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The Spectacle vs Capitalism (Snowpiercer vs Go West) (2018) Zero books.
Heard Vatical Shadow live at Kaiku last night. There were some fun moments but towards the end the gig was an uneventful techno-train (which serves as a good link to the Snowpiercer / Late Stage-Capitalism analysis by Zero books).
Enlisted as an unemployed in an effort to collect funds for the upcoming New York residency. I have some savings and gigs scheduled but I need to pull in all available resources to fund the trip (grant applications for Taike and Skr failed).
Guests from Brussels are arriving today and staying for a week in our place. Kids are still on their winter vocation and I can’t work at home.
Neighborizome events are being planned and prepared for 18.1.
Kettlebell History Goes Back Much Further Than Russia (2016) Nick English.
In 1981, The Official Kettlebell Commission was formed [USSR], which advocated (but didn’t enforce) mandatory kettlebell training for all workers.
Felkar more or less agrees that Pavel’s marketing was extremely influential in spreading kettlebells as a fitness tool. She likens him to Eugen Sandow: he wasn’t the first guy to excel at bodybuilding, but he was a marketing genius who lay a lot of the groundwork for today’s world.
A civil servant missing most of his brain challenges our most basic theories of consciousness (2016) Olivia Goldhill.
Darwin Grosse’s Art + Music + Technology feels like an interesting podcast series. Listened to the chat with Michael Hetrick. Fun and nerdy.
Guerrilla Public Service Redux (~ 2017) a happy story of artist Richard Ankrom’s infra-art activities from 2001. A positive narrative. The same strategies of using uniforms to disguise guerrilla actions are still actively used.
Deep Decay – Into Diachronic Polychromatic Material Fictions (2017) Andy Weir. A difficult but informative text. Deep time Marxism feels like a fresh and fun approach/addition to the discussion. I should continue making melancholic downbeat electro (I’m dreaming of a drum machine).
The lower your social class, the ‘wiser’ you are, suggests new study (2017) Michael Price.
They found that people with the lowest social class scores—those with less income, less education, and more worries about money—scored about twice as high on the wise reasoning scale as those in the highest social class.
The findings make sense, [Eranda] Jayawickreme says, as people who grow up in a working-class environment have to rely on shared, communal resources more than people in the middle class, and therefore hone social techniques that smooth out conflicts with their peers.
If you want to foster wise reasoning in yourself, [Igor] Grossmann advises, try to use third-person language when thinking about conflicts. Mentally address both yourself and your conflict partner by name, for example, as it forces you to see the situation as others would see it.
Great news.. Now you can trust that pain derived from class awareness is both real and justified.
If it can be made with a machine it is not work. #ॐ
Making noise is not a strategy (2017) Lanre Akinola.