Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
it does involve a kind of close reading, a careful attention to the forms that organize texts, bodies, and institutions.
Caroline Levine • Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
to quote adrienne maree brown, the author of Emergent Strategy, who contrasts ‘mile wide, inch deep movements with inch wide, mile deep movements that schism the existing paradigm.’
Jon Alexander • Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
people have a general tendency to stick with their current situation.
Richard H. Thaler • Nudge: The Final Edition
As in so much of this book, I am interested in generativity;
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Explicitly drawing on black traditions of family, he imagined a partnership, extended kin networks, friendships, and gay social worlds as constituting something more vital.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Toby Shorin • Prototyping Social Forms of Care
