THIS ALSO as an alternate project to utopia which would tell us that the work is far ahead of us and not in every moment and that justice is a big project that needs new institutions—i am more interested in a practice of living that deinstitutionalizes
Remembering a story by zhuangzi that was among many other things a teaching about what to do when the going gets hard:
Be careful
Keep your eyes on what you’re doing
Work very slowly and subtly
And to remember that hard work is also the most satisfying
THIS as an alternate sensibility to the political nihilism and capitalist “realism” that our social systems have taught us that would tell us that difficulty is a symptom of unworkability and that we should just give up
Writing with the deeply confusing and complexly yummy process of “making art” and doing “creative work” under conditions of technocratic capitalism: https://t.co/t9d9GS0bo5
BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.
Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.
Here's what 4 months of data revealed:
(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)
It is possible to develop a technology against technocracy—in fact it is a political imperative in our time to think about how the technical can be recuperated from its appropriation as techniques of control/management by regimes of power
“living application” as a field of communication—how can technical systems/tools become deinstituted networks that grow/change along w us rather than institutions which siphon energy from creative desire to sustain/reproduce/reify themselves?
“We want infrastructure that transforms static software into living systems, enabling applications to grow with their users and become more valuable through use”
@inworld_ai just dropped their manifesto, in which they made a coherent bid for a deinstitutive infrastructure that builds bottom-up/ incorporates users meaningfully into evolution & AI’s role in this
https://t.co/twxmEQhyyX
“living application” as a field of communication—how can technical systems/tools become deinstituted networks that grow/change along w us rather than institutions which siphon energy from creative desire to sustain/reproduce/reify themselves?
🙏🌱✨so grateful to get to work and be with the lovely folks at @sfcompute ; this process changed the way i think about how spaces of gathering can support care—& commons/private, protected/open dynamics—& how spaces can support intimacy with others & also with onself
my dear friend @silkpunkbot is a brilliant Bay Area-based designer available for hire. she does many things but most recently she designed @sfcompute’s office space to be more convivial and beautiful to encourage an in-office culture. she even custom-made driftwood chandeliers!
gotta remind myself of this constantly as i write & undertake other crafts that will always be insufficient in the face of the immensity and subtlety that i am trying to approach--gotta finish it. don't leave shit half done or even 90% done. finish.