Performativizing Papyrocentricity #64

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• God Guide – A Guide to Tolkien, David Day (Octopus 1993)

• The Catcher and the Rye – The Biology of Flowers, Eigil Holm, ill. by Thomas Bredsdorff and Peter Nielsen (Penguin Nature Guides 1979)

• Dayzed and Contused – The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw: The Robin Friday Story, Paul McGuigan and Paolo Hewitt (Mainstream 1997)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #61

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Orchid Kid – The Orchid Hunter: A Young Botanist’s Search for Happiness, Leif Bersweden (Short Books 2017)

• Deep in the Dark – The Tunnel, Eric Williams (1951)

• Faces and Facts – The Self-Portrait: A Cultural History, James Hall (Thames & Hudson 2014)

• Persian Pool – Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Richard Foltz (Oneworld 2013)

• Hooky Here – Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook (Simon & Schuster 2012)

• #MiToo – Morbidly Miriam: The Mephitic Memoirs of Miriam B. Stimbers, Dr Miriam B. Stimbers (TransVisceral Books 2018)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #46

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Machina Mundi – The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution, David Wootton (Allen Lane 2015)

• Wandering Wonders – Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World, Christian Sardet (The University of Chicago Press 2015)

• Love Buzz – A Buzz in the Meadow, Dave Goulson (Jonathan Cape 2014)

• Quake’s Progress – The Million Death Quake: The Science of Predicting Earth’s Deadliest Natural Disaster, Roger Musson (Palgrave Macmillan 2012)

• Sin after Cin – Gargoyle Girls from Beelzebub’s Ballsack: The Sickest, Sleaziest, Splanchnophagousest Slimefests in Scum Cinema, Dr Joan Jay Jefferson (TransToxic Texts 2016)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #45

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Plants on Paper – Drawing and Painting Plants, Christina Brodie (A & C Black 2006)

• Lewminiferous – Guide to Garden Wildlife, Richard Lewington (British Wildlife Publishing 2008)

• Old Gold – Puskás: Madrid, the Magyars and the Amazing Adventures of the World’s Greatest Goalscorer, György Szöllős (Freight Books 2015)

• Rosetta Rok – Rok 1984, George Orwell (MUZA SA, Warszawa 2001)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #43

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Avens Above – Harrap’s Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Wild Flowers of Britain & Ireland, Simon Harrap (Bloomsbury 2013)

• Place of Glades – A Dictionary of British Place-Names, A.D. Mills (Oxford University Press 1991)

• De Minimis Curat Rex? – Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World, Amir Alexander (Oneworld 2014)

• Seen and Not Heard – The Greatest Albums You’ll Never Hear, ed. Bruno MacDonald (Aurum Press 2014)


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Performativizing Papyrocentricity #42

Papyrocentric Performativity Presents:

• Feats for the Eyes – Drawn from Paradise: The discovery, art and natural history of the birds of paradise, David Attenborough and Errol Fuller (Collins 2012)

• Heart of the Mather – Chaotic Fishponds and Mirror Universes: the maths that governs our world, Richard Elwes (Quercus 2013)

• Bergblumen – Enchanting Alpine Flowers, Alfred Pohler, trans. Jacqueline Schweighofer


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Life in Vein

William Sharp, “Victoria Regia or the Great Water Lily of America (Underside of a Leaf)“ (1854), viâ Jeff Thompson

William Sharp, “Victoria Regia or the Great Water Lily of America (Underside of a Leaf)” (1854), viâ Jeff Thompson