diff --git a/content/reflection/endtimes.md b/content/reflection/endtimes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..10f09a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reflection/endtimes.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ ++++ +title = "The Art of Living in the End Times" +has_shards = ["existentialism.md", "crisis.md", "latentimage.md", "longextinction.md", "theimaginary.md", "senseofimagination.md", "library.md", "processnotplace.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md", "custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md"] +glassblowers = ["olgagoriunova.md"] ++++ + +How not to become ![existentially](shard:existentialism.md) paralysed when faced with catastrophic ![crises](shard:crisis.md) of such a scale as climate catastrophe and mass extinction intertwined as they are with a system of such flexibility and domination as capitalism? Thinking about such future 25 years down the line, we are stuck in the ![gap](shard:latentimage.md). + +How to live and act in the ![long extinction](shard:longextinction.md) is to be able to carve the space for doing work in and on the ![imaginary](shard:theimaginary.md). The imaginary of the world that is not linear, deterministic and unavoidable. The role of ![imagination](shard:senseofimagination.md) here /to add/. Multiple threads of possibility, some realised in the past - some ongoing, some private - some public, some local and atomistic - some large-scale. + +How to do such work? Where are the sites of such work? This is supported by the project of the ![library](shard:library.md), which is ![a process, not a place](shard:processnotplace.md), supported with the + +![](shard:toolsinrelationalpractices.md) in ![custodianship](shard:custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md). diff --git a/content/reflection/shardslist.md b/content/reflection/shardslist.md index d65e889..7613e7f 100644 --- a/content/reflection/shardslist.md +++ b/content/reflection/shardslist.md @@ -1,10 +1,27 @@ +++ title = "List of shards" -has_shards = ["custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", "effectivealtruism.md", -"latentimage.md", "longextinction.md", "library.md", "theimaginary.md", "existentialism.md", "maintenance.md", -"neoliberallibrary.md", "processnotplace.md", "protocols.md", -"senseofimagination.md", "toolsinrelationalpractices.md", -"ordermaintenance.md", "technologicaldeterminism.md", "migrationregime.md", "crisis.md"] +has_shards = [ +"backpull.md", +"crisis.md", +"custodianshipinrelationalpractices.md", +"effectivealtruism.md", +"existentialism.md", +"interpretivelabor.md", +"latentimage.md", +"library.md", +"longextinction.md", +"maintenance.md", +"migrationregime.md", +"neoliberallibrary.md", +"ordermaintenance.md", +"processnotplace.md", +"protocols.md", +"pure.md", +"senseofimagination.md", +"theimaginary.md", +"technologicaldeterminism.md", +"toolsinrelationalpractices.md" +] +++ List of shards. Will be deleted... diff --git a/content/shard/interpretivelabor.md b/content/shard/interpretivelabor.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c529ef --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/interpretivelabor.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ ++++ +title = "Interpretive labor" +glassblowers = ["cristobalsciutto.md"] ++++ + +The promise of search: no need to navigate explicit ontologies. Google will +crawl the internet for you. Simply type what you desire and the output will +appear! Instantaneous luxury knowledge. + +However, the best answers are found by prefixing a query with "reddit". These +small communities, subreddits, are specialists in their domain. They are the +Encyclopedians of the internet, pulling together the relevant information into +threads. Google is dead! + +This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship. +A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish "grassroots way-finding" in +relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar's threshold. + +https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying +https://distill.pub/2017/research-debt/ diff --git a/content/shard/latentimage.md b/content/shard/latentimage.md index 52e70b8..770aa87 100644 --- a/content/shard/latentimage.md +++ b/content/shard/latentimage.md @@ -7,7 +7,3 @@ The gap between the tools (the excavator) and the crises (the Evergreen) is an imaginary. The construction of an imaginary, a re-writing of history, allows one to step into the future. The imaginary is latent inside a library. A library is not a place. It is simply curated information. - -This Library of Babel can be deciphered, but only through local custodianship. -A custodian, albeit self-interested, can establish "grassroots way-finding" in -relationship with readers. They act below Dunbar's threshold. diff --git a/content/shard/pure.md b/content/shard/pure.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..73c79a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/shard/pure.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ ++++ +title = "Pure" +glassblowers = ["marcellmars.md"] ++++ + +Puritanism, I hate it more than anything else. + +Pure? Ok. Go fuck yourself.