2022 - To Read

North Sea Gas at the Museum of the Home

Very special thanks to @AydelotteFound, as well as Black Studies and English at Swarthmore for putting this on. https://t.co/GM0154je5f— andy hines (@hinesaj) May 9, 2022

Don’t forget kicker to this quote, which is critical to the Murray aesthetic:"We invented the blues; Europeans invented psychoanalysis. You invent what you need." https://t.co/AgRgJG0lBn— Mark Stryker (@Mark_Stryker) May 13, 2022

For the weekend crowd, here’s my @thebafflermag essay on the great novelist Barry Hines, plus thoughts on nature writing as a leisure class phenomena and what happens when we see the British countryside through a Northern, working class lens https://t.co/n9py0HN081— John Merrick (@johnpmerrick) May 7, 2022

1/2 #callforpapers 🌳 Gardening to Remember, Gardening to Forget: Gardening as Memory Work in Contemporary Fiction 🌿Contributions are invited to explore the practices, processes, and subjects of “gardening” with thinking from queer, postcolonial, and Indigenous studies.— Memory Studies Association (@MemStudiesAssoc) May 17, 2022

One form of creativity-through-constraint practised by Jean Lescure and Raymond Queneau and those French writers who in the 1960s styled themselves Oulipians (‘Oulipo’ comes from ‘Ouvroir de littérature potentielle’, or ‘workshop of potential literature’) was a form of translation by counting forward. Here is a quick experiment with this via the n+2 machine. Putting a poem through the n+2 machine means that every time we reach a noun in our master text, we look that word up in the dictionary, count forward two nouns, and replace the old word with the new. I’ve chosen George Herbert’s ‘Prayer’, printed in

An afternoon of discussion in response to 'Marion Milner: Modernism, Politics, Psychoanalysis', a special issue of Critical Quarterly

Introductions, Invitations Given the renewed scholarly attention to time and temporality, we present a reading list on the anthropology of time. ...

Thinking about the book-as-process or book-as-event, rather than the book-as-object. Something that is 'of time' as opposed to a thing ~in~ it. Who should I be reading?— Sarah Pyke (@pykelets) May 27, 2022

yes i turned this twitter thread into a post https://t.co/cr7J0zSnh1— marissa higgins (@marissahiggins_) May 27, 2022

Ted Nelson is very critical of the modern state of copy/paste, and from the way he explains it I get it. https://t.co/yBzWgBWFYx— Riley! (@riley_stews) May 28, 2022

We don't take the planetary crisis seriously enough when we fail to understand how quickly natural & human systems are now being changed— and how quickly the rate of change could accelerate in the near future.Our sense of the tempo of change is outdated.https://t.co/GdUYsFhB9u— Alex Steffen (@AlexSteffen) May 23, 2022

my brain gives out after 50 or so hours of thinking about code — so that leaves 72 more hours of waking time to fiddle with stuff like this!Cooking tools are nice cause they do cool stuff w/o much work. Got a sous vide recently as well and it's super easy.— Kyle Mathews (@kylemathews) May 25, 2022

Are you aware of Simon DeDeo‘s essay on Computerland, https://t.co/soszQb8sHd?I think it is a well rounded view on the ideology from someone who had much exposure to AGI/rationality/longtermism, circling back on isolation and… well… women.— Ben Sahlmüller (@BenSahlmueller) May 25, 2022

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Tagging an interesting microtrend that also looks important: a “step-by-step” ethos developing momentum. A general interest in break-king illegible learning processes into their component steps and refining them. A kind of process skill mindfulness. Like 6-sigma but for learning.— Venkatesh Rao (@vgr) May 26, 2022

A step by step guide for solving a difficult organizational problem, including notes on single stack ranks, team interdependencies, building consensus, reducing work in progress, and how to move your company towards better priority management.

AWM #79: How to create inspiring visions of the future 🔮

Hopepunk, Optimism, Purity, and Futures of Hard Work by Ada Palmer - "Fiction does not give us many stories of continuing to slog on after an unsatisfying partial victory. That makes hopepunk powerful."

Chatting with @camwiese today about his New World's Fair (which hopes to paint an optimistic, definite vision of the future), I noticed how these projects so often turn to *retro*futurism in art direction. What would a now-rooted, forward-facing hopepunk aesthetic look like? pic.twitter.com/sJZ5oVzIfl— Andy Matuschak (afk thru 05/30) (@andy_matuschak) May 11, 2022

A reflection of work in the remote and hybrid era

T-3 weeks! https://t.co/RLiRKrpQv5— JP Pardo-Guerra (@pardoguerra) May 22, 2022

I will no longer engage in philosophical discussions about conscious AI/superintelligent machines, and here's why. (long🧵1/11)— Giada Pistilli (@GiadaPistilli) May 27, 2022

I'll cut right to the chase: I believe a big reason why many people in this world suffer is because some other people can afford to decide irrationally. In "Was ist Autorität?" (e

One somewhat unfortunate thing about blogging culture is that (unlike journals) there's no strong norm of explaining where your work sits with respect to existing human understanding.This is an enormous advantage journals have in pushing forward understanding. https://t.co/Lh7Ose8zGH— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) May 26, 2022

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.

One of the more impressive, rather surprising (& actionable) aspects of the neuroscience of learning & memory is that *post-learning* increases in adrenaline accelerate and increase memory for learned material.It makes sense yet most people approach this backwards. #science— Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) May 22, 2022

Researchers say latent learning occurs without explicit teaching.