on the bookshelves of the digerati
DJ SPOOKY THAT SUBLIMINAL KID
aka Paul Miller, musician, writer, conceptual artist
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson. "Hopkinson is probably one of the premier Caribbean artists working out there. She deals with human beings slowly being subsumed by their architectural environments. And she's amazing at weaving in mythology to current technology. This story is set in future Toronto, where urban decay has kicked in hardcore and there's an illicit trade in human body organs that the government has sort of subsidized. The book started as an essay that Hopkinson thought would just be OK, but she got her essay published as a full-length book. I thought that was beautiful to see."
PATRICIA POMERLEAU
President and CEO, CEOExpress.com.
The Lexus and the Olive Tree by Thomas L. Friedman. "The metaphor of the Lexus and the olive tree is the tension between the new world of globalized systems and the old world of customs and community. How do you move forward and build a worldwide operating system that respects people's homes and still empowers individuals, countries, and organizations? The book doesn't give all the answers, but it brings up the issues. And it has a Web site (lexusandtheolivetree.com). A lot of times, when you read a book you may agree with some of the points or argue with it, and now you can go onto a Web site and take your argument to a different level."
STREET CRED
Basement Area Network
Hacking the Vacuum Tube
Free of Attachments
Polaroid's Sticky Portal
Burnt Rubber, Chicago Style
Booting Up Beelzebub
Out of the Celluloid Closet
ReadMe
Music
Saar-Sighted
The Transreal Thing
I, Nicklaus
American History f/x
Just Outta Beta
Little Big Screen
"It Was Just the Law of Large Numbers at Work"
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