living together, somehow

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That summer feeling: Derna in autumn, Melbourne in spring
trying to conceive of our community of fate from the distance of a first world spectator of a third world devastation
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Dopamine Fantasies of our Land of Cockaigne
unboxing the tragic paradox of consumption by glancing at the production of ‘dopamine stock’, scarcity – and the collective fantasy at the heart of…
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August 2023
In conversation with Pete Chambers, August 2023
Listen now (67 mins) | Imperfect world
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Tells us about your piles, stacks of books, sets of thoughts, sub- and suprastack
reflections 'beyond stacking', on where my head and heart's at with this work, given the 2023 media ecology
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Unboxing the amateur unboxer
opening the boxes of consumption we live in, noticing the plague of objects that's burying us
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July 2023
on returning... ....to 2023
some no doubt glib and broad brushstrokes impressions on travelling to, and coming back to, the 2020s
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June 2023
'summery' dismissal (and a summary of some summer reading, for Australian winter too)
given it's going to be a vacant month around here...
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From the cosmic plenitude of entropy and negentropy to just-in-time.... disintegration?
a reflection on time and technics as the fundamental basis of our civilisation, from Mumford's Technics and Civilisation ('The Monastery and the Clock')
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capitalism's happiness? (psycho-premises, Qu'est-ce que c'est?)
exploring hedonism and selfishness in our seeming desire for the Great Rube
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May 2023
What did we catch during the pandemic, and how are we to catch what we've caught?
lived experiences of polycrisis, seen via our phones as holding power, compelling presence, controlling absence
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Living together, somehow
*trying* to distill some key points from the past six months, part two
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Living Together, Somehow (the past six months)
distilling some key points from the past six months, part one of two
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