My uncommon thread: I spend my professional life writing dumb jokes about flan, and spend my personal life talking to my best friend about the polycrisis. Which seems…backwards somehow?
Hi I'm Joel and I'm a Small Farm Futurist currently working out a hyper local production system that works within bioregional boundaries and circles of care. Your approach resonates with Dark Matter Labs, who have a similar belief in tech, and I suspect, the money that appears to surround it.
Alas, I don't hold such beliefs and am aware that any technology that you cannot make yourself or at least fix holds you in an unequal position (Breaking Things at Work: why the Luddites were right about why you hate your job); that the present super organsim that is the Internet is the largest material form we have ever created with understandably obscene energy use (Dark Cloud: how the digital world is costing the earth). It turns out that virtual is more material than the industrial!
We are working in medium scale/domestic pedal powered machinery that can be replicated using simple materials. We are especially interested in textiles, as this is often an overlooked part of a low energy culture.
We think humans have an innate need to make things with their hands/bodies, indeed without that skill, we cannot survive. We think that cultivating those skills in real communities can create cohesion and resilience and help people through the trauma that is the modern world. One of the illusions we have to face, is that we can help the world through the structures that are currently destroying it, like a caring capitalism, or a vegan global agriculture, or a militarised freedom, or digitised trust.
Our work revolves around an understanding of the commons (Ostrom, JM Neeson). Good luck and good journeys, enjoy the hilarious fun that is life!
My uncommon thread: I spend my professional life writing dumb jokes about flan, and spend my personal life talking to my best friend about the polycrisis. Which seems…backwards somehow?
Seems like a good way round to me. Flans may still have a part to play in the polycrisis, for good or for ill.
ForΞward, some•how may•be:
No ( ฿$ )␈money makes change possible ⎚␛
Love poly friends for better; mettã-crisis?
Hi I'm Joel and I'm a Small Farm Futurist currently working out a hyper local production system that works within bioregional boundaries and circles of care. Your approach resonates with Dark Matter Labs, who have a similar belief in tech, and I suspect, the money that appears to surround it.
Alas, I don't hold such beliefs and am aware that any technology that you cannot make yourself or at least fix holds you in an unequal position (Breaking Things at Work: why the Luddites were right about why you hate your job); that the present super organsim that is the Internet is the largest material form we have ever created with understandably obscene energy use (Dark Cloud: how the digital world is costing the earth). It turns out that virtual is more material than the industrial!
We are working in medium scale/domestic pedal powered machinery that can be replicated using simple materials. We are especially interested in textiles, as this is often an overlooked part of a low energy culture.
We think humans have an innate need to make things with their hands/bodies, indeed without that skill, we cannot survive. We think that cultivating those skills in real communities can create cohesion and resilience and help people through the trauma that is the modern world. One of the illusions we have to face, is that we can help the world through the structures that are currently destroying it, like a caring capitalism, or a vegan global agriculture, or a militarised freedom, or digitised trust.
Our work revolves around an understanding of the commons (Ostrom, JM Neeson). Good luck and good journeys, enjoy the hilarious fun that is life!
I'm Phil and I believe our joys and griefs are best shared.
I believe the mettā~crisis is an invitation to ward love for future's ꝛΞgenerations;
Reveal within (be•yonder)
Ark•hive our shįts for practical appreciations
A whole shared goal—orient education.
I believe a perspective-revolution ⦳ shifts by degrees. ◉°
I believe anew(state) requires Ü∫ to yearn for ᶴ⁺₈ wholer hearts;
Our effort required: unending assent for all/.\¡'s sake.
Do I find myself at the end of Things mattering more than the Spaces Between?
I don't know if it'll be our Ξpoch
Ꝛealise a Whole ∑ Wisdom.
I believe egregores can be co-created anew; Guide Üs.
I believe Senua may personify the forgotten Goddess,
Senua's call realigns Male+Control in service of Awe∔Spirit.
I believe goals of freedoms outlive deaths untold.
I believe anew(public) can recognise 8.5B individual
needs isn't enough to consider /.\IIΞIII {[(ST△TΞ)]}
I believe existence is opportune
A uni`verse calls andor falls toward a unî`chorÜ∫ ᶴ⁺₈
After working in the London startup scene for four years, I burnt∔went out to get lost∔found
Egypt's revolution ⦳ more than The Square.
Myanmar's tragedy ⦳ more than Rohingya.
Thailand's poverty ⦳ more than a lack of ( ฿$ )␈money.
North–West Europe's Isle Lands conjunction ⦳ more than West's Primary Minster represents.
I am lost;
IIIΞꝚΞ losers of /.\l.l.
unwinnable battles
rattle sabres
cattle ranches
grim figures
olive groves turned
grave sides
behind
growth opportunities
for the othrs
those scoundrels
unrecognised selfsame existers
fleeting
temples
polls apart
sunder Ü∫
integrate anew
loss
awaits
recognition
before
long
¬common ⁊threads
∔tie⧟binds
∧over⧝all