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On Gathering
Gathering—the conscious bringing together of people for a reason—shapes the way we think, feel, and make sense of our world.
Priya Parker • The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters
how do we center creation and desire as integral to liberation?
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
Successful hoarders, though, tend to share one commonality: the information they distribute is collated, with rigor, and often tied to an organized movement for radical action. This methodology separates the “collection” from the endless stream of “content” we see today. It removes all distractions from the hacker class’s chief aim: the production ... See more
Bami Oke • Life in Fifteen Gigabytes - Journal #146
to save, to add to our collection, the action both etches it a little deeper into our hearts and creates a context around the artifact itself, whether text, song, image, or video. The context is not just for ourselves but for other people, the knit-together, shared context of culture at large. That’s what Benjamin described when he wrote, “The phen
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
A quiltmaking theory of storytelling: Save and collect things, especially those worn beyond repair. Honor the labor that came before. Cut and piece together. Sew. Iron. Stand back. Cut, sew again. Allow for pattern and juxtaposition to provide narrative structure. Allow feeling to inform logic, use a quilter’s math, sometimes intricate, sometimes i
... See moreCameron Russell • How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone: A Memoir
a place where the grand compulsion of archiving, from wherever it might arrive, can and will be attuned to — and, crucially, shared.