brave diary: The Seductive Power of Books: Why They Have Become the Coolest Object by Athena Mothership (Audio)

Walk into any London rare bookshop and you'll find the same canon: an Araki, a Comme des Garçons, an old i-D. Somewhere in the last few years, the book became the coolest object in fashion and art. Even Dua Lipa opened a library.

As the founder of Library Mothership, artist Athena Mothership rides this new wave, but also keeps asking: how did we get here? A new piece for brave Projects on how books stopped being read and started being posted, how we aestheticise the thing once its function is hollowed out, and why cultivating a taste in books might be a small act of personal imperialism.

This brave diary is read aloud by a synthetic voice. Every word is the person's own.