Excerpted from Second Power Last month I attended the Nowhere Summit in Ecuador with several friends, old and new. Alex Petkas provides a good description of the event here: Technological, political, and societal change are happening at an alarming rate. There are huge, asymmetric opportunities for network-institution builders that simply did not exist 5 years…
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Terra Damnata
What follows is a list of stray words and quotes that I highlighted for my own reasons while reading Blood Meridian a couple years ago. I’m sharing them because their aesthetic value is inherently high but also because, in aggregate their strangeness and desolate aesthetics are enhanced. They also act like luminol on my brain…
weekend links
Vodka & Petrol Martini, Stirred not Shaken (The Outpost): Kazakh energy resources do not stop at uranium. The country is a major fossil fuel exporter, pumping out about 1.6 million bpd of petrol (more than Qatar, Libya or Algeria). About 3/4 of this is exported, either to Western Europe or to China, in direct competition…
live-tweeting old notebooks
DECOMPOSING THOUGHTS ————– Cryptogram/the Abomination That Causes Desolation/Dreaming of Machines/Slow Strangulation of the Mind/Verge Patience/Imperium/The Slope Is Amortized/Prairie Serif/Taiga/Howl/Magic & Technology/The Fossilists/The Cost of Ammo/Earls From Hell/Transmissions From the Pines/Dub Trash Reggae Noir/weird machines/void wandering/isolation/guns/crypto/Last War in Heaven/murmur/basilisk/house of snakes/Coast to Coast A.M./Ken Nordine Fugitive thoughts/asphalt & catechisms/feral things/light trapped in time/Lost Objects Found/trap worlds/lost…
Pandemic Inventory
Seems like a lot of people are taking inventory of their pandemic experiences, so I will too. (As someone on Twitter recently joked, citing Garrison Keillor: Nothing happened to me, and now I’m going to tell you about it.) Like millions of others, I spend a lot of time alone these days. Don’t my lonely…
STEREOSCOPIC URBANISM
‘In Ballard, trends (and flaws) in architectural design are pursued to their logical extremes…the unspoken tension and psychopathology engendered by such scenarios is recycled, reheated and allowed free rein to play itself out to the bitterest of ends.’https://t.co/IbcFM5dpfU — тцпдяапацт (@tundranaut) March 20, 2020 SOURCE: Ballardian.com: “In a sense, Ballard’s work is about nothing but…