- Volunteered at Ulverston Repair Cafe for the first time in a few months.
- Read: Forest and Factory
- So far: very interesting.
- But unnecessarily disdainful in tone to some of the other projects that it is critiquing. We’re all on the same side here!
- And, so far, while very interesting, the vision for the future they outline is just as lacking in scientific rigour as any of the projects that they are critiquing.
- Going to assume that the science bit is going to come later.
- Unflinching mentions of carbon capture and storage / direct air capture is a bit of a red flag.
- Read: Forest and Factory
- Subtitle: The Science and the Fiction of Communism.
- Heard about it from the This Machine Kills podcast.
- Very interesting. A modern day update on the topic of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
- Critiques a bunch of things I’ve read recently as utopian, in the sense of lacking any practical route from the here and now to there.
- Fair comment – though I’ve appreciated them, I’ve thought similar.
- Not got to their own prescription for transformation yet.
- Read: How to stop a data center.
- How organisers in Santiago stopped the development of a data centre in their locality.
- Seemed to be mostly information campaigns around water usage.
- Less drastic than How to Blow Up a Data Centre.
- Read: Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems
- Had to give up on Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality for now.
- It’s intensely and densely philosophical. A bit too much for me (especially when reading it in the middle of the night…)
- I still like the premise though, so maybe I’ll just try and read the conclusion.
- Started on Talking to My Daughter About the Economy instead.
- Subtitle: A Brief History of Capitalism.
- Easier to read, that’s for sure.
- I think some of his broad sweep of history of agriculture and surplus and economics might need a bit of fact-checking. c.f. The Dawn of Everything.
- Watched: Kohei Saito: “Climate Crisis and Ecological Revolution”
- On Degrowth communism.
- I actually watched this a while ago, just noting it now.
- I remember he mentioned commoning as an important aspect.
- Listened: The Santiago Boys.
- Finished the first episode. (Ep 1: A Blast in Manhattan).
- Chiefly about the political milieu in Chile at the time, and then how Fernando Flores invites Beer to work with them.