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La Doleur Exquisabella
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a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • refusenik • moon gardener
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · Jan 6
So. I am on a book-buying ban for 2025, so I am going to make a screenshot list here of everything I’m tempted by. I have a few pre-orders coming, but no subscriptions, though I am open to swapsies and arcs (😂). I’m a slow reader and have a backlog so let’s see.
Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane. Jorie Graham says on Twitter: Best book l've read in decades... I don't actually know when I've read something this exciting & moving & brilliantly comprehensive & mind altering. Thank you (that’s all in the image as well as the book)
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 50m
Can't wait till we see it on Saturday. I hope everything goes really well.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you, and goodnight, Hookland.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 15h
It has been Quite The Day, for reasons I cannot divulge on Ye Internette, and friends, I am absolutely pooped.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 16h
i am almost ashamed to admit my embarras of open tabs
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 17h
Amazed by anything else, to be honest.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 17h
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Who are these freaks with less than 30 browsing tabs open?
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 20h
How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
back to back lectures this morning on a) the archival turn and b) art research methdologies. and then a 2-hour seminar, all before lunch. I will be voiceless by 11.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
Goodnight, maeveynot.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
Like I said, luring us to our doom.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
Goodnight, moonlickers.
No surprises tonight, it’s the moon, fat and magical, luring us to our doom. Or something.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
I’m tempted to go and get it for a re-read.
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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 1d
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Cover of an ex library book of Darian Leader, Why do some write more letters than they post
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
I like this book very much. And Promises Lovers Make When It Gets Late.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
I’ve gone to bed early for precisely this reason.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
🖤
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing, you lucky thing!
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
I find them completely extraordinary
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 1d
I saw a heron in flight. 😍
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
My MAs show got a nice review from @corridor8.bsky.social 👇
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Corridor8 @corridor8.bsky.social · 6d
Paige Costinescu reviews '13 Beautiful Horses' at Leicester Gallery, De Montfort University. An exhibition featuring thirteen artists from the MA Contemporary Art Practice course at DMU.
13 Beautiful Horses — Corridor8
Nestled within De Montfort University campus is a building with a shining glass wall that offers passers-by a glimpse into other worlds. Leicester Gallery
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, I have no trouble with romance. 🥺
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
Mulling over a damaged friendship and what, if anything, to do about it.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
Doesn’t it!
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2d
In that same thread: our spring Cross-Reference class at the Metro Library Council will either be about (1) the aesthetics + politics of small formats or (2) a capacious, cross-disciplinary exploration of “search + discovery” — from exploration to web search to the scavenger hunt as method :)
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Feb 17
Yes! And this is in part why I've long wanted to teach a class on small media — because compression presents interesting technical, epistemological + ontological challenges; because small stuff creates aesthetic possibilities + allows for 😈 distribution... (👇 from a course pitch deck :)
A slide reading: "a hypothetical class on miniature media might involve... microfilm/fiche, compression formats, abstracts, small-gauge film, flyers, microscripts, clippings libraries, jingles, miniature books, members, tombstones, gem collections, wall labels, sonic logos, microcinema, stickers, architectural models; Photo depicting people working on a microfiche reader
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
We use antique encaustic floor tiles, large and heavy, v useful and not, you know, icky.
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La Doleur Exquisabella @minxmarple.bsky.social · 2d
And the nails, Frank, the constant fucking trimming.
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