FYI #44
I enjoyed listening to architect Sumayya Vally in conversation with Sara Mansour at a recent Sydney Design Week event. Vally leads an interesting architectural practice called Counterspace. One of the projects she spoke about was the Asiat-Darse pedestrian bridge in Vilvoorde, Belgium.
Shortlist for the 2024 Booker Prize, including Charlotte Wood’s book, Stone Yard Devotional.
The Ultimate Fall 2024 Reading List, via LitHub.
Vintage Merch: Buying someone else’s history, by Hanif Abdurraqib, via the Yale Review
‘National Gallery of Victoria tours exhibition of Australian Indigenous Art to North America’, via ABC News. The exhibition will include Mun-Dirra (Maningrida Fish Fence), made by the Community of Maningrida in Central-West Arnhem Land, commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria.
‘Other People’s Money Can Drive You Mad’, review of Rumaan Alam’s new novel ‘Entitlement’, by Laura Miller, via the New Yorker. Interview with Alam, via LitHub.
It’s a season of new book releases.. Sally Rooney’s new novel, Intermezzo, is attracting attention. Her work was the subject of discussion on a recent episode of the Critics-at-Large podcast.
Added to my list, Maira Kalman’s new book, Still Life with Remorse, out next month.
Catherine Liu, professor of film and media studies at UC Irvine, author of ‘Virtue Hoarders: the Case Against the Professional Managerial Class’, with Joshua Citarella on Doomscroll (video podcast). H/t Sheila Ngoc Pham.
‘In the Shack with Robert Caro’, via Austin Kleon.
New working paper from the Digital Platforms Regulators Forum (DP-REG, Australia) on Multimodal Foundation Models
‘FTC Staff Report Finds Large Social Media and Video Streaming Companies Have Engaged in Vast Surveillance of Users with Lax Privacy Controls and Inadequate Safeguards for Kids and Teens’, new report from the US Federal Trade Commission.