Steph's readings
Plays Film texts
Weiss. P. Marat Sade. The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat /As Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade'. Pocket Books. 1967Ophuls. M. The Sorrow and the Pity. The Text and Illustrations from the Marcel Ophuls Film. Granada Publishing 1975
Renoir. Grand Illusion. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1968Bergman. I. Fanny and Alexander. Pantheon Books. New York.1982Didion. J. Play it as it Lays. The truth About Women as Objects. Now an Outspoken Film. Penguin Books,1973Lanzmann. C. SHOAH. An oral History of the Holocaust. The complete Text. Preface by Simone de Beauvoir. Pantheon Books New York. 1985Bennett. A. The Madness of King George. Introduction by the author. Faber & Faber 1995.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. ABBEY LIBRARY. 1972
(Bought at Avebury House Vintage Market. Richmond. Christchurch. 2024 for $10.00)
Poetry
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With Notes by Mary Shelly. The Modern Library.New York. 1994 Eliot.T.S. The Wasteland. With Introduction by Pauil Muldoon. ,Liveright Publishing Corporation.2013 Allan. J. Midas Touch. Poems by Julia Allan. The Nags Head Press. Christchurch.1990Bogost. I. A Slow Year. Game Poems. Open Texture. 2010Kerouac. J. Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses ) Grove Press. New York. Inc.1959Bisley. C. ElegyBisley. C. Dark Avenue Bisley. C. Most of all the lack of you
Short Stories
Ed. Phelps. R. Colette. The Collected Stories of Colette. Secker & Warburg. 1983The collected stories of Deborah Eisenberg. Picador. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. New York. Paperback. (1997.2006).2010Chekhov. A. The Black Monk and Peasants. Trans. Ronald Wilks. (1982) Penguin Books. 1995Didion. J. Slouching Towards Bethlehem. We Tell ourselves Stories in order to live. Introduction by John Leonard. Everyman’s Library. 2006Pushkin. A. The Stationmaster. 1831.Janowitz. T. Slaves of New York. Bloomsbury. 2004(c 1986)Hemingway. Ref. Literary Encyclopedia — Hemingway, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing. 1933The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg. (1996) (2007) 2010. Picador paperback.Rhys. J. Illusion. Tigers are Better Looking. André Deutsch Ltd. 1968 *Hemingway. E. Winner Take Nothing Collection. 1933.Cusk. R. Parade. Faber. 2024Duras. M. Outside. selected Writings. Translated by Aurthur Goldhammer. The Algerian's Flowers. Beacon Press. Boston. 1984.Qilin Yam. Daryl. shanti shanti shanti. MATH PAPER PRESS. 2021 Wedde. I. Snake. The Shirt Factory and other stories. Victori University Press with Price Millburn. 1981 Miller. H. Tropic of Capricorn. Panther Book. 1964
*DeutschHis small but influential publishing house was active until the 1990s, and included books by Jack Kerouac, Wole Soyinka, Earl Lovelace, Norman Mailer, George Mikes, V. S. Naipaul, Ogden Nash, Eric Williams, Andrew Robinson, Philip Roth, Art Spiegelman, John Updike, Margaret Atwood, Charles Gidley Wheeler, Helene Hanff, Peter Benchley, Leon Uris, Molly Keane, Michael Rosen, Quentin Blake, Mary Melwood, John Cunliffe, and Ludwig Bemelmans.[5] Deutsch employed dedicated editor Diana Athill, who in 1952 was a founding director of the publishing company that was given his name (and who in her memoir Stet described him as "possibly the most difficult man in London").[6] A number of book series were established including The Language Library,[7][8] Grafton Books (works on librarianship, bibliography and book collecting)[9] and the Introduces guides.[10][11] ( Wikipedia)
Fiction
Ed. Robert Phelps. Collette. The collected stories.
Prévost. A. Manon Lescaut. Translation by Tancock. Penguin Classic. (copyright 1949 Tancock) 1967
Bragg. M. Crossing the Lines. Hodder & Stoughton. 2003Desbordes Michele. The Maid’s Request. Faber and Faber Translation Shaun Whiteside. (First published in French 1998) 2003Desbordes. M. The House in the Forest. Faber and Faber Translation Shaun Whiteside.2004
(First published in French 2001Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary. Life in a Country Town. Introduction by Anita Brookner. Oxford World Classics. 1999.Turgenev. I Fathers and Sons. (1862 Translation by Richard Freeborn. Introduction by Alain de Botton. Oxford World Classic. 1999
Flaubert. G. Madame Bovry. Life in a Country Town. Introduction by Anita Brookner. Oxford World Classics. 1999Pynchon. T. Mason & Dixon. Henry Holt and Company. 1997Camus. M. The Stranger (1940)Ulinich. A. Petropolis. Scribe. 2008Koestler. A. Darkness at Noon. 1940. Reissue. Penguin Modern Classics. 1979Ed. Andrew Sanders. Thackeray. W.M. Barry Lyndon. 1844. * (1811-1863) Reissue. 2008. First Published. Oxford University Press
Diderot. D. D’Alembert’s Dream. Trans. Tancock. Penguin Books.
Turgenev. I. Fathers and Sons. Introduction by Alain de Botton. Oxford World Classics.Garvie. M. & Beaty. M. George Johnson's War. A groundwood Book. 2003.Garvie. M. Lake Rules. Key Porter Books 2005Vandermeer. BORN. 2017Vandermeer. J. Dead Astronauts. 4th Estate. London. 2019Woolf. V. To the Lighthouse. Vintage. Text based on the Hogarth print of 1927Woolf. V. Mrs Dalloway. Text 1927. Introduction copyright. Carol Ann Duffy. 2000McArthy. C. All McArthy later novels. eg. Blood Meridian. Southern Gothic Novels’1985.Ed. Sturm. Stories. Anna Kavan. J. Anna Kavan’s New Zealand. A Pacific Interlude in a turbulent life. Vintage Books. Random House. 2009Ramuz. C-F. The Young Man from Savoy. Translated by Blake Robnison. Host Publications. Austin. TX. 2008. C.B. Editions. 2018Eaves. W. Murmer. Goodreads. 2018Mason. M. SORROW and BLISS. Fourth Estate. 2020Burney. F. The Wanderer. Oxford University Press. New York. (First published 1991). 2001Xingjian Gao. Soul Mountain. (part autobiographical-part fiction) Translated by Mabel Lee. Flamingo. 2000Bass. Maiden Voyage. Villard. New York. 1996.Knox. E. The Vintner's Luck. Victoria University Press. First Published 1998. Limited Edition 2008Nabokov. V. Mary. Penguin Books Ltd. The Strand. 1971Nabokov. V. The Enchanter. Penguin Random House. UK. 1986Fox. P. Desperate Characters. (1970). 1973. Introduction by J. Franzen. Flamingo. 2003*
Miller. A. Casanova. Hodder and Stoughton. 1998Kawabata Yasunari. The Master of Go. Trans. E.G. Seidensticker. Charles Tuttle Company.
Garvie. M. Withdrawn form Circulation. Cowdy House. 2015.Le Duc. Violette Mad in Pursuit. Granada. Publishing Ltd. 1971
Catton. E. Burnam Wood. Te Heranga Waka University Press. 2023Krauze. G. Who They Was. 4th Estate. London. 2021CUSK.R. IN THE FOLD. Faber &Faber.2005CUSK.R. AFTERMATH Faber & Faber 2001YAM Daryl Qilin SHANTIH SHANTIH SHANTIH. (a novella) MATHS PRESS 2021Kemp. S. Paradise Logic. Scribner. 2025
Roth. P. The Counterlife. Ebenzer Baylis & Son Ltd 1987 Lewis. The Children of Sanchez. Penguin Modern Classics. (1961) 1970
Barnes. J. Tales of the Madman Underground. Viking Books. 2009
* Interview with Fox upon winning the Newbery Medal in 1984. She won the Hans Christian Anderson Award in 1978. video interview. 1987.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Fox.%20Desperate%20Characters.%20Introduction%20by%20J.%20Franzen.%20Flamingo.%202003&mid=6536BEAB53F6B52478196536BEAB53F6B5247819&ajaxhist=0
Non -Fiction
Ed. Stein. J. with George Plimpton. EDIE An American Biography. Alfred. A. Knopf. New York. 1982 Ed. Zhava. My Mother's Daughter. Stories by Women. The Crossing Press. 1991.Ed. Andrew Benjamin. The Lyotard Reader. Jean Francois -Lyotard. Basil Blackwell Ltd. 1989Ed. Kelly. R. Alan Clarke. Forward by Stephen Frears. Faber & Faber. 1998Ed. Flannagan. M & Booth. A re-skin/ MIT Press. 2006 Hodin. P.H. WAY OF LIFE. Life and work of the painter Hilde Goldschmidt. Encore Publishing Inc. 1976 Postman. N. TECHNOPOLY. Th Surrender of Culture to Technology. Vintage Books. 1993Friedenthal R. GOETHE his life and times. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. London. (1963) 1965Cole. Tennyson. Vanity Varnished. Double Day. New York. 1931Leacock. S. 1942 Montreal. Seaport & City. Crawford. K. ATLAS OF AI. Power, Politics and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence. Yale University Press. 2023 Benjamin. B. One Way Street and Other Writings. Translators Edmund Jephcott Kingsley Shorter. Verso Books. 1985.Sante. L. Low Life. Lures and Snares of New York. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. (1991) Afterword. 2003Watson. R. N. Back to Nature. The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance. University of Pennsylvania. 2008 Spender. S. China Diary. Thames & Hudson. 1982McArthy. F. Byron. Life and Legend. John Murray (Publishers)Ltd. 2002Didion. J. We Tell ourselves Stories in Order to Live. collected nonfiction. With an Introduction by John Leonard. (2006) Everyman's Library. Koestler. The Sleepwalkers. 1959Koestler. A. The Roots of Coincidence. Picador. Pan Books Ltd. (1972) 1974 Koestler. A. The Heel of Achillies. Picador. 1974Edwards. J. Two Dissertations. A.M. Boston. Franklin Classics. Creative Zakaria. F. The Post American World. W. W. Norton & Company. 2008Erich Neumann, The Great Mother. An Analysis of the Archetype. Translated by Ralph Manheim. (1962). W. Princeton University Press (1972). Second Printing. 1974.Richardson. J. London & its People. Printed. Barrie & Jenkins. Random House.1995.Danto. A. After the End of Art and the Pale of History. Princeton. University Press. 1997 Rousseau) (1790) The business of neurosis. Bought 1997Kokoschka. O. A Sea Ringed with Visions, 1964Kokoschka. O. My Life. 1972Monaco. The New Wave. Oxford University Press. 1976Ferguson. N. The Ascent of Money: a Financial History of the World. The Penguin Press. 2008Sinclair. U. The Jungle. Penguin Modern Classics. Reprint. 1976. First Print. 1906Kolker. R. Barnardo Bertolucci. Oxford University Press. New York. 1985Plato. The Republic. Whitefriars Press. 1955Ireland. J. and Nichols. J. Hogarth’s Complete Works. (copied)(Third Series) Edinburgh. Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier 1883 Cervantes. M. (1545-1616) Don Quixote De la Mancha. The First Part of the Achievements of the Renowned. Illustrated by Salvador Dali. Abbeville Press. Random House Reprint. 1946Adam. Hans Christian. Karl Blossfeldt. 1865 - 1932 TASCHEN.Sifton. J. Violence All Around. Harvard University Press. 2015Marcuse. H. Eros & Civilization. A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud with a new preface by the author. Abacus. 1972Gribbin. J. In Search of Schrodinger's Cat. Quantum Physics and Reality. Georgia Edition 1985.Berman. M. All That Is Solid Melts into Air. The Experience of Modernity. Penguin Books. Published 1982 New Preface 1998Deleuze. G. Cinema 2. The Time-Image. University of Minnesota Press. Translated by H. Tomlinson and Robert Galeta. Copyright 1985. Les Editions de Minuit. Athlone Press. 1989 Marsilio. Michelangelo Pistoletto. Marsilio Edition in Venice. S p a. 2010Daugherty. T. The Last Love Song. A biography of Joan Didion. St. Martin's Press. 2015Camus. M. Committed Writings. (1930 - 1960) [London]: newly curated and introduced by acclaimed scholar about Camus, Alice Kaplan. Penguin Books, 2020.Molnar. H Meadows. M Songlines to Satellites. Indigenous communication in Australia, the South Pacific and Canada. Hyde Park Press. 2001Latta. C. When the Eternal Can Be Met. The Bergsonian Theology of Time in the works of C. S. Lewis. Davies. A Modest Pageant. Faber & Faber. 1993 Feynman, Richard. P. The meaning of it all. Thoughts of a citizen Scientist. Basic Books. NY. 1998Ames. M. Going Postal. Rage, Murder and Rebellion: From Reagan's Work Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond. Soft Skull Press. 2005Walters. G. New Vision. Auckland Art Gallery. 2017 Morton. T. Dark Ecology. Columbia University Press. New York. 2016Maguire. M. THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT. Paper Graphica. 2022James. C.L.R. The Black Jacobins. Penguin Books. Introduction and Notes. James Walvin.2001Žižek. S. Living in the End Times. Verso. 2011Stone. M. When God was a Woman. Harcourt Inc. 1976Illich. I & Sanders. B. ABC the Alphabetization of the Popular Mind. Marion Boyars Publishers. Ltd. 1988Mathews. D. Britten. HAUS Publishing. London. 2003Goulson. D. A Sting in the Tale. Jonathan Cale. London. 2013Barthes. R. The Responsibilities of Forms critical essays on Music, Art and Representation. Hill & Wanng. New York. 1980. Translated from the French by Richard Howard W Hitt 1985Seldes. L. The Legacy of Mark Rothko. De Capo Press. 1978Williams. J. Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of time. A critical introduction and guide. Edinburgh University Press. (2011) 2012Rothko. C. Mark Rothko from the inside out. Chris Rothko. 2015Morton. T. The Ecological Thought. Harvard University Press. 2010Woodward. C. IN RUINS. Vintage. 2002Blacker J. The Falling Rate of Learning. And the neoliberal endgame. Zero Books. 2013Boyd. B. Vladimir Nabokov. The American Years. Princeton University Press. 1991Ray Robert. How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies. Indiana University Press. 2001Rumble. P. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Trilogy of Life. Allegories of Contamination. University of Toronto. 1996Barker. Lady. Station Life in New Zealand. Whitcombe and Tombs. 1950Sonnenberg. B. Lost Property. Faber & Faber. 1991Montford. N. & Bogost. I. Racing the Beam. The Atari Video Computer System. MIT Press. 2009Juul. J. Half-real. Video Games between Real Rules and Fictional Worlds. MIT Press. 2005Flannagan. M. Critical Play. Radical Game Design. MIT Press. 2009Bissell. T. Extra Lives. Why Videogames Matter. First Edition. 2010Bogost. I. Unit Operations. An Approach to videogame criticism. MIT Press. 2006 Dutton. D. The Art Instinct. Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution. The Oxford University Press. 2009Maizels M. and Jagoda. P. The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer. MIT press. 2016Juul. J. The Art of Failure. An Essay on the Pain of Playing a Videogame. MIT Press. 2013 Duffy. B. The Perils of Perception. Why we're wrong about nearly everything. 2018 Bell & Bain. Glasgow.Deutsch David. The Beginning of Infinity. Explanations the Transform the World. Penguin Books. 2012T. S. Eliot and W.H. Auden. Pickwick Publications. 2014Jamail. D. The End of Ice. Two River Distribution. 2019Graeber and Wengrow. The Dawn of Everything. A New History of Humanity. Penguin Books. 2021Dombroski. K. Nicholson. H. Yates. A. Huritanga: 10 years of transformative place-making. Urban Regenerative Action Lab. Life in Vacant Spaces. 2022Hoffman. Donald. D. The Case Against Reality. How evolution hid the truth from our eyes. Penguin Books, 2020Byrt A. This Model World. Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art. Auckland University Press. 2016Christakis. N. A. Apollo's Arrow. The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the way we live.littlebrownspark.com. First edition. 2020 Neumann E. The Great Mother. an Analysis of the Archetype. Translated by Ralf Manheim. Princeton University Press (1963). 1974.Feynman. R. The Meaning of It All. Thoughts of a citizen-Scientist. Basic Books 1998.Gilderdale. B. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. David Bateman. 1996.Brittain. H. Pilgrims & Pioneers. Third Edition. Hutchinson & Co. Ltd 1946-49. Lilla. M. The Shipwrecked Mind on political reaction. nyrb. 2016Rackham. O. Trees & Woodland in the British Landscape. The complete History of Britain's Trees, Woods & Hedgerows. Phoenix. !76.1990Crawford. R. ELIOT After the Waste Land. Random House. 2018Engdal. E. Saeter. K Catching Thunder. Translated by Diane Oatley. ZED.2018Fisher. M. Capitalist Realism. Is there no alternative? Zero Books. 2008 Knausgaard. K. Inadvertent. Yale University Press. The 2017 Wyndham -Campbell lecture.Gray. J. The New Leviathans. Thoughts After Liberalism. Penguin Random House. 2023Randerson. J. Weather as Medium. Toward a Meteorological Art. MIT Press. 2018Taylor. E. The Mainstream of the Modern World. Double Dt & Company. 1963Žižek.S. Disparities. Bloomsbury Academic. 2016Žižek.S. Surplus Enjoyment. Bloomsbury Academic. 2023Žižek.S. FREEDOM. A Disease without Cure. Bloomsbury Academic. 2023Perez. C.C. INVISIBLE WOMEN. Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for men. Chatto & Windis. London. Penguin Random House. 2019Cusk. R. AFTERMATH. Faber. 2012Wong. H. Being Chinese. A New Zealander's story. Bridget Williams Books. 2016 Budiansky. S. Journey to the Edge of Reason. The Life of Kurt Gödel. Norton and Company. 2021Camus. The Myth of Sisyphus. Copyright. 1955. Copyright renewed 1983 by Alfred A Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Second Vintage International Edition. November 2018Levison. M. Outside the Box. How globalization Changed from Moving Stuff to Spreading Ideas. Princetown University Press. 2020 Ripley. A. the Smartest Kids in the World. and how they got that way. Simon & Schuster. 2013 Lebovich. M. The NEW IMPERIALISTS. How five restless kids grew up to virtually rule your world. Financial Times. Prentice Hall. 2002 Garten. J. From SILK to SILICON. The story of globalization through ten extraordinary lives. Harper Collins. 2016. Tegmark. M. Our Mathematical Universe. My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality. Penguin Books. 2014Haig. D. From Darwin to Derrida. Selfish Genes, Social Selves and the Meanings of Life. MIT Press. 2020Crawford. K. ATLAS OF AI. Yale University Press.2021
Photographic Books
Walker, Ursitti & McGinniss Photo Manifesto: Contemporary Photography in the USSR" (c) 1991. Published by Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Inc. New York. ISBN 1-55670-199-3. Ed. Frizot. M.The New History of Photography. Könemann Publisher French Edition. 1994.English Edition. 1998Barthes. R. Camera Lucida. 1980. Vintage Classics. Penguin Random House 1981. <<Hall. K. with Haruhiko. Hidden Light. Early Canterbury West Coast Photography. Christchurch Art Gallery.Maura. A. Endeavour. Bad News Books. 2022
Articles and Essays
Baudrillard.1992.The-Illusion-Of-The-End.pdf 1994Zusters. J. Looking at you: desire and the female gaze, Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1970’s & Early 1980s. MokopōpakiEd. Burnett Ron. Essays Cine -tracts 1976 - 1983 Explorations in Film Theory Indiana University Press. 1991(Obituary. The Paris Review. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/04/05/in-memoriam-richard-howard/ )https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_42.htmlhttps://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape16/PQDD_0001/NQ27749.pdfhttps://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/world/privacy-battle-in-brains-technology-saudi-mamdani.htmlhttps://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/extinction-rebellion-roger-hallam-llandeilo-29571623https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2jvmrvydrohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M25_motorwayGoethe Institute. Games and Politics. An Interactive Exhibition. In cooperation with IZKM. Center for Arts and Media. 2018https://www.clubofrome.org/news/an-integrative-approach-towards-earth-humanity-reconciliation/Home - Club of Rome | The Fifth Element 2025FRIEZE CONTEMPORARY ART and CULTURE. No 254. October 2025Abbot. D. Books. Matters Arising: Jane Zusters and Mokopōpaki p 102 Art New Zealand. Number 196/ Summer 2025-26Lewis. R. Editorial. Philosophy Now. Issue 163 August/September. 2024.Citing John Stuart Mill on Civil or Social Liberty. "Waldorf " styled school closes. Scotland. Read in 2026 about actions of 2017 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr472zglq32o
Catalogues
Warhol: Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Tate Gallery, 17 February - 28 March 1971 Headlands. Thinking through New Zealand art, 1992. Softcover. Curted by Robert Leonard. Essays for the publication written by Bernice Murphy, Priscilla Pitts, Alexa M Johnston, Cliff Whiting, Rangihiroa Panaho, Roger Horrocks, Tony Green, Robert Leonard, Christina Barton and Francis Pound. [8ISBN 10: 1875632042 ISBN 13: 9781875632046Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1992Lynn. V. I, Here, Now. Adam Art Gallery. 2010 Hall. K. Hidden Light. Early Canterbury West Coast Photography. 2019https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/1236595?page=1&rtp=1&ros=1&asr=1&assoc=all&mb=cLangdon-Pole. Containing Multitudes. City Gallery. Wellington. Te Whare Toi. 2020
You tube
2024, 2025, 2026
Stephanie Beth excerpt at Gus Fisher. 10 May 2025, with IN JOY.https://youtu.be/KbfROy7Jxv0?si=WhEMH1y-1Cr8eFwFhttps://tvhkb.com/having it all,all,all gus fisher gallery - Search Images
BATTLE HISTORY. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLqVuE35q2ESchnider Bing Videos alice+kaplan+on+camus&gs_lcrp=EgRlZGdlKgcIABBFGMIDMgcIABBFGMIDMgcIARBFGMIDMgcIAhBFGMIDMgcIAxBFGMIDMgcIBBBFGMIDMgcIBRBFGMIDMgcIBhBFGMIDMgcIBxBFGMID0gEMNjA4NzYzNTJqMGoxqAIIsAIB&FORM=ANSPA1&PC=EDGEDSEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DdkVrQv6Nhttps://www.frieze.com/video/meet-me-new-york-kembra-pfahler-frieze-new-york-2024https://onscenesnow.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/exploring-the-depths-of-the-human-soul-a-multidimensional-analysis-of-andrei-tarkovskys-stalker-1979/https://youtu.be/G8vP5_z5u1w?si=bHxG4DjtGNhLfxDhttps://www.mahlerfoundation.org/mahler/contemporaries/oskar-kokoschka/Modern Wisdom interview. Tristan Harris by Sam Harris
https://youtu.be/NufB1LL_rCU?si=zHXN81Ymz42ChN2
Anthropic and the Whitehouse
https://www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/19/white-house-chief-of-staff-meets-with-anthropic-ceo-over-new-ai-tech/
Film Director. Francois Ozon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5qtPB7BB4k
iNTERVIEW WITH CONNOR LEAHY. https://miahhe.com/episode-23
Press
current reading and listening. April to JULY
A I and The topic of Alignment
New York Times 11/04/2026
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/open-ai-sam-altman-molotov-cocktail.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20260410&instance_id=173883&nl=breaking-news®i_id=110010967&segment_id=218035&user_id=5094fa5a0364824fc629bb0d7e9a37c7&login=smartlock&auth=login-smartlock
The Economist 16/04/2026
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2026/04/16/america-wakes-up-to-ais-dangerous-power?utm_content=ed-picks-image-link-1&etear=nl_weekly_1&utm_campaign=a.the-economist-this-week&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=4/16/2026&utm_id=2181431
Oxford Union Debate. 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByrhYvbwJoA&list=PLOAFgXcJkZ2wFf3mcJ0xIFpJQgEDI274J
Oxford Union Debate March 2026
I’m a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N_W6P_K434
Note the fourth speaker DR.Roman Yampolskiy
DR.Roman Yampolskiy, who coined the term ai safety 15 years ago
Oxford Debate. March 2026. Speaking to the affirmative. AGI Will be Humanity's Last Great Invention.
We are not talking here about AGI. We are talking about Super Intelligence, an AI system of intelligence beyond humans.
"I think it will be smarter than all of us combined"
We don't have an academic paper published on how to control a super intelligence machine.
People actually building it say, it will probably kill everyone.
" It's an unethical experiment on human beings and it is without consent"
'For whom does the bell toll? I ask you. For all of us.
This has the potential to being the last invention we ever made. We are gong to lose meaning. We are going to lose purpose. We are very likely to lose our lives'. Yampolskiy
vocabulary.
AGI
Artificial general intelligence
recursive self-improvement
hyper exponential process in tools
tools
agents
instrumental convergence
"By five years of looking into it is like looking into a fractal to all of the problems. We are just patching. This can all be skirted round."
" we need to understand the difference between tools and agents"
A super intelligence is not a tool, it's an agent. Yampolskiy
They can turn you off before you turn them off"
yampolskiy@ the diary of a CEO
These are the only five jobs that will remain in 2030
We don't have Super yet, but the gap is closing fast
AGI by 2027https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UclrVWafRAI&t=148s
22/06/2026
yampolskiyiai.tv articlehttps://iai.tv/articles/a-rogue-superintelligence-could-wait-decades-before-striking-auid-3604
diary of a CEO interview 2 months ago
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=yamplskiy%20tv&mid=F87E2A48447ED096FD0BF87E2A48447ED096FD0B&ajaxhist=0
Intermission
Anna Wintour 11 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxBuBJ4cO-4&t=145s
TURN THEM OFF. (general super intelligences)
be comfortable with a few narrow tools
ITS A WIN
says Yampolskiy
11/05/2026
Now listening to a few podcasts from ALL-IN, some Americans.
Also, now enjoying rare book interviews with authors.
e.g
Video interview with author Paula Fox. 1987
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Fox.%20Desperate%20Characters.%20Introduction%20by%20J.%20Franzen.%20Flamingo.%202003&mid=6536BEAB53F6B52478196536BEAB53F6B5247819&ajaxhist=0
2003
Also listening to an experienced coder. Connor Leahy. 2026. ( see an excerpt below) Leahy has researched AI.
He talks about growing intelligence- AI as agency and AI alignment problems, the question of regulations and government. Also, the exhaustion of keeping up with this. He recommends" Do not talk to AI" Psychopathy is a default, after all.
He is interviewed on the Peter McCormack Show. There is a lot of information here. March. 2026.
The second third of the conversation is about banning Super Intelligence. (AGI). He is now talking to politicians, for, this whole field is" 121, the Marlborough playbook." " The AI lobby is the largest in the world right now" " The referee should dive in " Leahy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf2KFVcKQdQ
Also. https://miahhe.com/episode-23
Youtube
Peter O 'Tool
Melvyn Bragg interviews Peter O'Tool. 1997
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkYpjomvq4k
Antarctic Ice
17/06/2026
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/antarctica/a-texas-size-chunk-of-winter-sea-ice-is-missing-from-antarctica-and-its-probably-not-coming-back?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pushly&utm_campaign=All%20Push%20Subscribers
Cinema
2025
Three films in the Derek Jarman Retrospective
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/events/jarman/
I was asked by my host, David Parrish " What is the Sydney drawcard this April? I replied "You", "and getting to see Tilda Swinton have her hair plaited at age eighteen, sixteen times." *
* Referencing Jarman's film The Last of England. (1987)
June 2026
Two films seen in the French Film Festival 2026 in Christchurch and Wellington
The Stranger. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stranger_(2025_film)
The Richest Women in the World. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Richest_Woman_in_the_World
History
Queen Elizabeth 1
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