Sunday Scraps #77

Alessandro Baricco was interviewed (the English closed captioning works well) and he posits Western thought is about having just enough memory to keep building, changing, improving, innovating. I liked that. Some more tabs I had open below.

Jazz music in Murakami’s novels as curated by NTS / Adding Casa Malaparte to my list of places to try to get into one day because I finally watched ‘Le Mépris’ / this food replica exhibition at the Japan House is lovely and the exhibition designer used to be an industrial designer which shows /  in this report on the environmental impact of new housing, the words demolition and repair barely feature / an old work contact owns a lovely farmhouse in rural Denmark which would make for an ideal corporate away day / for Epiphany, I’m confused about the italian Befana which might be based on the older (and scarier) Perchta / reading about citizen incubators / a bay leaf tree has been growing in my garden since the pandemic so trying new recipes / heading back to Hydra in April and going to look into this residency for some time in my dotage / learning about the visual arts impact of Ernst Gombrich and feminist writings of Marilyn Frye

All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. (The Politics of Reality, 1983)

I’d never heard of Nikki Giovanni before / adding Punta Pite to the long list / went on my yearly pilgrimage to the Venice Biennale and really enjoyed the work of Lydia Ourahmane, River Claure, Greta Schödl / Chartability makes sure your data viz is understandable / i wonder if anyone i know knows the founders of the Buddha Machine. That’ll do for 2024, happy New Year gang.