Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro Parrachia
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
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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
you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette
(not a thread)
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
What humanitarian aid might look like in 30 years time
thenewhumanitarian.org
“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
Janelle Monáe • The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
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.