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  • 09:5709:57, 28 December 2023 diff hist +12,960 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/scratching the surfaceCreated page with " <pre>why would anyone want to read about graphic design? ... designers are usually too busy to spend time reading about their craft.</pre> Even Aido knows we're all veeery busy. In this situation I am reading about graphic design in the early 21st century to understand where some of my own beliefs and those of my contemporaries came from. This book is a collection of essays about design written by a British man in the period of 1995–2013. What were our views ten or t..." current
  • 09:5709:57, 28 December 2023 diff hist +2,405 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/the world the flesh and the DevilCreated page with " ===Introduction by McKenzie Wark=== Bernal was what we would now call an accelerationist. He was an Irish landowner and had a "precocious identification with the cause of Sinn Fein" <pre>Bernal broached the question of what it meant to be a citizen of science and a citizen as a scientist.</pre> <pre>for Bernal, utopian thought ought to replace religion as a way of feeling out the relation of present to future. In place of heaven or apocalypse, he offered a kind of wr..." current
  • 09:5609:56, 28 December 2023 diff hist +4,816 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/digitallethargyCreated page with "In the 1850s manual labour began to be replaced by immaterial or communicative work. We still use our hands though. <pre>these changes led Western society to increasingly idealise a subject who is less a follower of norms or fixed rules than one who takes responsibility and initiative to make their own rules.</pre> Alain Ehrenberg, La fatigue d'etre soi. Autonomy is the root of burnout and depression. The metaphor of the dam in Sleep Dealers as control of resources,..." current
  • 09:5509:55, 28 December 2023 diff hist +258 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Cruel OptimismCreated page with " ===Introduction=== <pre>conceiving of a contemporary moment from within that moment. One of this books central claims is that the present is perceived, first, affectively: the present is what makes itself present to us before it becomes anything else</pre>" current
  • 09:5409:54, 28 December 2023 diff hist +3,025 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/Lecture about biological underpinnings of religiosityCreated page with " https://youtu.be/4WwAQqWUkpI?si=UmaN4SONkCNvzJm7 Metamagical thinking more common with schizotypal people, the people who were most likely the shamans for most of human history. <pre>We impose this totally arbitrary useless destructive structure, at a time when everything else feels like you're walking on quicksand. We all do this as some sort of adaptation to periods of anxiety</pre> <pre>very mathematical qualities to it and it's never quite right and you've gotta..." current
  • 09:5409:54, 28 December 2023 diff hist +1,657 N User:Ssstephen/Reading/thereisnoidentityorselfCreated page with " https://www.meer.com/en/66048-there-is-no-identity-or-self <pre>I prefer the term “mattering” to meaning for its ability to encompass and enfold, to embrace meaning and caring, mind and heart, feelings and ideas, for they are not separate nor are they related in a linear “cause and effect” sequence. Instead they are inextricably intertwined, each implicate in the others and deeply enfolded in the matrix of human experience.</pre> <pre>there are no isolated and..." current
  • 09:5109:51, 28 December 2023 diff hist +1,109 User:Ssstephen/Reading/On the Inconvenience of Other People→‎3: On being in life without wanting the world current
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