I wrote a short critique on an influential postmodern philosopher's book. We sometimes think obscure philosophers somewhere on a California campus are irrelevant but their ideas do trickle down through academia, media, politics and ordinary people's minds. #philosophy

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-urbanism-tuur-demeester-kelly-lannan-austin-tunnell/

A while ago Marty Bent had a show about "bitcoin urbanism" with contractor/designers trying to promote structural brick masonry in the US. The conversation about what constitutes low-time pref architecture is of interest. Generally bitcoiners' view on architecture seems on the conservative side. For me, contemporary "integral" approaches like Kenneth Frampton's "critical regionalism" are more promising.

Katha Upanishad II:3:1

Donna Haraway, Staying With The Trouble #bookstr

BAD: determinism; teleology; plan; phallic; human; #God; tool; weapon; word; sky god; Anthropos; the hero; Man; prick; functional; reason; competitive; masculine; individualism; Homo sapiens; masculinist; racist; classism; #nationalism; colonial; antiqueer; antifeminist; human-exceptionalist; 11 billion people by 2100; the rich; creatures; genealogical; autopoiesis; #Anthropocene; Capitalocene; posthuman; technohumanist; Eurocentric; Progress; Modernity; History; capitalism; technocratic; pine beetle; megadroughts; #climate change; arrow of time; cutting; sharp; combative; action; #Eichmann; imperialist; techno-apocalypse; GOOD: coral reefs; oceans; #Gaia; materialist; strength; authority; historically situated people; decolonial indigenous peoples; indeterminate genders; soil; worker; antiracist; anticolonial; #queer; #feminist; Medusa; Gorgon; the poor; mortal; critters; unfinished; string figures; tentacular; microbes; humus; compost; oddkin; chtonic; Chtulucene; terra; sympoiesis; symbiogenetic; symanimagenic; multiplayer; multispecies; sexual; Darwin; #Marx; crocheting; netbag; reciprocal; #ecology; response-ability; entangled; holobiont; endosymbiosis; ecosystem; art; science; to become-with; webbed; interactions; intra-actions; relationalities; looped; braided; interlocked; multileveled; layered; dynamic complex systems; biodiverse; buzzing; stinging; sucking; watery; snaky; a sling; a pot; a bottle; living; dying; fibrous; flagellated; speculative fabulation; naturalcultural; nonhierarchical systems theories; feelers; digits; cords; whiptails; spider legs; hair; unruly; air; water; place; #earth; situated; #animism;

#psychedelics negate the i to affirm the I

4 wren songs. Pencil and ink on xuanzhi paper, wet-mounted, 45x45cm #artstr

Back to the drawing board #artstr

Unpopular opinion: Billy is one of the good guys #eugenics

Auric as in.. golden?

It looks wonderful, you still pay for a domain name though? Please consult me in brief about the advantages of using npub.pro

Artful use of stone, brick, lead #architecture Scheepvaarthuis Amsterdam

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