Pedro Parrachia
Radical friends reject the fantasy of exemplary self-sovereign autonomous individuals optimized for efficiency and productivity. They know that this is a poisonous projection by materially advantaged individuals who seek to leverage their competitive edge within the austerity conditions they co-created.
from Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts - Furtherfield by Ruth Catlow
“Ain’t just about prospering, it’s about progressing, connecting, tappin’ into something larger than yourself, so you can really see. Can’t build nothing if you can’t feel nothing. Community comes from feeling and feeling comes hand in hand with creation. What y’all out here creating now?” — Janelle Monáe & Sheree Renée Thomas
from The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer by Janelle Monáe
Eclipsepunk aims to explore the limits of solarpunk narratives by continuously testing them in creative scenarios. This includes collaborative storytelling and worldbuilding tools like Design Fiction, indie ttRPGs, and other forms of future studies such as art projects or installations with interactive components for exploring potential futures th
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- Both True: “The customer is always right” and “The audience doesn’t know what they want”
“It became clearer and clearer that disasters are a problem for everyone , and when a disaster doesn’t get enough help that’s bad for everyone , not just the people immediately affected.”
from What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time by Malka Older
- ‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.
from I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore by Libby Marrs
In the world building and worlding eras, when the inhabitants of a world misbehaved and tried to smuggle their own narratives into the worldthe creators have been policing them to reestablish order. In the World Weaving era, rather than working with scripted storylines we should create lore-pills and origin myths that can be sewn together and evolv
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