Kasturi Kiri
@shoesatthe_door
Kasturi Kiri
“The concept of the sacred and the archival is being lost because of the novel environment of the internet.”
-Eric Weinstein
The inundation of information on the internet means meaningful ideas get lost.
Links are the “checkpoints” of your thinking process.
Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?
Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.
Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing... See more
Remember that moment when you had a trail of thoughts and someone asked you a question? That train is good as gone, right?
Links allow you to store this “train” and continue it indefinitely later.
Also, the big benefit of these links is that your working memory becomes free to focus on developing... See more
leananki.com • Zettelkasten Method: How to Take Smart Notes
archival as lifestyle and organisation
Creating trains of thought / links allow you to focus on developing the thought trail
Buy memberships online
uk.patronbase.comInstead of 'telescoping', how about 'kaleidoscope-ing' here, i.e. "To move in shifting (and often attractive or colourful) patterns." - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kaleidoscope
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that... See more
Adding shapes, spotting connections, meanings shifting as patterning and re-patterning continues through shapes being organised and connected in different ways. Like that... See more
Kaleidoscoping vs telescoping | Are.na
Researchers & archivists build up a network of every-shifting ideas and meanings.
This process of exploring shifting patterns feels like looking through a kaleidoscope.
There’s a game I sometimes play at the museum: ‘what kind of painting am I today?’ Never, despite my best attempts, am I an angelic Botticelli. When hungover and weary, perhaps a Toulouse-Lautrec. When swaddled in loneliness, absolutely an Edward Hopper.
Michael Rance • 'You Can Live the Wrong Life'
wrong lives and mental healing
Roleplaying is a way to understand how you might truly feel
In 1817, the poet John Keats wrote a letter to his brothers to share this exciting realization. “At once it struck me,” Keats wrote, “what quality went to form a Man of Achievement … Negative Capability.” Keats explains that “Negative Capability” is “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching... See more
the ability to stick things out and weather storms of uncertainty is what makes a man of achievement
Charleston — Cedric Morris and Arthur Lett-Haines: a radical art school
charleston.org.uk
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.