Month: December 2020

  • intimidating but also intimate / reflections on formative time in a revenant medium

    Metablogging is the most (self-)indulgent form of blogging—a bit of (self-demonstrating/self-performing) wisdom that was already a well-worn cliche when Technorati was still a thing that people cared about. But we are products of our milieu, are we not? Adam Kotsko would agree, I think—and this reflective bit of his from earlier this week flipped me…

  • sköldpaddorna

    Jo, men hur säger du “synchronicity” i svenska?

  • being quite serious, the future may be boring

    Offered without comment, but with the contextualising note that the interview took place in 1984, some thoughts from J G Ballard on what we might now identify as the formation of European post-Fordist neoliberalism: The young people of Western Europe since the sixties have grown up in a remarkably uniform environment, both in terms of…

  • this strange machinery

    / is keeping you from seeing me… Thirty years ago. Blimey.

  • there is no transition

    Maybe I’m being over-optimistic, but seeing arguments for non-solutionist and demand-side approaches to decarbonisation research appearing in a journal from the Nature stable feels like a sign that the idea is getting some traction at long last. That said paper is by Elizabeth Shove, a brilliant and tenacious researcher whose work has been a huge…