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other people's ideas: mixbook 2012
So back in August I said I'd try to make a mixbook: a small-batch "personal publishing" project compiling some of the best articles I read on the Web in 2012. And now that we're in 2013 I can reveal the result: Other People's Ideas 2012.
This volume—printed up at Lulu.com—is about 300 pages in length. It contains a short introduction, and twenty-one anthologized pieces, arranged in the order in which I read them over the course of the year. I circulated them as gifts to a small number of friends and compatriots this holiday season. All the pieces within are freely available on the Web, so even though I'm not commercially circulating copies of the thing, you can still peruse the contents if you like:
The Sentence Is a Lonely Place by Gary Lutz at The Believer
How Companies Learn Your Secrets by Charles Duhigg at The New York Times Magazine
Back From Yet Another Globetrotting Adventure, Indiana Jones Checks His Mail And Discovers That His Bid For Tenure Has Been Denied by Andy Bryan at McSweeney's
The Hours by Daniel Zalewski at The New Yorker
Great American Losers by Elaine Blair at NYRBlog
An Essay on the New Aesthetic by Bruce Sterling at Wired
Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is by John Scalzi at his blog
Such A Long Journey: Kevin Kelly interviewed at Boing Boing
Marx At 193 by John Lanchester at The London Review of Books
Peak Plastic by Debbie Chachra at the Discover blog
Primary Landscapes: Edward Burtynsky interviewed at Venue
How To Kill A Troll by Erin Kissane at Incisive.nu
The Stupidity of Computers by David Auerbach at N+1
Of Flying Cars And The Declining Rate of Profit by David Graeber at The Baffler
A Day Job Waiting For A Kill Shot A World Away by Elisabeth Bumiller at The New York Times
Memorabilia. Collecting Sounds With Kenneth Goldsmith: Kenneth Goldsmith interviewed at Radio Web MACBA
USENIX 2011 Keynote: Network Security in the Medium Term, 2061-2561 AD by Charles Stross at Antipope.org
Obama's Way by Michael Lewis at Vanity Fair
Errol Morris, Forensic Epistemologist: Errol Morris interviewed at Public Books
Sweet Forgiveness by Mike Konczal at Boston Review
The Debt Resistor's Operating Manual: Andrew Ross interviewed by Natasha Lewis at Guernica
This project was a lot of fun, and I hope to attempt it again next year. It owes a debt to similar personal publishing experiments done by James Bridle, Emmet Connolly, Christopher Butler, Daniel Neville, and Clive Thompson, and I'd like to take this opportunity to thank them for the inspiration.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
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