This is a list, taken from my notebook, of works referenced during Open Engagement this past weekend. My head is still spinning a bit, both from the cold I caught on the Empire Builder and from the ideas and inspiration whirling about in there….I hope to post more about this adventure soon.
In no particular order at all:
- Success Magazine [recommended by the Suit in the Kinkos in Chicago...apparently it comes with a free DVD? He gave my friend Jeff and I a spiel about entrepreneurialism while we were perusing the self-help books in the copy shop.]
- Tom Marioni, Beer Philosophy & Art: The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends is the Highest Form of Art
- Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
- Relational Aesthetics, Nicholas Bourriaud [lots of kvetching about this]
- Participation, Claire Bishop [lots of talking about Bishop]
- Social Acupuncture, Darren O’Donnell
- Naomi Klein [specifically her definition of activism]
- Paul Chan- National Philistine [for some reason no one mentioned the Porno fonts, which I think are brilliant]
- Ranciere- Aesthetics and Its Discontents
- Deep Blue -A documentary about chess
- Darwin’s Nightmare - documentary
- Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks
- City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America
- Anarchy in Action – Colin Ward
- Streetwork: The Exploding School – Colin Ward and Anthony Fyson
- Compulsory Miseducation – Paul Goodman
- Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class [Nils Norman called him Darth Vader. That was pretty good]
- Cedric Price
- Cira Archive in Geneva
- Suzanne Lacy- The Roof is on Fire
- Claire Bishop [yes, again]- The Social Turn
