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JASS Table Read

8/5/2021

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An online Zoom Table Read by the New Works Playhouse of this new play that is becoming ever more urgent as the boundaries between us as human beings and digital entities get ever more blurred:

Four people (five, really, but TomTom ‘doesn’t count’) lock themselves away deep inside a mountain behind a double lock of their own design to conduct a social experiment and — more importantly — to remove themselves from the all-penetrating reach of The Corporation and to develop a code that will render that reach ineffective and therefore restore them to freedom of some kind in the network. When things go wrong, they have two options only: either all of them die together, or two of them sacrifice themselves for the others and for the code. To decide which two, they play Jass...

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Prim: Tiggy Bayley 
Melody
: Marcus J Foreman 
Xavier
: Petri Stefanescu 
Ewan
: Alex Granville 
TomTom
: Amy Leis 
The Voice of the Corporation: Tiers One, Two, and Four: 
Eleanor Healing


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Out Now: Atlas of Digital Architecture

13/11/2020

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Four years in the making, with some 760 pages, over 700 illustrations, and more than 300,000 words, written by Sebastian Michael who has taken the knowledge and expertise of 24 university professors and lecturers to produce this compendious book on everything concerning architecture and information technology.

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Published Today: Your Choice

29/10/2019

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Your Choice is a collaboration with German futurist and entrepreneur Christopher Peterka, whose wide-ranging experience and thoughts on the digital reality I've been developing and formulating during a series of face-to-face, online, and phone conversations, culminating in an intensive week-long workshop.

All our discussions took place in German, I took notes in English and wrote the English test, which was then translated back into German by Adrian Iselin, and the book now appears as a flip cover or 'switchbook', with both the English and German texts in one volume.

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EDEN Miniatures Series Complete

7/2/2019

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With Euphoria – the twelfth and last volume – the EDEN miniatures series is now complete.

The EDEN miniatures are twelve handsome compact paperbacks that contain the entirety of EDEN by FREI – a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever.

Starting out from the classic question, 'what would you say or do if you were to bump into your younger self in a delightful garden cafe in Istanbul?' EDEN goes off on deliberately wide tangents, encompassing self-contained short stories, autobiographical fiction, fictitious biography, poetic prose and philosophical meanderings, before ultimately arriving at some sort of conclusion. 

Tender, funny and at times maybe infuriating, EDEN by FREI paints a picture of what it is to be human today.
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EDEN Miniatures Nearing Completion

13/1/2019

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All twelve titles in the EDEN miniatures book series are now available to order or preorder as handsome paperbacks, with the last volume, Euphoria, due for release on the 7th February 2019. 

Kindle and epub editions are being made available simultaneously, and volume 4, The Ice King is the first one to also have been recorded as an audiobook.

Together, the series features all of EDEN by FREI – a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever, which started life as an online publishing project at EDENbyFREI.net, Sebastian writing under his metanym FREI for the first time.


What do you say or do if you find yourself in a delightful garden cafe in Istanbul, talking to your younger self? Starting out from an unusual encounter, EDEN goes off on deliberately wide tangents to examine what it is to be human today.
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The Ice King as Audiobook

4/11/2018

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The Ice King is the first in the EDEN miniatures series to become available as an audio book:

"Deep inside the glacier lives The Ice King, supple and smooth. His skin is aglow with the cold, and unbelievably soft. He should be milky white, but there’s an olive tint to his hue, and no sooner do I see him, than I want to touch him."

The Ice King is a poetic short story about life in a world of the senses and the expanded mind.


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EDEN miniatures Series Underway

10/7/2018

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EDEN miniatures are twelve handsome, compact paperbacks, each featuring a self-contained text from EDEN by FREI – a concept narrative in the here & now about the where, the wherefore and forever. 

The series got underway in early 2018, with one title being published each month. Once complete – expected by February 2019 – it will contain all of EDEN, with its many strands and stories logically grouped and structured. 

EDEN started life in blog format as an experiment in publishing online, and the EDEN miniatures series is mostly intended for book lovers who like to own, collect or give their favourite pieces of writing as physical print, or to give them as presents. But for those who prefer the convenience of tablet reading, they're also at the same time being made available as ebooks in the ePub and Kindle formats.

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Oration on the Dignity of Man – New Paperback Edition

13/3/2018

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The full text of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man is now available in paperback in the version as edited and read by Sebastian Michael to a live audience at TU (Technical University) Vienna, complete with a short introduction.

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Oration on the Dignity of Man

8/1/2018

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I was invited to read Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Oration on the Dignity of Man in its entirety to a live audience at the Kuppelsaal of the TU (Technical University) Wien on 7th December 2017. 

This prompted me to not only study and work with Pico's magnificent work, but also to then re-record it and create a video with just the text scrolling through so that anyone interested can listen to and read it at the same time. 

This is now available on YouTube.
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To the Beautiful Things in Life

7/1/2018

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The New Year's video: a short excerpt from the Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola.
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