this is all loose leafed things that i'm reading right now. mail me if you have things that you like that you thinnnk i should read. or someone else that reads this site.
current list. the city readings:
life and death of great amercian city - jane jacobs
the image of the city - kevin lynch
wizard life and times of nicola tesla - ???
etc etc.
i wonder what my thesis is going to be about.
http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdbirk.htm // birkerts excerpt from the gutenberg elegies
marshall mcluhan : understanding media
walter benjamin : art in the age of mechanical reproduction http://bid.berkeley.edu/bidclass/readings/benjamin.html
alan turing : COMPUTING MACHINERY AND INTELLIGENCE http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html
neil postman - technopoly
bruce mau : an incomplete manifesto http://www.brucemaudesign.com/manifesto.html
miltos manetas : http://www.theloopofneen.com/
http://neen.org/manifesto2000.html
eddo stern : http://eddostern.com/texts/Stern_TOME.html
andreas angelidakis http://angelidakis.com/_PAGES/menu-texts.htm
http://www.desk.nl/~northam/oro/zk2.htm // zbigniew karkowski
william gibson http://www.voidspace.org.uk/cyberpunk/neuromancer.shtml
// unauthorized web production of all gibson's work. "information wants to be free." ha. incidentally a really really great program is this thing called tofu that will "columnize" a giant chunk of text. so for example, you could ctrl-c one of those gibson stories and then be able to read it comfortably on your computer. by the way my nickname at school is competer.
tao te ching stephen mitchell translation // http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html
maybe paul virilio...
writings of xenakis. and durer.