Ten inspirations

that I want to distill into my next writing project:

Guy Hocquenghem’s The Screwball Asses
Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely
The Situationists and the City
Google Maps API
Ann Hamilton’s video, abc
Christian Marclay’s Memento
Palare
Charles Bernstein and Emma Bernstein reading “War”
Steve Reich’s Come Out
Tino Seghal at the Guggenheim museum

Links to come. Below, a still from Hamilton’s abc:

Listening to Braille

In her recent article in the New York Times Magazine, “Listening to Braille,” Rachel Aviv quotes a writing excerpt from a sixteen-year-old blind student whose literacy has developed through aural/oral means, without the benefit of braille. This single excerpt is meant to stand as damning evidence of the failure of oral-based literacy:

He looked in the [...]