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Ends of the World / A Paradise Built In Hell

In 1977, the Haudenosaunee submitted a series of papers to the UN titled A Basic Call to Consciousness, presenting a still-resonant critique of western civilization from the perspective of a civilization that has existed for millennia.

In December, I was witness to a break-in of sorts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Just a couple months prior, the Louvre had been ransacked in broad daylight heist fit for a popcorn movie, involving cranes, costumes, power tools, and escape scooters. This was very different. Works of art

Maintenance / Permacomputing / Cycles in Utopia

What if computation could reflect the circular, regenerative dynamics of permaculture?

Devine Lu Linvega is, among many other things, an artist and programmer. Along with their partner, they live on a 10-meter sail boat, traveling the world in what Linvega describes as a nomadic, "solarpunk life". Along the way, they explore and practice principles of repair, maintenance, frugality, and

Cascadian Bioregionalism / Selected reading / O&C Land

If we are to step off onto other worlds, shouldn’t it be from right relationship to this one?

How a common children’s game has survived for centuries as a moral teaching tool.

David McCloskey is a retired sociology and ecology professor, and founder of the Cascadia Institute. He is widely credited with popularizing the term 'Cascadia' in bioregional parlance, and has developed numerous detailed maps of the lands and waters that define it. Bioregionalists conceive of place not as abstract

The further into the future one tries to peer, the more opaque the picture becomes. Some may place a premium on 'getting it right'—of predicting in broad strokes how things will actually transpire—but in an imagined tomorrow I believe it is far more useful to find

We shouldn’t fear a future ‘rise of the machines’, because they already rose and we already lost.

Introducing Posit / Looking past the futuristic / Further reading

The common sense of the future is leading to disaster. Instead, let’s imagine a tomorrow rooted in solidarity, maintenance, and Earthly reciprocity.