colombene @colombene@social.coop

...You have to let the material tell you what to do and sink into that world. That will tell you ALL the things to do. - David Lynch

It’s a dangerous thing not to have enough knowledge of what’s gone before. But it’s a dangerous thing to have too much knowledge of what other people have done. Pretty soon you can’t do anything because they say “that’s already been done”. And you say, “I can’t think of anything new I might as well just stop because everything I do I know where I got it and I know who did it.” And you can’t work, you can’t think like that.

got your zoom mask? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOcT3sK8Eg

Support Radix Media, a worker-owned union print shop in their graphics publishing kickstarter, ends in 3 days. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1407165453/radix-media-graphic-narrative-collection

The Prodigal Techbro: The tech executive turned data justice warrior is celebrated as a truth-telling hero, but there’s something a bit too smooth about this narrative arc. https://conversationalist.org/2020/03/05/the-prodigal-techbro/

'Remember My Forgotten Man' from Goldiggers of 1933 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzNcT7wfHj4

Meow Wolf workers (immersive/interactive experience shop) are organizing. Their website has info on how organizing can work for interdisciplinary creative workers https://www.unionformeowwolf.com/ #SolidarityForTheMultiverse

I wrote about "Designing for Longevity vs. Continuous Consumption" - lemme know what you think. https://beneluxe.net/2020/10/12/designing-for-longevity/

still waiting for the urban dictionary to add a thesaurus

Interesting talks from Architecture Lobby, Another Possible Imaginary and more - "Organizing as Architectural Labor" https://6degrees.la/materials-applications

Solidarity Club is reading Entreprecariat by Silvio Lorusso. If you wanna too, join us Wed. 9/30 8p PT. https://solidarityclub.org/now-reading/

social media gets the goods

(subjective takeaways) Frictionless design and automation will inherently be devoid of ethics, but also pleasure. It is empty for the privileged and horrifying for the marginalized. Pleasure gets attacked on both sides. It is too inefficient for capitalists but gets co-opted by them for profit. That is then cancelled by critics.

Ethics resides in moments of friction - Miriam Rasch http://www.miriamrasch.nl/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SFq-vS7SR8Kabn-yIgJkMI6f_3B9h0incQTjm_8Eu9Y/edit

Flamethrowers and Fire Extinguishers – a review of “The Social Dilemma” https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2020/09/17/flamethrowers-and-fire-extinguishers-a-review-of-the-social-dilemma/

‘The Pleasure of Friction’ webinar Sept. 24 with Miriam Rasch "If we want to change something in our dealings with technology, it will help if the alternatives have something pleasurable to offer. What can we learn from writers and philosophers from the past and present about maintaining a positive outlook on friction?" https://futurebased.org/topics/sixty-minutes-back-to-the-future-the-pleasure-of-friction/