2024
Keefe // Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
Weyl // Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
Bourdain // Kitchen Confidential
Kortina // film devlog #13 // Telling Mattresses Stories
Kalanithi // When Breath Becomes Air
Kortina // film devlog #12 // No More Advertising for Lawyers or Coca-Cola or Anybody
Calvino // The Complete Cosmicomics
Solzhenitsyn // In the First Circle
Kortina // film devlog #11 // Sound Recording Notes
Kortina // film devlog #10 // One Day Doc Retro
Caro // The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
Kingsolver // Demon Copperhead
Kortina // film devlog #9 // Miyazaki's Beautiful Dream: The Technological Sublime
Real // I Don't Want to Talk About It
Ostaseki // The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Attia // Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Nestor // Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Michaels // Do You Remember Being Born?
Ozeki // The Book of Form and Emptiness
Hawke // A Bright Ray of Darkness
Dostoevsky // Crime and Punishment
Dunlop // Invitation to a Banquet
Kortina // film devlog #8 // Voiceover and Voice Acting
Amha // The Africas vs America
Marshall // Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World
Herzog // Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
Knausgaard // The Wolves of Eternity
Pillsbury // The Hundred-Year Marathon
Kortina // Recap 2023 // In Circles... Maybe Even Backwards
2023
Kortina // film devlog #7 // Producing Notes
Kortina // film devlog #6 // Editing Notes
Wallace // The Broom of the System
Tanizaki // In Praise of Shadows
Van der Kolk // The Body Keeps the Score
McCarthy // No Country for Old Men
McCarthy // The Sunset Limited
McCarthy // The Orchard Keeper
O'Gieblyn // God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
Polley // Run Towards the Danger
Solnit + Lutunatabua // Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility
Kortina // film devlog #5 // Shot Notes
Kortina // film devlog #4 // Shooting with Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Cameras
Andersen // Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
Odell // Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock
Ballou // Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America
Zevin // Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Le Guin // The Lathe of Heaven
Antolini // Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
Schuster // Glow in the F*cking Dark
Kortina // Run alpaca-lora 13b on a MacBook with alpaca.cpp
Freinacht // The Listening Society
Fisher // Preventing Nuclear War
Kortina // film devlog #3 // Speed Boosters, Image Sensor Crop Factor, FOV, F-stop, and Focal Length
Wallace // Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
Kortina // Recap 2022 // Practice
2022
Patton Oswalt // On Screwball Comedy
Tarantino // Cinema Speculation
Zeihan // The End of the World is Just Beginning
Mercado // The Filmmaker's Eye: Learning (and Breaking) the Rules of Cinematic Composition
Kortina // film devlog #2 // Super Diva! screens @ Cinema Village on Sun 23 Oct
Fisher // Postcapitalist Desire
Fowler // We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Labatut // When We Cease to Understand the World
Wenger // The World After Capital
Kortina // film devlog #1 // Super Diva! short film trailer
Kortina // film devlog #0 // DaVinci Resolve
Pistor // The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
2021
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Kortina // Recap 2021 // Back to School
Kortina // Sundance Collab and Other 2021 Film Studies
Sylleptic: When a Statement is Both Figuratively and Literally True
Robinson // The Ministry for the Future
Murakami // First Person Singular
Harding // The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth
Egan // A Visit From the Goon Squad
Dewey // Democracy and Education
Postman // Amusing Ourselves to Death
Eghbal // Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Murakami // Hard Boiled Wonderland at the End of the World
Macpherson // The Real World of Democracy
Franklin // The Real World of Technology
Frankl // Man's Search for Meaning
Ukeles // Manifesto for Maintenance Art, 1969!
Langewiesche // The Outlaw Sea
Vuong // On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Nietzsche // Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2020
Arendt // Origins of Totalitarianism
July // No One Belongs Here More Than You
Wallace // Girl With Curious Hair
Mechner // The Making of Prince of Persia
Agee + Evans // Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
Stålenhag // Things from the Flood
Berger + Luckmann // The Social Construction of Reality
Gopnik // The Gardener and the Carpenter
Zucman // The Triumph of Injustice
Lasch // Culture of Narcissism
Wallace // Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2019
O'Brien // The Things They Carried
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Celine // Journey to the End of the Night
Boldrin + Levine // Against Intellectual Monopoly
Arnade // Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America
Mazzucato // The Value of Everything
Kortina // The Technology of Free Speech and Distribution: Past, Present, and Future
Frase // Four Futures: Life After Capitalism
Verhaeghe // Love in a Time of Loneliness
Le Guin // The Left Hand of Darkness
Kortina // Radical Markets / RadicalxChange
O'Reilly // WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
Kortina // Cyberpunk, Noir, and the Techno-Media-Industrial Complex
de Tocqueville // Democracy in America
Marx // Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Roth // Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
Haskel + Westlake // Capitalism without Capital
Gurri // The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Bateson // Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred
2018
Kortina // Enabling Individual Actors by Making the Behavior of Other Group Members More Predictable
Durant // The Lessons of History
Kortina // Work, Art, and Dignity in the Face of AI and Mass Automation