@jamesbridle

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Artist, author of New Dark Age (2018) and Ways of Being (2022). Free Palestine, Protect Trans Kids, for ever and ever.
Websitehttp://jamesbridle.com
LocationAthens-EU-WWW
Once more for everyone at the back https://youtu.be/7B-4Lsrx8IA?is=oKiA7tME1ojjGudh
Labi Siffre-Something Inside So Strong.(1987) Original Video.

YouTube
Rock rose and lavender and some kind of orchid. Collected lots of wild asparagus too. It's a good day if the little dog is all tuckered out.
“Media coexist,” Kirsop says. “These modern forms only continue to be in existence and usable if the hardware continues … Whereas the printed book is still here... All you need is a weatherproof room to put it in and natural light to read it.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/22/melbourne-rare-books-expert-wallace-kirsop
The Melbourne expert who has spent a lifetime uncovering ‘the archaeology of the printed book’

Prof Wallace Kirsop, 92, is one of Australia’s foremost experts in rare books – not just their contents but their makers, buyers and readers, and the stories they tell beyond the page

The Guardian
I'm giving a talk at TU Delft on Saturday. Will be around for a couple of days if anyone has interesting tips, or does cool stuff and wants to share. https://www.tudelft.nl/evenementen/2026/sg/03-mar/digital-revolt
Digital Revolt

TU Delft
Apropos of nothing, remembering a briefing from the head of cybersecurity at the RAF, who said the two times Britain had been closest to disaster since the Second World War were Able Archer 83 and the fuel protests which blockaded refineries in 2000.
There's a brief epilogue as well, when I completed the original walk; once more, tinged with a violence that only seems to have grown both more intense, and more infrastructural, in subsequent years: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/08/epilogue/
The Nor » Epilogue

And for the third, I cycled from West to East, Slough to Basildon, tracing the microwave links between datacentres, invisible at ground level, but portents of so much else to come: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2015/01/04/low-latency/
The Nor » Epilogue

In the second, I drove around the wide edge of the city, into the hinterland of abandoned airfields and old radar stations: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/12/08/living-in-the-electromagnetic-spectrum/
The Nor » Living in the Electromagnetic Spectrum

In the first, which was violently and judicially interrupted, I attempted to walk the perimeter of the congestion zone, looking at London Walls and what surmounted them: https://shorttermmemoryloss.com/nor/2014/11/07/all-cameras-are-police-cameras/
The Nor » All Cameras Are Police Cameras