andre: Louis Malle. 1981
Sedmikrásky: Věra Chytilová. 1996
Valerie A Týden Divů: Jaromil Jireš. 1970
Тіні забутих предків: Sergei Parajanov. 1967
Na srebrnym globie: Andrzej Żuławski. 1988
茶の味: Katsuhito Ishii. 2004
Cat Soup: Tatsuo Satō. 2001
Black Moon: Louis Malle. 1975

Albums

Also, see listening.

Weighing Souls With Sand: Angelic Process. 2007
L'Univers De La Mer: Dominique Guiot. 1978
Void: Access to Arasaka. 2010
You Have Already Gone to the Other World: A Hawk & A Hacksaw. 2013
Хтонь: Сруб. 2015
顕信の一撃: 友川カズキ. 2002
Noise Of The New: Seven Ark. 2005
Nämïdäë: Öxxö Xööx. 2015
人間まがい: 山崎ハコ. 1979
Le Soleil Noir: Barbara. 1970
静焔: 空夜coo:ya. 2005
Virgo Rising: Sixth June. 2017
Il y a: 夢中夢. 2008
星のひとみ: 黒百合姉妹. 1999
田園に死す: J.A.シーザー. 2002
François: Desireless. 1989
Zenith: Molly Nilsson. 2015
Head over Heels: Cocteau Twins. 1983

Comics

Brüsel: Schuiten & Peeters. 1992
ブラム: 弐瓶勉. 1998
風の谷のナウシカ: 宮崎駿. 1982
おやすみプンプン: 浅野いにお. 2007
うずまき: 伊藤潤二. 1998
Duck, Death and the Tulip: Wolf Erlbruch. 2007
Wandering Island: Kenji Tsuruta

Videogames

Eve Online: CCP Games. 2003
Jet Set Radio Future: Smilebit. 2002
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance: Square. 2003
Quake 3: Id. 1999
Drowned God: Inscape. 1997
Ikaruga: Treasure. 2001
Journey: ThatGameCompany. 2012
MDK: Shiny. 1997
Riven: Cyan Interactive. 1997

The Bookmarks is a curated list of websites.

A proposal, dear reader:

Create a list of bookmarks linking to websites you find interesting, and publish it for the world to see. It's a bit strange, almost nobody seems to be doing this. Looking through a sample of personal websites, very few of them has links to other personal websites. A hyperlink isn't a marriage proposal. It is enough to find some redeeming quality in a website to link to it. It costs nothing, and helps bring traffic to pages that you yourself think deserve it.~

Building Worlds

Wormsong, Em
Gestlings, Paul Batchelor
Melanocarpa, bouncepaw
Hakum, Rek Bell
Gabriele Pala
AltaPlana, Schuiten & Peeters
Dark Properties

Audio

Visual

Code

Anarchy, Animal Rights & Sabotage

Civil Fleet & Mutual Aid

SOS Humanity, MV Humanity 1
MV Louise Michel, MV Louise Michel
Sea Eye, MV Sea Eye 5
Sea Watch
World Central Kitchen
Compass Collective, SV Trotamar III
The Civil Fleet
Civil Fleet

Travel

Annie Hill, Iron Bark
Capucine Trochet, Tara Tari
Zen and the Art of Boat Building, Mollymawk
Eric Brossier, Vagabond
Not all who wander are lost, Hannah
Roger Taylor, MingMing II
Sven Yrvind, Exlex
Omick, Minimus II
The Journal of Lost Time

Technology

Engineering

Collapsology

Computers

General knowledge

Wikis

Communities

Podcasts

Misc

Postmodernism

The presence of these links on my website is in no way an endorsement of their content, but I do believe that a visitor might benefit from an awareness of the futurologies that mean to harm us.

The reading list anthology.

The content of this list is not an endorsement of the views of the authors, or of their books, it is merely a record of which ones I have read over the year. Please be advised, most of these books are for discerning adults.

For a list of all time favourites, see directory. Stars next to book titles indicate a second reading, highlighted rows indicate that year's favourite.

Reading list 2025

The Secret History: Donna Tartt
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle
Middlemarch: George Eliot
The Goldfinch: Donna Tartt
Banvard's Folly: Paul Collins
Patterns Of Software: Richard P. Gabriel
Artemis: Andy Weir
A History of Thinking on Paper: Roland Allen
Threaded Interpretive Languages: R. G. Loeliger
Iil Met By Moonlight: Sarah A. Hoyt
The Silmarillion: J. R. R. Tolkien
The Butterfly Revolution: William Butler

Reading list 2024

The Haunting of Hill House: Shirley Jackson
La Horde Du Contrevent: Alain Damasio
The Last Great Sea: Terry Glavin
The Martian: Andy Weir
How Not to Age: Michael Greger
Flowers For Algernon: Daniel Keyes
West With The Night: Beryl Markham
Les Enfants Terribles: Jean Cocteau
Term Rewriting and All That: Franz Baader, Tobias Nipkow
Technology & the Character Of Contemporary Life: Albert Borgmann
Erewhon: Samuel Butler
The Fountainhead*: Ayn Rand
Technophilia and Its Discontents: Ellen Ullman
The Democracy Of Species: Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Serious Joke: Michael Maier
No. 44*: Mark Twain
I Will Fight No More Forever: Merrill D. Beal
In Cold Blood: Truman Capote
Everyday Utopia: Kristen Ghodsee
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle
Project Hail Mary: Andy Weir
Selected Poems: Emily Dickinson
How We’d Talk if the English had Won in 1066: David Cowley
A Mathematician's Lament: Paul Lockhart
Books & Portraits: Virginia Woolf
Congo Éteint: Finkelstein, Tshinza, Mpanga, Kutemba..

Reading list 2023

Le Péril bleu: Maurice Renard
Mathematics Made Difficult: Carl E. Linderholm
The Journey Home: Edward Abbey
Courier Sud: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Machine Stops*: E. M. Forster
The Unknowable: G.J. Chaitin
Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice: Glen Krasner
Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines: Marvin Minsky
Soul Of A New Machine: Tracy Kidder
The Story Of B: Daniel Quinn
Roadside Picnic: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky
Lord Of The Flies: William Golding
Sylvie and Bruno: Lewis Carroll
Homage to Catalonia: George Orwell
Robot: Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg
Dealers Of Lightning: Michael Hiltzik
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils: Selma Lagerlöf
Walden Two: B. F. Skinner
The Catcher in the Rye: J. D. Salinger
Blumroch L'Admirable*: Louis Pauwels
The Tartar Steppe: Dino Buzzati

Reading list 2022

The Dawn of Everything: David Graeber and David Wengrow
We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Shirley Jackson
To Mock a Mockingbird: Raymond Smullyan
Watership Down: Richard Adams
The Magic Of Lewis Carroll: John Fisher
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: Oliver Sacks
The Life Of Santoka Taneda: Sumita Oyama
The Unsettling Of America: Wendell Berry
What the Dormouse Said: John Markoff
Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions: Martin Gardner
A Pattern Language: Christopher Alexander
Autobiographical Notes: Jorge Luis Borges
La Technique: Jaques Ellul
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy*: Douglas Adams
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe*: Douglas Adams
Life, the Universe and Everything*: Douglas Adams
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish*: Douglas Adams
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Andreas Malm
Gulliver's Travels: Jonathan Swift
Le Petit Prince*: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
À rebours: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Muqaddimah: Ibn Khaldûn

Reading list 2021

Starting Forth*: Leo Brodie
The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: Kevin A. Carson
The Monkey Wrench Gang: Edward Abbey
Thinking Forth: Leo Brodie
Vol de Nuit: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Terre Des Hommes: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Pantagruel: Francois Rabelais
Reset: Ronald J. Deibert
Fahrenheit 451: Ray Bradbury
Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Christopher Alexander
Mingming and the Art of Minimal Ocean Sailing: Roger D. Taylor
Comment tout peut s'effondrer: Pablo Servigne, Raphaël Stevens
The Swarm: Frank Schätzing
Journal de l'année de la peste: Daniel Defoe
Le Bateau ivre, et autres poemes: Arthur Rimbaud
The Stories: Ray Bradbury
L'Aveuglement: José Saramago
The Summer Book: Tove Jansson

Reading list 2020

Made to break: Giles Slade
Wandering Island: Kenji Tsuruta
6502 Assembly Programming Language: Mike Smith
Nouvelles pensées échevelées: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Dracula: Bram Stoker
Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde: René Girard
Tamata et l'alliance: Bernard Moitessier
Frankenstein: Mary Shelley
Macintosh Pascal Programming Primer: Dave Mark & Cartwright Reed
Elements of Computing Systems: Noam Nisan & Shimon Schocken
The Invisible Computer: Donald A. Norman
The Long Way: Bernard Moitessier
The Dispossessed: Ursula K. Le Guin
Solaris*: Stanislaw Lem
The Complete Cosmicomics: Italo Calvino
One Human Minute: Stanislaw Lem
The Mushroom at the End of the World: Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Incredible Tide: Alexander Key
Don Quixote: Miguel De Cervantes Saaverda
A Canticle for Leibowitz: Walter M. Miller
Tactics for Single-Handed Sailing: Andrew Evans
Finite and Infinite Games: James P. Carse
The Golden Apples of the Sun: Ray Bradbury
The Timeless Way of Building: Christopher Alexander
Purgatorio: Dante Alighieri
One Straw Revolution: Masanobu Fukuoka
What Are People For: Wendell Berry
How to Build a Working Digital Computer*: Wolk, Alcosser & Phillips

Reading list 2019

Cyclonopedia: Reza Negarestani
Who Owns The Future: Jaron Lanier
Practical Ethics: Peter Signer
Embassytown: China Miéville
The Art of UNIX Programming: Eric S. Raymond
Xenofeminism: Helen Hester
Land Of Lisp: Conrad Barski
The Word for World is Forest: Ursula K. Le Guin
The Accelerationist Reader: Robin Mackay
Collected Shorts: H. P. Lovecraft
Sailing The Farm: Ken Neumeyer
Assemblage Theory: Manuel DeLanda
Rasselas: Samuel Johnson
Inventing the Future: Nick Srnicek
Manuel De Résistance Contemporaine: Cyril Dion
Girls Last Tour: Tsukumizu
Persepolis: Marjane Satrapi
How To Do Nothing: Jenny Odell
La Société du spectacle: Guy Debord

Reading list 2018

Hermeneutics: John D. Caputo
Tao Te Ching: Lao Tzu
Letters From A Stoic: Seneca
Animal Farm: George Orwell & Russel Baker
Last Chance to See: Douglas Adams & Mark Carwardine
The Arabian Nights: Anonymous
The Stack: Benjamin H. Bratton
The Futurological Congress: Stanislaw Lem
The Cyberiad: Stanislaw Lem
Ishmael: Daniel Quinn
Godforsaken Sea: Derek Lundy
The Tao Of Pooh: Benjamin Hoff
The Te Of Piglet: Benjamin Hoff
The Book Of Five Rings: Miyamoto Musashi
Hagakure: Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Don't Sleep There Are Snakes: Daniel L. Everett
On Trails: Robert Moor
The Sixth Extinction: Elizabeth Kolbert
The Empty Mirror: Janwillem Van De Wetering
Industrial Society and Its Future: Theodore Kaczynski
Animal Liberation: Peter Signer
On Food and Cooking: Harold McGee

Reading list 2017

Pictures From The Water Trade: John David Morley
A Calendar Of Wisdom: Tolstoy
The Art Of War: Sun Tzu
Superintelligence: Nick Bostrom
Kokoro: Natsume Soseki
From AI To Zombies: Eliezer Yudkowsky
In Praise Of Darkness: Jorge Luis Borges
Self-Sufficient Sailor: Lin Pardey
Travels in Hyperreality: Umberto Eco
North To The Night: Alvah Simon
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: Caitlin Doughty
The Fungi Of Yuggot: H. P. Lovecraft
In The Dust Of This Planet: Eugene Thacker
The Japanese Art of Decluttering: Marie Kondo
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Robert M. Pirsig
Meditations: Marcus Aurelius

Reading list 2016

Seraffyn's Oriental Adventure: Lin & Larry Pardey
Guns, Germs & Steel: Jared M. Diamond
Predictable Irrational: Dan Ariely
How Not To Die: Michael Greger
The China Study: T. Colin Campbell
Letter To My Father: Franz Kafka
Le Ton Beau De Marot: Douglas Hofstadter
Beyond Good & Evil: Friedrich Nietzche
The Circle: Dave Eggers
Blumroch L'Admirable: Louis Pauwels
The Book Of Tea: Okakura Kakuzō
Journals: Henry David Thoreau
Walden*: Henry David Thoreau

The listening list anthology.

Generated list of album titles with compiled plays of over 150 times, the automated collection of plays is made via cmus-remote. For a list of all-time favourites, see the directory. The albums are not listed by release date but by when the first play occurred, it's a strange choice, I might have to fix that.

2025

空夜coo:ya - 静焔
矢野顕子 - そらの庭

2024

Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine
YAPOOS - 不審な行動
Nookicky - Pinhole
Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore
Robot God - Portal Within
Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
Sixth June - 1984
SOPHIE - SOPHIE
THE OTOLITH - Folium Limina
Arvid Holst - Things We Lost In The Fire

2023

Soft Kill - Dead Kids
The True Faith - Go To Ground
IVOXYGEN - Come Back
Cimerion - Contresort
SPZkr - Punto e Forma
INGRESO CADÁVER - Nacido muerto
Slowdive - Everything Is Alive
Toshio Masuda - Mushishi Soundtrack
HEALTH - HATEFUL

2022

Asylum Party - Borderline
Skeler - Night Drive
Covenant - Sequencer Beta
Lebensessenz - Le besoin perpétuel
Euroshima - Gala
yaphet kotto - the killer was in the government blankets
Black Eyes - Black Eyes
Vulgaires Machins - Compter Les Corps
そらの庭 - 新居昭乃
Cimerion - Vers La Montagne Noire

2021

Tamaryn - Dreaming The Dark
Muslimgauze - Mullah Said
Mesarthim - (dots & dashes)
La Femme - Mystere
Aindulmedir - The Lunar Lexicon
Moaning - Uneasy Laughter

2020

Sweeping Promises - Hunger for a Way Out
Oklou - Galor
Lorenzo Senni - Scacco Matto
Daniel L.K. Caldwell - Prospect Soundtrack
Lauren Bousfield - Palimpsest

2019

Hole Dweller - Flies the coop
Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
Black Marble - Bigger Than Life
Blind Seagull - Nails
Lauren Bousfield - Avalon Vale
Electric Light Orchestra - Yours Truly, 2095
Moaning - Moaning

2018

KAZKA - Карма
Lustre - Another Time, Another Place
Molly Nilsson - Twenty twenty
Helium Vola - Liod
Enya - Enya
Purity Ring - Shrines
The Soft Moon - Deeper
Melt Banana - Fetch

2017

Sixth June - Virgo Rising
Whirr - Distressor
Wand - Golem
Yaporigami - Jade Fib
Буерак - Скромные Апартаменты
Илья Бешевли - Странник
Deru - 1979
The Body - I Shall Die Here
Beach House - Bloom
The Angelic Process - Solipsistic

2016

Meth Wax - Meth Wax
Boy Harsher - Yr Body Is Nothing
Black Marble - It's Immaterial
Luboš Fišer - Valerie a Týden Divů
Molly Nilsson - Zenith
Сруб - Песни Злых Цветов
KAP BAMBINO - Zero Life Night Vision
Diskoteket - Diskoteket
CQ - Communication Cultural Curiosity Quotien
The Caretakers - An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
Belgrado - Obraz

2015

Soviet Soviet - Fate
The Retuses - Astra
She Past Away - Belirdi Gece
S. Maharba - S. Maharba
Static Movement - Visionary Landscapes
sToa - Porta VIII
凛として時雨 - #5
Oeil - Myrtle
Frog Pocket - Gonglot
CQ - What A Wonderful Worlds End
Placebo - Meds
Slowdive - I Saw The Sun

2014

Marina & The Diamonds - Electra Heart
Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery
Hypnotizer - Normality Is Insanity
Psyclon Nine - Crwn Thy Frnicatr
Void Vision - Sub Rosa
Nookicky - Noon Moon
Mylene Farmer - Innamoramento
Die Sektor - To Be Fed Upon
sToa - Urthona
Slowdive - Souvlaki

The watching list anthology.