Shannon Mattern Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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@malafoostress @ohnobackspace @jennasutela Thanks! That's a great lead! I have Peter Schwenger's great book on asemic writing!

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I love how these opening spreads from Claire Schwartz’s Civil Service build from the line, the cord; to the cell; to the door that welcomes us in; to the book as a shelter; to the house, a space of confinement; to the container of milk, whose contents generate the world outside https://t.co/hKPaBT1p2H

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Loving all references to media forms and methods of mediation — saturation, transfusion, inscription, illumination, sewing, cataloguing — in Dionne Brand’s Nomenclature for the Time Being https://t.co/tPYhcufdmj https://t.co/4VXO8jL3QK

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Reading this fascinating @nicolatwilley article in light of — errr, in the lingering chill of — Nicole Starosielski’s Media Hot and Cold, and in anticipation of @hiokinai’s Cooling the Tropics https://t.co/SVbXzOiSZ5

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@calebsmith203 Lots of excellent recs already! Aside from the flood of "craft studies" in the late aughts, there's Glenn Adamson's work, Julia Bryan Wilson's Fray, Esterly's The Lost Carving, Smith's Bauhaus Weaving Theory, the essays in Burks's Shaker Design catalog...

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@Ali_Sperling Sounds great! Maybe Cary Wolf’s Ecological Poetics: or, Wallace Steven’s’ Birds; Helen Macdonald’s Vesper Flights; Joeri Bruyninckx’s Listening in the Field; Michael DeForge’s Birds of Maine?

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(I should note that the formulation here is a response to Andreas Malm’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire) https://t.co/nMliOIRu62

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Enjoying Kate Palmer Albers’ The Night Albums, on photography as an ephemeral, durational medium — lots of resonances with discussions in conservation + archival studies abt lossiness, “graceful degradation,” decay, etc https://t.co/iHHmBfKdNV

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😍!! Letterpress Revolution: The Politics of Anarchist Print Culture from @DukePress https://t.co/2DUg1dEqJF https://t.co/Lj9NFeA8nr

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.@UChicagoPress has made Jennifer Jordan’s Edible Memory: The Lure of Heirloom Tomatoes and Other Forgotten Foods freely available! https://t.co/p5Fmss8XOj