The number of people imputing things they wanted to hear, seemingly so they could accuse you, but which you didn’t say, and/or not investing any curiosity in what you did actually point them at… was quite something.
It kind of brings home just how much is functionally invisible
@Loukas@neonsnake@RD4Anarchy@HeavenlyPossum I share this fear, and am beginning to regret not having fought harder to keep the green-brown fusion material in “Lifehouse.” : . (
"Like most #neoliberal institutions, #Boeing had come under the spell of a seductive new theory of “knowledge” that essentially reduced the whole concept to a combination of intellectual property, trade secrets, and data, discarding “thought” and “understanding” and “complex reasoning” possessed by a skilled and experienced workforce as essentially not worth the increased health care costs"
I kinda buried the lede yesterday: my next book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World On Fire” is finally available for pre-order from Verso! It’s about how we organize ourselves as communities to survive the climate-systems collapse unfolding all around us, drawing on lessons from the Black Panther survival programs, Occupy Sandy and the Crisis-era Greek solidarity clinics straight through to municipalism in Spain and democratic confederalism in Rojava! https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2536-lifehouse
If you’ve been enjoying our conversations here about the Long Emergency, the #pragma, assembly-based systems of local self-determination, and the #lifehouse itself as a concrete implementation of #solarpunk values and ideas about the world, and as a way of sheltering ourselves against all the storms to come, I genuinely think you’ll find something useful in this book. 👊
Oh, and if you let me know that you pre-ordered it through this link, I’ll organize something small but special for you, as a way of thanking you for your support.
Anarchists in Chile are trying to recover from a deadly forest fire that destroyed communes, popular soup kitchens, and anarchist infrastructure in Valparaíso, Viña del Mar and Quilpué.
The Anarchist Assembly of Valparaíso and the Flora anarchist space are trying to raise €1000. They have 6 days to meet their fundraising goal in order to receive the funds.
Please chip in a few bucks, and help them get back on their feet.
I had never heard of the Noahopinion blog until a friend sent me a link to it the other day, specifically to a post about this book, “Emergent Tokyo.” Noahpinion characterized it, glowingly, as an empirical defense of market YIMBYism, and it very nearly put me off ordering the book despite its being highly relevant to my interests. That guy’s dumber than a bag of rocks! This book is nothing of the sort! It’s wonderful!
It’s the furthest thing from a paean to the market – my old nemesis the megadeveloper Mori Building comes in for a proper slating, in particular (though, in perfectly Japanese style, never by name). What it is is a detailed consideration of five spatial strategies – yokocho alleys, rail infrastructure infill, ankyo streets, the low-rise cell of the chome-scale neighborhood & the mixed-use zakkyo building typology – the authors think combine to produce the wonderful and distinct Tokyo urbanity.
As someone who lived in Tokyo and cherished precisely those qualities of it, yet found discourse about it overwhelmed by both Western orientalist fetishization and the grotesque domestic exceptionalism, I particularly appreciate the great care the authors have taken to see the city for what it is, and their attempt to understand how it actually works. I have no idea what book Noahpinion read, or thought he did, but this one slaps.
@PaulGrahamRaven Oh. Well then. Duly noted. He certainly seems to have utterly missed the very clearly articulated point (and explicit intent) of this book.
@inquiline it perplexes me too, especially given what i have viscerally experienced of her ambition. maybe she realized she just doesn’t have a taste for the actuality of the office?