optimism
Still I hope
Dear friends,
It’s been a wild few weeks. I can’t stop noticing the growing use of media for
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artificial intelligence
Epistemic convergence
Dear friends,
We face a time, collectively, where language is important. Where critical information literacy is fundamental to survival. Where
poetry
At the end of empathy
meanings drift,
tides shift,
little remains, blood and pain.
alone in company.
quashed, negated, abolished, rescinded,
meaning lost, d r
accumulation
Renting reality
Dear friends,
As I walked through the city today I noticed some interesting terraforming occurring. What I saw was groups
poetry
Leviathan‘s ember
In their beginning, they feared the dark,
so they made a law of fire.
Each breath they gave it turned
academic capitalism
Why universities should choose community over capital
Dear friends,
We’ve charted knowledge validation before. Or, I suppose, flitted around the edges of the supposed “validatory” power
technology
From dialup dreams to digital enclosures
Dear friends,
Bear with me, I swear this is cultural studies.
I've been thinking about how internet topologies
capitalism
Parasites in the care economy
Dear friends,
I've been reflecting on some often theorised yet under-discussed elements of capitalism, which I believe warrant
hegemony
No kings, same kingdom
Dear friends,
Recently, we saw the largest protest movement in American history. We also saw this swept away by the
social media
Social media ownership and the battle for attention
Dear friends,
As usual, I've spent a bit of time thinking about our current, largely accelerationist, political milieu
philosophy of science
Capitalist canon
Dear friends,
Did you know that the pain experienced by ocean life suffocated during mass farming for human consumption has
technology
‘Lean in hard’ is anti-scientific, anti-worker, and bad for our future
Dear friends,
This morning’s headlines included an article titled: “Australia has ‘no alternative’ but to embrace AI and seek
colonialism
The enemy of my enemy is my enemy?
Dear friends,
I have been thinking a lot about the ABC’s federal election coverage. Partly, concerned about how they
media
Tactics, modalities, mechanisms
Dear friends,
Long time no correspondence. I hope you are well.
Broadly speaking we tend to categorise political moments into
politics
Identity, giving a shit and the upcoming federal election
Dear friends,
Today I have some whinges about poverty, ‘Australian’ culture, and some of the deeper socioeconomic possibilities we face
technology
At the nexus of knowledge appropriation and AI
Dear friends,
Today I’d like to share some thoughts around a nexus point between an ongoing colonial capitalist modality
capitalism
You look nice today (or, the ‘values’ of capitalism)
Dear friends,
Last week I shaved my head. Not a foreign experience, but foreign enough that I’m noticing feeling
colonialism
Broken sleep, broken worlds
Dear friends,
You may have observed that I’ve been pondering the nature of our broken worlds, in particular how