Thomas

So: stop calling yourself and your coworkers “ICs”. You are a designer, an engineer, a producer. Your contribution deserves more than a moniker that is made to dehumanize you, purpose-built to make you replaceable. Do not help this dehumanizing system to dehumanize you by normalizing this kind of language!

Implicit in the promise of outsourcing and automation and time-saving devices is a freedom to be something other than what we ought to be. The liberation we are offered is a liberation from the very care-driven involvement in the world and in our communities that would render our lives meaningful and satisfying. In other words, the promise of... See more

in the deep flow of my art, I’ve always felt extremely detached/removed from “the world,” like I was existing on a different dimension than the here-and-now. I made art primarily for me. that’s still true. but. what if I deliberately committed (at least part of the time) to being IN the world, OF the world — in service FOR the world? that is a very... See more

Equanimity, in the sense that I describe it, is not predicated upon changing anything. It lacks prescriptive value. It ‘disarms’ nothing, converts nothing, and does not necessarily end in compassion and kindness. Its basic function is simply taking up views in relation to anything and everything . It works additively, supplementally, not... See more