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porlockstompf · 4 years

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Reading de Nacht Reading 2019

my favourite books of the year

my overall favourite book of the year:

martin hägglund "this life why mortality makes us free" (2019)

postcyberpunkstompf:

01 ken liu (ed) "broken stars: contemporary chinese sf in translation" (2019)

02 cory doctorow "radicalized" (2019) 03 dave hutchinson "the return of the incredible exploding man" (2019) + dave hutchinson "nomads" (2019) + dave hutchinson "thumbprints" (1978) + dave hutchinson "torn air" (1980) + dave hutchinson "the push" (2009) + dave hutchinson "the villages" (2002) ... damn that elusive "paradise equation" (1981) ... 04 tade thompson "rosewater" (2016) + tade thompson "rosewater insurrection" (2019) + tade thompson "rosewater redemption" (2019) 05 desirina boskovich (ed) "lost transmissions: the secret history of sf & f" (2019)

06 hannu rajaniemi & jacob weisman (eds) "the new voices of science fiction" (2019) 07 gardner dozois (ed) "the very best of the best: 35 years of the year's best science fiction" (2019) 08 jonathan strahan (ed) "the best science fiction & fantasy of the year, volume thirteen" (2019) 09 robert markeley "kim stanley robinson modern masters of sf" (2019) 10 allan kaster (ed) "the year's top hard sf stories 3" (2019)

11 olivier girard (ed) "bifrost 96 la revue des mondes imaginaires: william gibson" (2019) 12 mario guglielminetti "web is over. parabola ed esplosione di ubuweb, l'antiprofilo" (2019) 13 bryan thomas schmidt (ed) "infinite stars: dark frontiers" (2019) 14 baoshu "the redemption of time" [2011] (2019) 15 cixin liu "the supernova era" [2003] (2019)

16 l. x. beckett "gamechanger" (2019) 17 gareth l powell "fleet of knives" (2019) 18 chen qiufan "waste tide" [2013] (2019) 19 derek künsken "the quantum garden" (2019) 20 gregory benford "rewrite: loops in the timescape" (2019)

21 james s.a. corey "tiamat's wrath" (2019) + james s.a. corey "auberon" (2019) 22 jim al-khalili "sunfall" (2019) 23 peter f hamilton "salvation lost" (2019) 24 neal asher "the warship" (2019) 25 jonathan strahan (ed) "mission critical" (2019)

26 jack mcdevitt "octavia gone" (2019) 27 elizabeth bear "ancestral night" (2019) 28 ian mcdonald "moon rising" (2019) 29 carmen maria machado (ed) "the best american sf & f 2019" (2019) 30 valerie valdes "chilling effect" (2019) 31 simon morden "bright morning star" (2019) + s. j. morden "no way" (2019) 32 neil stephenson "fall or, dodge in hell" (2019) 33 graham edwards "string city" (2019)

klassikstompf:

01 arno schmidt "bottom's dream" [1970] (2016) ... & still reading ...

02 jorge luis borgès "borgès restored (the author's preferred translations)" (2016) 03 julie orringer "the flight portfolio" (2019) + julie orringer "the invisible bridge" (2010) 04 pola oloixarac "savage theories" (2017) + pola oloixarac "dark constellations" (2019) 05 simon critchley "memory theatre" (2014)

06 gabriel josipovici "hotel andromeda" (2014) 07 david keenan "for the good times" (2019) 08 wg sebald "vertigo" [1990] (1999) + wg sebald "the emmigrants" [1992] (1996) + wg sebald "the rings of saturn" [1995] (1998) + wg sebald "austerlitz" (2001) 09 luis chitarroni "the no variations "diary of an unfinished novel" [2007] (2013) 10 julián ríos "larva: a midsummer night's babel" [1983] (1991)

11 césar aira "birthday" [2001] (2019) + césar aira "three novels" [1990-2000-1997] (2018) 12 tom mole "the secret life of books" (2019) 13 lucy ives "loudermilk or the real poet or the origin of the world" (2019) 14 lászló krasznahorkai "baron wenckheim's homecoming" [2016] (2019) 15 lucy ellmann "ducks, newburyport" (2019)

16 lars iyer "nietzsche & the burbs" (2019) 17 d harlan wilson "the psychotic dr. schreber" (2019) 18 andrew gallix (ed) "we'll never have paris" (2019) 19 chris kelso (ed) "i transgress" (2019) 20 john crowley "the solitudes" [1987] (2007) + john crowley "love & sleep" (1994) + john crowley "daemonomania" (2000) + john crowley "endless things" (2007) ... (the aegypt cycle)

polarstompf:

01 carlos ruiz zafón "the labyrinth of the spirits" [2017] (2018)

02 volker kutscher "the fatherland files" [2012] (2019) 03 andrea camilleri "the overnight kidnapper" [2015] (2019) + andrea camilleri "the other end of the line" [2016] (2019) 04 mick herron "joe country" (2019) + mick herron "this is what happened" (2018) + mick herron "nobody walks" (2015) 05 john le carré "agent running the field" (2019)

06 guillaume musso "la vie secrète des écrivains" (2019) 07 luke mccallin "the man from berlin" (2013) + luke mccallin "the pale house" (2014) + luke mccallin "the divided city" (2016) 09 henry porter "brandenburg" [2005] (2019) + henry porter "firefly" (2018) + henry porter "white hot silence" (2019) 10 mitch silver "the bookworm" (2018) + mitch silver "in secret service" (2007)

11 alan judd "the accidental agent" (2019) 12 philip kerr "metropolis" (2019) 13 ian rankin "westwind" (2019) 14 jo nesbø "the knife" (2019) 15 david hewson "devil's fjord" (2019)

16 barry forshaw "crime fiction: a reader's guide" (2019) 17 a.a. dhand "one way out" (2019) 18 martin holmén "clinch: the stockholm trilogy 01" (2016) + martin holmén "down for te count: the stockholm trilogy 02" (2017) + martin holmén "slugger: the stockholm trilogy 03" (2019) 19 michael kestemont "de zwarte koning" (2019) 20 soren sveistrup "the chestnut man" [2018] (2019)

21 tim mason "the darwin affair" (2019) 22 patrick conrad "good night, charlie" (2019) 23 chris pavone "the paris diversion" (2019) 24 dov aflon "a long night in paris" (2019) 25 arne dahl "hunted" [2017] (2019)

RIP ANDREA CAMILLERI !

gedächtnisstompf:

01 martin hägglund "this life: why mortality makes us free" (2019) / "this life: secular faith & spiritual freedom" (2019)

02 derrida "la vie la mort: séminaire (1975-1976)" (2019) 03 jean-luc nancy "derrida, suppléments” (2019) 04 jean-françois bouthors et jean-luc nancy "démocratie! hic et nunc" (2019) 05 hannah arendt "de vrijheid om vrij te zijn" (2019) + hannah arendt "nous autres réfugiés" (2019)

06 mckenzie wark "capital is dead": is this something worse?" (2019) 07 johan schokker & tim schokker "extimiteit: jacques lacan's terugkeer naar freud" (2000) 08 gerhard richter & ann schmock (eds) "give the word: responses to werner hamacher's 95 theses on philology" (2019) 09 ranja n gosh "philosophy & poetry: continental perspectives" (2019) 10 shoshana zuboff "the age of surveillance capitalism" (2019)

11 kate zambrano "screen tests: stories & other writing" (2019) 12 daniele carluccio "roland barthes lecteur" (2019) 13 jean-clet martin "la philosophie de gilles deleuze" (2019) 14 mitchell dean & daniel zamora "le dernier homme et la fin de la révolution: foucault après mai 68" (2019) 15 arnon grunberg "vriend & vijand: decadentie, ondergang & verlossing" (2019)

16 kwami anthony appiah "de leugens die ons verbinden: een nieuwe kijk op identiteit" [2018] (2019) 17 quentin meillassoux "science fiction & extro-science fiction" (2015) 18 roberto calasso "het onbenoembare verleden" [2017] (2019) 19 lydia davis "essays" (2019) 20 denise riley "time lived, without its flow" (2019)

poesisstompf:

zoë skoulding "footnotes to water" (2019)

platterstompf:

01 rick moody "on celestial music, and other adventures in listening" (2012)

02 yann courtiau "frictions: ce que la littérature a fait à la musique et ce que la musique a en a fait" (2019) 03 vivien goldman "revenge of the she-punks: a feminist music history from poly styrene to pussy riot" (2019) 04 garrígos, triana & guerra "god save the queens: pioneras del punk" (2019) 05 jon savage "this searing light, the sun & everything else: joy division the oral history" (2019)

06 richard beck "trains, jesus, and murder: the gospel according to johnny cash" 07 mark lanegan "sleevenotes" (2019) 08 jason williamson "jason williamson's house party: sleaford mods 2014-2019" (2019) 09 gallix, hill, & rose (eds) "love bites: fiction inspired by pete shelley" (2019) 10 greg laurie "johnny cash the redemption of an american icon" (2019)

11 marc vos & toon loenders "siglo xx: opdat de dood ons levend vindt & het leven ons niet doodt" (2019) 12 david sandilands & david keenan "go ahead & drop the bomb (memorial device pamflet)" (2019) 13 guillaume belhomme "pop fin de siècle" (2019) 14 chris bohn (ed) "the wire" (magazine) (2019) 15 sylvain sylvain "there's no bones in ice cream: sylvain sylvain's story of the new york dolls" (2018)

16 debbie harry "face it" (2019) 17 jaime gonzalo "poder freak: una crónica de la contracultura vol III" (2014) 18 matthew bower & samantha davies "talisman angelical" (2017) 19 darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: an arcade of audio atrocity vol I" (2013) + darryl w bullock "the world's worst records: another arcade of audio atrocity vol II" (2015) 20 steve zisson (ed) "a punk rock future" (2019) / ivar muñoz-rojas "underground babilonia" (2019)

bilderstompf:

01 didier ottinger "bacon en toutes lettres" (2019)

02 antoni tàpies "cap braços cames cos" (2012) + antoni tàpies "mahlerei und graphik" (2011) 03 laura oldfield ford "savage messiah" (2019) 04 fred vermorel "dead fashion girl: a situationist detective story" (2019) 05 françois schuiten & jaco van dormael "le dernier pharaon" (2019)

06 ken krimstein "the three escapes of hannah arendt: the tyranny of truth" (2018) 07 erik bindervoet & saskia pfaeltzer "aldus sprach nietzsche's zuster" (2019) 08 anthony n fragola & roch c smith "the erotic dream machine: interviews with alain robbe-grillet on his films" (2006)

cyclostompf:

01 bernard chambaz "petite philosophie du vélo" (2019)

02 filip osselaer "de man die doodging (vervolgens mosselen bestelde, de rekening vroeg en verdween): el tarangu, josé manuel fuente" (2019) 03 peter schmink "de cultus van het lijden: een vrije oefening" (2006) 04 laurent willame "les lieux sacrés du cyclisme: 15 pélérinages à faire avant de crever" (2019) 05 jonas heyerick (ed) "bahamontes: uit liefde voor de stiel" [magazine] (2019)

06 johnny vansevenant "1969, het jaar van eddy merckx" (2019) 07 edwin winkels "la vuelta: heroïsche verhalen uit de ronde van spanje" (2019) 08 frederik baeckelandt "fausto coppi (les héros 04)" (2019) 09 harry pearson "the beast, the emperor & the milkman: a bone-shaking tour through cycling’s flemish heartlands" (2019) 10 peter cossins "the yellow jersey / le maillot jaune" (2019)

11 thijs zonneveld "het panini album" (2019) 12 thijs zonneveld "de fiets, de fiets & nog veel meer sportverhalen" (2019) 13 willy vangenechten "hoe word je een wielerfan (en blijf je er een)?" (2019)

some wissenschaftstompf & autres divertissements ...:

01 robert macfarlane "underland: a deep time journey" (2019)

02 george van hal & ans hekkenberg "het kosmisch rariteitenkabinet" (2019) 03 josey waley-cohen "only connect: the difficult second quiz book" (2019)

… tsundoku !

may your home be safe from tigers, leroy, x HNY!

... the annual out of control TBR pile ...

postcyberpunkstompf

ada hoffmann "the outside" (2019) adrian tchaikovsky "children of ruin" (2019) alastair reynolds "shadow captain" (2019) + alastair reynolds "permafrost" (2019) annalee newitz "the future of another timeline" (2019) charlie jane anders "the city in the middle of the night" (2019) farah mendlesohn "the pleasant profession of robert a heinlein" (2019)gareth l powell "ragged alice" (2019) greg egan "perihelion summer" (2019) ian creasey "the shapes of strangers" (2019) jo walton "lent" (2019)

kameron hurley "the light brigade" (2019) karl schroeder "stealing words" (2019) megan o'keefe "velocity weapon" (2019) neil clarke (ed) "the eagle has landed: 50 years of lunar sf" (2019) nina allan "the silverwind" (2019) paul di filippo "aeota" (2019) peter swirski "stanislaw lem: philosopher of the future" (2019) + peter swirski & waclaw m osadnik (eds) "lemography: stanislaw lem in the eyes of the world" (2019) richard kadrey "the grand dark" (2019) rudy rucker "million mile road trip" (2019) simon ings "the smoke" (2019)

klassikstompf

alex landragin "crossings" (2019) enrique vila-matas "mac's problem" [2017] (2019) joseph scapellato "the made-up man" (2019) kevin breatnach "tunnelvision" (2019) michel houellebecq "serotonin" (2019) nell zink "doxology" (2019) roberto bolaño "the spirit of science fiction: a novel" (2019) samanta schweblin "mouthful of birds" (2019) sergio pitol "mephisto's waltz: selected short stories" (2019) will eaves "murmur" (2019)

polarstompf

johan op de beek "het complot van laken" (2019) jon steinhagen "the hanging artist" (2019) juli zeh "empty hearts" (2019) max hertzberg "operation oskar" (2019) + max hertzberg "berlin centre" (2019) peter robinson "many rivers to cross" (2019) tony belloto "bellini & the sphinx" [1995] (2019)

#2019 #rewind #reading #lecture #librarything

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The world is at risk of entering "hothouse" conditions with average temperatures 4-5 C higher even if emissions reduction targets under a global climate deal are met, scientists say in a new study.

The report, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, comes amid a heatwave that has pushed temperatures above 40 C in Europe this summer, causing drought and strengthening wildfires, including blazes in Greece in July that killed 91 people. It is suspected that the Greek blazes resulted from arson.

Around 200 countries agreed in 2015 to limit temperature rise to "well below" 2 C above pre-industrial levels, a threshold believed to be a tipping point for the climate.

However, it is not clear whether the world's climate can be safely "parked" near 2 C above pre-industrial levels or whether this might trigger other processes which drive further warming even if the world stops emitting greenhouse gases, the research said.

Temperature in Portuguese capital hits record 44 C as heatwave sears southern Europe

Study predicts worsening killer heat waves in Europe

Currently, global average temperatures are just over 1 C above the pre-industrial period and rising at 0.17 C each decade.

Scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the University of Copenhagen, Australian National University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said it is likely that if a critical threshold is crossed, several tipping points would lead to abrupt change.

There will be uninhabitable places on Earth

Such processes include permafrost thaw; the loss of methane hydrates from the ocean floor; weaker land and ocean carbon sinks; the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the reduction of Antarctic sea ice and polar ice sheets.

"These tipping elements can potentially act like a row of dominoes. Once one is pushed over, it pushes Earth towards another," said Johan Rockström, co-author of the report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre.

"It may be very difficult or impossible to stop the whole row of dominoes from tumbling over. Places on Earth will become uninhabitable if 'Hothouse Earth' becomes the reality," he said.

It may be very difficult or impossible to stop the whole row of dominoes from tumbling over. Places on Earth will become uninhabitable if 'Hothouse Earth' becomes the reality- Johan Rockström, co-author of the report

Maximizing the chances of avoiding such a hothouse state requires more than just reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the report said.

For example, improved forest, agricultural and soil management; biodiversity conservation and technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground are needed.

Commenting on the research, some experts said uncontrolled warming is still uncertain but not implausible.

"In the context of the summer of 2018, this is definitely not a case of crying wolf, raising a false alarm: the wolves are now in sight," said Phil Williamson, climate researcher at the University of East Anglia.

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prsvr · 4 years

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英政府表示不会要求所有的学校都于6月1日复课（pixabay）

【希望之声2020年5月21日】（希望之声记者宇宁综合编译）约翰逊政府原宣布英国所有的1年级、6年级和12年级学生于6月1日复课，但是由于至少有13个主要是工党控制的市议会和教师工会的反对，英政府宣布可能不会要求所有的小学都于6月1日复课；然而瑞典对47份调查的审查发现，孩子染上中共病毒（又称萨斯2号病毒）或传染家长、老师的几率很低；20%的英国大学新生表示，不乐意每年花费9千英镑的学费上网课，他们打算延迟入学一年，这意味着英国的大学可能将减少7.6亿英镑的收入。

据每日邮报报导，虽然包括法国在内的全欧洲数百万孩子已经于本月复课，而且并没有因此出现中共病毒疫情上扬的情况，但是英国政府提出的中小学于6月1日复课的要求却由于英国的教师工会以无法确保师生安全为由触礁，因此英国司法大臣巴克兰（Robert Buckland）5月20日表示，英国可能不会所有的小学同时开课。

巴克兰说，政府无意于给孩子们和老师们造成任何危险，因此在学校复课这个问题上，安全问题显然是最重要的问题，虽然政府在为6月1日复课做准备，但是可能不会所有的中、小学都按照政府要求的于6月1日复课。

报导表示，在政府宣布禁足令的长达8周的时间中，很多学校中仍然有老师在照顾在抗疫第一线工作人员的孩子，但是大多数英国孩子都在家中由自己的父母照看，很多父母是在身兼照顾孩子和工作双职。

报导表示，英国教育大臣威廉姆森（Gavin Williamson）5月19日晚上曾经与教师工会代表讨论学校复课问题，但是最后又是不了了之。

47份研究显示：孩子染上和传播中共病毒的几率极低

瑞典的卡罗琳斯卡研究所医学流行病学和生物统计学的研究人员对于47个不同的研究报告进行的系统的审查发现，孩子染上和传染中共病毒及出现严重中共病毒症状的风险很低，因此他们更不太会将这种病毒传染给他们的家人或师长。

此研究的指导老师Johans Ludvigsson教授表示，大部分孩子不太可能染上中共病毒，而且中共病毒导致孩子死亡的情况极其罕见，因此完全无需为了保护孩子而关闭学校或幼儿园。

这份报告还发现，现在的孩子们主要是与自己的父母和同伴在一起生活，不太与类似于祖父母等年长体弱的人接触，因此小学和幼儿园复课不会影响老年人死于中共病毒的几率。

Ludvigsson 教授表示，虽然瑞典的学校在中共病毒疫情期间一直都是正常运作的，但是瑞典还没有出现一例孩子或老师在学校染上中共病毒的例证。

他说：“ 在瑞典，一百万孩子每天都去上学，但是却没有发生在老师或学生中爆发疫情的情况，这就证明孩子不太容易感染这种疫病。”

剑桥大学的统计学教授David Spigelhalter 也认为孩子染疫的几率极低，，因为数据显示，因为在英格兰和威尔士700万名年龄介于5岁至14岁的孩子中，死亡证上标明死于中共病毒的孩子只有一个，他还表示，老师也并不比其他职业更容易染疫。

世卫组织传染病流行病学者范科霍芙（Maria Van Kerkhove）则表示，孩子们也会染上中共病毒，他们往往是在与自己的家人中的接触中染疫的。

英20%的大学新生有意与推迟入学一年

最新的民调显示，由于2020年下半年入学的大学新生不不愿意一年支付9千英镑的学费只上网课， 20%的应届本科生准备推迟入学一年，这意味着英国的大学将损失近7.6亿英镑的收入。

英国大学与学院工会的（UCU）民调显示， 20%的应届高中毕业生准备推迟入学一年，这意味着今年秋季入学时英国各大学将少招收12万学生，欧洲高级咨询公司London Economics的经济学家表示，17%的大学新生辍学就将导致英国各大学损失7.63亿英镑的学费收入。

报导表示，剑桥大学已经宣布，网课将持续至2021年9月份，可能会开一些小班课；剑桥大学新学期将结合网课和面授课；肯特大学将结合网课和面授课；曼彻斯特大学的网课将持续至2021年1月。对此爱丁堡大学的副校长peter Mathieson 承认，在中共病毒疫情期间，将数百个学生放在一间教室里上大课不太可能，也不太安全，因此该大学准备将网课与小班课相结合，但是该大学未宣布何时转为全面的面授课。

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原文链接：【中共病毒】英政府：小学或不会同时复课研究：孩子不易染上或传染中共病毒

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falling-through-lost-spaces · 6 years

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Books Owned But Unread

Fiction:

Joe Hill - The Fireman

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

Emma Cline - Girls

Kirsty Logan - The Gracekeepers

Seth Patrick - Lost Souls

Slyvain Neuval - Waking Gods

Mark Z. Danielewski - The Familiar Vol 1

Graeme Macrae Burnet - His Bloody Project

Austin Wright - Tony & Susan

Patricia Highsmith - Carol

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me A Healthy Person

Tracy Chevalier - New Boy

Andy Weir - Artemis

Michelle Paver - Dark Matter

Robert Daws - The Posisoned Rock

Laura Lam - False Hearts

Italo Calvino - If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler

Megan Bradbury - Everyone Is Watching

Sunil Yapa - Your Heart Is A Muscle the Size of A Fist

George R.R. Martin - A Clash of Kings

Sarah Moss - The Tidal Zone

Matthew Blakstad - Lucky Ghost

Toni Morrison - Tar Baby

Jeff Vandermeer - Annihilation

Colson Whitehead - Zone One

Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

Ann Cleeves - The Crow Trap

Ward Moore - Bring the Jubilee

Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies

Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted

Michael Crichton - State of Fear

Neil Gaiman - How the Marguis Got His Coat Back

Agatha Christie - The Double Clue

James Patterson - NYPD Red 2

Maud Pember Reeves - Round About A Pound A Week

Paul Torday - Salmon Fishing In the Yemen

Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Daniel H Wilson - Robopocalypse

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

David Wong - John Dies At the End

Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada

James Joyce - A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man

John Ajvide Lindquist - Let the Right One In

Gregory Maguire - Wicked

Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Paul Beatty - The Sellout

Jane Shemilt - Daughter

Jane Isaac - The Truth Will Out

Karin Slaughter - Genesis

S.K. Tremayne - The Fire Child

Isaac Marion - The Burning World

Adrien Bosc - Constellation

Laura Power - Air-Born

Laura Power - Earth-Bound

Keith DeCandido - House of Cards

Wayne Simmons - Flu

Harper Lee - Go Set A Watchman

Dean Koontz - The City

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Ali Smith - The Accidental

John Burnside - Glister

Lauren Owen - The Quick

Tom McCarthy - Satin Island

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Robert Harris - The Ghost

Michel Faber - The Fire Gospel

Michel Faber - The Book of Strange New Things

James Patterson - Pop Goes the Weasel

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter’s Final Cut

Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera

Banana Yoshimoto - Kitchen

Sinclair Lewis - It Can’t Happen Here

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Mark Twain - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Cory Doctorow - Makers

YA/Children's Fiction:

A.S. King - Still Life With Tornado

Patrick Ness - More Than This

Andrew Smith - Stand Off

Andrew Smith - The Alex Crow

Johan Harstad - 172 Hours on the Moon

Ernest Cline - Ready Player One

Tommy Wallach - We All Looked Up

Karen Thompson Walker - The Age of Miracles

Tess Sharpe - Far From You

Leila Sales - This Song Will Save Your Life

Darragh McManus - Shiver the Whole Night Through

Rachel Cohn & David Levithan - Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist

Laura Lam - Pantomime

Laura Lam - Shadowplay

Cassandra Clare - The Bane Chronicles

Cassandra Clare - Tales From the Shadowhunter Academy

Cassandra Clare - The Shadowhunters Codex

Cassandra Clare - Lady Midnight

Cassandra Clare - Lord of Shadows

Andrew Smith - 100 Sideways Miles

Karen Nesbitt - Subject To Change

Anna Day - The Fandom

Brendan Reichs - Nemesis

Chinelo Okparanta - Under the Udala Trees

Nina LaCour - We Are Okay

Sarah Alexander - The Art of Not Breathing

Liz Kessler - Read Me Like A Book

Lisa Williamson - The Art of Being Normal

Laurie Halse Anderson - Wintergirls

Marie Lu - Legend

Eve Ainsworth - 7 Days

Lesley Walton - The Strange & Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

Malinda Lo - Ash

Larry Duplechan - Blackbird

Makina Lucier - A Death Struck Year

James Patterson - Witch & Wizard

Jandy Nelson - I’ll Give You the Sun

Nick Burd - The Vast Fields of Ordinary

Libba Bray - Beauty Queens

Jack Cheng - See You In the Cosmos

Jennifer Niven - Holding Up the Universe

Becky Albertalli - The Upside of Unrequieted

Lauren Oliver - Replica

Ken Catran - Deepwater Black

Will McIntosh - Burning Midnight

Tahereh Mafi - Shatter Me

Libba Bray - The Diviners

Emily M Danforth - The Miseducation of Cameron Post

Carolyn Jess-Cooke - The Boy Who Could See Demons

Bali Rai - Killing Honour

Gayle Forman - If I Stay

Andre Aciman - Call Me By Your Name

E. Lockhart - We Were Liars

Katie Coyle - Vivian Versus the Apocalypse

Leah Thomas - Because You’ll Never Meet Me

David Arnold - Mosquitoland

Laure Eve - The Graces

Lisa Heathfield - Paper Butterflies

Ransom Riggs - Hollow City

Em Bailey - Shift

Francesca Haig - The Map of Bones

Rainbow Rowell - Carry On

Bryony Pearce - Phoenix Rising

Lou Morgan - Sleepless

Graham Marks - Bad Bones

Jess Vallence - Birdy

Teri Terry - Slated

Non-Fiction:

Brian Cox - Human Universe

D’Arcy Jenish - The NHL: A Centennial History

Greg Oliver - Don’t Call Me Goon

Andrew Hodges - Alan Turing: The Enigma

Susan Cain - Quiet: The Power of Introverts

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Rebecca Skloot - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

Brian Cox - E = mc“?

Stacey Schiff - The Witches

Julian Sayarer - Interstate

404 Ink - Nasty Women

Lynn Povich - The Good Girls Revolt

Michael Finkel - The Stranger In the Woods

Kent Russell - I Am Sorry To Think That I Have Raised A Timid Son

Luke Harding - Snowden

Mary Roach - Stiff

Yuval Noah Harari - Homo Deus

Bill Bryson - The Lost Continent

Naomi Klein - No Is Not Enough

Dave Cullen - Columbine

Ian Nathan - Inside the Magic: The Making of Fantastic Beasts

Bob McCabe - Harry Potter Page To Screen

Adharanand Finn - Running With the Kenyans

Aurellien Ferenczi - Masters of Cinema: Tim Burton

Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Think Like A Freak

Olivia Lang - The Lonely City

Michelle Tea - The Chelsea Whistle

Simon Singh - Big Bang

Tristan Taormino - The Feminist Porn Book

Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country

Nick Frost - Truths, Half Truths & Little White Lies

Russell Brand - Revolution

Robert M Pirsig - Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Francis Spufford - The Child That Books Built

Dominic Hibberd - Wilfred Owen

George Vecsey - Baseball

Richard Wiseman - Paranormality

Neil Gaiman - Adventures In the Dream Trade

Nicola Field - Over the Rainbow

Jaclyn Friedman & Jessica Valenti - Yes Means Yes

Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction

Eddie Izzard - Dress To Kill

Stephen Smith - Underground London

Plays/Poetry/Short Story Collections:

Tom Hanks - Uncommon Type

Joe Hill - Strange Weather

Dean Atta - I Am Nobody’s N*****

Amerlle - Because You Love To Hate Me

Roxanne Gay - Difficult Women

Mark Gatiss - Queers: Eight Monologues

Graphic Novels/Manga:

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 6

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 7

Tsugumi Ohba - Death Note Vol 8

#books #to be read

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Moving to Real Madrid? Speculations high as Kylian Mbappe is excluded from EA Sports FC Trailer

Moving to Real Madrid? Speculations high as Kylian Mbappe is excluded from EA Sports FC Trailer This is the time during the summer transfer window when football enthusiasts engage in speculation. The recent buzz revolves around the absence of Kylian Mbappé in the EA Sports FC video game trailer released by Paris Saint-Germain. While numerous players were featured in the 14-second clip, Mbappé was noticeably missing. Consequently, there has been widespread speculation about a potential transfer to Real Madrid, as the Spanish club has been strongly associated with the player. Where's Mbappe? https://t.co/MT8WIJrNGs— PSG Talk (@PSGTalk) July 13, 2023 Mbappé no sale en el video de #EASPORTSFC del PSG 😎 pic.twitter.com/8XZoozWh2C— Real Madrid Fans 🤍 (@MadridismoreaI) July 13, 2023 Given that Kylian Mbappé will be eligible to leave as a free agent next summer, Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) will likely be eager to part ways with the 24-year-old player. It is indeed notable that Kylian Mbappé is not featured on the cover of the EA Sports FC game, while many other players, including Erling Haaland, Marcus Rashford, Vinicius Jr, Jude Bellingham, and Bukayo Saka, have secured a spot on the cover. Additionally, legendary players like Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldinho, and David Beckham, as well as women's stars like Sam Kerr, Marta, and Leah Williamson, have been included. Even Pele and Johan Cruyff, who have passed away, have been featured. Given that Mbappé has been the main star of the previous three FIFA games, it does raise curiosity as to why he has been completely left out of the rebranding. It becomes even more intriguing when considering that Sam Kerr, who was Mbappé's co-star on the cover of FIFA 23, has been included in the lineup. These circumstances might suggest that there could be underlying reasons or decisions behind this omission. Moving to Real Madrid? Speculations high as Kylian Mbappe is excluded from EA Sports FC Trailer Read the full article

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Chapter 3.

King

10:44 am

I fell back on the couch of Tiana’s new apartment couch. We been moving her shit for a good 2 hours now. I’m beyond tired and just ready to get to work on this case. I watched as she walked back from one of the rooms and sat on the couch, crossing her foot under her.

“Ok so this case. I know you said you’d rather just give information then testify. But the judge says that he will need from you...and your other son if he is able”.

She nodded. I was about to begin once again, but I had a burning question that was just being wanted to ask.

“I’m sorry, I know this is a little off track, but how in the world did a young female like you end up two kids deep in a situation like this”.

I said it with a little bit of a smirk, but I was dead serious. She laughed,shaking her head.

“Well Im actually not 2 kids deep, just one. Trent is my brother and Titan is my baby. I’ve had Trent since he was 3 so naturally I guess he became mine...”

I nodded as she paused, looking out the floor to ceiling windows.

“He helped me when I had nothing. Me and Trent would have been homeless, in the system but he took care of us. I guess I felt I owed him for what he did. That’s how I ended up 1 kid deep”.

We both shared the laugh. I nodded, starring at her for a while.

“SO, don’t want to intrude. How did you end up with your brother?”.

Sighing she locked eyes with me, playing with her fingers a bit.

“My mother was addicted to the streets and drugs. My grandmother took him when he was 1. She died of a heart attack 2 years later. So I took him. I had to prove we was living somewhere stable and that I was in school before they gave it to me. I fought hard because I was not trying to have him grow up in the system. 15 years old and taking care of a 3 year old..”

She laughed to herself and shook her head.

“Anyway, I graduated highschool but didn't continue on with college. Then Dominic being much older then me said we could stay with him. That he would let us live with him if I .... watched his shit”.

I raised a eyebrow taking a mental note to dig deeper into that itself. But for now I didn’t wanna pressure her too much so I decided to change the topic.

“Well, are you working or anything?”.

She shook her head.

“No, but I have office experience from when I was 18 and 19.

I nodded, rubbing my chin. This might be conflict in itself, but I might be able to get her a job at the firm. Not as a lawyer of course, but as a assistant. Just handle little stuff. Keeping files together, scheduling meetings, answering phones. That sort of thing.

“Well you got a interview Friday?”.

She laughed, kind of taken back and confused.

“Where?”.

“At my firm. I think one of my lawyers might need a new assistant. I’ll interview you and get you started. But you have to bring your professional game. This is serious and I won’t just give it to you because you need it. You gotta show me you’re capable”.

She nodded with a bright smile. I’m not saying this job is guaranteed for her, but it’s worth a shot.

“Are there any schools in the area. I wanna get Trent Enrolled as soon as possible”.

I took my phone out, searching the schools in her area.

“Uh yeah. The top one seems to be Cornelia F Bradford 16. Or you can enroll him in the Manhattan are″.

She smiled with a nod, then rested her hand on the arm of the couch.

“So, since you asked me a personal question. can I ask you one?”.

I exhaled giving a slight chuckle and a nod.

“Do you have kids?”.

I nodded, shoving my phone in my pocket. I was praying she wouldn’t ask me about a wife or girlfriend. I’m just getting over Regina's death, but it’s still a hard topic to talk about.

“Yes a little girl, she’s 8″.

She smiled, looking down at the ground then back at me.

“How do you make sure she becomes a well rounded women? It’s just me with Trent and Titan now, and now that Dominic is out of our lives, I wanna make sure they have the best living skills, skills in general”.

I nodding in understanding as she spoke.

“Just time, and correction. And also leading by example and the men you allow in your life in the future. If you want them to be good students, you work with them, you read to them, take them to museums, discovery adventures. Those are all the things that build up a young scholar. Enroll them in sports, not only does that teach discipline but also opens the door for many things for them”.

She laughed lowly and shook her head.

“I’m not laughing at you, just the fact that Trent said yesterday he wanted to get into sports. I think I wanna get him in as many as possible for each seaso-”

“Yeah, it’ll help him decided what he enjoys more and what he’ll wanna stick with”.

She smiled. She was a pretty young girl. Seemed to have a good head on her shoulder despite the situation she’s in. There was a awkward silence between us before I stood to my feet.

I cleared my throat a little and looked at my wristwatch.“I think you’re suppose to be going to speak to Neal today around 4″.She nodded, standing up as well and walking me to the door.

“Right Right. So tomorrow am I suppose to drive all the way to Manhattan so we can go over this case”.

I laughed and nodded my head.

“yeah, these are the breaks. Just trynna make a good life easier”.

“Well I appreciate your help. I’ll talk to you later I guess”.

“Right... Uhh Goodbye”.

I watched as she closed the door, leaving me feeling weird. Who the fuck says goodbye instead of just bye. I shook my head at myself before getting on the elevator and heading downstairs.

Tiana

4:50 pm

“Trent, they’re going to ask you a few question and you have to be honest ok”.

Here we are at the station, giving our recorded testimonies. I had no Idea that they would also ask Trent for his but obviously they needed one from him too.

“What’s the question going to be about?”.

I took his jacket off, laying it across my lap

“About Dominic...When he use to hit me. They need you to tell them how it happened, why it happened and who broke it up”.

Smacking his teeth, he gave me a upset face and shook his head.

“I don’t want too”.

He whined. I shook my head, grabbing him by his shirt and pulling him gently towards me.

“Hey, you have to. Do you want him to come back and we be unhappy?”.

Shaking his head furiously I nodded.

“Ok then, be honest. No matter how scary the question is. Ok”.

Taking a breath of air he nodded, scooting himself into my lap, he laid his head on my shoulder.Looking down at my phone, I watched as a unknown number flashed across my screen. Scrunching my eyebrows together, I unlocked my phone and read the message.

From: 212-629-5555

It’s Kingston. Wanted to go over you case a little more tonight. Umm can you come to my office.

I shook my head to myself.

To: Kingston

I can’t I have no sitter for Titan, Are you able to just come back to my place

“We’re ready for him”.

My focus was broken as one of the detective came into the waiting room. I nodded, nicely pushing Trent from my lap and kissing his cheek.

“I’ll be right here, remember be honest ok?”.

He nodded, taking the hand of Neal and walking out of the room. I waited until they were out of my sight before focusing back on my phone.

From: Kingston

I can. I have to get my daughter ready for bed, so I’ll be there around 8:30

To: Kingston

That’s fine.

I slipped my phone back in my purse and looked at Titan in his strolled. Taking him out I placed many kisses on his on his face. His giggle was so soothing. No matter what, I’m glad I have him.

Johan

5:02 pm

I sat in the chair in a office, enjoying my chips and juice that the police officer gave me when I came in here. At first I was scared, but I’m ok now. They said if I didn’t want Dominic to come back, I had to tell what I seen and how it made me feel. That’s easy because he always mad me feel, weird.“Hi Trent. I’m Detective Neal and this is Detective Michael. We’re going to ask you a few questions. It is ver-”

“I know I know, very important that I tell the truth”. They both laughed. I didn’t know what was so funny, I just was telling them what they was going to say. I watched him as he grabbed a little radio thingy and pressed a button.

“November 2nd 2016. The time is 5:04 in the afternoon. Witness Trent Williamson.

So Trent, tell me about Dominic”.

I nodded, looking at the radio in the middle of the table, then drinking some of my apple juice.

Trent: Well he use to be Titi’s boyfriend. But I don’t think he is anymore

Neal: Why isn’t he

Trent: Because before he went away they were mad at each other

Neal: Do you know why they were mad?

I nodded my head. I know Titi told me not to, but I always listen to them talk.

Trent: He brought toy guns in the house. Tiana doesn’t like toy guns in the house or the big plastic bags.

Neal: What kind of plastic bags?

Trent: The kind that made the living room really foggy. It smelled really bad. So so bad that we had to stay in the room if he took it out the bag.

I watched him nod to himself and look at the other officer, then back at me.

Neal: Had Dominic ever hit you, or Titi?

I looked at the glad window. I had to remember to tell the truth. I use to wasn’t suppose to but now I can. I nodded my head.

Trent: Yes. He hit her in the head and when I cried he gave me a whooping and told me to stay in the closet.

Neal: Why did he hit TiTi?

Trent: Because she was grabbing me and Titan to leave. And then another time because he kept bringing the bags from the laundry home

I watched Neal smile then turn the radio off and rubbed my head.“You did good skippy?”.

I laughed throwing my head back and putting more chips in my mouth. Who’s skippy.

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dackdel · 4 years

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Lots of Love from Ben Marriott on Vimeo.

Over the past 8 months, I've been putting this animation together with 60 amazing animators (under the code name Project Manticore 2020.) Each artist produced a 36 frame animation on the theme of "Love." I was stunned by different interpretations, the quality of work & diversity of styles. I'm so proud to finally release this project and hopefully introduce you to some amazing artists. I hope it was worth the wait!

Credits:

Producer: Ben Marriott @ben_marriott_ Sound Design: QB Sound @qbsoundstudio

Animators: Jake Bartlett @jakeinmotion Ryan Bird @birdsie.tv James Boorman @jamesboorman Bernd Bousard @berndbousard Francisco Catão @franciscocatao CE Bilibili: @0.CE Garath Chang @gardercha Manu Correa Soto @manucorreasoto Sha'an d'Anthes @furrylittlepeach Lykke Dalum @lykkedalum Nidia Dias @imnidiadias Elena Dunwoodie @elena.motion Josh Edwards @jshedwards Stephen Elliget @epicsteve Johan Eriksson @erikssongraphics Fafa Motion @fafa_motion Gabriel Gareso @gabriel_gareso Rodrigo Germano @rodgermano_ Alex Goddard @goddardmakes John Grist @john.grist Karolin Gu @karolin_gu Martin Gunnarsson @hellodeerstranger Miles Hellyer @mchellyer Jess Herrera @herrerasaurus Jasper Hilgers @jasperhilgers Joyteeth Bilibili @joyteeth Tim Krakowiak @timkrakowiak3d Johana Kroft @johanakroft Zoe Lagos Crocker @lagoosey Derek Lau @dereklaudesign Lara Lee @laraleee Nancy Li @nlianderthal Ben Marriott @ben_marriott_ Glen Miralles @glenmiralles Brian Neong San @neongsan Carlotta Notaro @carlotta_notaro Adam Olds @addrawz Ignacio Osorio @ignacio.osorio.s Sofia Pashaei @sofiapashaei Megan Pelto @meganpelto Bryce Pemberton @brycepemberton_ Chris Phillips @crispegram William Pietsch @williamdpietsch Felipe Pinheiro Rocha @fpinheiro_design Ross Plaskow @rossplaskow Jason Poley @jasonpoley Mike Russo @mikerusso.tv Alek Saharovsky @alek.work Manon Sailly @saillymanon Luke Saunders @lukejacksaunders Kirstin Smith @kirstinnsmith Liz Smith @__lizsmith Scarlett Starling @scarlettstarlingdesign Its Got Stealth @itsgotstealth Marvin Te @marvin.y.te Phillip Tibballs @philltibb Jordan Turner @jordanturner.jpeg Sam Van Ingen @motionvan Vanta Collective @vanta.collective Michael Wilkinson @design_blimp Pip Williamson @williamson_pip Yuki Yamada @theyamadasan YMY

Special thanks to: Zoe Marriott

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benmarriott · 4 years

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Lots of Love from Ben Marriott on Vimeo.

Credits:

Producer: Ben Marriott @ben_marriott_ Sound Design: QB Sound @qbsoundstudio

Special thanks to: Zoe Marriott

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rabbittstewcomics · 5 years

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Episode 215

Flash Giant, Legion of Super-Heroes: Millennium 2, Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk, Bizarre Adventures, Contagion, Ghost Rider, Marvel Comics 1001, Spider-Verse, Ruby Falls, Avatar OGNs, Black Terror, Return to Vader's Castle, Copra, Dead Eyes, Nomen Omen, Catalyst Prime: 7 Days, D-Ward, Gutter Magic, Strange Skies Over East Berlin, Vampire State Building, Over the Garden Wall

Additional Reviews: Thanos by Cates, The Outsider, The Joker

News: NYCC, new Archie line of GNs, Bitter Root TV series, return of The End line, Star mini from Kelly Thompson, Ravencroft things, Todd Philips, Black Label Harley, James Wan and Gideon Falls, Bizarro TV anthology, Stranger Things, new Hill House book by Immonen, new Marvel creative teams, return of Nailbiter and other Image series, DC timeline, new Star Wars title, new Layman book from IDW, Amy Reeder on Amethyst, Hidden Society from Dark Horse, Earth X prequel, Arno Stark, Alienated by Spurrier/Wildgoose, Zatanna OGN, 5G rumors, Luthor movie?

Comics Review Details:

Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing, Filipe Andrade, Chris O'Halloran

Bizarre Adventures by Jim Mackey, Chris Mooneyham, Lauren Affe, Sebastian Girner, Francesco Manna, Andy Troy, Becky Cloonan, Michael Conrad, Lee Loughridge, Jon Adams, Aaron Conley, John Rauch

Contagion 1 by Ed Brisson, Roge Antonio, Vero Gandini

Ghost Rider 1 by Ed Brisson, Jason Keith, Aaron Kuder, Juan Frigeri

Spider-Verse 1 by Jed MacKay, Art Adams, Juan Frigeri, Stacey Lee, James Harren, Dike Ruan, Sheldon Vella, Federico Blee, Carlos Lopez, Dave Stewart

Ruby Falls 1 by Ann Nocenti, Lee Loughridge, Flavia Biondi

Avatar the Last Airbender: Team Avatar Tales by Gene Luen Yang, Dave Scheidt, Sara Goetter, Ron Koertge, Kiku Hughes, Faith Erin Hicks, Ryan Hill, Carla Speed McNeil, Johane Matte, Sara Duvall, Cris Peter, Jenn Manley Lee, Lark Pien, Natalie Riess, et al

Black Terror 1 by Max Bemis, Matt Gaudio, Brittany Pezzillo

Nomen Omen 1 by Marco Bucci, Jacopo Camagni, Claudio Lucania, Fabio Mancini

Catalyst Prime: 7 Days 1 by Gail Simone, Jose Luis

D-Ward 1 by Billy Parker, Alex Smith

Gutter Magic 1 by Rich Douek, Brett Barkley, Jules Rivera

Strange Skies Over East Berlin 1 by Jeff Loveness, Lisandro Estherren, Patricio Delpeche

Vampire State Building 1 by Anne and Gerard Guero, Patrick Renault, Charlie Adlard, Sebastien Gerard

Comics Countdown, 02 Oct 2019:

Immortal Hulk 24 by Al Ewing, Joe Bennett, Belardino brabo, Ruy Jose, Paul Mounts

House of X 6 by Jonathon Hickman, Pepe Larraz, David Curiel, Marte Gracia

Harley Quinn 66 by Sam Humphries, Sami Basri, Hi-Fi Colour Design

Die 8 by Kieron Gillen, Stephanie Hans

Lois Lane 4 by Greg Rucka, Mike Perkins, Paul Mounts

Daredevil 12 by Chip Zdarsky, Marco Checchetto, Nolan Woodard

Runaways 25 by Rainbow Rowell, Andres Genolet, Federico Blee, Matt Wilson

Berserker Unbound 3 by Jeff Lemire, Mike Deodato Jr., Frank Martin Jr.

Birthright 40 by Joshua Williamson, Andrei Bressan

DCeased 5 by Tom Taylor, Trevor Hairsine, Stefano Gaudiano, Rain Beredo

Check out this episode!

#comics #podcast #podernfamily #rabbittstew

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micaramel · 5 years

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Artist: Marguerite Humeau

Venue: Clearing, Brussels

Exhibition Title: MIST

Date: September 6 – October 19, 2019

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Full gallery of images, press release, and link available after the jump.

Images:

Images courtesy of the artist and Clearing New York, Brussels. Photos by Eden Krsmanovic.

Press Release:

What if non-human beings are not just spectators ‒ witnessing the world’s slow motion destruction? What if they, too, mourn their dead, and weep for the extinction of other species? What if global warming is triggering the birth of spiritual feelings in non-human beings?

Humeau has heard tell of whales beaching themselves, embracing death by suffocation under their own body weight for no one else but themselves. Dolphins, too, committing mass suicide ‒ tired of the sea and life therein. Chimpanzees are piling up rocks ‒ apparently building some kind of temple. Reindeers are self-inducing magicmushrooms, reaching states of ecstatic trance. Elephants wave branches at the waxing moon…

While some of these behaviours seem to be ancient, their number and complexity have increased in recent years. Mass extinction seems to be making animals more conscious of their own mortality; making them hope for some form of existence after death… Clear distinctions between animal and man (indeed, between nature and culture) are blurring. MIST descends:

A cold moon, seen from the below the newly risen sea, casts pale light throughout the space. THE MOONilluminates the exhibition’s uncanny scene, where the earth has partially sunk beneath rising floodwaters.On land the air is thick with an invisible layer of toxic gas. It is here that mutant denizens of MIST live outtheir attenuated, half-conscious days. Reduced to living-death, these creatures are mere lungs, tracheas ‒ respiratory organs ‒ slowly mutating into industrial waste.

A marine mammal is suffocating (THE DEAD), facing the sky. Another one (THE PRAYER) is lifting its bodyup, searching for some form of transcendence, perhaps invoking celestial bodies. A group of half-submergedbeings (THE BREATHERS) look on, performing a breathing sacrament, as if to vouchsafe the former’s passage into another realm through a personal offering to the lunar deity ‒ projecting ocean water and whale mucus,sourced during a research expedition off the west coast of British Columbia. All the while, an invisible entity(THE MYTH TELLER) is heard moving throughout the entrails of the building, narrating the first non-humanmyth of a future deluge. Behind a wall, a large wave seems to have left various disembodied respiratory tracts (WASTE) lying on the shore. In another room, at the back of the gallery, we enter the deep sea. In this oceana shoal of fish (THE DEAD, THE DANCERS, and THE AIR) are performing a non-human dance, to resuscitateone of their dead.

As Joseph Campbell tells it ‒ the recognition of mortality and the requirement to transcend it is the first greatimpulse to the birth of myths and religion. MIST envisions a world in which mass extinction has accelerated to a point of no return; where non-human beings have become spiritual, capable of self-transcendence and mystical experience, because they have no other choice. It is as if promethean punishment (the trauma of reason) were visited on them for humanity’s crimes in the pursuit of planetary mastery.

In keeping with her interdisciplinary approach to world-making, Humeau has developed this new suite ofworks through consultation with numerous specialists ‒ probing the outer reaches of their competence insearch of suggestive material. Drawing upon a range of domains (including behavioral science, anthropology, environmental studies, evolutionary psychology, developmental biology, cognitive science, primatology, ethology, archeology, history, and climate change studies) MIST’s conceptual universe is bricolage of exotic and unlikely facts. The resulting sculptures constitute their synthetic interpretation: They are players in a granddrama; science-fiction in action; actors on a stage; showing (as much as some scientists have begun to tell)that something major is afoot…

MIST’s cast are more than imagined. They are virtually real ‒ the products of what philosophers call a thought experiment or possible universe; a kind of filter bubble. However strange the content, the internal consistencyof Humeau’s world is compelling. Indeed, MIST is unsettling in the degree to which it overlaps with the realm beyond the gallery, incorporating elements from real life, such that frisson is provoked by how much the visitor (almost unwittingly) enters into the artist’s imaginary. The more Humeau’s speculative ecosystem ingests, digests, and reworks things beyond it (issues of the day, cutting edge science, for instance) the more powerfulits impact. A large drawing (HIGH TIDE) maps MIST’s heady cosmology.

Humans are the dominant influence upon the global climate. In a very real way, the environment has beentransformed into us. Every particle we breath, every drop of water comes from human origin or has been impacted by humans. In MIST, Humeau pushes this scenario towards a dramatic conclusion. At once spectacular and disconcerting, the artist’s poetics capture an atmosphere of folly and fascination perfectly in tune with our times.

‒ Nadim Samman

MIST is a project by Marguerite Humeau Scenography: Juliette Rambaud for Studio Marguerite Humeau Composition and sound mixing: Lény Bernay Sound design and voice synthesis : Pierre Lanchantin 3D modeling: Alejandro Medina, Levent Ozruh & William FairbrotherElectronic and respiratory systems: Nick Williamson Show Orchestration: Johan Lescure

Marguerite Humeau (b. 1986, FR) lives and works in London, UK. She received her MA from the Royal College of Art, London, in 2011. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at Tate Britain, London, UK; New Museum, New York, USA; Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, CH; Kunstverein in Hamburg, DE; Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, DE; Nottingham Contemporary, UK; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; and C L E A R I N G, New York, USA. Her work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the High Line, New York, USA; Château de Versailles, FR; Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Victoria and Albert Museum, Sculpture Gallery, London, UK; and FRAC Midi-Pyrénées,Toulouse, FR. Humeau is nominatedfor the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2019.

Link: Marguerite Humeau at Clearing

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