Antilibraries show and tell next week; hyper[x] books!

Hello, Antilibrarians!

Welcome to this renewed newsletter, Antilibraries Analects, freshly migrated to Buttondown, a great independent email platform, blessedly simple and text-centric.

A minor hypothesis: keeping this more minimal and conversational might help me make it more habitual. I'm just sending fun book finds to a few (hundred) friends; no biggie!

Reminder, this is the Antilibraries newsletter, where I share all sorts of fascinating books (+ links, questions, etc.) for bibliophilic omnivores like you. Aiming to send every Sunday! I've got a few things for you today:

Antilibrary Book Show and Tell

First off, I'm doing a free antilibrary show and tell on Saturday Feb 13, noon EST.

Join to share some favorite books from your antilibrary — we'll each bring a few choice picks from our stacks of unread books, and talk about why find them interesting.

Sign up here on Hyperlink.

Spots are limited to make sure we have time for everyone to share, but if it fills up I'm happy to do more of these! Let me know if you're interested :)

Books on Hypertext; Hypermedia; Hyper[…]

Book email needs books! Here are a few interesting ones with "hyper" in the title — hypertext and hyperobjects; accelerated media, cities, and more:

• Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World — a theoretical study of complex mega-scale entities that defy comprehension
• Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence — James Lovelock's new theory (written at age 100!?) that the anthropocene is already ending, and we're entering the next age, the novacene…
• The Guidebook Experiment: Discovering Exploration in a Hyper-Connected World — tracing the evolution of the guidebook, and impacts on travel, adventure, exploration…and a call to conduct our own experiments in exploring the unknown
• HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities — cities overlaid with multivalent information networks, always under construction; excavating layered spaces; "thick mapping"
• Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext — the history of hypertext, including interviews with forerunners of hypertext innovation
• The Visual Guide To Extra Dimensions: Visualizing The Fourth Dimension, Higher-Dimensional Polytopes, And Curved Hypersurfaces - mostly right there in the title!
• Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art — on the potential of drawing & what lies beyond: multiple dimensions; alternate realities
• Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print — exploring how hypertext and electronic writing can "remediate" print forms

Question for you — what do you hope to get out of Antilibraries?

I'm trying to clarify my own goals for this project, as it's evolved: by turns a newsletter of fascinating books I find, a work-in-progress website with the same goal (+ loftier curatorial visions), a small (dormant of late) online community for deep discussions with fellow bibliophiles, and even occasional events / live chats.

What resonates most? Would you hang in the Athenaeum (forum) if I make a point to kickstart things again and post more regularly? Prefer live events and hangouts, book discussions on Twitter, other experiments? Want to see more / different kinds of book lists?

I'd love to hear any quick thoughts, whatever comes to mind. Thanks!

Brendan