Next up

Working by Studs Terkel. Tentative date: Monday, January 25th. The bad news is that the book is 600 pages. The good news is that it's a bunch of very short narratives that can be read in any order. I think we should all aim to read at least 200 pages. From anywhere in the book(?).

February will be the curated month, with 10- or 20-page selections from Lori, Sian, Chris, and Sarah/Sam.

The Society of the Spectacle - Photographic Proof! - 2

The Society of the Spectacle - Photographic Proof!

More details here.

If the church ever becomes unavailable...

http://www.hiroburo.com/archives/50913113.html

since we're, like, democratic and stuff

fyi since we're now officially "open," i think that jen kennedy and her husband, scott waterton, will be attending next meeting. they are both lovely & informed, i'm sure you will all appreciate their presence.

Sontag in Harper's

There's a pretty interesting article on Sontag in the Books section of the December Harper's. Mostly about her recently published journals, but it gives a solid overview of her life and a first-hand perspective on her character. It's not available online unless you have a subscription password but subscribers can download the pdf, so if you're interested let me know and I'll email that to you.

Debord is dense.

On deck

We should be coming up with ideas for the next book we read -- since, at this point, I don't think there's any clear frontrunner. After Debord, it might be nice to read something less technical. (RtPoO, for all its faults, was highly readable, which was great.) Any ideas?

Something about the creative process?
Something about language?
Something about New York?
Something about Vienna?

Or something we've already mentioned? St. Augustine, Either/Or, Democracy in America, bell hooks, Wendell Berry, Levi-Strauss, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Jane Jacobs, The Power Broker...

Detainee Photos

I assume you all saw the NYTimes piece yesterday on the detainee photographs and thought long and hard about Susan Sontag...