Author Robin Sloan has written short stories and worked for Twitter. His new book brings those two worlds together to argue that embracing digital culture doesn’t mean you have to give up the treasured books — and values — of the past.
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/09/162233599/mr-penumbra-bridges-the-digital-divide
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Once long past, listening gave clues for survival. Now we listen unconsciously, blocking noise and tuning in to what we want to hear. Yet the unwanted sounds we filter out tell us a lot about our environment and our lives. Broadcaster Teresa Goff listens for the messages in our walls of sound.
As civilization has become more mechanized, more urbanized and more digitized, the amount of noise has increased in tandem. This noise, according to Garrett Keizer, author of The Unwanted Sound of Everything We Want: A Book about Noise , "is a window for understanding some of the paradoxes and contradictions of being human." If you take the sum total of all sounds within any area, what you have is an intimate reflection of the social, technological, and natural conditions of that place.
Hildegard Westerkamp, a founding member of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, says that "Environmental sound is like a spoken word with each sound or soundscape having its own meanings and expressions." So when you listen to the noise, what does it have to tell you? "Noise is a pit of interpretation," says noise musician Brian Chippendale. Broadcaster Teresa Goff goes into the pit with her documentary, The Signal of Noise.
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Robert Forster (founding member of the Go-Betweens and music critic for The Monthly) talks to Toby Martin about his new book, The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll. Forster talks about the difference for him between writing music and prose, tells some funny stories and performs three songs. New Theatre, Newtown, May 2010
http://www.themonthly.com.au/robert-forster-sydney-writers-festival-p2-2596
At the Sydney Writers’ Festival, Robert Forster (founding member of the Go-Betweens and music critic for The Monthly) talks to Toby Martin about his new book, The Ten Rules of Rock and Roll (Black Inc.) Forster talks about the difference for him between writing music and prose, tells some funny stories and performs three songs. New Theatre, Newtown, May 2010
http://www.themonthly.com.au/robert-forster-sydney-writers-festival-2597
Here’s our second installment, which was recorded at the same time as the first, and therefore suffers from the same problem as the first: it’s hard to listen to. However, Robin McConnell (of Inkstuds fame) was kind enough to help…
Elvis Mitchell talks to director John Landis about his new book, Monsters in the Movies.
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt120118john_landis_monsters
We’re used to thinking of "obesity" in physical terms — unhealthful weight that clogs our arteries and strains our hearts. But there’s also an obesity of information that clogs our eyes and our minds and our inboxes: unhealthful information deep-fried in our own preconceptions.
In The Information Diet, open-source-Internet activist Clay Johnson makes the case for more "conscious consumption" of news and information. Johnson, the founder of Blue State Digital, which provided the online strategy for the 2008 Obama campaign, talks with NPR’s Scott Simon about ways to slim and stretch our minds.
http://www.npr.org/2012/01/14/145101748/is-it-time-for-you-to-go-on-an-information-diet
Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku describes some of the inventions he thinks will appear in the coming century — including Internet-ready contact lenses, space elevators and driverless cars — in his book Physics of the Future.
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/29/142717081/physics-of-the-future-how-well-live-in-2100
A discussion about science, society, and the universe with Stephen Colbert, who is out of character, at the Kimberley Academy in Montclair, New Jersey.
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