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annotated bibliography

By the next session: Make a VERY SHORT bibliography NO MORE THAN THREE KEY TEXTS. Write a very brief (two sentence) outline of the key texts in your bibliography and discuss how they will relate to your thesis). This will be the start of an annotated bibliography.

Caps Lock, Ruben Pater

This book is about ⊞ from several different contexts. It's chapter headings show that it examines the "⊞er as" (salesperson, worker, amateur, activist, etc). It has given me so far lots to think about in terms of the ⊞er's role in society, particularly through a Marxist lens. Further Reading: 'The Politics of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication 2016'.

16 case-stories re-imagining the practice of lay-out, Open Source Publishing

This is relevant to the part where I want to examine the eco-system of tools that surround me, and make tools that play with the boundaries and possibilities. It includes some really interesting experiments in the same spirit. I need to read it again because it gave me loads of fun ideas.

Death of a Son, Jon Silkin

  I have seen stones: I have seen brick
But this house was made up of neither bricks nor stone
    But a house of flesh and blood
      With flesh of stone

  And bricks for blood. A house
Of stones and blood in breathing silence with the other
   Birds singing crazy on its chimneys.
     But this was silence,

The "Moralities" of Poaching. Manufacturing personal artefacts on the factory floor, Anteby, M.

Case study of the weird boundaries or connections between labour and the rest of existence ("leisure"). Situating labour within bigger social structures. It would be interesting to work through a similar lens.

Notes on: De Certeau, M.(1984) The Practice of Everyday Life, Dave Harris

Maybe I should read the original De Certeau piece. This is about navigating systems, networks and institutions, tactics and counter strategies. It is about disorder and destruction/destructuring.

interrupt the accepted framework and order, which 'leaks... meaning: it is a sieve order' 

A Prehistory of the Cloud, Tung-Hui Hu

This is relevant because I find the cloud based elements of my practices, in particular design software and communication tools, to be very influential on how the practices are carried out. Also the time-sharing aspects of computer and human networks that the book deals with and our modern view of time, where it comes from and how it affects us.

On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant

I dont have a specific reason why its included it's affected everything to be honest. I guess most relevant here is the idea of 'loosening objects' which is the main point of my work, to loosen ⊞.

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight, Clifford Geertz

Or the Interpretation of Culture, but I haven't read much of that except for the title. I am interested in the method of thick description that Geertz used here, trying to look at events, episodes and practices in a lot of detail to understand why people do things, and how they derive meaning from their actions.