14.12.08
doing my bit
The Dark Horsey Bookshop had a '20% off' sale last week. After shopping at the Central Market yesterday, I caught the tram from Tarndanyangga to City West, dragging my trolley load of fresh bread and vegetables up the red-bricked incline, up three red-bricked steps, and into the white linoleumed EAF building. Alone, as the bookshop's only customer this rainy, Saturday afternoon, I browsed for an hour or more. Ken Bolton had previously located an Artforum article for me as I had sent an email inquiring after books and information about Georges Bataille's notion of informe. Local visual artist (and a former tutor of mine), Bridget Currie, had recommended: Formless: A User's Guide by Rosalind E. Krauss and Yve-Alain Bois, unfortunately however the paperback is out of print and the hardcover prohibitively expensive. I'm sure the UniSA library will have a copy though and I may yet chase a second-hand one. Before photocopying the informe article, I sat reading at a quiet table beside the Horse's library of magazines and journals. Come closing time, at 5pm, my already over-stuffed trolley needed to be persuaded to accommodate four new books! Shopping sprees such as this do not occur very often - I am feeling just so darn happy and excited!
reading [my bookshelf!]
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, Translation and Foreword by Brian Massumi
ISBN-10: 0816614024, ISBN-13: 978-0816614028
Published by University of Minnesota Press, 1987
English Language
Paperback 610 pages
Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions
By Edward W. Soja
ISBN-10: 1577180011, ISBN-13: 978-1577180012
Published by Wiley-Blackwell, 2000
English Language
Paperback 464 pages
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque
By Gilles Deleuze, Translated by Tom Conley
ISBN 082649076X, 9780826490766
Published by Continuum International Publishing Group, 2006
224 pages
What's Wrong With Addiction?
By Helen Keane
ISBN-10: 0814747655, ISBN-13: 978-0814747650
Published by New York University Press, 2002
English Language
Paperback 228 pages
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8 comments:
so, what's wrong with addiction?
does it shed any light on my addiction to electronic communication?
Hi Lucas,
Thanks for stopping by!
Interestingly, and while not denying some of the negative aspects of addiction, the author analyses the current medical model's concept of 'health' and language used to describe it - arguing that this concept and language treat health as an ideal, (or 'norm' I suppose is another way to put it), as if there were only one 'health'. But I've not read beyond the foreword or preface as yet - so I will let you know - the book certainly does explore a variety of addictions.
From the little that I have read, I find this text liberating and while I am quite familiar with the basics of this approach - it is affirming (and informing) to read, especially, in terms of affirmation and liberation, because, in my experience, the author's analysis and approach, or attitude, are scarce to find, and practiced only in a few (enlightened!)'niche' contexts within our society.
Cheers!
Mel
The book you suggested Lucas: How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art & Agriculture by Henry Martin & Gianfranco Baruchello is out of print but it sounds so good I am going to chase a 2nd-hand copy. Meanwhile - this week - I'm drying peaches - my (white) peach tree has gone boonta!
Sorry Mel on the delete - bad spelling. I just looked up the fold (I liked the title and am fond of the word "fold". I would liket to read this one day (the list grows longer).
Julie, you can borrow my copy, I'm presently involved in 'A Thousand Plateaus' (By Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari) and loving it - so you can read 'The Fold' before or after me (although I must warn you - I am a slow reader). Thanks for stopping by and for leaving comments! xx
Thanks Mel, I would love to. I too am a slow reader so before of after suits me. Thanks also for your comments. They are a joy to read and I look forward to them. I am enjoying this space very much. Look forward to more posts xx.
Mel - get the Baruchello on Abe. It really is great.
Also in the book The Aesthetics of Everyday Life edited by Light and Smith, there is an essay by Michael Principe called "Danto and Baruchello: from Art to the Aesthetics of the Everyday". It's one of the rare places I've seen Baruchello mentioned.
Thanks for the tips Lucas! Yes - I do use Abe Books when I'm after a second hand copy of something - so will search there for 'How to Imagine: A Narrative on Art & Agriculture' - and 'The Aesthetics of Everyday Life' - while I'm at it.
Cheers!
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