things to read

  • one place after another site specific work (2004) BOOK – browse download
  • try and get hold of Art and Ecology now (2014)
  • ‘consider the lobster’ david foster wallace ESSAY
  • economic science fictions BOOK
  • discrouses around ER’s refusal ‘to hear it’: https://novaramedia.com/2020/09/03/socialism-or-extinction/
  • fairphone a dutch designed phone which is meant to highlight problems in the supply chain for regular phones. The intention (when they started) was never to sell phones, just to get apple to take supply management more seriously 
  • the podcast on virtue consumption I’d been listening to earlier today, link here, and you are in for a treat: when they’re good, the chapo podcasts are excellent. They’re also the only people I have come across who use the phrase Professional Managerial Class pejoratively. 
  • explore ideas around hegemony and theories around how societies come to a version of the truth.
    • Mark Fisher on capitalist realism
    • Chomsky on manufactured consent
    • Gramscian stuff about war of position could be interesting. 
    • Each would start to give another lens for looking at the same problem: that we’re not hearing it because society and culture are set up in such a way that we’re actively prevented from hearing it. 
  • unearthing the capitalocene
  • tentacular thinking
  • material worlds – recourse geography

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