likes:
maps
statistics
epistemology
comparative politics
cybernetics
obsolete media
sentence diagramming
evolutionary biology
semiotics
bell's two-hearted ale
dance music
action movies
nerd crushes:
Umberto Eco
Stephen Willats
Lawrence Weiner
Claude Shannon
Richard Feynman
Charles & Ray Eames
Denis Wood
Mike Bostock
Nate Silver
Stephen Colbert
Ai Weiwei
John Baldessari
Sol Lewitt
Dan Eatock
Daito Manabe
Bruce Lee
Naomi Klein
Dave Byrne
John Darnielle
Charles Darwin
Leonardo Da Vinci
library of influential texts
ELSE/WHERE: MAPPING — Janet Abrams, et al
If/Then: Design Implications of New Media — Janet Abrams, et al
Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely
Image, Music, Text — Roland Barthes
I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures — Andrew Blauvelt, et al
Data Flow 1 & 2 — Nicolas Bourquin
Postproduction — Nicolas Bourriaud
Quiet — Susan Cain
Cosmicomics — Italo Calvino
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler — Italo Calvino
Interpretation and Overinterpretation — Umberto Eco
The Open Work — Umberto Eco
On the Origin of Species — Charles Darwin
Chaos — James Gleick
The Information — James Gleick
Writing Machines — Katherine N Hayles
No Logo — Naomi Klein
Savage Inequalities — Jonathan Kozol
The Unbearable Lightness of Being — Milan Kundera
Immortality — Milan Kundera
The Language of New Media — Lev Manovich
Understanding Media — Marshall McLuhan
How to Lie with Maps — Mark Monmonier
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World — Haruki Murakami
The Filter Bubble — Eli Pariser
Species of Spaces and Other Pieces — Georges Perec
The Language Instinct — Steven Pinker
Form+Code in Design, Art, and Architecture — Casey Reas
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq — Thomas Ricks
Cosmos — Carl Sagan
Frankenstein — Mary Shelley
The Signal and the Noise — Nate Silver
On Photography — Susan Sontag
The Black Swan: Impact of the Highly Improbable — Nicholas Nassim Taleb
In the Bubble — John Thackara
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information — Edward Tufte
Maps of the Imagination — Peter Turchi
The Natures of Maps — Denis Wood
Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas — Denis Wood
The Master Switch — Tim Wu