Shelf
Coordinates of attention
Not a canon — a working library. Five per shelf, only what still earns return. Dated lists run oldest to newest — how the work entered the world.
Books
Total form, then method. How I think about models when the map stops matching the terrain.
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Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · c. 1320 -
The Logic of Scientific Discovery
Karl Popper · 1934 -
The Royal Game (Schachnovelle)
Stefan Zweig · 1942 -
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges · 1944 -
When We Cease to Understand the World
Benjamín Labatut · 2020
Films
Obsession first; the dignity of attention last.
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Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock · 1958 -
Persona
Ingmar Bergman · 1966 -
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick · 1968 -
High and Low (Tengoku to jigoku)
Akira Kurosawa · 1963 -
Perfect Days
Wim Wenders · 2023
TV Series
Power as process, not plot twist — institutions co-producing outcomes, not heroes alone.
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I, Claudius
Jack Pulman · 1976 -
The Wire
David Simon · 2002 -
Mad Men
Matthew Weiner · 2007 -
The Bureau des Légendes
Éric Rochant · 2015 -
Chernobyl
Craig Mazin · 2019
Music Albums
Formal risk with feeling intact. Devotion to structure across decades and languages.
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A Love Supreme
John Coltrane · 1965 -
La leyenda del tiempo
Camarón de la Isla · 1979 -
Bocanada
Gustavo Cerati · 1999 -
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kanye West · 2010 -
Blonde
Frank Ocean · 2016
Magazines
How I track the world on paper. Open what orients the week, not what fills a syllabus.
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Monocle
Tyler Brûlé · United Kingdom -
The New Yorker
David Remnick · United States -
The Economist
Zanny Minton Beddoes · United Kingdom -
Works in Progress
Pieter Garicano · United Kingdom -
Sidetracked
Alex Roddie · United Kingdom
What I carry on the road is on places; what I do with the body on Body; the models I navigate by on frame. Different maps, one habit: pay attention to structure.