Library

The Antilibrary

The books still to be read. One day. Maybe...

A reminder of all the knowledge and understandings still to be considered, understood and integrated. Each entry remembers where it came from and why it entered into my sphere of unknowning.

Gesture and Speech ↗

André Leroi-Gourhan · 2018

We read the chapter "The Freeing of Memory". Its analysis was super fascinating; I want the whole book.

via Memory Research Study Group · the session at the Protocol Institute on 16 July 2026 — "The Freeing of Memory"

Maintenance of Everything

Stewart Brand

The Stack

Benjamin H. Bratton

I want to learn more about Bratton's thinking after attending that lecture.

via Benjamin H. Bratton · his lecture in London — "What is agency? Placebo Culture, Agency theater, agentic AI" ↗ — from On Hybrid Human AI Societies

Thinking about On Hybrid Human AI Societies

Alive: The Hidden Intelligence of the Living World

Melanie Challenger

The Eerie Silence: Searching for Ourselves in the Universe

Paul Davies

via Merel · the third Centuriae writing retreat, at Hook Hotel — "my new favorite book" in "Are We the Martians Under the Bed?" ↗

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Isaiah Berlin

via Venkatesh Rao · his piece in Protocolized — "The Crooked Timber of AI" ↗

Imagination: A Manifesto

Ruha Benjamin

via London Data Week, at King's College ↗

What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds ↗

Blaise Agüera y Arcas · 2025

via Blaise Agüera y Arcas · his Long Now talk — a great one — and again through Antikythera, who publish the whole book online ↗

Seeing Like a State

James C. Scott

I want to dive deeper into legibility.

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb · begun, set down

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith · 2016

It relates to my piece "A Process of Becoming" — how embodied beings experience and enact their world.

via Namid Stillman · the third Centuriae writing retreat, at Hook Hotel — cited in "Models of the World" ↗

my writing, elsewhere A Process of Becoming: Making Sense of our Technologically Mediated Reality ↗

And the Garden Is You: Essays on Fieldwork, Writingwork, and Readingwork ↗

Michael Taussig · 2024 · on the shelf, unread

It feels so aligned with this living landscape I am trying to create.

via stumbled on it reviewing my Amazon list

The Invention of Technology: An Intellectual History with André Leroi-Gourhan ↗

Nathan Schlanger · 2026

via Memory Research Study Group · the Protocol Institute

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