Weeknotes W26 2022
*planted: 03/07/2022last tended: 03/07/2022
1. Sunday
- Started skim reading (ironically?) How To Take Smart Notes.
- I've encountered most of the ideas before via the numerous articles and posts written about it.
- I need to spend more time turning literature notes / quotes from books in to my own understanding.
- Social media is important because everything is social.
- Joined the Bonfire playground but haven't got time to do much on there at the mo. But I really love the mission they have around social media so following with great interest.
- Reading a bit on Antonio Gramsci apropos site of struggle.
- Patrice Lumumba
- There is no such thing as an ungoverned space.
2. Monday
3. Tuesday
- Watching: Don't Look Up
- I like Iain M. Banks and I'm currently re-reading Look to Windward because in Red Plenty it was described it as an example of a 20th century Marxian idyll. It's good and all but I'm reading the Culture now as kind of all premised on Prometheanism / fully automated luxury communism. I'm gonna reread A Wizard of Earthsea (last read as a young teen!) by Ursula K. Le Guin next as in Half-Earth Socialism they describe that as Jennerite ecological scepticism and that is more my bag lately.
- I feel happy discovering more and more as I get older that sci-fi books I took off my Mum's bookshelf as a kid are in fact often allegorical for some kind of radical politics that I had no idea of at the time.
- Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
4. Friday
5. Saturday
- Read: For a Red Zoopolis
- Very good. On eco-socialism. I like the description of a what abundance could actually mean.
- Also introduced me to the idea of a Zoopolis…
- I have oscillatory waves of activity on my garden.
- Sometimes I have blocks of focus on the mechanics of how the garden works.
- All the PKM, zettelkasten, smart notes, kind of stuff.
- Then periods of time spent on the actual content.
- Reading, taking notes, writing about politics, technology, the environment, etc.
- Occasionally there is a moment of harmony between the waves where the two almost intersect.
- e.g. critical theory of social media, how digital gardens, the Agora, fit in to that, etc.
- Sometimes I have blocks of focus on the mechanics of how the garden works.
- Chat with Flancian
- FlanciaCam
- Flancian tour of America
- Portland
- homelessness
- 'illegal' encampment
- 30,000 in San Francisco
- Housing First
- is homelessness a complicated or complex system
- if there are X people without homes, can we just give X homes to solve the problem?
- c.f. universal basic income
- perhaps a simplistic approach, yet in present society money gives agency
- walking and meditation
- otter.ai
- what about libre alternatives?
- otter.ai
- counterantidisintermediation
- Listened: Matt Huber, "Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet"
- More eco-socialism.
- I listened while doing household chores so have less notes. But it's a good podcast.
- Marxist approach - emphasis on class struggle, movement building, trade unionism.
6. Elsewhere
6.1. In my garden
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