I have been re-reading If on
a Winter's Night a Traveller by Calvino and thinking about the
physicality of books - books that are not about reading - or roles other than reading - this has crashing into my thinking about
solutions to mini projects that we are working on at Camberwell on the final weeks of the Book Art Course. What is the
role of the book if not to be read?......floor ceiling floor corner
I went to see Julia
Backwell last year talk and bought Time Song - Looking for
Doggerland, just managed to get round to it this week - her thoughtful
writing liminally slips through time and place through objects and moments - a thoroughly
beautiful read.
I have just come across Prof. Scott Galloway -
his refreshing honest around education and its costs is shockingly brutal -you
might start with The Algebra of Happiness which covers a lot of ground - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gfEjOgxBfI and is another strand of his straightforward
thinking.
So onto some entertainment - two
important films that you must see but are not an easy watch - Just
Mercy was relentless and important Never Rarely Sometimes
Always is a brutal suppression around women's bodies. An easier but
another indictment on how we live our lives - this time capitalism re-watching
doesn't make it easier to see the lessons within The Big Short. Two
cartoon recommendations are the freaky darkness that is The Shivering
Truth - season 2 is out https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6905458/ and the Quirkiness goodness of Central
Park https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8129006/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Series
include Snowpiercer (unsure if its necessary as the film
exists) and Little Fires Everywhere (uneven and moments of
overacting).
