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wakest

wakest@bookwyrm.social

Joined 4 years, 7 months ago

mainly active at @liaizon@wake.st on the fediverse my www is wake.st

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reviewed Bolo'bolo by Hans Widmer (Foreign agents series)

Hans Widmer, Hans E. Widmer: Bolo'bolo (1985, Semiotext(e))

My problematic fav

I read this book about 12 years ago and it was definitely a Moment for me, but even the first time through I cringed a little. Each subsequent visit my spine curves in reaction a little more but I still think there's something magical in the core. Maybe call this anarchist fantasy writing?

Every radical political text has to name it's antagonist. Anticivies talk about the earth wrecker or whatever, marxists have ideology or the logic of capital. bolo has one of my favorites: The Planetary Work Machine. If you want to attack our current problem you should stab at the idea of working, of necessary work, of endless improvement on the treadmill of progress that never lets you actually enjoy what you're doing. Attack the idea of working hard now to make the world better for the next generation of children, indeed "we are already those children". bolo is …

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the follow flow on PeerTube is totally confusing and really needs work. While on an un-logged-in instance the "Subscribe to all channels" button only has the option to follow with "Subscribe with an account on this instance" but then further down if you click on an individual channel listed on the account page it gives you a remote follow option.

Alexia De Visscher, Dick Reckard, Dušan Barok, André Castro, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Femke Snelting, Natacha Roussel, Michael Murtaugh, Sînziana Păltineanu, Geraldine Juárez, Dennis Pohl, ShinJoung Yeo, Matthew Fuller: Mondothèque: A Radiated Book (Dutch language, 2016, Constant) No rating

From the Introduction: This Radiated Book started three years ago with an e-mail from the …

The computer scientists' view of textual content as "unstructured", be it in a webpage or the OCR scanned pages of a book, reflect a negligence to the processes and labor of writing, editing, design, layout, typesetting, and eventually publishing, collecting and cataloging.

Mondothèque: A Radiated Book by , , , and 11 others (Page 79)

from the piece "A bag but is language nothing of words" by Michael Murtaugh

was at the event at @offline@autonomous.zone that this was presented at but never got a chance to read the whole thing. cool to see it uploaded so figured I would add it to my list