This is such a great resource for fairy tales and folktales! NY Public Library 🙏✨🎈

I daydream about what ancient people could teach us about human experience. We’re conditioned to believe our civilization is the height of progress, and that we should identify with the accomplishments. I think it also deeply removes us from some fundamental aspects of life.

#valorizenourishingthecommons #justforthefluxofit #newmaterialism #vibrantmatter #localculture

“Cultural processes are starting to outstrip the natural background of geological processes on the moon,” cnn.com/2024/01/14/wor… #lunaranthropocene

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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”—Soren Kierkegaard The righteous are inherently suspicious of all claims to power. #coherentnarratives around #awe and our relationship the #sublime come to mind for me here.

“We call these people "wise". They are just as likely to choose what seems the "lowest hanging fruit" but they can reach farther with their models and are more likely to pick options that seem contrary to utility calculations that are narrower in scope.”

The future of humanely augmented experiences does not look like virtual screens plastered across our embodied spaces.

our media are our sensory overlords

#recalibration #systemschange #adjacentpossiblefutures

I’m imagining the ecological potential of something like B Lab + Oregon Tilth for the #xr, #immersive, #themedentertainment industries. What is the tilth of our #ecologyofmind and how does that state influence the commons? #higherorderoutcomes #hybridvigor #warmdata

A mini course on #mediaecology and #ecologyofmind via #taylorswift “…the lyrics she writes fall under three genre categories: quill…, fountain pen… and glitter gel pen …, [referencing] the writing instrument she imagines…while penning the lyrics.” cnn.com/2024/03/04/ent…

"I conclude by proposing that digital environments and the human experience of activity form unified ecologies with agency distributed through the system." Steven Thorne - #appliedlinguist tinyurl.com/5ad74kw6 I feel a nexus of #vibrantmatter, #warmdata, and #XR here

Where the streets are paved with gold... As clear as glass. All has been Made Ready- 🙏 1

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