Luke Muehlhauser

Media diet for Q2 2022

July 3, 2022 by Luke Leave a Comment

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Metropole Orkest & Leo Pellegrino: “Brass House / Moanin’ / Better Git It In Your Soul” (2017)
  • Emmet Cohen / Bruce Harris / Patrick Bartley: Live From Emmet’s Place Vol. 52 (2021)
  • Spiritualized: Everything Was Beautiful (2022)
  • Sault: Air (2022)
  • Arcade Fire: We (2022)
  • Congotronics International: Where’s the One? (2022)
  • The Smile: A Light for Attracting Attention (2022)
  • Amorphous Androgynous: The Isness (2002)
  • Transglobal Underground: Rejoice, Rejoice (1998)
  • Mark Pistel: “Colorful World” (1997)
  • Joe Rainey: Niineta (2022)
  • Loop Guru: Moksha: Peel To Reveal (1996), Loopus Interruptus (2001), Bathtime with Loop Guru (2003)
  • Directions: “Echoes (Continental Drift Version)” (1997)
  • William Parker: Mayan Space Station (2021)
  • Embryo: Auf Auf (2021)
  • Eclectic Maybe Band: Reflection in a Moebius Ring Mirror (2019), Again Alors? (2022)
  • Gnome: King (2022)
  • Poliça: “Alive” (2022)
  • Snarky Puppy: “Trinity” (2022)
  • Miroslav Vitous: Universal Syncopations (2003)
  • Vivaldi / Max Richter: The New Four Seasons (2022)

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Media diet for Q1 2022

April 9, 2022 by Luke 2 Comments

Music

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Laika & the Cosmonauts: Surfs You Right (1990), “Delayrium” (1995), “Disconnected” (1997)
  • Tarta Relena: “Me yelassan” (2021)
  • Godswounds: Death to the Babyboomers (2018)
  • Anna von Hausswolff: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)
  • Fontanelle: Vitamin F (2012)
  • Tigue: Peaks (2015)
  • Kashiwa Daisuke: Program Music III (2020)
  • Dakota Suite & Quentin Sirjacq: “Committing to Uncertainty” (2014)
  • Grandbrothers: All the Unknown (2021)
  • Gurrumul: Djarimirri (Child of the Rainbow) (2018)
  • The Styrenes: In C (2003)
  • Moonshake: First (1991), Secondhand Clothes (1992), Big Good Angel (1993)
  • King Cobb Steelie: “Quo Vadis” (1997)
  • Ben LaMar Gay: Open Arms to Us (2021)
  • Tsukasa Saitoh: “Elden Ring” and “The Final Battle” (2022)
  • Ghost Rhythms: Ghost Rhythms (2007), “Sept Cercles” (2012), Madeleine (2015), Imaginary Mountains (2020), Spectral Music (2021)
  • Fucked Up: Year of the Horse (2021)

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Media diet for Q4 2021

January 1, 2022 by Luke Leave a Comment

Music

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

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Robert Een: Mystery Dances (2003)
  • Throwing Muses: Chains Changed (1987)
  • Nigel Kennedy: The Kennedy Experience (1999)
  • Barrows: Red Giant (2014)
  • Regular Music: Regular Music (1985), North South East West (1996)
  • The Lost Jockey: Professor Slack (1982)
  • Cartoon: Boot-Legged (1983)
  • Lil Ugly Mane: Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern (2021)
  • Springtime: Springtime (2021)
  • Urok: Urok (2019)
  • Yoko Kanno: Cowboy Bebop (1998)
  • Ken Thomson: Settle (2014)
  • Collocutor: Instead (2014)
  • Faust: “Knochentanz” (rec. 1974, rel. 2021)
  • Portico Quartet: Memory Streams (2019), Monument (2021)
  • JC & The Microtones: Cowpeople (1984)
  • President’s Breakfast: President’s Breakfast (1989)
  • Jonny Greenwood: “Arrival” (2021)
  • Ill Considered: Liminal Space (2021)
  • Konami Kukeiha Club: “Beginning” (1994)
  • Michael Lee Firkins: Michael Lee Firkins (1990)

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Media I’m looking forward to, Q1 2022 edition

January 1, 2022 by Luke Leave a Comment

Added this quarter:

  • Kirby and the Forgotten Land (TBD 2022) [game]

Books

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Media diet for Q3 2021

October 1, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

Music

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

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Nikolaj Hess: Spacelab & Strings (2021)
  • L’Rain: Fatigue (2021)
  • Caroline Shaw: Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part (2021)
  • Clown Core: “Diarrhea inferno welfare burrito” (2010), “Toilet” (2018), “Existence” (2020), 1234 (2021)
  • Can: Live in Stuttgart 1975 (rec. 1975, rel. 2021)
  • Iosonouncane: DIE (2015), IRA (2021)
  • Jaubi: Nafs at Peace (2021)
  • Haley: Pleasureland (2018)
  • Low: Hey What (2021)
  • Cristobal Tapia de Veer: The White Lotus (2021)
  • David Grisman: Mondo Mando (1981), Dawg Jazz / Dawg Grass (1983)
  • Tony Rice: Mar West (1980)
  • Lingua Ignota: “Man is Like a Spring Flower” (2021)
  • 15-60-75: Jimmy Bell’s Still in Town (1976)
  • Penguin Cafe Orchestra: When in Rome (1988), Concert Program (1995)

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Media I’m looking forward to, Q4 2021 edition

October 1, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

Added this quarter:

  • Clarke et al., Rethinking Moral Status (Oct 2021)
  • Byler, In the Camps (Oct 2021)
  • Bhattacharya, The Man from the Future (Feb 2022)
  • Iñárritu, Bardo (TBD) [film]
  • Aronofsky, The Whale (TBD) [film]
  • Santos et al., Into the Spider-Verse sequel (Oct 2022) [film]

Books

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Media diet for Q2 2021

July 2, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

Music

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

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee at State’s End (2021)
  • Stefan Lakatos & Andreas Heuser: The Orastorios / Moondog Rounds (2009)
  • Squid: Bright Green Field (2021)
  • Sparks: “Moon Over Kentucky” (1973)
  • BRUIT ≤: The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (2021)
  • Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future (2021)
  • The Narcotix: Mommy Issues (2001)

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Media I’m looking forward to, Q3 2021 edition

July 2, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

Added this quarter:

  • Cowen & Gross, Talent (May 2022)
  • Korinek et al., Oxford Handbook of AI Governance (TBD)
  • Silver, On the Edge (TBD)
  • Anderson, Soggy Bottom (Nov 2021) [film]
  • Metroid Dread (Oct 2021) [game]
  • Forza Horizon 5 (Nov 2021) [game]
  • Elden Ring (Jan 2022) [game]
  • Breath of the Wild sequel (TBD 2022) [game]

Books

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Media diet for Q1 2021

April 3, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q2 2021 edition

April 3, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

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

bold = especially excited

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Media diet for Q4 2020

January 1, 2021 by Luke 1 Comment

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q1 2021 edition

January 1, 2021 by Luke Leave a Comment

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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Media diet for Q3 2020

October 4, 2020 by Luke 4 Comments

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q4 2020 edition

October 4, 2020 by Luke Leave a Comment

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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Media diet for Q2 2020

June 30, 2020 by Luke 1 Comment

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q3 2020 edition

June 30, 2020 by Luke Leave a Comment

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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Media diet for Q1 2020

March 31, 2020 by Luke 2 Comments

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q2 2020 edition

March 31, 2020 by Luke 1 Comment

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)

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Media diet for Q4 2019

January 1, 2020 by Luke 2 Comments

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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Media I’m looking forward to, Q1 2020 edition

January 1, 2020 by Luke 1 Comment

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)

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