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Counter bodyweight training session I guided for HULLABALOO Club at NPTurku Festival.
Data is the new lifeblood of capitalism – don’t hand corporate America control (2018) Ben Tarnoff.
Letting capital run wild across the globe hasn’t exactly produced the best of all possible worlds. It’s strange to think that letting data do the same would yield a different result.
Discussion with Timothy Morton Being Ecological (2018). At 27min mr. Morton gives a nice solution on how to approach fake news: When news claim to speak the truth they are fake, because news are not about truths. News tolerate ambiguity… Different accounts of an event don’t cancel each other out.
“Craft as class warfare”: Against craft (2018) Cennydd Bowles
Calling yourself a craftsperson affords status. Craft bespeaks skill and autonomy. In the face of creeping automation, a craftsperson is sovereign and irreplaceable. No mere production worker, labour to be organised – she chooses how the work should be done, which of course helps to justify her fees.
Deb Chachra’s piece Why I Am Not a Maker nails the negative connotations that surround making, craft’s central activity: its implied gendering, its conviction that the only valuable human activity is the production of capitalist goods. A shot of undiluted Californian Ideology.
Craft underpins how we dress and even behave. It’s easy to see where this leads: these identity performances become acts of gatekeeping.
Craftspeople generally aren’t renowned multidisciplinarians: sadly, some believe their expertise separates them from less capable people.
Why I Am Not a Maker (2015) Deb Chachra.
Describing oneself as a maker—regardless of what one actually or mostly does—is a way of accruing to oneself the gendered, capitalist benefits of being a person who makes products.
A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Maker culture, with its goal to get everyone access to the traditionally male domain of making, has focused on the first.
I’m serving as an presidential election officer and vote counter. Unfortunately the Nazis won.
Ismism (1979). An early example on how discussions concerning public space as a medium for artistic creativity is dominated by infrastructure made, used and controlled by capitalist.
Lakeus kutsuu nyt sinuakin (2018) Mikael Mattila. From enough distance irony (and possibly criticism) appears as sentimentalism. #ॐ
Beyond Biohazard: Why Danger Symbols Can’t Last Forever (2018) 99PI.