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
- 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
Audio
- Brian Crabtree, nnnnnnnn
- Alex McLean, yaxu
- Nonmateria
- Glia
- badd10de
Visual
- Lizbeth Poirier, Ritual Dust
- Everest Pipkin
- Android Arts
- Ita Toys
- Stanley Lieber
- Norma
Code
Anarchy, Animal Rights & Sabotage
- It's Going Down
- CrimethInc.
- Green & Black Cross, legal matters
- Unoffensive Animal
- SubMedia
- Sprout Distro
- Beautiful Trouble
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
- Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design
- CE Manifesto
- Design Lifecycle
- Open Source Ecology
- Measuring Energy
- Solar Protocol
- Toaster From Scratch
- Engineering Resources
- Right To Repair Manifesto
- Troubles in computer conservation
- Cristobal Sciutto
- Misfits Architecture
Collapsology
- Unearthed
- Energy Slaves
- Dark Ecology
- EnergySkeptic
- The Seneca Effect
- Deep Resource
- Dark Mountain Manifesto
Computers
- Death To Bullshit
- Stubborn computing
- Calm Technology
- Local First Software
- Folklore
- Original Sin of Free Software
- Hacker Ethics
- Low Fat Computing
General knowledge
- Feynman Lectures
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess
- 250 things an architect should know
- Archeyes
- Open Structures
Wikis
Communities
- Algorave
- Anagora
- Cat V
- llllllll, lines
- Lurk
- Malleable Systems
- Permacomputing
- Computing Within Limits
Podcasts
- Emerge Podcast
- 90p Invisible
- Lexicon Valley
- Radiolab
- Love And Radio
- Live Like the World is Dying
- It could happen here
- The Future Of Coding
Misc
- The Pyramid of Enabling Technologies
- Tendrils of Mess in our Brains
- Meditations on Moloch
- Personal Search Infrastructure
- The Depth Year
- Your life has already been designed
- 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- The Recovering Programmer
- What Gödel Discovered
- Social Media Content Removal Fail
- Moss Electricity
- What Can A Technologist
- Elite Deep Dive
- Hand-Eye Dilemma
- The Fediverse can be pretty toxic
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.
Incoming
- The Days: Taha Hussein
- Adrift On The Nile: Naguib Mahfouz
- Le Voyageur sur la terre: Julien Green
- The Spell of the Sensuous: David Abram
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
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Books & Portraits: Virginia Woolf
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.
2024
- Cocteau Twins - Tiny Dynamine
- YAPOOS - 不審な行動
- Nookicky - Pinhole
- Alcest - Les Chants de l'Aurore
- Robot God - Portal Within
- Sixth June - 1984
- SOPHIE - SOPHIE
- THE OTOLITH - Folium Limina
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.
2024
- L'Effondrement: Les Parasites. 2019
- Dune 2: Denis Villeneuve. 2024
- R2AK: Zach Carver. 2020
- Barbie: Greta Gerwig. 2023
- Tenet: Christopher Nolan. 2020
- Yintah: J. Wickham, B. Michell and M. Toledano. 2024
- I'm a Virgo: Boots Riley. 2023
- Furiosa: George Miller. 2024
- Alien: Covenant: Ridley Scott. 2017
- Machines In Flames: Andrew Culp Thomas Dekeyser. 2023
- Trois Hommes et un couffin: Coline Serreau. 1985
- Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis: Dany Boon. 2008
- Humanist Vampire: Ariane Louis-Seize. 2023
- Kanaval: Henri Pardo. 2023
2023
- Suzume: Makoto Shinkai. 2023
- Godland: Hlynur Pálmason. 2022
- Your Name: Makoto Shinkai. 2016
- All That Breathes: Shaunak Sen. 2022
- Weathering With You: Makoto Shinkai. 2019
- La Belle Verte: Coline Serreau. 1996
- Jour De Merde: Kevin T. Landry. 2023
- American Psycho: Mary Harron. 2000
- Вий: K. Yershov, G. Kropachyov. 1967
- The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl: Masaaki Yuasa. 2017
- My Cousin Vinny: Jonathan Lynn. 1992
- The Boy and the Heron: Hayao Miyazaki. 2023
2022
- Red Rocket: Sean Baker. 2021
- Macross Plus OVA: Shinichiro Watanabe. 1995
- Only Yesterday: Isao Takahata. 1991
- Our Flag Means Death: David Jenkins. 2022
- Suspiria: Dario Argento. 1977
- My Neighbors the Yamadas: Isao Takahata. 1999
- Ginger Snaps: John Fawcett. 2000
- Drive My Car: Ryusuke Hamaguchi. 2021
- Turning Red: Domee Shi. 2022
- Fleabag, Season 1: Phoebe Waller-Bridge. 2016
- Fleabag, Season 2: Phoebe Waller-Bridge. 2019
- Shadow: Zhang Yimou. 2018
- Everything Everywhere All At Once: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. 2022
- Triangle Of Sadness: Ruben Östlund. 2022
- Force Majeure: Ruben Östlund. 2014
2021
- The Lighthouse: Robert Eggers. 2019
- Shoplifters: Hirokazu Koreeda. 2018
- Santa Sangre: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 1989
- Cry, the Beloved Country: Darrell Roodt. 1995
- Beans: Tracey Deer. 2020
- Midsommar: Ari Aster. 2019
- Dune: Denis Villeneuve. 2021
- The Green Knight: David Lowery. 2021
- The Lobster: Yorgos Lanthimos. 2015
- Blindness: Fernando Meirelles. 2008
- The Dresser : Peter Yates. 1983
- Mulholland Drive : David Lynch. 2001
2020
- Prospect: Zeek Earl, Chris Caldwell. 2018
- Promare: Hiroyuki Imaishi. 2019
- Le Grand Bleu: Luc Besson. 1988
2019
- Parasite: Bong Joon-ho. 2019
- Hard to be a God: Aleksei German. 2014
- Vermillion Pleasure Night: Yoshimasa Ishibashi. 2000
2017
- Trava Fist Planet: Katsuhito Ishii & Takeshi Koike. 2003
- Nowhere: Gregg Araki. 1997
- On The Silver Globe: Andrzej Żuławski. 1989
- Tangerine: Sean Baker. 2015
2015
- Mad Max Fury Road: George Miller. 2015
- Once Upon a Time in the West: Sergio Leone. 1968
incoming old cities reading listening