Mukashi, mukashi, omukashi… . ”Ahhhhh this unrelenting, dust-driven, crack your fingers dry wind has withered my wits, I’m certain” begins this excellent work by Hiromi Goto; she tells a “true” story with interweaving, cross-locking narratives, much like […]
Italo Calvino joins Kafka and Kundera as writers who have expanded my conception of the novel, as If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller was such an innovative experiment in the art form. Half the novel […]
Keigo Higashino is one of the most prolific Japanese authors who is known for his crime and thriller fictions. Born in a middle to low income family, he studied engineering at Osaka Prefecture University; however, […]
View this post on Instagram “Im grateful that this little story in Canada is not going to be lost.” Experience Joy Kogawa’s Story. Install now! A post shared by East Of The Rockies (@eotr_game) on […]
Another ethnography of online spaces; read this a couple of months ago. Bonnie Nardi uses Dewey’s activity theory (never heard of this before the ethnography) to analyze World of Warcraft. Dewey’s theory allows us to […]
An entertaining, informative, non-technical, character-driven narrative and introduction to Bitcoin. Popper recounts the origins of Bitcoin: it was an attempt by fringe, anarchist-libertarian online communities (the Cypherpunks) to create a currency that decentralizes the power […]
Chikako was once Kikuji’s father’s plaything (Kikuji’s father, deceased in the novel, was a Japanese man of leisure with a reputation in tea ceremony). Kikuji remembers going with his father to Chikako’s home as a […]
Great book about Bitcoin by one of the leading educators of the technology. Some great, original insights as well. Bitcoin is “the concept of decentralization applied to the human communication of value” (p. 2), with […]
The first book for amateurs on Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos, the educator of Bitcoin. (I have read the second volume and have the book review up already.) The second volume is much more interesting, and […]
Three stories, Yoko Tawada wrote these stories in her native Japanese; apparently she is not as experimental in Japanese as in German (according to some article I read somewhere). All of the stories deal with […]
