fibonacci on Nostr: Books are awesome. So many perspectives documented and shelved away (pre-digital) to ...
Books are awesome. So many perspectives documented and shelved away (pre-digital) to slowly slip into nothingness.
I’ve haphazardly built my collection from (HS &) college reads, hobbies & interests, professional needs, and instant gratifications / guilty pleasures. It’s been my life’s work, and operating my daily fiat-mining from within the stacks satisfies my earliest yearnings to be surrounded by knowledge.
Have I read all these? Hell no. Do I still aspire to? Hah! I know that time is the most limited resource and that most of this material does not make the cut for my attention. Still, they look nice, m’kay?
GenX
This section comes from my bachelors degree in communications and subsequent MFA in filmmaking (wtf was younger me thinking?!) As a lad I was way into McLuhan, Shanks, and a bunch of essays on television’s evolution (c.1985) and the new category of “blockbusters”. Understanding where “new media” came from, what it had become, how to create it, and its power over humankind. 🤯
I’ve kept up only slightly with that fascination in recent decades (alas) and am looking for more contemporary tales on media, starting w mainstream and working to some edges. Who’s got suggestions?
I’ve haphazardly built my collection from (HS &) college reads, hobbies & interests, professional needs, and instant gratifications / guilty pleasures. It’s been my life’s work, and operating my daily fiat-mining from within the stacks satisfies my earliest yearnings to be surrounded by knowledge.
Have I read all these? Hell no. Do I still aspire to? Hah! I know that time is the most limited resource and that most of this material does not make the cut for my attention. Still, they look nice, m’kay?
GenX
This section comes from my bachelors degree in communications and subsequent MFA in filmmaking (wtf was younger me thinking?!) As a lad I was way into McLuhan, Shanks, and a bunch of essays on television’s evolution (c.1985) and the new category of “blockbusters”. Understanding where “new media” came from, what it had become, how to create it, and its power over humankind. 🤯
I’ve kept up only slightly with that fascination in recent decades (alas) and am looking for more contemporary tales on media, starting w mainstream and working to some edges. Who’s got suggestions?