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Top articles:

• 3/12 #sxaesthetic
  The New Aesthetic goes to SXSW.
• 12/11 The New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
  Firing a laser through a cloud of ideas.
• 10/11 The New Value of Text
  There is an increasingly pervasive notion that other forms of media are additive to literature, that they somehow improve it. Because, you know, books are just telling stories, right?
• 3/11 Seven posts about the future
  Nostalgia, fiction, sharing and stories.
• 17/2/11 Publishing Experiences
  Why publishers should reconsider what they do.
• 25/10/10 Network Realism
  William Gibson and new forms of Fiction.
• 5/10/10 Walter Benjamin's Aura: Open Bookmarks and the form of the eBook
  The future of social reading.
• 6/9/10 On Wikipedia, Cultural Patrimony, and Historiography
  Visualising archives and historical process.

Recent posts from the blog:

• 29/7/11 Rorschmap
  Here be strange shapes and shadows on the land.
• 19/7/11 Items received by post
  A number of book-shaped things I have recently received.
• 24/6/11 Where the F**k Was I? (A Book)
  I made another book; an atlas written by robots.
• 13/6/11 Robot Flâneur
  On seeing the city through other eyes.
• 1/6/11 Open Bookmarks II
  What is social reading?
• 24/5/11 Regarding the library with envious eyes
  On the machines that read the books.
• 18/4/11 Dear Publishing
• 12/4/11 The Silence Before, The Context Now
  On online communication, its past and its weight.
• 7/4/11 London Book Fair 2011
  A debate and a panel, on Monday 11th.
• 27/3/11 The Author of Everything
  A story about digitisation.
• 26/3/11 #wikileakspaper
  On printing things out.
• 24/3/11 The House of Wisdom
  On the transmission of the classics, then and now.
• 24/3/11 An Elixir of Reminding
  Borges and Sharing; Instagram and Death.
• 23/3/11 Stop Lying About What You Do
  Pretending will not save us.
• 21/3/11 Starpunk
  Hollowing out spaces of possibility.
• 20/3/11 Hauntological Futures
  On the attempts to rehabilitate nostalgia.
• 14/3/11 HG Wells on Newspapers
  Writing about technologies.
• 17/2/11 Publishing Experiences
  Excerpted from my talk from Tools Of Change, on why publishers should reconsider what they do.
• 7/2/11 Profanity in Art Criticism
  Waxing lyrical about Caravaggio in Milan.
• 25/1/11 Really Interesting
  On joining the Really Interesting Group.

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Booktwo.org is the blog of James Bridle, a book and technology specialist with specific expertise in planning and producing web and new media projects for clients in publishing and the arts. If you'd like to hire me, have a look at my CV and portfolio, and feel free to get in touch.

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