Month: February 2020

  • fail we may / sail we must

    I like big boats, and I cannot lie. Title via BLDGBLOG; apparently that couplet was tattooed on the forearms of the late Andy Weatherall. But it has double resonance for me right now. See you soon, UK. It’s been real.

  • far gone & out

    Farewell, little house. We had some times, did we not?

  • boxing day

    Twenty-four hours until load-out. Still lots to do. (That’s most of my library, there. And if you’re thinking “bloody hell, man, couldn’t you cull it a bit?” — well, yeah; that’s about half the size my library was a few weeks ago. Painful, but necessary.)

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  • resisting both purity and progress

    Anne Galloway on more-than-human design: … I’m not a believer that technology under capitalism will be the planet’s salvation, and I tend to part ways with (commercial?) designers and technologists who aim to design more “precision” agriculture through “intelligent” machines, and I’m constantly watching for bad omens. The ethos of the More-Than-Human Lab draws on…