Category: Books
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On Being Let Down: iPhone 6 and the Politics of Disappointment
So here we are. It is, as Stephen Fry put it, ‘most exquisite mobile ever made.’ It is thinner, faster, bigger, more clever and lasts longer. Except, if you keep it in your pocket it bends. Except, in a year or so it’ll seem slow, heavy, stupid, with a weak heart. Better to accept it:…
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To The Book – Reflections on Reading Tomes
Was talking books last night in a bar overlooking the Thames, and was reminded to come back to something I’d noted having finished Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries. It’s such a large volume, but there was a lovely sense in reading the hardback of the gradual shift of weight, page by page, from the right hand…
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e-Edition of The Complex Christ / Signs of Emergence
Happy to announce that there is now a Kindle version of my first book The Complex Christ – released in the US as Signs of Emergence. An iBookstore / ePub format version will be available soon too. It’s nearly 10 years since the book was released, and I’ve moved a long way since that time,…
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After Magic
A friend has been reading After Magic recently, and while chatting on the phone to them I picked up a copy again and turned to the section they were on… then ended up re-reading it myself! It was good to do, having had a bit of distance from it for a while. I am…
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Why You Should(nt) Read After Magic
The blanks for the After Magic hardbacks to be hand-inked arrived today, and I’ve got to say I’m really excited about them. They’ve come out really really well… Will be doing the printing onto the covers this weekend and begin sending them out on Monday all being well. There’s a small number still available for…