Many of you have been asking me about my move to LA. In brief, I’ve accepted an academic year fellowship at the Berggruen institute, @berggruenInst. I’ll be working out of their Bradbury building location in DTLA (featured in OG 1982 Blade Runner movie
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When
@nils_gilman invited me to apply for the fellowship, I was initially reluctant, since I like Seattle a lot, plus I felt I’d gone too feral over the last decade to work in an institutional setting again. For fun: my post, On Going Feral, from 2009:https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/08/19/on-going-feral/ …Show this thread -
In theory, I’ll be working on a book project I’ve been nursing for a few years. Working title: multitemporality. A brief introduction to my thinking on the topic can be found in this talk I did at TDC Newcastle last year:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tSE8VdaZNuY …
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For those of you who’ve been following my writing for a while, the genesis of the idea was actually my 2015 post, On the Design of Escaped Realitieshttps://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/01/16/on-the-design-of-escaped-realities/ …
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Another personal trailhead for me was my first book, Tempo (2011). There were a lot of themes I wanted to address then that I didn’t because I didn’t feel prepared enough. I still don’t, but these days I don’t let that stop me from trying stuff
http://www.tempobook.com pic.twitter.com/NGC4lyi2mI
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A book is the plan, but I have no idea what I’ll actually end up with, within this broad theme. Perhaps I’ll end up with an interpretive dance piece, or a trading card game, or a movie script instead. Whatever I end up doing will develop at https://multitemporality.com
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That gig resulted in
@breaking_smart which was, and remains, one of the most fun ongoing projects in my life. Hopefully, something equally fun comes out of this one, wish me luckhttps://breakingsmart.com/en/dontpanic/Show this thread -
Anyhow, if you’re in LA (especially DTLA, where I’ll be living walking distance from Berggruen since I plan to avoid driving as much as possible) ping. I’ll probably pull together some meetups and such.
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Attendees of
#RefactorCamp2019 ... thanks for helping me conduct stealth research for this project. I proposed the “escaping reality” theme mainly to lazily get you guys to do all the hard thinking for me. Whitewashing the fence ftw
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Copy/paste error upthread. Here’s the correct link for the Berggruen Institute. If you’re in the neighborhood between Aug 15 this year, and May 15, 2020, holler.https://www.berggruen.org
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And in case you’re wondering, my other writing will continue as usual, just in directions helpfully aligned with this gig. Many of my recent posts across
@ribbonfarm and@breaking_smart have actually been scouting essays (the OG meaning of ‘essay’ as it happens) for this project.Show this thread
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