on agency & what it gives us
guerrilla gardening is the Trojan horse into anarchist ideals
Damien Gayle • ‘I Call It Botanarchy’: The Hackney Guerrilla Gardener Bringing Power to the People
Positive Friction encourages an alternative design practice in order to restore human agency within online spaces
DVTK • Positive Friction
When people can feel something but cannot yet name it, it means the market is about to change. That’s what latent demand looks like, in both markets and culture. There is a mounting energy waiting to move, and we sense that energy before we even have the words for it.
And right now there is a growing latent demand for sovereignty.
Jasmine Bina • Repricing the Human Experience
there is something quite rebellious and empowering about using your own mind to create other realities.
Rodrigo Turra from The Nexialist • 🪈✨The Nexialist #0176
Meanwhile, the majority of “normals” (to borrow a term from the sci-fi film Gattaca) are expected to take orders, complete tasks, stand in line, clock in and out . . . punctually, obediently, subserviently. No dancing in the halls, and certainly no daydreaming about a world put together differently.
Ruha Benjamin • Imagination: A Manifesto (A Norton Short)
hope is by no means a universal feeling. One recent study found about one-third of young adults describe themselves as encouraged about the future, but 60 percent are “very worried.”
Maddy Lauria • Hope is not passive: How activism keeps optimism alive
Adaptation work builds agency. It counters the attitude of ‘There’s nothing I can do’/‘I’m too small to make a difference.’ This is because, unlike decarbonisation work, it is by definition focused, local, concrete and tangible. One then reaches the point of people being able to say to themselves something like this: ‘Our climate concern isn’t just
... See moreRupert Read • Welcome to the Chaoscene
people seem to be surprisingly bad at using their freedom to feel good, and especially at using it to feel deeply good.
Sarah Perry • Deep Laziness
In ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It... See more