Comments on: All the while, it was growing

By: Uva_Be

Uva_Be — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:26:20 +0000

Was thinking as I read this, “nope no one says bug much anymore.” guess “to bug” is physical, and “a bug” is just a code typo.
“Are viruses really alive ? Old rubbish heaps can get retro-trendy, but they are indeed full of bacteria and mites etc.. ”

glad there is an alternative to both of those ..

By: Good riddance « Snarkmarket

Good riddance « Snarkmarket — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:49:53 +0000

[…] language gets obnoxious or reductive, please tell me. Again, I want to advance “bookfuturist” as an alternative to both of these positions, so if I seem stuck on the words, that’s […]

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:25:43 +0000

That’s great, Tim—just be sure to leave the ampersand in.

I am covered in blue tattoos. Um, in my mind.

By: Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:20 +0000

I like ‘hilobrows’ as a plural noun. For some reason I imagine them as Picts—proud, energetic, blue-tattooed :-P

By: Tim Carmody

Tim Carmody — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:59:12 +0000

That’s good! I think I’ll put it in the manifesto.

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:39:41 +0000

An energizing dispatch! I hope it helps speed healing as well as inspire.

“Der Book”? I thought the thing that was so great about organs like Evergreen Review is that they’re supposed to have editors.

Once we accepted the theory that the printing press was an agent of change, we began to forget that the essential part of the formula was the agency.

But not all of us! Bookfuturists, paleofuturists, technotribalists, and hilobrows: what we’re looking for in part, I think, are ways to be in “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason” about technology, about books, about the future. Negative technobibliophily! And aware of the plural nature of that for which we search.

By: Saheli

Saheli — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:20:43 +0000

Hope your de-infection process is going better than the diagnosis process did, Tim.

That bookservative quote is mindbogglingly crazy sounding.

By: Britta

Britta — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:22:48 +0000

aaaaargh, i hope you feel better soon!

By: joanne mcneil

joanne mcneil — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:35:46 +0000

Yes!!! When you get better we have got to have a bookfuturism symposium at the Koolhaas library in Seattle!