Kasturi Kiri
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Kasturi Kiri
In Ursula K. Le Guin’s Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction (1986), Le Guin posits the first human tool as the basket, not the spear, thereby recasting the first protagonist as a gatherer, not a hunter. Not only did this address the deeply gendered roles of these two parts, it also changed the singular hero to the plural collective, from he to we. “Before... See more
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
‘Gathering’ is a useful and powerful tool.
It generates community.
the cost of increased accessibility is more slop??
Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too.
Mindy Seu • On Gathering
Making connections between ideas (or curation) is a valid and robust form of creativity
Once the search is in progress, something will be found . It’s a strategy for finishing, a strategy for trusting in my ability to complete a work.
Celine Nguyen • Oblique Strategies for Starting a New Project
archival as lifestyle and organisation
In ‘Zettelkasten’ note-taking, each note/idea captured is organised in a non-hierarchical way.
This way, we are able to retain the purity/full potential of an idea, rather than file it under a large category which pre-determines and limits its usefulness
Computer Science in the 1960s to 80s spent a lot of effort making languages which were as powerful as possible. Nowadays we have to appreciate the reasons for picking not the most powerful solution but the least powerful. The reason for this is that the less powerful the language, the more you can do with the data stored in that language . If you w... See more
leananki.com • Zettelkasten Method: How to Take Smart Notes
archival as lifestyle and organisation
The simpler the idea, the more potential it has
House Tour 24-25
uk.patronbase.com‘...she takes a stiff-bristled brush and loads it with a dark greenish-brown, the colour of first shade, and with sweeping movements, she covers the image with darkness, obliterating the lovers, sealing them inside a tomb of paint...it is all gone, hidden for ever, the only sign the scene was ever there the slight undulations in the paint’s surface... See more
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
From Maggie O’ Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait, describing Lucrezia painting over her paintings