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Production of the Ornament

There's a piece of paper that has survived almost being fed to multiple fires, a photocopied relic: the first pages of a chapter of Ernst Bloch's The Spirit of Utopia.

More than a decade ago, I underlined:

We are poor, we have unlearned how to play. We have forgotten it, our hands have unlearned how to dabble. -p. 10

This website can be recycled, replicated, repurposed. Transparent down to the open source code, as much as I can make it. Modular, resilient, sustainable.

Design Patterns/Philosophies

  • decentralized, transparent, collaborative
  • ecological, distributed, redundant
  • maximalist, with immutable version history
  • temporally located, serialized, iterative and incremental
  • anti-authoritarian

No Rehearsals, No Placeholders

The performance will continue until the end.

Purpose: Memetic Garden

If our content publishing platforms are walled gardens, then this is a self-curated seed bank of canonical links. A creative commons of ideas I'd like to spread. The first is this website itself, how easy it is to make. Here are the steps:

  1. Create a Github or Codeberg account
  2. Clone this repository.
  3. Install python and mkdocs.
  4. Edit content
  5. Build and Serve the site locally.
  6. Publish as your own github or codeberg pages site.

Continuity Drift

Tree House

Shadow Forestry

Recycling