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, . I’ll be working out of their Bradbury building location in DTLA (featured in OG 1982 Blade Runner movie 😎)
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When 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:
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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:
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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 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 🤣 tempobook.com
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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 multitemporality.com
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That gig resulted in 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 luck
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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 😆 #BeSlightlyEvil refactorcamp.com
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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.
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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 and have actually been scouting essays (the OG meaning of ‘essay’ as it happens) for this project.
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