Kirsten
@rootyarn
Following threads of not knowing and seeing what structures they form. Delighting in the pulse of life and the moment. Trusting in living systems, the cosmos and the trip that is life.
Kirsten
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Leviathan is a feature-length documentary that invites you to journey into… | Alexander Beiner | 39 comments
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Film on effects of social media on culture etc
On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.
asletaiwan.orgCalmly Writer: The Ultimate Distraction-Free Writing App
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Polycene Design Manual - Center for Complexity at RISD
polycene.design
Shared as part of 10×100 meeting - looks like a great resource to dig into
As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently... See more
Understanding Living Systems
Hmm this really makes me think of how artists bring so much more to the art which an algorithm cannot anticipate. Artists with their feeling bodies are tapped into the pulse of time and societal shifts and their own human experience. Art often therfore alerts to collective or social phenomena and are therefor not just pretty pictures or entertainment. Like the last paragraph of this article in that regard. Creativity and art are there to push back against all of this. Getting back to creating outside the algorithm seems related to being human outside the algorithm which is linked to so many things. Thin extension to media and things Douglas Rushkoff talks about. Narratives shape.
Re how meaning changed over time, and meaningness and choicelessness
Power is a tricky one, many definitions, but here is a little thought. The way we often seem to speak about power is that those who reign over entire countries with threats and violence have more power than we have.
And I have been questioning for a while the consequences of repeating these types of stories to ourselves.
I think that the the person
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