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28 June 2008, dusan
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This is the single most amazing website that I have ever seen! Your book choice is superb – soooooooo many good books to complete my own bookshelf… how can I possibly choose what to read first when I want to read them all?! And then… you’ve posted all of the cabinets. Really? Can my eyes be deceiving me?! You make me want to cry. Cabinet is my favorite magazine in the world, that I only discovered last year. I was dizzy by the time I ran into them looking at everything else, and then, just… wow. My jaw is hanging down in disbelief. I’m constantly asking myself, how you could have possibly have found all of these amazing books?
thanks Adrian! we appreciate your support very much. torrent of all the content is expected soon, which will make things much easier.
HI there monoskop. First off congratulations on your collection. Second, do take a look at our blog (address above) and the ‘library’ section of bedeutung magazine: http://www.bedeutung.co.uk; you might some topical material. Third, are you purposely not publishing verso books, although they are widely available? As a gesture of camaraderie towards this publisher? or is it simply accidental?
[this comment is not really meant to be published publicly – please respond in person]
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a
>>corrected the blog address
HI there monoskop. First off congratulations on your collection. Second, do take a look at our blog (address above) and the ‘library’ section of bedeutung magazine: http://www.bedeutung.co.uk; you might some topical material. Third, are you purposely not publishing verso books, although they are widely available? As a gesture of camaraderie towards this publisher? or is it simply accidental?
[too late]
thanks
a
Like those that preceeded me, I commend you on this website. It is fantastic.
But I also commend you for the delightful comment thread above. I am still laughing out loud. Thank you for all your efforts.
thank you very much. (!!!)
Just to reiterate what was noted above, this collection appears to be reading my mind. It provides a soft and portable version of a large number of books I have on my shelf already.
It also leaves me guessing at the fingerprint of the curator. I can think of a couple of people I know who have this kind of overlap with my academic tastes, and I’m sure there are many others. Shame that the nature of the beast makes it difficult to figure out who shares an interest.
And, I’m very happy to see my own book listed among these. Not sure it is deserving, but I consider it an honor. (I doubt my publisher would agree. :)
+1 on a complete torrent…
this is the best – you are doing such good work i love love love
I was wondering about the legality of this site. I guess I know the answer but how can you share all this content at no cost? Do you have the permission of the copyright owners?
OK, sorry I just saw the disclaimer at the bottom. While I think this site is an amazing resource I have an uneasy feeling about plundering such an archive of material. As an example there is a lot of work written by artists and I guess downloaded by artists. I just wonder the same people would feel if their work was freely available. Libraries, another great resource are not free either. If they are not funded they close.
Perhaps there is more to it than sheer economics.
Sure, I don’t want to sound like a killjoy but this site gets a lot of love and press on the net making it almost seem legal, almost to good to be true. I admit I don’t support free culture, I am an artist, just as we don’t live a free society. Yes, knowledge is power and all that, but creators need to get paid too. That’s were the economics come in :)
There is good intention on our part, if it hits a wall, the work is taken down. Learning on the go.. and conditions are constantly changing as well.
Understood. But over the last few years I have noticed peoples acceptance of the idea of free culture without really thinking it through. It is not a changing landscape it HAS changed. I think if people want art and knowledge they have to pay, like any other service. These are not new ideas. I am guilty of downloading content but I am changing my attitude.
There are always systems to allow content owners to get paid. Torrent sites and such are just greedy, not willing to share and revenues and such. There might not be a perfect solution straightaway but that doesn’t mean you don’t have to try.
Please kindly remove the title “A Brief History of Curating” authored by Hans Ulrich Obrist from your website as this is an unauthorized download.
thank you,
Elisa
Hi there– I see no E.V.Ilyenkov content up here, though I do see Spinoza, and Computation & human experience, which links the two. Mightn’t that lacuna be filled in time? And were you (I wonder idly to myself) in San Diego? If so, I wonder if may have exchanged a thought or two over Vico in days gone by.
Thanks!
D
http://www.academia.edu/2559601/Technoscience_The_politics_of_interventions
Hi
this is wonderful!
Can I download and save the book on my desktop for further perusal?
thanks
carlos
Hello. I found your site recently. Looking through archives for the last year and have found several posts of PDFs I posted elsewhere–I’m not sure if you found them from my posts, or if you picked them up from openlibrary.org — things like the German Expressionist drama anthology, the Cixous on Mandelstam, the In Transition magazine anthology, Bataille’s study on Manet, etc.
I have not checked to see if you have also shared the Russian fiction and poetry anthologies–but openlibrary has several of these as well that I thought worth saving and disseminating.
Whatever the case, thank you. I have found many exceptional books on your site.
Hello leninbert, indeed, those scans came from your posts, thanks for getting in touch and for your work! More fiction yet to follow.
Extremely helpful website. So many books, publications, photos and articles. :)
I’ll spread the word about this among other researchers.
Keep it going.
Dear Sirs
The Edition Peters Group/Henmar Press, Inc. are the copyright owners of the works of the composer, John Cage. It has come to our intention that you are making available an illegal copy of the John Cage Songbooks on your site: http://monoskop.org/log/?p=10772. Please note that this constitutes an infringement of our copyright and the rights of the John Cage Trust, and we require its immediate removal. You should note that making any copyright material available in this way without the consent of or a licence from the copyright owner is an infringement of copyright and a criminal act under international legislation.
Dear Andrew Kemp, these books were published a good half century ago and are long out of print, how shall we explain the community that they cannot even be consulted online? I supposed that providing scanned copies is doing a fair service to the legacy of John Cage.
good argument Dusan!
twice found your site when seeking obscure books I couldn’t get elsewhere, many thanks.
Hi.I am a Translator and I have a book in gutenberg.org..
My book is: Five short story from D.H.Lawrence.
The language of book is “Farsi” or “Persian.
Their is not a book in Farsi in Monoskop.
I love to give the book to the Monoskop as a gift.
What you think?
Let me know please.
Best Wishes.
Philosophies of Nature after Schelling by Iain Hamilton Grant?
Hello Dusan!
I am searching for Allegories of Underdevelopment: Aesthetics and Politics in Modern Brazilian Cinema by Ismail Xavier.
Hoping to find it here. Thank you, in advance.
Hello Grace, here it is.
fof, Grant’s book is on LibGen.
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Cogwheels of the Mind: The Story of Venn Diagrams
Hello Dusan! Many many thanks, as always.
I’ll found a drawing with the date 1922 and a red stamp “Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar” on the paper with the drawing and also text and numbers written onto it. Can anyone tell me something about the origine of the work please?
Hi Jurgen, hard to say, can you post a photograph?
Please stop pirating material and sharing pirated material.
The music book world is tiny. We make very little money on writing these books, and even less for all the time that goes into conducting the research to write the books.
Having people give the work away free is NOT helping us. We don’t tour like indie bands and make money from selling t-shirts or tickets. We don’t need the “exposure.”
You’re putting what little money we can make in jeopardy, and while we don’t do this to make money, the publishers will stop publishing the books unless they can see a profit off it. Then where will you be?
Hi there,
Noticed the the current link to Otis on the Milieu page is no longer working:
https://www.otis.edu/life_otis/library/collections_online/artists_books.html
I believe this following one is the new link:
https://otis.libguides.com/images/artists_books_images
Alternatively, this goes straight to the “Browse” page:
https://collections.otis.edu/cdm/search/collection/artbook
Thanks for all you do!
J
Thank you J!
Dear Dusan,
Might you have Graeme Sullivan’s Art Practice as Reserach: Inquiry in Visual Arts?
Would appreciate it so much. Stay healthy and safe!
Luisa, you can find several chapters here.
Many, many thanks, Dusan! :)
Looking for Half-Earth Socialism:
A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese
Thanks, Dusan! Your site is the best!!
Hi humalien, you can find it on LibGen.