Brendan

Find me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/schlagetown Currently building a platform for people-focused learning on the internet: https://hyperlink.academy/ I run a website where I collect & share all kinds of fascinating books: https://www.antilibrari.es/ Also a small bibliophile community: https://athenaeum.antilibrari.es/ Here's my personal canon: https://www.brendanschlagel.com/canon/ Some favorite things: words, unicode, language, translation creative constraints, oulipo ecology, deep time bookstores, libraries, the internet indie creator economics walking, hiking, exploring

Books (Favorites)

  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • Le Ton beau de Marot - Douglas Hofstadter
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella Meadows
  • His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
  • Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino
  • Autonauts of the Cosmoroute - Julio Cortázar and Carol Dunlop

Fun Websites

  • https://everything2.com/
  • http://phrontistery.info/
  • http://longnow.org/
  • https://fo.am/
  • https://aworkinglibrary.com/
  • http://worrydream.com/

Books (Antilibrary)

  • From the Tree to the Labyrinth - Umberto Eco
  • Speak, Memory - Vladimir Nabokov
  • Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins
  • Communities of Practice - Etienne Wenger
  • 99 Variations on a Proof - Philip Ording
  • Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - Audre Lorde

projects I'd like to do one day

  • word games for kids and babies
  • more experimental book clubs
  • speculative absurdist ecommerce shop
  • microgrants of some kind
  • creative constraints for poetry and photography
  • rap album about my favorite things
  • cool decks of cards of some kind
  • social space purely in a sql database