Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lonker See: “Split Image pt. 1, 2 & 3” (2016), “Lillian Gish” (2018), “Earth is Flat” (2020)
• Mumps: A Matter of Taste (1977)
• Eddie Henderson: Realization (1973), Inside Out (1974)
• Black Country, New Road: “Opus” (2021)
• Michael Gibbs: By the Way (1993)
• White Hills: No Game to Play (2006)
• Nick Cave & Warren Ellis: Carnage (2021)
• Medeski, Martin & Wood: End of the World Party (Just in Case) (2004), “Reliquary” (2008)
• Turtle Island String Quartet & Paquito D’Rivera: Danzon (2002)
• Ponga: Psychological (2000)

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Added this quarter:

• Johnson, Extra Life (May 2021)
• Grossman, How Social Science Got Better (Aug 2021)
• Buchanan & Imbrie, The New Fire (Mar 2022)
• Kemp, Downfall (TBD)
• Rick and Morty: season 5 (Jun 2021)
• Better Call Saul: season 6 (TBD 2022)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm: season 11 (TBD)
• Succession: season 3 (TBD 2021)
• Barry: season 3 (TBD)
• Atlanta: season 3 (TBD)
• Master of None: season 3 (TBD)

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Lumerians: Transmalinnia (2011)
• Oranssi Pazuzu: Mestarin kynsi (2020)
• Fatima Al Qadiri: Genre-Specific Xperience (2015)
• Oren Ambarchi: Sagittarian Domain (2012)
• Guardian Alien: See the World Given to a One Love Entity (2012), Spiritual Emergency (2014)
• Stara Rzeka: “Przebudzenie boga wschodu” (2013)
• Black Dirt Oak: “Demon Directive” (2014)
• A Tribe Called Red: “Electric Pow Wow Drum” (2013)
• Lupe Fiasco: Food & Liquor (2006), “Go Go Gadget Flow” (2007), “Hello/Goodbye (Uncool)” (2007)
• Lotic: Power (2018)
• Dev/Null: “Banal Universe” (2007), “Gorechsetra” (2008)
• Otaka Tomooki: “Sound of an Air Raid” (2012)
• Lorn: Ask the Dust (2012)
• Paul Jebanasam: Music for the Church of St John the Baptist (2012), Rites (2013), Continuum (2016)
• Chromb!: “Tu es ma pause dejeuner” (2012)
• Nooumena: Argument with Eagerness (2011)
• Alexander Noice: Noice (2019)
• [bleu]: Sincère autopsie de la finesse (2009)
• Tanya Tagaq: “Uja” (2014), Retribution (2016), “Icebreaker” (2019)
• Zeal and Ardor: “A Spiritual” (2014), “Devil is Fine” (2016), Stranger Fruit (2018)
• Louis Cole: Louis Cole (2010), Album 2 (2011), Time (2018)
• Knower: Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi (2010), Think Thoughts (2011)
• Ben Levin: Freak Machine (2015)
• Khompa: The Shape of Drums to Come (2016)
• Snowman: Absence (2011)
• Rhun: Fanfare du Chaos (2013)
• Arnold Dreyblatt: The Adding Machine (2002)
• Horse Lords: Horse Lords (2012)
• Kooba Tercu: Kharrub (2019), Proto Tekno (2020)
• HHY & The Macumbas: Throat Permission Cut (2014)
• Juan Cristobal Tapia de Veer: Utopia (2013), Humans (2015)
• Kahil El’Zabar: “Return of the Lost Tribe” [Infinity Orchestra version] (2008), America the Beautiful (2020)
• Møster!: When You Cut into the Present (2015)
• Tod Machover: “Towards the Center” (1990)
• Max Cooper: Yearning for the Infinite (2019)
• Mid-Air Thief: Gongjoong Doduk (2015), Crumbling (2019)
• Boring Bathtimes: Loss (2017)
• Larry Polansky: “Ensembles of Note” (comp. 1998, rel. 2010)
• Motorpsycho: The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)
• Rob Mazurek: Dimensional Stardust (2020)
• Ağaçkakan: “Sıkboğaz” (2013)
• Godcaster: Long Haired Locusts (2020)
• Michael Gordon: Light is Calling (2004), Acquanetta (comp. 2005), “Shelter: Is This Wind” (comp. 2005)

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Added this quarter:

• Kenny, The Plague Cycle (Jan 2021)
• Davies, Driven (Jan 2021)
• Robertson, The Enlightenment (Feb 2021)
• Slavitt, Preventable (Mar 2021)
• Ferguson, Doom (May 2021)

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Department of Eagles: In Ear Park (2008)
• Benoit Pioulard: “La Guerre De Sept Ans” (2006)
• Émilie Simon: Végétal (2006)
• David T. Little: “How We Got Here” (2003), “Tricky Bits” (2007), Agency (comp. 2013, rel. 2019)
• Anakronos: The Red Book of Ossory (2020)
• Straylight Run: “How Do I Fix My Head” (2007)
• Blitzen Trapper: Wild Mountain Nation (2007)
• Beat Circus: These Wicked Things (2019)
• Volcano!: Paperwork (2008)
• Parts & Labor: Mapmaker (2007)
• Invisible Things: Home Is the Sun (2012), Time As One Axis (2016)
• The Dear Hunter: The Fox and the Hunt (2020)
• Combat Astronomy: Kundalini Apocalypse (2013)
• White Flight: White Flight (2006), White Ark (2009)
• Eartheater: RIP Chrysalis (2015)
• Kablam: “Everything for Everyone” (2019)
• Nubya Garcia: Source (2020)
• Cave: Threace (2013)
• Wildildlife: Six (2007)
• Cyann & Ben: Happy Like an Autumn Tree (2004)
• Ken Valitsky [Walicki]: “Meaning – Less” (1995), “Black Velvet Elvis and the 900 Foot Jesus” (1998)
• Rick Cox: Fade (2005)
• UFOmammut: Eve (2010)
• Journey to Ixtlan: “Burnt Coyote Teeth” (2008)
• Legion of Two: Riffs (2009)
• DM Stith: Heavy Ghost (2009), Pigeonheart (2016)
• Clubroot: Clubroot (2009)
• Yacht: I Believe in You, Your Magic Is Real (2007), See Mystery Lights (2009)
• Kiran Leonard: Grapefruit (2016)
• Miasma & the Carousel of Headless Horses: Perils (2005), Manfauna (2007)
• Yugen: Labrinto D’Acqua (2006)
• Jean Louis: Jean Louis (2008), Morse (2010), Uranus (2013)
• Ken Valitsky: Species Compatibility (1993)
• Alexander Mosolov / Metallica: “The Iron Foundry” (1927/2020)
• Jun Togawa: “カウンセル・プリーズ [Counsel Please]” (2004)
• Tom Zé: Jogos de armar (Faça você mesmo) (2000)
• miRthkon: “Daddylonglegz” (1999), The Illusion of Joy (2006), Vehicle (2009)
• Hoppy Kamiyama: “Flesh For The Jet Set” (1998), A Meaningful Meaningnessless (2005)
• Jose Luis Fernandez Ledesma: Sol Central (2000)
• Ebonylake: As Ghosts We Dance in the Thrashing Seas (1998)
• Natsumen: Endless Summer Record (2005)
• Fire!: You Liked Me Five Minutes Ago (2009), In the Mouth, A Hand (2012)
• Buck Jam Tonic: Buck Jam Tonic (2003)
• Clarence Clarity: Save Thyself (2013), Who Am Eye (2014)
• Zegota: “A March to the Dead Sea” (2001)
• Rovo: Pyramid (2000)
• Flotation Toy Warning: Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck (2004), The Machine That Made Us (2017)
• Leonid Fedorov & Vladimir Volkov: “Галушка” (2007)
• Encre: Flux (2004)
• Alex Tiuniaev: I Knew Her (2008)
• Skeletons: Lucas (2007), Money (2008), People (2011), The Bus (2012), Am I Home? (2016)
• Keefe Jackson / Jim Baker / Julian Kirshner: So Glossy and So Thin (2020)
• Clogs: “Who’s Down Now?” (2003), Lantern (2006)
• Lau Nau: Valohiukkanen (2012), Poseidon (2017)
• Ultralyd: “Saprochord” (2007), Inertiadrome (2010)
• Sebkha-Chott: “Gode Sainture Cuir” (2019)
• Eyedea & Abilities: “Burn Fetish” (2009)
• Kiss Kiss: “Virus” (2009)
• Endon: “Born in Limbo” (2017)
• Jocelyn Pook: Deluge (1997), Untold Things (2001), Caótica Ana (2007)
• Murmuüre: Murmuüre (2010)

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Added this quarter:

• Viale, Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality (Oct 2020)
• Christian, The Alignment Problem (Oct 2020)
• Duke, How to Decide (Oct 2020)
• Moynihan, X-Risk (Nov 2020)
• Anderson, Security Engineering 3e (Dec 2020)
• Cargill, The Long View (TBD)
• Benson & Moorhead, Synchronic (Oct 2020) [film]
• Docter, Soul (Nov 2020) [film]
• Wright, Last Night in Soho (Apr 2021) [film]
• McQuarrie, Mission: Impossible 7 (Nov 2021) [film]
• Chazelle, Babylon (Dec 2021) [film]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Estradasphere: It’s Understood (2000)
• To the Ansaphone: To the Ansaphone (2003)
• Seaworthy: The Ride (2002)
• Terra Ambient: Wanderlust (2009)
• Troum: Grote Mandrenke (2012), Mare Morphosis (2013)
• Johannes Enders: Dome (2007)
• Carl Oesterhelt & Johannes Enders: Divertimento für Tenorsaxophon und kleines Ensemble (2010)
• Fever the Ghost: Crab in Honey (2014)
• Lyra Pramuk: Fountain (2020)
• The Necks: “Bloom” and “Further” (2020)
• Hannah Marcus: Desert Farmers (2004)
• Shannon Wright: Dyed in the Wool (2001)
• Hossam Ramzy: Source of Fire (1995)
• Vladislav Delay: “Rasite” (2020)
• Buffalo Daughter: I (2002), Pshychic (2003)
• Cornelius: Point (2002)
• Algiers: Algiers (2015), The Underside of Power (2017)
• Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters (2020)
• Friends of Dean Martinez: “Ethchlorvynol” (1999)
• In the Summer of the Mushroom Honey: “Thank You, Mr. Bishop!” (1999)
• DeVotchKa: How it Ends (2004)
• Anahita: “Velvet Shoon” (2009)
• Iglooghost: Neo Wax Bloom (2017)
• A Taste of Ra: Morning of My Life (2007) [wow!]
• Danny Cohen: “In the Barrio” (1999)
• Ill Ease: “New York, London, Paris” (1999)
• Matmos: “Ultimate Care II Excerpt One” (2016)
• Thee Oh Sees: Face Stabber (2019)
• The Soft Pink Truth: Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? (2020)
• Kayo Dot: “Aura on an Asylum Wall” (2006)
• Live Human: Monostereosis: The New Victrola Method (1999)
• Odd Nosdam: Burner (2006), Level Live Wires (2007)
• Ne Zhdali: She-Ye-Ye (1991)
• Blast: A Sophisticated Face (1999)
• Sotos: Platypus (2002)
• X-Legged Sally: Eggs and Ashes (1994), The Land of the Giant Dwarfs (1995)
• Höyry-kone: Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa (1995)
• Louis Sclavis: “Ottomar” (1989)
• Charming Hostess: “Sha! Shtil!” (1998)
• Optical *8: Bug (1994)
• Don Salsa: “The Deck” (1997)
• Dollshot: Lalande (2019)
• Vivenza: “Fondements bruitistes” (1984); “Prolétariat & industrie” (1984)
• Carter Tutti Void: f(x) (2015)
• Trytony: “Zazuły” (1992)
• Łoskot: Amariuch (1998), Sun (2005)
• Deep Turtle: Turkele!! (2003)
• Marc Mellits: Tight Sweater / Agu / Fruity Pebbles / Disciples of Gouda (2006); Paranoid Cheese (2007)
• Non Credo: “Agnes’ Lament” (1988)
• Jeff Rosenstock: No Dream (2020)
• Enrique Morente: “Omega” (1996)
• Cafe Tacuba: Revés (1999)
• Gasp: “Little Jupiter Come Home to a Groat Man” (1998)
• Velma: Cyclique (1999)
• Sandy Dillon: Electric Chair (1999), Las Vegas is Cursed (2000)
• Hint: “100% White Puzzle” (1995), Dys- (1996), Wu-Wei (1998)
• Hissanol: “Angra” (1995), The Making of Him (1998)
• Pugs: Pugs (1993), Sports? (1994), Pugs Bite the Red Knee (1997)
• Soft Mountain: Soft Mountain (rec. 2003, rel. 2007)
• Ensemble 4’33”: Taxidermy (1999), Happiness, Fame and Fortune (2002)
• Paul Dresher: “Dark Blue Circumstance” (comp. 1986, rel. 1993)
• After Crying: “European Things” (1990)
• The Flower Kings: “Retropolis” (1996)
• Voo Voo: Oov Oov (1998)
• Leyland Kirby: “When We Parted, My Heart Wanted to Die (Friedrichshain Memory)” (2009)
• Insides: Clear Skin (1994)
• Hildur Guðnadóttir: Leyfðu ljósinu (2012)
• Carl Stone: “Al-Noor” (2007)
• Jean-Paul Prat: Masal (1984)
• Ray Lema & Professeur Stefanov: “Ponji” (1992)
• Valentin Clastrier: Hérésie (1992)
• Steve Martland: “Horses of Instruction” (comp. 1994, rel. 2001)
• Lake Trout: Volume for the Rest of It (1999), Not Them, You (2005)
• Mikel Rouse: “Soul Train” (1996)
• DJ Hidden: Literal Evil (2006), Enclosed (2013)
• The Group: “Worksong” (1975)
• Dave Liebman [Expansions]: The Puzzle (2015)
• Lamp of the Universe: Heru (2005)
• School of Language: Sea from Shore (2008)

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Added this quarter:

• Tosi & Warmke, Grandstanding: The Use and Abuse of Moral Talk (Jul 2020)
• Liao, The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Jul 2020)
• Heffernan, Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future (Sep 2020)
• Kumar et al., Cyber Defense Mechanisms (Sep 2020)
• Dalio, The Changing World Order (Sep 2020)
• Steffens, Attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (Sep 2020)
• Barash, Threats (Oct 2020)
• Romaniuk & Manjikian, Routledge Companion to Global Cyber-Security Strategy (Dec 2020)
• Zimmer, Life’s Edge (Mar 2021)
• Yudkowsky, Rationality: From AI to Zombies (Vols. 3-6) (TBD)
• Schwitzgebel, The Weirdness of the World (TBD)
• Deudney et al., Catastrophic and Existential Threats and World Orders (TBD)
• Pinker, book on rationality (TBD)
• Iannucci, The Personal History of David Copperfield (Aug 2020) [film]
• Anderson, The French Dispatch (Oct 2020) [film]
• Reeves, The Batman (Oct 2021) [film]

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Four Tet: New Energy (2017)
• Liturgy: H.A.Q.Q. (2019)
• Chris Potter: Circuits (2019)
• Ukandanz: Yetchalal (2012)
• Soap&Skin: Lovetune for Vacuum (2009), From Gas to Solid / You Are My Friend (2018)
• Lingua Ignota: Let the Evil of His Own Lips Cover Him (2017), All Bitches Die (2018)
• Flume: Skin (2016)
• Lye By Mistake: Fea Jur (2009)
• Bazooka: Perfectly Square (1992), Blowhole (1994)
• Kolkhöze Printanium: Kolkhöznitsa (2008)
• The Armed: Only Love (2018)
• Desire Marea: Desire (2020)
• Jono El Grande: Neo Dada (2009)
• Ske: 1000 Autunni (2011)
• Bohren & Der Club of Gore: Patchouli Blue (2020)
• Beth Custer: The Shirt I Slept In (1995)
• Phantom City: Shiva Recoil (1997)
• Goldie: “Dragonfly” (1998)
• yMusic: Ecstatic Science (2020)
• Katie Gately: Loom (2020)
• Matt Elliott: Drinking Songs (2005)
• David Holmes: Bow Down to the Exit Sign (2000)
• Frontier: Heater (1997)
• M’Lumbo: Spinning Tourists in a City of Ghosts (1999)
• Tarantula Hawk: Tarantula Hawk [2000] (2000)
• Rollerball: We Owned Lions (1998), Bathing Music (2000), The Trail of the Butter Yeti (2001), Behind the Barber (2004), Rollerball (2006), Ahura (2008), Murwa Mbwa (2011)
• Ektroverde: Ukkossalama (2003)
• Pharaoh Overlord: Lunar Jetman (2012)
• Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores: The Quiet Room (2005), The Smother Party (2006), The Blind Spot (2007), Sister Death (2012)
• Supersystem: A Million Microphones (2006)
• Meringue: Music from the Mint Green Nest (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Manning, A History of Humanity (Apr 2020)
• Saldin & Teles, Never Trump (May 2020)
• Peters, Innumeracy in the Wild (May 2020)
• Lieber & Press, The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (Jun 2020)
• Ritchie, Science Fictions (Jul 2020)
• Lissner & Rapp-Hooper, An Open World (Sep 2020)
• Perlroth, This is How They Tell Me the World Ends (Sep 2020)
• Kania, Fighting to Innovate (TBD)
• Johnson, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Warfare: USA, China, and Strategic Stability (TBD)
• Tinnirello, Global Politics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Caplan, Build, Baby, Build: The Science and Ethics of Housing Policy (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Christopher Rouse: Rapture (2000)
• The Comet is Coming: Afterlife (2019)
• David Garland: Verdancy (2018)
• Cleric: Regressions (2010), Retrocausal (2018), The Book Beri’ah Vol. 2: Chokhma (2019)
• Persona: Uptight (2000)
• Trioscapes: Separate Realities (2012)
• Yazz Ahmed: Polyhmnia (2019)
• Rudiger Oppermann: “Teil 1-7” (1986)
• Linus Pauling Quartet: Killing You with Rock (1998)
• Miranda Sex Garden: Carnival of Souls (2000)
• Sin Ropes: Three Cherries (2000)
• Orso: My Dreams Are Back and They Are Better Than Ever (2004)
• Floating Points: Crush (2019)
• Tiere der Nacht: Kräuter & Weltmeister (2005)
• Jacob Collier: Djesse Vol. 2 (2019)
• Trentemoller: The Last Resort (2006)
• New Wet Kojack: New Wet Kojack (1995), Nasty International (1997)
• Milk Cult: Project M-13 (2000)
• FKA Twigs: Magdalene (2019)
• President’s Breakfast: Doo Process (1995), III C (2002), Formidable Foe (2006)
• Eat Static: Crash & Burn! (2000)
• Wagon Christ: Musipal (2001)
• Luke Vibert: Big Soup (1997)
• Robert Stillman: Rainbow (2016)
• Kurushimi: Kurushimi (2016)
• Lower Dens: Nootropics (2012)
• Laurel Halo: Dust (2017)
• Jeffrey Brooks: The Passion (2019)
• Patrick Zimmerli: Sun on Sand (2019)
• Grimes: Geidi Primes (2010), Darkbloom (2011)
• Junius Paul: Ism (2019)
• Fishmans: Long Season (1996)
• Superconductor: Heavy with Puppy (1994), Bastardsong (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Mercier, Not Born Yesterday (Jan 2020)
• Greene, Until the End of Time (Feb 2020)
• Klein, Why We’re Polarized (Jan 2020)
• Michaels, The Triumph of Doubt (Feb 2020)
• Luca & Bazerman, The Power of Experiments (Mar 2020)
• Hahn, Technology in the Industrial Revolution (Mar 2020)
• Maçães, History Has Begun (Mar 2020)
• Norcross, Morality By Degrees (Apr 2020)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Pohjola Pekka: Keesojen lehto (1977)
• Mandingo: The Primeval Rhythm of Life (1973)
• Zao: Z=7L (1973)
• Speed Limit: Speed Limit [1975] (1975)
• Clivage: Regina Astris (1977), “Mixtus Orbis” (1979)
• Rialzu: Rialzu (1978)
• Orchestra Njervudarov: Con le orecchie di Eros (1979)
• Arcane V: Marron Dingue (1978)
• Random: Nothin’ Tricky (1977)
• Yochk’o Seffer: Delire (1976), Ima (1977), Ghilgoul (1978)
• Bobby Krlic: “Fire Temple” (2019)
• Imants Kalniņš: Symphony No. 4 (1973)
• Frederik Magle: Anastasis-Messe (2017)
• Kollektiv: SWF-Sessions Volume 5 (rec. 1973, rel. 2001)
• Glenn Kotche: Anomaly (2014)
• László Hortobágyi: Transreplica Meccano (1989)
• Helga Pogatschar: Mars Requiem (1995)
• Les McCann: Invitation ot Openness (1971)
• Buddy Terry: Pure Dynamite (1972)
• Allison Miller: Glitter Wolf (2019)
• Fieldwork: Simulated Progress (2005)
• Mahjun: Vivre la mort du vieux Monde (1971), Mahjun [1973] (1973), Mahjun [1974] (1974)
• K. Miho & Jazz Eleven: Kokezaru Kumikyoku (1971)
• Béa Tekielski: La folle (1976)
• Malcolm Braff & Stephane Galland: “Afro Blue” (2015)
• Malcolm Braff & Aurélie Emery: “Crimson Waves” (2011)
• De Lorians: De Lorians (2019)
• The Pyramids: Lalibela (1973), King of Kings (1974), Birth / Speed / Merging (1976)
• Masahiko Sato: Yamataifu (1972)
• Iltar: Iltar (1977)
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi: Osorezan / Dō no Kenbai (1976), Ecophony Rinne (1986), Symphonic Suite Akira (1988)
• Emmanuel Booz: Dans quel état j’erre (1979)
• Haki Madhubuti: Medasi (1984)
• Heinrich von Biber: Battalia à 10 (1673)
• Sigmund Snopek III: Virginia Woolf (1973), Trinity Seas Seize Sees (1974)
• Olga Bell: Tempo (2016)
• Christy Doran: Black Box (2001)
• Serge Bringolf: Strave (1981)
• Lask: Lask (1982)
• Letícia Garcia: Magamaquiavérica em canturbano (1984)
• Fulano: Fulano (1987), En el Bunker (1989), El Infierno de los payasos (1993)
• yMusic: First (2017)
• Het: Let’s Het (1984)
• Eskaton: Ardeur (1980), Fiction (1983)
• Daisuck & Prostitute: Shinu Made Odori Tsuzukete (1981)
• Heiner Goebbels: Der Mann im Fahrstuhl (1988)
• Blanck Mass: “Death Drop” (2019)
• The Blech: Zip Zip (1987)
• Lights in a Fat City: Somewhere (1988)
• Elomar: Fantasia Leiga Para Um Rio Seco (1981)
• Billie Eilish: “Bad Guy” (2019)
• Herbert Bairy: Traumspiel (1980)
• John Psathas: Omnifenix (2000)
• Adam Hopkins: Crickets (2018)
• Ein Jahr Garantie: Hoch/tief (1982)
• Fibulator: Drank from the Asphalt (1993), Unhammerlike (1994)
• Bruce Hornsby: Absolute Zero (2019)
• Chris Cutler & Lutz Glandien: Domestic Stories (1992)
• Lutz Glandien: The 5th Elephant (2002)
• Trey Anastasio: Surrender to the Air (1996)

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Added this quarter:

• Forcehimes & Semrau, Thinking Through Utilitarianism (Nov 2019)
• Buchanan, The Hacker and the State (Feb 2020)
• MacAskill, What We Owe the Future (TBD)
• de Lazari-Radek, The Philosophy of Pleasure (TBD)
• Tye, book about vagueness and the evolution of consciousness (TBD)
• Yglesias, One Billion Americans (TBD)
• Flynn, In Defense of Free Speech (TBD)

Books

bold = especially excited

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Joe Henry: Tiny Voices (2003)
• Glass Eye: Hello Young Lovers (1989)
• Joshua Abrams: Mandatory Reality (2019)
• Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet: Savvy Show Stoppers (1988), Music for Pets (1991)
• Dark: Dark (1986)
• Wavestar: Moonwind (1987)
• Chuck van Zyl: Europa (1991)
• Amon Tobin: Fear in a Handful of Dust (2019)
• Steve Douglas: Rainbow Suite (1981)
• ALASKALASKA: The Dots (2019)
• Big Thief: U.F.O.F. (2019)
• Jon Hassell: Flash of the Spirit (1988), Dressing for Pleasure (1994)
• Eternal Wind: Eternal Wind (1984), Wasalu (1988)
• Night Ark: “Trilogy” (1986)
• David Parsons: “Tantra” (1992)
• Joel Ross: KingMaker (2019)
• Zig-Zag: Pièces manquantes 1976 (rec. 1976, rel. 2014)
• Holly Herndon: PROTO (2019)
• Manu Dibango: Waka Juju (1982)
• Deca: Claustrophobia (1989), Simbionte (2002), Aracnis Radiarum (2007)
• Echo Collective: Plays Amnesiac (2018)
• Mesadorm: Heterogaster (2018)
• Brad Mehldau: Finding Gabriel (2019)
• Lubricated Goat: Schadenfreude (1989)
• Ministry: “Leper” (2003)
• Walking Timebombs: Walking Timebombs (1997)
• Unrest: Isabel Bishop (1992)
• Membranes: The Gift of Life (1985)
• Maurice Louca: Elephantine (2019)
• Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem (1984), Dark Waters (2001), Kingdom Come (2001), Savage Altars (2006)
• Sunwatchers: Illegal Moves (2019)
• Karyyn: The Quanta Series (2019)
• Overpass: Overpass (1993)
• Hetch Hetchy: Swollen (1990)
• Bad Luck: Four (2018)
• Brandt Brauer Frick: Miami (2013)
• Fire! Orchestra: Arrival (2019)

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Added this quarter:

• McCarty, Polarization (Jul 2019)
• Christensen et al., Transparent and Reproducible Social Science Research (Jul 2019)
• Sheehan, The Transpacific Experiment (Aug 2019)
• Granville et al., Prime Suspects (Aug 2019)
• Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness (Sep 2019)
• Grimes, The Irrational Ape (Sep 2019)
• Russell, Human Compatible (Oct 2019)
• Schwitzgebel, A Theory of Jerks and Other Philosophical Misadventures (Oct 2019)
• Jones: 10% Less Democracy (Feb 2020)
• Rid, Active Measures (Apr 2020)
• Prasad, Malignant (TBD)
• Frankish, Consciousness: The Basics (TBD)
• Russell, AI: A Modern Approach, 4th edition (TBD)
• Arrhenius et al., Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics (TBD)
• Pummer, Effective Altruism for Everyone (TBD)
• Dubber et al., Oxford Handbook of Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (TBD)
• Gray, Ad Astra (Sep 2019)
• Docter, Soul (Jun 2020)

Books

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Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Okay, music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Attrition: Etude (1997)
• Sons of Kemet: Your Queen is a Reptile (2018)
• Sharon van Etten: Remind Me Tomorrow (2019)
• Buke & Gase: Scholars (2019)
• Kasper Bjorke: The Fifty Eleven Project (2018)
• The Hangovers: Slow Dirty Tears (1998)
• Her Name is Calla: The Quiet Lamb (2010)
• Daniel Pemberton: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
• The Woodentops: Well Well Well: The Unabridged Singles Collection (1986)
• Ill Considered: Ill Considered (2017)
• Rattlemouth: Walking Like a Full Moon Dog (1996), Fist Full of Iffy (1998)
• Jean Derome & Rene Lussier: Soyez vigilants, restez vivants! (1986)
• Chandra: Transportation (1980)
• Drowning Pool: Aphonia (1989)
• Plasticland: Salon (1987)
• Theon Cross: Fyah (2019)
• The Comet is Coming: Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery (2019)
• Quinsin Nachoff: Path of Totality (2018)
• Victoria Williams: Happy Come Home (1987)
• Nihiloxica: Biiri (2019)
• Christian Scott: Ancestral Recall (2019)

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Added this quarter:

• Asma & Gabriel, The Emotional Mind (Apr 2019)
• Wilke, Fundamentals of Data Visualization (Apr 2019)
• Cowen, Big Business (Apr 2019)
• Rosenblum & Muirhead, A Lot of People are Saying (Apr 2019)
• Friedman, War and Chance (May 2019)
• Ward, The Other Side of the Story (Aug 2019)
• Courtwright, The Age of Addiction (May 2019)
• Milo, Good Enough (Jun 2019)
• Frey, The Technology Trap (Jun 2019)
• Frunton, Digital Cash (Jun 2019)
• Chivers, The AI Does Not Hate You (Jun 2019)
• Chambers, The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology (Jul 2019)
• Edge, Statistical Thinking from Scratch (Aug 2019)
• Dawkins, Outgrowing God (Sep 2019)
• Marcus & Davis, Rebooting AI (Sep 2019)
• Bloom, untitled book about benign masochism (TBD)
• Vincent, Beyond Measure (TBD)
• Stevenson & Wolfers, Principles of Economics (TBD)
• Cobb, The Mind Machine (TBD)
• Pinker, untitled book about common knowledge (TBD)
• Fukanaga, 25th Bond movie (Apr 2020)
• Nolan, untitled film (Jul 2020)
• Villeneuve, Dune (Dec 2020)

Books

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Hard to compare across media, of course, but here’s my attempt:

1. Dark Souls (2011) 🎮
2. Eighth Grade (2018) 🎥
3. The Favourite (2018) 🎥
4. Celeste (2018) 🎮
5. Better Call Saul, season 4 (2018) 📺
6. Hollow Knight (2017) 🎮
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 🎥
8. The Death of Stalin (2017) 🎥
9. Lady Bird (2017) 🎥
10. Maniac (2018) 📺
11. Incredibles 2 (2018) 🎥
12. The Elephant in the Brain (2018) 📖
13. Atlanta, season 2 (2018) 📺
14. Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium (2017) 🎵
15. Logan Lucky (2017) 🎥
16. The Florida Project (2017) 🎥
17. I, Tonya (2017) 🎥
18. 4 Visions (1981) 🎵
19. The Disaster Artist (2017) 🎥
20. Adventure Time, season 10 (2018) 📺
21. War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 🎥
22. All Melody (2018) 🎵
23. You Were Never Really Here (2017) 🎥
24. Dead Magic (2018) 🎵
25. Blue Planet II (2017) 📺

Games

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

• Dark Souls ★
  • The first “soulslike” I’ve played. It has its flaws, and it’s not as relentlessly fun as (say) Breath of the Wild or Super Mario Odyssey, but I found it pretty awe-inspiring, and I can see why it has been so influential. I’m tempted to write at length about what’s so great about Dark Souls, but of course that’s been done hundreds of times since its release in 2011, so if you’re curious I’ll just point you to these four video essays. Dark Souls isn’t the very best video game experience I’ve had,  but it is probably the one that feels most profound.
• Guacamelee!
• Guacamelee! 2
• Diablo III
• Hollow Knight ★
  • One of the best Metroidvanias.

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