Shadow Libraries | e-flux
Lawrence Liang in praise of small press and small personal collections. “Yet strangely when I think of libraries it is rarely the New York public library that comes to mind even… Read More
Alternative Press Centre / AREA, Chicago
Before leaving Chicago, Bek & I dropped by the Alternative Press Centre for a meeting with Daniel Tucker, founder & ex-publisher of AREA Chicago, an awesome biannual newspaper of Chicago-specific art/research/education/activism. AREA is… Read More
Free Books! Have a look!
Newspaper box on sidewalk in Chicago converted into a free book exchange. Nice.
Read/Write Library, Chicago
Yesterday The Librarium had its first OS public outing at Chicago’s own awesome Read/Write Library (formerly the Chicago Underground Library) – fearless pioneers of a new model for “open, location-specific archiving of independent… Read More
Marginalia: Little Libraries in the Urban Margins
Cute article on mini libraries by Shannon Mattern in ‘Places’ journal.
The Prelinger Library, San Francisco
Yesterday I met with Megan Shaw Prelinger and Rick Prelinger at the Prelinger Library, an incredible ‘appropriation-friendly’ and idiosyncratic archive (over 40,000 books, periodicals, printed ephemera and government documents), nestled in the outskirts… Read More
Martha Rosler: If You Lived Here
Currently housing crises are ramping up all over the world, as real estate speculation hunts down more and more new values to be created and exploited. As artists in an inner city area of Sydney… Read More
