Idleism

Not to be confused with “idealism.” Not everything needs to be productive. Life happens in the idle margins, margins that are shrinking by the day.

David Pennington

Does the act of sitting in a park, patiently looking through a pair of binoculars and reading through field guides really deserve to be described with the same adjective usually reserved for angsty hardcore punk music, crusty anarchos and angry outcasts with ripped leather jackets?

If one considers punk as anything defiantly anti-capitalist,... See more

Alexi Gunner • idle gaze 067: slowpunk

“Slowpunk”

"One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."

- Nikola Tesla

Trudeau Resignation, Live TV Merger, and Reminiscing Y2K

The Art of Hibernation - The Clearing by Katherine May

Katherine May katherinemay.substack.com

Five Ways to adjust your life to better survive these winter months.

I Talked to the Cassandra of the Internet Age

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Michael Goldhaber is the internet prophet you’ve never heard of. Here’s a short list of things he saw coming: the complete dominance of the internet, increased shamelessness in politics, terrorists co-opting social media, the rise of reality television, personal websites, oversharing, personal essay, fandoms and online influencer culture — along with the near destruction of our ability to focus.

The more I heal, the less ambitious I become.

I think that “doing nothing”—in the sense of refusing productivity and stopping to listen—entails an active process of listening that seeks out the effects of racial, environmental, and economic injustice and brings about real change.

Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.

Dogs have nowhere to be, but they

always seem to be down to go

just about anywhere.