ON THE MAP

--from Slate.com. 

Claire emailed me that she's reading "1984" just as I came across this illustration depicting a guide to scifi novels. I wouldn't have thought to put Orwell or Bradbury in that category, but now that I see this snarky, helpful trajectory of choosing scifi books,  I guess they do belong because they're not firmly rooted in reality. Does this mean utopian literature is inherently scifi? On a similar note, David Weinberger, of the Berkman Center at Harvard, is coming to speak at University of Michigan tomorrow. He wrote "Everything is Miscellaneous" which is about how we categorize information and the importance (and difficulties...) of metadata in Web 2.0. Maybe someone should ask him. After all, the birth of information architecture (how we represent information) came from librarianship.

But back to this map! What have you read?
I've been meaning to read "Watership Down" and "Neuromancer."

I'm currently listening to: Das Racist, Tyler the Creator, Blakroc, and The National. In case you can't tell, the library and I are on good terms right now.

xo! t