Category: tools

Earth

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A plan to save the earth and bring the good life to all.

This book covers:

• Rewilding half the earth to absorb carbon emissions and restore biodiversity

• A rapid transition to renewable energy, paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world’s wealthiest

• Global veganism to cut down on energy and land use

• Worldwide socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production

• The involvement of everyone—even you!

Verso

Property Will Cost Us the Earth Direct Action and the Future of the Global Climate Movement by Verso Books, edited by Jessie Kindig.

slightly-improve-your-life

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https://birdbird.tumblr.com/post/672366438871367680/100-ways-to-slightly-improve-your-life-without
Miami-Dade library.

56 Call an old friend out of the blue.

59 Always have dessert.

67 Sing!

70 Skinny-dip with friends.

79 Ignore the algorithm – listen to music outside your usual taste.

87 Learn how to breathe deeply: in through the nose, out through the mouth, making the exhale longer than the inhale.

94 Give compliments widely and freely.

100 For instant cheer, wear yellow. ?

Lauren Berlant

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An appreciation in newyorker (2019). Supervalent Thought (their blog).

The Hundreds, co-written with Kathleen Stewart. (Form and Explanation by
Jonathan Kramnick and Anahid Nersessian is referenced.)

Duke U Press obit.

Critical Inquiry.

On Citizenship And Optimism: Lauren Berlant, interviewed by David Seitz (2013).

Without Exception: On the Ordinariness of Violence by Brad Evans (2018).

Artforum (2014).

Cruel Optimism (2011) introduction; excerpt.

Genre Flailing (2018).

in the land of NOPE

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NOPE (a manifesto) by E. Jane

I am not an identity artist just because I am a Black artist with multiple selves.

I am not grappling with notions of identity and representation in my art. I’m grappling with safety and futurity. We are beyond asking should we be in the room. We are in the room. We are also dying at a rapid pace and need a sustainable future. 

We need more people, we need better environments, we need places to hide, we need Utopian demands, we need culture that loves us. 

I am not asking who I am. I’m a Black woman and expansive in my Blackness and my queerness as Blackness and queerness are always already expansive. None of this is as simple as “identity and representation” outside of the colonial gaze. I reject the colonial gaze as the primary gaze. I am outside of it in the land of NOPE.

via Glitch Feminism, A Manifesto by Legacy Russell.