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Sorina Dumitru

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Published 5 months ago • 1 min read

Happy Easter

Here are some bootleg books for you.

This morning I woke up and saw the date - April 20th. I had the feeling it's an important date. Maybe someone's birthday. Maybe I'm forgetting something really important.

And then it hit me. It was 420. If you know, you know.

Jah is the most important being in Rastafari and they associated him with King Selassie, ruler of Ethiopia between 1930 and 1974. Jah is one of my favorite leaders. He opened up Ethiopia's economy to the rest of the world, sent his friends off to Switzerland to get proper education and come back as leaders in government. Authoritarian regimes get shit done, ngl.

The Lion of Judah is also the symbol of Jesus Christ after the resurrection. The transformation from lamb to lion is a perfect example of a Hero's Journey, something we all must go through.

Anyway, for today, you will be receiving some bootleg books. You can read them anytime - and undergo a transformation from lamb to lion.

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Now, the free books

6 Points for an Architecture of Resistance

Just Critical Regionalism directly from Kenneth Frampton's mouth.

Outro from Vacation Architecture

The epilogue from my book on Vacation Architecture in Nonseasonal Places which pretty much sums up the whole idea of the book.

This is Marketing

Seth Goden's magnum opus, probably the best place to start product dev, communication and advertising.

Hyperobjects

A book that shifts our perspective from object oriented towards a bigger picture. It gives us the tools to comprehend things so big we normally tend to ignore them - yet we cause them and they affect us.

Death Glitch

A research paper that looks into how the Internet never forgets, therefore it never lets us die. We've accidentally reached immortality but in a weird, distorted way. Just like in Ubik.​

The Hacker Ethic

A dorky philosophy book that addresses work, ethics and government and how it is shaped by the networks and the information age.

The books are saved on my server and the URLs are from my website. This means you don't have to download them, you can just label this email and come back here any time if you want to read one.

Out in the streets
They call it merther*
When rhythm spacin' out your head

*Merther (not to be confused with murder) is the trance-like state when we create art that is pretty much out of control - locking into our common field of creativity.

Jah bless.

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Sorina Dumitru

architect PhD | writer | I reverse engineer experiences

The topics will be mostly about architecture, economics, and some personal development. Free books included. Yeah I was in Forbes but that was a long time ago.

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