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Finding a way to create joy and collective participation in new modes of living is a political responsibility, and it offers new possibilities for our lives.

Mold • Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food

In architecture, fiction will replace function. (“Form follows fiction.”)

— Bernard Tschumi, “Manifestos,” 1978

Peter L’Official • Black Builders

Both in urban and psychological space, Schulman witnessed “the replacement of complex realities with simplistic ones,” a process leading to a kind of social monoculture.

Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

To the ‘right’ he shows the consequences of a love of money and markets, of government by corporation, of an economic growth unmoored from place, which eats through nature and culture and leaves ruins. To the ‘left’ he shows the consequences of a rootless individualism, of rights without rites, of the rejection of family and tradition, of the champ

Wendell Berry • The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know — R / D

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The Worlds I See

Benjamin Bratton • The Five Stages Of AI Grief | NOEMA

Glimpses of a future

Jason Hickel • Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

As the columnist Aditya Chakrabortty puts it, ‘One of the great casualties of austerity is likely to be imagination, the sense that alternatives to this broken regime not only exist, but can be built by us.’

Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want

A persuasive framework for the digital that has ontological implications is being developed by Benjamin Bratton in San Diego. Bratton’s (2014) concern with the geopolitics of planetary-scale computation leads him to posit the existence of an “accidental megastructure,” the Stack.