- I Read Where I Am: Exploring New Information Cultures Valiz/Graphic Design Museum, Breda, 2011 264 str. meki povez stanje: dobro – Visionary texts about the future of reading and the status of the word – With contributions by 82 invited authors: journalists, designers, researchers, politicians, philosophers and many others I Read Where I Am contains visionary texts about the future of reading and the status of the word. We read anytime and anywhere. We read of screens, we read out on the streets, we read in the office but less and less we read a book at home on the couch. We are, or are becoming, a different type of reader. How will we grapple with compressed narratives and the fluid bombardment of text? What are the dialectics between image and word? How will our information machines generate new reading cultures? Can reading become a live, mobile social experience? To answer all these (and other) questions, I Read Where I Am displays 82 diverse observations, inspirations and critical notes by journalists, designers, researchers, politicians, philosophers and many others. Authors: Arie Altena, Henk Blanken, Andrew Blauvelt, Erwin Blom, James Bridle, Max Bruinsma, Anne Burdick, Vito Campanelli, Catalogtree, Florian Cramer, Sean Dockray, Paulien Dresscher, Dunny & Raby, Sven Ehmann, Martin Ferro-Thomsen, Jeff Gomez & 66 other authors Editors: Mieke Gerritzen, Geert Lovink, Minke Kampman Design: LUST When Guy Debord identified the image consumerism of “the society of the spectacle” in the 1960s, he could not have forecast that language would threaten to eclipse the image in the medium of personal technology, creating a world of ubiquitous legibility. Today, we read anytime and anywhere, on screens of all sizes; we read not only newspaper articles, but also databases, online archives, search engine results and navigational structures. We read while out on the street, at home or in the office, with a complete library to hand--but less and less we read a book at home on the couch. In other words, we are, or are becoming, a different kind of reader. I Read Where I Am contains visionary texts about the future of reading and the status of the word in the digital age from designers, philosophers, journalists and politicians, looking at both sides of the argument for printed and digital reading matter. A collection of short reflections on the future of reading, including those from Ellen Lupton, James Bridle, Erik Spiekermann, and N. Katharine Hayles. Independently, none of the essays are especially compelling; but collectively, they reveal our shared unease (the loss of print, increased distraction, information overload) and make clear that none of us has any idea what the future will bring. Which, of course, is what makes the future interesting. Unfortunately, the typesetting (words are colored in different shades of gray depending on their frequency of use) is interesting in theory but incredibly annoying in practice; perhaps it is an attempt to prove that a stubborn reader will suffer through even the worst of reading experiences in order to get at the words? Index Contents Indexes Index on First 140 Characters of Essay |p16 Index of Word Frequency |p22 Index on Related Subjects |p178 82 essays 01|p50 Gathering Up Characters Arie Altena 02|p51 Better Stories Henk Blanken 03|p53 From Books to Texts Andrew Blauvelt 04|p54 I Read More Than Ever Erwin Blom 05|p56 Encoded Experiences James Bridle 06|p57 Watching, Formerly Reading Max Bruinsma 07|p60 If Words, Then Reading Anne Burdick 08|p60 Flowing Together Vito Campanelli 09|p62 Highway Drugs and Data Visualization Catalogtree 10|p64 The Revenge of the Gutenberg Galaxy Florian Cramer 11|p66 Where Do You Read? Sean Dockray 12|p67 Pancake Paulien Dresscher 13|p69 Between Reality and the Impossible: Revisited Dunne & Raby 14|p70 Weapons of Mass Distraction Sven Ehmann 15|p73 Reading Beyond Words Martin Ferro-Thomsen 16|p74 We Left Home; Why Shouldn`t Ideas? Jeff Gomez 17|p75 Delectation Denise Gonzales Crisp 18|p78 Welcome to the Digital Age. What Changed? Alexander Griekspoor 19|p77 Non-linear Publishing Hendrik-Jan Grievink 20|p78 Subtitling Ger Groot 21|p80 Ambient Scholarship Gary Hall 22|p82 Set the Text Free: Balancing Textual Agency Between Humans and Machines John Haltiwanger 23|p83 Educate Well, Read Better N. Katherine Hayles 24|p85 Reading the Picture Toon Horsten 25|p85 Apples and Cabbages Minke Kampman 26|p86 How Will We Read? Lynn Kaplanian-Buller 27|p88 Screening Kevin Kelly 28|p90 I Don`t Read on My Bike Joost Kircz 29|p91 Reading As Event Matthew Kirschenbaum 30|p91 Reading the Network Tanja Koning 31|p93 Nearby and Global in Its Impact Steffen Konrath 32|p95 The Interface of the Graphic Novel Erin La Cour 33|p97 Minimal and Maximal Reading Rudi Laermans 34|p99 Reading Apart Together Warren Lee 35|p100 Unexpected Ways Jannah Loontjens 36|p101 Consume Without a Screen Alessandro Ludovico 37|p103 The Networked Culture Machine Peter Lunenfeld 38|104 From Noun to Verb Ellen Lupton 39|106 The Role of the Hardware Anne Mangen 40|p107 From Reading to Pattern Recognition Lev Manovich 41|p109 Reading `For the Sake of It` Luna Maurer 42|p111 The Matrix: Three Subject- ive and Intuitively Selected Pointers for Building Blocks for The Script in Which We Live Geert Mul 43|p113 Horses Are Fine So Are Books Arjen Mulder 44|p115 Shapes Caroline NeveJan 45|117 Achievement Unlocked! David B. Nieborg 46|p118 U-turn Kali Nikitas 47|p119 The Epitaph or Writing Beyond the Grave Henk Oosterling 48|p121 Jumping Frames David Ottina 49|p123 Pictures and Words Peter Pontiac 50|p125 The Grammar of Images Ine Poppe 51|p127 The Many Readers in My Body Emilie Randoe 52|p129 Arrangements Bernhard Rieder 53|p130 Desecration of Reading Paul Rutten 54|p131 Epi-phany Plea for a Counter- culture of Un-reading and Un-writing Johan Sanctorum 55|p133 Savouring Thoughts Louise Sandhaus 56|p134 The Stutter in Reading (Call for a New Quality of Reading) Niels Schrader 57|p135 I Read in the Mind Ray Siemens 58|p136 Full Circle Karin Spaink 59|p137 Books Erik Spiekermann 60|p138 The New Orality and the Empty House Matthew Stadler 61|p140 Letter en geest I Letter and Spirit F. Starik 62|p141 Social Reading Bob Stein 63|p144 Is the Role of Libraries in Reading Innovation Fading? Michael Stephens & Jan Klerk 64|p146 Slow Reading Carolyn Strauss 65|p147 Cyclops iPad Dick Tuinder 66|p148 Context Is King; Content Is Queen Lian van de Wiel 67|p150 Reading Becomes Looking Bregtje van der Haak 68|p152 The Library Is As Large As One Half of the Brain Eis van der Plas 69|p155 Classic Canon Rick van der Ploeg 70|p156 Content Economies Daniel van der Velden 71|p157 Do Images Also Argue? Adriaan van der Weel 72|p158 Read Me First Erwin van der Zande 73|p160 Designing a New Stratification of Information Rene van Engelenburg 74|p162 Dancing Words Francisco van Jole 75|p163 Books Are Bullets in the Battle for the Minds of Men Peter van Lindonk 76|p165 Reading Surroundings Koert van Mensvoort 77|p166 Reading with Electronic Blinkers Tjebbe van Tijen 78|p168 Better Tools Dirk van Weelden 79|p170 E-Stone Jack van Wijk 80|p172 Mushrooms and Truffles Astrid Vorstermans 81|p173 Book It McKenzie Wark 82|p174 Danger: Contains Books Simon Worthington Nonfiction, 9078088559