Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro 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.
Ruth Catlow • Radical Friends - Decentralised Autonomous Organisations and the Arts - Furtherfield
‘lore’—it’s a model of knowledge that is able to interface with both reality and fiction.
Libby Marrs • I Would Very Much Like To Be Excluded From This Lore
Solarpunk and
There was a period when new tech improved the quality of life, but that time has now ended. In the last decade, we’ve seen new tech harming the people who use it the most—hence most so-called innovations are now anti-progress by any honest definition.
Politics and
It is through use that resilience is situated in context, dependent on social dynamics, and adapting (or not) to meet the challenges of both external threats and internal vulnerabilities in relation to the purpose of the technology and community in question.
Kelsie Nabben • Decentralised Technologies as “Self infrastructuring”
I love speculative fiction like Octavia Butler and Ursula Le Guin 's, which creates alternative versions of reality based on enormous documentary research and invents the foundations of another present, improbable and credible. I'm also constantly on the lookout for situations where reality is surreal, a kind of "magical realism". As a writer of... See more
Anthony Van Den Bossche • «Writing as pollinating», a conversation with Alice Bucknell
In practice, it is not possible for the technical layer to be resilient while the social layer is not, as the social and technical dynamics of infrastructure are co-constitutive.