![]() Roy: Once I started reading it, I knew I had to get my own copy. Gino: What were your first impressions of the book? The next day at work I asked my coworker Steve McCann if he knew anything about fractal geometry, and he said, “I have a book for you.” He loaned me James Gleick’s Chaos. The hour-long show featured tons of other scientists and mathematicians, only a few of whom I had heard of at the time. It was called Fractals: The Colors of Infinity and was hosted by Arthur C. One Sunday afternoon, I caught a PBS special on fractal geometry. Roy: I didn't find Chaos until the fall of 1997, ten years after its original publication. Gino: Do you remember how you discovered Chaos ? Ro圜 is where he thinks aloud about all of the above. ![]() It’s called Floating Signifiers and is under contract with Repeater Books. He is working on two books: One is a media-archaeological dig called The Medium Picture, and the other is about hip-hop and cyberpunk. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Communication at The University of Illinois at Chicago and a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Loyola University Chicago, as well as a doctoral candidate in Communication Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. ![]() I interview people about books that change their lives, inspire them, and/or make them think differently.Ībout the interviewee: Roy Christopher marshals the middle between Mathers and McLuhan. ![]() Bookshelf Beats is a website run by Gino Sorcinelli. ![]()
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