User:C3/Readings

* CurrentlyReading

• Ian Bogost, How to do things with videogames
• Maarten Billemont, Bash Guide

* ToRead

• Tatiana Bazzichelli, Networking
• Expanding spatial narratives
• Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason
• Marc Augé, Non-places
• Geert Lovink, Stuck on the Platform
• Lee McGuigan, Selling the american people
• Malcom Harris, Palo Alto
• Brian Wyvill, Fundamentals of computer graphics

* Read

• Michael Hartl, Learn enough command line to be dangerous

The book is the first in a series of tutorials (so called by the author) that aim at crossing the line towards building the individual 'technical sophistication' (a misc of "computer tricks" and "an attitude of getting the machine to do your bidding"). The skill is described as something that cannot be taught directly, it is actively built by the reader of this and other "learn enough tutorials" by doing exercises and adding new tools to their own kit. Speaking of exercises, I enjoyed the disposition of the ones present in the book, I found them stimulating and acute to the point of thinking of my own ones, which is surely the intended goal. Another nice characteristic is that the author added many interesting external notes that paint a nice historical overview of days I struggle to imagine myself.

• Paul Graham, Hackers and painters
• Nicolas Maigret, Maria Roszkowska, The pirate book
• Byung-Chul Han, Undinge: Umbrüche der Lebenswelt
• Kenneth Goldsmith, Uncreative writing
• Gavin Mueller, Breaking things at work
• Lev Manovich, The language of new media
• Lev Manovich, Software takes command
• Joan Fontucuberta, La furia de las imàgenes
• Steve Krug, Don't make me think
• John Berger, Ways of Seeing
• Ian Cheng, Emissary's guide to worlding