Listen "Episode 9: The Oulipo and the Naked City"
Episode Synopsis
Jake and Phil are joined by Olivia Garard (@teaandtactics) of The Strategy Bridge (https://thestrategybridge.org/editorial-team/2016/8/16/olivia-a-garard) to discuss Oulipo member Anne Garréta's "On Bookselves" and Guy Debord’s “The Naked City”
Works cited:
R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In
https://lithub.com/in-defense-of-keeping-books-spine-in/
Anne Garréta, On Bookselves
http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves
Wittgenstein's private language argument
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
Borges, The Library of Babel
https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html
Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Intuition-Pumps-And-Other-Tools-for-Thinking/
Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/what-were-fighting-for.html
Michel Houellebecq's face
https://s1.lemde.fr/image/2015/01/07/534x0/455066378cd6michel-houellebecq-en-septembre-201468730539b00035181bbb264f4a38e9e9.jpg
Guy Debord, The Naked City
https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-naked-city/
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271456/the-practice-of-everyday-life
Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
https://www.amazon.com/Non-Places-Introduction-Supermodernity-Marc-Auge/dp/1844673111
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
https://www.press.umich.edu/9900/simulacraandsimulation
Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant
https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/isaak-babel-complete-works.pdf
Audio Clip:
Method Man at Def Jam offices in 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BWml7yoFwHA
Works cited:
R.O. Kwon, In Defense of Keeping Books Spine In
https://lithub.com/in-defense-of-keeping-books-spine-in/
Anne Garréta, On Bookselves
http://oulipo.net/fr/on-bookselves
Wittgenstein's private language argument
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/private-language/
Borges, The Library of Babel
https://libraryofbabel.info/libraryofbabel.html
Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
http://books.wwnorton.com/books/Intuition-Pumps-And-Other-Tools-for-Thinking/
Phil Klay, What We're Fighting For
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/10/opinion/sunday/what-were-fighting-for.html
Michel Houellebecq's face
https://s1.lemde.fr/image/2015/01/07/534x0/455066378cd6michel-houellebecq-en-septembre-201468730539b00035181bbb264f4a38e9e9.jpg
Guy Debord, The Naked City
https://paulwalshphotographyblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/the-naked-city/
Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/debord/society.htm
Michel de Certeu, The Practice of Everyday Life
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520271456/the-practice-of-everyday-life
Marc Auge, Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity
https://www.amazon.com/Non-Places-Introduction-Supermodernity-Marc-Auge/dp/1844673111
Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
https://www.press.umich.edu/9900/simulacraandsimulation
Isaac Babel, Guy de Maupaussant
https://rosswolfe.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/isaak-babel-complete-works.pdf
Audio Clip:
Method Man at Def Jam offices in 1994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BWml7yoFwHA
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