BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

WHAT IS SOCIAL READING? Social Reading. Social reading is everything that surrounds the experience of reading electronic books (ebooks). Traditional books, physical paper books, are fantastic. You can read them cover to cover, bookmark them, dogear them, write notes in the margin, underline your favourite passages, treasure them, keep them, and lend them to your

friends.

READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

WHAT IS SOCIAL READING? Social Reading. Social reading is everything that surrounds the experience of reading electronic books (ebooks). Traditional books, physical paper books, are fantastic. You can read them cover to cover, bookmark them, dogear them, write notes in the margin, underline your favourite passages, treasure them, keep them, and lend them to your

friends.

READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was VIDEOS | BOOKTWO.ORG Failing to Distinguish between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky: A talk about automation, artificial intelligence, labour, and self-driving cars at The Influencers, Barcelona, October 2017. ART, CORONA, TECH, AND SOCIAL MEDIA Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. September 29, 2020. This week, my book New Dark Age is published in Greek by Metaixmio, in a translation by Manolis Andriotakis. I was asked to undertake a short interview, which will accompany the publication – in Greek. Here is the English

version. 1.

NETWORK REALISM: WILLIAM GIBSON AND NEW FORMS OF FICTION Fiction constructed in real time, by and in the network. And the works collected in Robin Sloan’s Ash Cloud Tales —in fact, pretty much all the Volcano Fictions —belong to this too: literature of and enabled by the network. Perhaps not individually, but collectively. A literature of the digital diaspora, not epistolic but electronic. HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

LIVING INSIDE THE MACHINE Machines for living inside. (“The cloud” is a reversal of the trend over the last 50 years for evenly distributing contributing power to a myriad of devices; the effort now is to concentrate the processing, control, memory and storage into fewer (although still multiple, “virtual”) locations, while only input and output are

properly

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

FRAUNHOFER LINES

Fraunhofer’s spectral lines are absorption lines; that is, they are caused by the absorption of photons on their journey from the transmitter – in this case, the Sun – to the receiver. The same principle can applied in reverse, to measure the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface, and tell us where vegetation is healthy, or where

the

NO DADS, NO FILTERS

No Dads, No Filters. December 4, 2012. This is the third of six posts about the present. Caveat lector. Spam is realism. We instinctively dislike familiar language being rendered unfamiliar because we think the whole point of language is to make unfamiliar things readily understandable. Spam is

AQD: REMEMBRANCER

The City Remembrancer is an officer of the City of London, the financial and semi-independent centre of the nation’s capital, whose role is to communicate the desires of the City to parliament. Writing in the Guardian, George Monbiot described the Remembrancer thusly: “The City of London is the only part of Britain over which

parliament has

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

WHAT IS SOCIAL READING? Social Reading. Social reading is everything that surrounds the experience of reading electronic books (ebooks). Traditional books, physical paper books, are fantastic. You can read them cover to cover, bookmark them, dogear them, write notes in the margin, underline your favourite passages, treasure them, keep them, and lend them to your

friends.

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES This post is the first of seven posts about the future.Caveat lector. “Hauntology is a coming to terms with the permanence of our (dis)possession, the inevitability of dyschronia. REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

WHAT IS SOCIAL READING? Social Reading. Social reading is everything that surrounds the experience of reading electronic books (ebooks). Traditional books, physical paper books, are fantastic. You can read them cover to cover, bookmark them, dogear them, write notes in the margin, underline your favourite passages, treasure them, keep them, and lend them to your

friends.

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES This post is the first of seven posts about the future.Caveat lector. “Hauntology is a coming to terms with the permanence of our (dis)possession, the inevitability of dyschronia. REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free. VIDEOS | BOOKTWO.ORG Failing to Distinguish between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky: A talk about automation, artificial intelligence, labour, and self-driving cars at The Influencers, Barcelona, October 2017. ART, CORONA, TECH, AND SOCIAL MEDIA Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. September 29, 2020. This week, my book New Dark Age is published in Greek by Metaixmio, in a translation by Manolis Andriotakis. I was asked to undertake a short interview, which will accompany the publication – in Greek. Here is the English

version. 1.

THE INTERNET CONSIDERED AS A FIFTH DIMENSION, THAT OF 7 billion people = 7 billion seconds per second = 221 years. 221 years per second. 190 y/s in 1990. 95 y/s in 1960. That is a measurement of the total human memory, but that’s just a function of population, nothing to do with the network. Age is a function of time perception,

so

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES This post is the first of seven posts about the future.Caveat lector. “Hauntology is a coming to terms with the permanence of our (dis)possession, the inevitability of dyschronia.

FRAUNHOFER LINES

Fraunhofer’s spectral lines are absorption lines; that is, they are caused by the absorption of photons on their journey from the transmitter – in this case, the Sun – to the receiver. The same principle can applied in reverse, to measure the reflectivity of the Earth’s surface, and tell us where vegetation is healthy, or where

the

NETWORK REALISM: WILLIAM GIBSON AND NEW FORMS OF FICTION Fiction constructed in real time, by and in the network. And the works collected in Robin Sloan’s Ash Cloud Tales —in fact, pretty much all the Volcano Fictions —belong to this too: literature of and enabled by the network. Perhaps not individually, but collectively. A literature of the digital diaspora, not epistolic but electronic.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

NO DADS, NO FILTERS

No Dads, No Filters. December 4, 2012. This is the third of six posts about the present. Caveat lector. Spam is realism. We instinctively dislike familiar language being rendered unfamiliar because we think the whole point of language is to make unfamiliar things readily understandable. Spam is

A MILLION PENGUINS

February 1, 2007. This morning, Penguin announced the launch of A Million Penguins, a wikinovel project in association with De Montfort University. Students from De Montfort’s MA in creative writing form the basis of the projected community of writers, which will edit and expand upon the short first chapter provided over a period of six

weeks.

#SXAESTHETIC

March 15, 2012. Report from Austin, Texas, on the New Aesthetic panel at SXSW. At SXSW this year, I asked four people to comment on the New Aesthetic, which if you don’t know is an investigation / project / tumblr looking at technologically-enabled novelty in the world. (Previously: the original blog post, the main tumblr, my talk at Web

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

ABOUT THE PROJECT

About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

ABOUT THE PROJECT

About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free. THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

NEW WAYS OF SEEING

This is a lightly edited repost from my newsletter. Sign up to stay in touch, infrequently. New Ways of Seeing, a series I’ve written and presented about digital art and our present moment, begins on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning.You can listen on the radio in the UK (0900 and again at 2130), or online worldwide, and the series will remain available after broadcast. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) I have made another book from data; a printing-out of databases. This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year.. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone.

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. NETWORK REALISM: WILLIAM GIBSON AND NEW FORMS OF FICTION Fiction constructed in real time, by and in the network. And the works collected in Robin Sloan’s Ash Cloud Tales —in fact, pretty much all the Volcano Fictions —belong to this too: literature of and enabled by the network. Perhaps not individually, but collectively. A literature of the digital diaspora, not epistolic but electronic. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE DRONE UAVs are the key infrastructure of the 21st Century shadow war: unaccountable, borderless and merciless conflicts. The drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together, a medium and an exchange. ON THE RAINBOW PLANE Like the Drone Shadows, the Rainbow Plane is a 1:1 outline of an aircraft – in this case, the Miles M.52, an experimental jet plane developed at Farnborough in the 1940s. The M.52 never flew, but several of its innovations, including the all-moving tailplane and the biconvex “Gilette” wing, were crucial to the success of the

American

REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

BOOKTWO.ORG

3/12/12 Land Art for the Internet James Turrell, Richard Long, Agnes Denes. 26/11/12 Four Greens Beyonce, Flavin, Drones, Twombly. 8/11/12 Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View Posting the landscapes of drone strikes to Instagram THE SOCIAL READING CHECKLIST The Open Bookmarks Checklist. This list is a guide to help readers get the most out of social reading, and help publishers and developers make social reading easier, more personal, and more open.

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

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About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

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booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

ABOUT THE PROJECT

About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

NEW WAYS OF SEEING

This is a lightly edited repost from my newsletter. Sign up to stay in touch, infrequently. New Ways of Seeing, a series I’ve written and presented about digital art and our present moment, begins on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning.You can listen on the radio in the UK (0900 and again at 2130), or online worldwide, and the series will remain available after broadcast. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) I have made another book from data; a printing-out of databases. This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year.. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone.

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. NETWORK REALISM: WILLIAM GIBSON AND NEW FORMS OF FICTION Fiction constructed in real time, by and in the network. And the works collected in Robin Sloan’s Ash Cloud Tales —in fact, pretty much all the Volcano Fictions —belong to this too: literature of and enabled by the network. Perhaps not individually, but collectively. A literature of the digital diaspora, not epistolic but electronic. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE DRONE UAVs are the key infrastructure of the 21st Century shadow war: unaccountable, borderless and merciless conflicts. The drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together, a medium and an exchange. ON THE RAINBOW PLANE Like the Drone Shadows, the Rainbow Plane is a 1:1 outline of an aircraft – in this case, the Miles M.52, an experimental jet plane developed at Farnborough in the 1940s. The M.52 never flew, but several of its innovations, including the all-moving tailplane and the biconvex “Gilette” wing, were crucial to the success of the

American

REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

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3/12/12 Land Art for the Internet James Turrell, Richard Long, Agnes Denes. 26/11/12 Four Greens Beyonce, Flavin, Drones, Twombly. 8/11/12 Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View Posting the landscapes of drone strikes to Instagram THE SOCIAL READING CHECKLIST The Open Bookmarks Checklist. This list is a guide to help readers get the most out of social reading, and help publishers and developers make social reading easier, more personal, and more open.

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booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

ABOUT THE PROJECT

About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

BOOKTWO.ORG

booktwo.org | James Bridle. 6/5/21 The New Aesthetic (+10) Reposting the original NA introduction. 18/3/21 The Great Bonfire at the End of Time. No cops, no jails, no bloody blockchains, and absolutely NO LINEAR FUCKING TIME. 29/9/20 Art, Corona, Tech, and Social Media. A short interview for Metaixmio. READING RIGHT-TO-LEFT At a conference I attended recently, one of the speakers noted how the US army trains observers to “read” a landscape from right to left. The idea is that, as Anglophones accustomed to reading left to right, reversing the direction of attention brings more BOOKS IN THE LANDFILL Assume that the average print run for those 200,000 titles is just 1,000 copies. That’s 200 million books coming off the presses in a year – 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and, even if we assume very low return rates, enough pulped book to fill the dining hall at Hogwart’s several times over. In terms of its contribution

to

THE NEW AESTHETIC (+10) This post was originally written by James Bridle for the Really Interesting Group blog, on May 6th 2011.It is re-posted here for archive purposes, and can also be found in the Internet Archive. See also these reports from SXSW 2012, the essay The New Aesthetic and its Politics and the ongoing New Aesthetic tumblr.. For a while now, I’ve been collecting images and things that seem to approach WELCOME.JS | BOOKTWO.ORG welcome.js. October 25, 2016. TL/DR: I made a friendly script to go under your website. Download it here. Since moving to Greece, I’ve been using Facebook a lot more. I’ve never liked it, I still don’t, but everyone here uses it and usually nothing else, and I do find it fascinating in many ways. Anyway. While trying to do something

which

ABOUT THE PROJECT

About Open Bookmarks. Open Bookmarks is a response to the growth of electronic reading, and the new field of social reading.. It is intended to educate readers about ebooks and social reading, and suggest best practice in the field. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone. In April, researchers Alasdair Allen and Pete Warden revealed that the iPhone was storing location data without the users’ knowledge.

BIG DATA, NO THANKS

Big Data, No Thanks. November 2, 2015. This is the very lightly edited text of a lecture delivered as part of Through Post-Atomic Eyes in Toronto, 23-25 October 2015. Huge thanks to Claudette Lauzon and John O’Brian for the invitation to speak, and for organising such a fascinating few days. All the talks are online to watch for free.

#OCCUPYTHECLOUD

October 31, 2013. “Occupy the Cloud”, an installation for Open Heart Surgery, The Moving Museum, 180 Strand, October – December 2013. “Occupy the Cloud” is an installation of three banners on the facade of 180 Strand, a brutalist office block on a main road in central London. The banners are made of pixelated, virtual skies taken

from

THE CLIMATE OF OPINION The Climate of Opinion. September 8, 2016. Earlier this year, I spent a couple of weeks in Oslo, as part of the After Belonging In Residence programme, part of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016. The triennale opens today, and the result of my residency is installed at the National Architecture Museum. Each of the In Residence reporters was

NEW WAYS OF SEEING

This is a lightly edited repost from my newsletter. Sign up to stay in touch, infrequently. New Ways of Seeing, a series I’ve written and presented about digital art and our present moment, begins on BBC Radio 4 tomorrow morning.You can listen on the radio in the UK (0900 and again at 2130), or online worldwide, and the series will remain available after broadcast. WHERE THE F**K WAS I? (A BOOK) I have made another book from data; a printing-out of databases. This one is called Where the F**k Was I? and consists of 202 maps based on my movements over the past year.. I say “based on” because the data was not recorded by me, but by my phone.

CERN | BOOKTWO.ORG

On Saturday I went to CERN. It was amazing. The first thing you need to know about CERN is that it’s a misnomer. The N stands for Nuclear which sounded cool in 1954 but they’ve actually worked on sub-nuclear stuff ever since then.. And the second thing that is connected to the first thing is that all the numbers are really, really big or really, really small. NETWORK REALISM: WILLIAM GIBSON AND NEW FORMS OF FICTION Fiction constructed in real time, by and in the network. And the works collected in Robin Sloan’s Ash Cloud Tales —in fact, pretty much all the Volcano Fictions —belong to this too: literature of and enabled by the network. Perhaps not individually, but collectively. A literature of the digital diaspora, not epistolic but electronic. UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE DRONE UAVs are the key infrastructure of the 21st Century shadow war: unaccountable, borderless and merciless conflicts. The drone also, for me, stands in part for the network itself: an invisible, inherently connected technology allowing sight and action at a distance. Us and the digital, acting together, a medium and an exchange. ON THE RAINBOW PLANE Like the Drone Shadows, the Rainbow Plane is a 1:1 outline of an aircraft – in this case, the Miles M.52, an experimental jet plane developed at Farnborough in the 1940s. The M.52 never flew, but several of its innovations, including the all-moving tailplane and the biconvex “Gilette” wing, were crucial to the success of the

American

REFERENCE: FLOOR PLAN MODELS Reference: Floor Plan Models. January 24, 2018. I watched The Founder last night, which is about the start of McDonald’s, and the battle between the brothers who founded the chain and the rapacious franchisee, Ray Kroc, who ultimately buys them out. It’s alright, great actors, but I mainly watched it for the scene where Richard and

Maurice

HAUNTOLOGICAL FUTURES Hauntology feels like a symptom of future shock, a reaction. Caisson disease: a form of the bends brought on by too rapid changes of pressure when moving between the different levels (pressurised chambers) of the caissons used in building bridges. A symptom of the unevenly-distributed future, the isobars of our ever-shifting and

expanding culture.

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3/12/12 Land Art for the Internet James Turrell, Richard Long, Agnes Denes. 26/11/12 Four Greens Beyonce, Flavin, Drones, Twombly. 8/11/12 Dronestagram: The Drone’s-Eye View Posting the landscapes of drone strikes to Instagram THE SOCIAL READING CHECKLIST The Open Bookmarks Checklist. This list is a guide to help readers get the most out of social reading, and help publishers and developers make social reading easier, more personal, and more open.

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* 25/12/12 AWKWARD FAMILY PHOTOS Caravaggio at the Met * 20/12/12 UAV IDENTIFICATION KIT 001 A tool for identification and action. * 7/12/12 NETWORK CRITICISM

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