Gathering of pieces of the labyrinth of humankind knowledge that I consider worthy of your time.
Those are mostly "offline" material since online material just get linked directly within my work. It is also mostly non-scientific or research work for the same reason. There is no absolute rule regarding the presence or not of something I put here, just material that I enjoyed and would discuss about with great pleasure. For a more analytical approach, refer to my Personal Information Stream.
On the menu
- Anime
- Comics
- Books
- Essays
- Movies
- Shorts
- Music
- Documentaries
- Aphorisms
- Artwork from other media
- Content lended
- Sources I often use to get a broader horizon
Anime
- Eureka Seven: Pocket Full of Rainbows
- Aachi and Ssipak
- Barefoot Gen / Hadashi no Gen
- Toward the Terra
- Kaiba
- Genius Party
- Ergo Proxy
- Beautiful Or Scary? Dump.com 2009
- Origin : Spirits of the Past
- Serial Experiment Lain
- Ghost in the Shell
- Evangelion
- The Grave of the Fireflies
- Akira
See Anime for more
Comics
- Blame! / Blame!²
- Metabarons
- ...
Books
- L'argent, l'urgence, Louise Desbrusses, P.O.L. 2006
- L'Échiquier du mal (Original title : Carrion Comfort), Dan Simmons
- Le Meilleur des Mondes (Original title : Brave New World), Aldous Huxley
- Le Principe de Peter, Laurence J. Peter et Raymond Hull
- Le Merveilleux Voyage de Nils Holgersson à travers la Suède, Selma Lagerlöf
- ...
- my notes on some of the books I read
- My virtual shelf
- add ISBN of the content of my shelf (export with "Download a list of your books.")
- eventually migrate to LibraryThing especially since they seem more active and with a recommendation engine
Essays
- Discours de la servitude volontaire , Etienne de la Boetie, 1549
- Discourse on Voluntary Servitude Rendered into English by Harry Kurz
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau, 1849
- my notes
- Le droit à la paresse, Paul Lafargue, 1880
- In Praise of Idleness, Bertrand Russell, 1932
- "When I suggest that working hours should be reduced to four, I am not meaning to imply that all the remaining time should necessarily be spent in pure frivolity." In Praise of Idleness By Bertrand Russell
- "Il faut choisir : se reposer ou être libre" Thucydide
- Politics and the English Language, George Orwell, 1946
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes, 1959
- The Abolition of Work, Bob Black, 1985
- WhyWork.org CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery
- Industrial Society and Its Future, aka Unabomber Manifesto, by Theodore Kaczynski
- see also my ReadingNotes.UnabomberManifesto
- ArtificialScarcity.com
Movies
- Ressources Humaines
- The Trial
- Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
- Synecdoche, New York
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Metropolis
- Gattaca
- Vanilla Sky
- The 13th Floor
- Matrix
- Mindwalk
- Office Space
- Brazil
- ... (impossible to find an old website where you could share your list o favorite movies)
Sources
- Philosophy
- List of Philosophical Films by James Fieser for the University of Tennessee at Martin
- Video on philosophy from The DOSSIER
- Philosophical Films by Jorn K. Bramann, analysis with matching philosophical texts
- Dystopia
- Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time from Snarkerati
- CyberPunkReview Movies Ordered by Star Rating
Shorts
- Les ailes du papillon, Benjamin Gibeaux, 2005
- L'homme qui plantait des arbres, Jean Giono, 1987
- Estoria do gato e da Luna, Pedro Serrazina, 1995
Sources
- Uploaded by d0dulk0 on Veoh
Music
- Classics of classical music
- In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt) by Edvard Grieg at the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci by the Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg under the direction of Scott Lawton
- Ride of the Valkyries (Walkürenritt) by Richard Wagner by Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim
- Sarabande by George Frederic Handel
- Adagio for Strings, op.11 by Samuel Barber by the BBC Orchestra under the direction of Leonard Slatkin
- Erik Satie - Gnossiennes No.1
- Michael Nyman - The Sacrifice
- my selection of online radio on TopRadio.org including
- my favorites and playlists on my YouTube profile
- mixes repositories
- SoundCloud
- MixCloud
- my account http://www.mixcloud.com/utopiah
- Digitally Imported (DI.fm) addictive electronic music
- Essa Moça Tá Diferente by Chico Buarque, 1970
To organize
- http://www.ratm.com/
- http://www.waxtailor.com/
- http://www.myspace.com/hocuspocushiphop
- http://www.portishead.co.uk/
- http://www.cocorosieland.com/
- http://www.thesoundproviders.com/
- http://www.myspace.com/caravanpalace
- http://www.djshadow.com/
- http://massiveattack.com/
- http://www.myspace.com/officialtiga
To try
Make your own
moved to Music
Documentaries
- Manufactured Landscapes by Edward Burtynsky, 2006
- The Corporation
- When Corporations Rule the World by David Korten
Sources
- Method
- Remembering that a "DocumentaryIsNeverNeutral" (from HistoryIsAWeapon.org)
- Repositories
- Spread The World Must Watch section
- QuickSilverScreen documentaries section
- Top 50 Best Rated Documentarie from Movies Found Online
- Factual TV - Documentary section
- Documentary Log
- French documentaries from the AlterDocus community
- DocumentaryWire.com
- Wide Eye Cinema
- Top Documentary Films
- Cinema Politica: free political film screenings (Canada, USA, Europe)
- AntiCopyright Library
- Critical Docs
- Hackvids – a list of documentaries about hackers compiled by Georgios Apostolidis.
Aphorisms
See my quote self for aphorisms I enjoyed and Surfacing wisdom for my owns.
Artwork from other media
Things that *you* my friend are actually suppose to give me back!
- Getting to YES (Agathe)
Petit cours d'autodefense intellectuel (Emilie)- 2/3 read after ~ a year (requested to give it back)
The Code Book (Jonathan, end of August 2009)- Scientific American November 2009 (phantom99, December 2009)
- The Code Book (Daniele, December 2009)
Le Pouvoir Des Mathematiques (Sylvain, early January 2010)Internet : Revolution Culturelle (Jonathan, Marc 2010)The Beggar King (Gwenael, early July 2009)Le Maitre Ignorant (Gwenael, early July 2009)- The Beggar King (Kenza, April 2010)
Sources I often use to get a broader horizon
- My selection of Recommandation engines
