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Submitted by Greg J. Smith on Sun, 2008-09-28 09:13.

Aram Bartholl - Friends

I've decided to start semi-regularly posting dispatches as to my current reading list. If I didn't bookmark so compulsively with delicious I could use that services auto-publication feature but I've decided I'd rather be a bit more selective in highlighting writing (online or otherwise) that has caught my eye. I'll probably be posting these .txt messages two or three times a month and the content will generally fall within the scope of discussion here on Serial Consign.

  • Witold Rybczynski takes designers KBAS to task on their recently dedicated Pentagon Memorial. Rybczynski critiques the statistics driven design methodology of the project and charges that it fails to deliver anything beyond a superficial reading of the tragedy of American Airlines Flight 77.
  • This week Theo Honohan published a succinct essay on web/space/social media artist Aram Bartholl's Friends workshop (pictured above) which was held at Futursonic earlier this year.
  • I enjoyed new media researcher Anne Helmond's Software Studies presentation, so it is great to have access to her full Masters thesis Blogging for Engines. Blogs under the Influence of Software-Engine Relations - which is introduced and downloadable here.
  • Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb provided a great overview of the role of current.tv and twitter in augmenting and annotating the presidential debates on Friday.
  • In regards to that archaic "book" technology, I'm currently reading Ian Bogost's "comparative video game criticism" text Unit Operations (and my head is spinning).

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Submitted by Amrita (not verified) on Sun, 2008-09-28 09:30.

I like this format - the descriptions of the posts you liked provide a good context for readers to decide whether or not to click over.

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Thanks

Submitted by Greg J. Smith on Sun, 2008-09-28 09:54.

Hey, thanks. I was actually having a hard time figuring out how much to write. I wanted to provide a brief description, but not an involved summary (I want to write these quickly). It is kind of tricky to describe a text in two sentences.. some of these I haven't read yet either (Helmond's thesis is 125 pages). Regardless, your feedback is appreciated!

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Semi-extensive txt

Submitted by Anne Helmond (not verified) on Mon, 2008-09-29 12:22.

I enjoy this .txt format more than the delicious auto-posting that often clog up my feedreader. Thanks for the mention, I hope you enjoy my thesis. My thesis supervisor (Geert Lovink) kindly asked me not to cut it short so it became somewhat longer than planned ;) I will be presenting it (in relation to Software Studies) more extensively on Wednesday at the Dutch Film Festival, so I'll keep you posted if there will be a write-up/video.

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