Pedro Parrachia
@parrachia
Tending to the Gardens
of digital-native
regeneration
floristic.xyzPedro Parrachia
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
The End of a World and its Pedagogies | By: Patricia Reed | Making & Breaking
Patricia Reedmakingandbreaking.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
This is what I would like to do. I would like to see if, in the belly of the dying internet, it’s possible to create something that is not like the internet. I want to see if I can poke at the outlines of whatever is coming next.
Sam Kriss • The internet is already over
Web 3.0 and well-being
Nature x Humanity
youtu.be
you can have a huge fire going but you won't be able to light up a cigarette
(not a thread)
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.