I could put a series of micro blog posts here.. most links to archive and book stuff will be http links.
Perhaps the Gemini challenge is to keep to words self-contained. describe and reference.
day one-
Just watched the Spanish film Nowhere; childbirth in a floating upturned container.
Have just finished reading Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis. It's an interesing thesis, and a lot of it rings true
maybe he has some of the terms slightly off, he's seen something though. Must research the technical meanings of rent vs. profit
rent predates capitalism, and has always persisted through it. It can be disguised as profit, "rent" has a moral stigma, even to
to those who collect it. Unpack this.
Novara media interviews interesting people. John Gray say s history is cyclical, and we are not always progressing to some greater noble good.
Listing to him now he seems convincing. Everyone has thought they have lived in the end times for the last 2000 years, likely more.
It's unlikely that this is the end times, but perhaps there's no reason we might not just run backwards for a bit.
Bertand Russell praises Idleness.
Neubauten plays on the Autobahn.
another day-
Less than a year later. Something I wrote in a physical notebook 1 month ago:
Wanting to write something, thinking of a game, but not one to consume, not
like a movie or a short story or a novel or a comic or a poem; well, maybe
a bit liek these things. One that is produced as it is consumed . Perhaps
a Borgesian, Ballardian, Burroughsian, Baudrillardian, Baudelairian,
literary game ..... now I am just listing names in 'B'. What about
Kafka, or Lautreamont? What about Woolf, or Plath, Parker,
or Austen? Shelley?
I guess the point is I should write something.