notebook from august 2024

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1. Ryan O'Connor "The Voids"

2. Thought is dialogic

3. "Typestract"

4. "Dirty concrete poetry"

5. Paul Radin's "Primitive Man as Philosopher"

6. Levi-Strauss' "The Savage Mind"

7. Seasonal dualism and double morphology societies

8. Levi-Strauss' epilogue to "Man the Hunter"

9. Franz Boas' studies on Kwakiutl peoples

10. Early Bill Orcutt solo albums

11. Birchville Cat Motel, "We Count These Prayers"

12. Bruce Russell's "Left Handed Blows"

13. Chicago Underground Quartet

14. Califone's "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes"

15. The carnivalesque

16. Defining ritual

17. "Youth abbeys"

18. Rituals as anti-structures

19. Indigenous regional organization

20. "Mesolithic" cultures and early cuisine

21. Fog, "Ether Teeth"

22. On ActBlue

23. Contemporary experimental folk

24. Ludovico Einaudi

25. Biden as anticorporate crusader

26. The origins of domination

27. Did agriculture create bureaucracy?

28. On surplus

29. Egalitarian immediate return economies

30. Martin MacInnes’ IN ASCENSION

31. Formal freedoms vs substantive freedoms

32. Marshall Sahlins's "Original Affluent Society"

33. Office workers vs medieval serfs

34. The work ethic of hunter-gatherer societies

35. Kwakiutl art

36. Personal reminder [redacted]37. Personal reminder [redacted]

38. Dash Shaw's "Three New Stories" (via Hagai Palevsky) (@dialhforhagai.bsky.social)

39. The imaginary sovereign citizen

40. Publics and active uptake

41. Publics and the space of discourse

42. The interactive character of public discourse

43. Manuel DeLanda, "A New Philosophy of Society"

44. Sara Ahmed, "The Cultural Politics of Emotion"

45. Melinda Cooper's "Family Values"

46. Georges Canguilhem

47. Personal reminder [redacted]

48. Personal reminder [redacted]

49. Personal reminder [redacted]

50. Warner on circulation

51. "Paris: The Early Internet"

52. Public circulation, public action, and time

53. "Highly temporalized affects and interests"

54. 1711: The Spectator and the general public

55. "Talk value"

56. Vernacular performance and catchphrases

57. Marie Howe on writing without metaphor

58. Paul Krugman's "Self-Organizing Economy"

59. The "social imaginary"

60. Bakhtin on professional jargon

61. "Molly houses"

62. "World making"

63. Hiroshi Yoshimura

64. The feminist counterpublic

65. Verbs for public agency

66. Counterpublics vs social movements

67. Early Oneohtrix Point Never albums

68. Lia Kohl, Cole Pulice, and Lynn Avery

69. Tujiko Noriko, John Chantler, and Lawrence English

70. Early Akron/Family albums

71. Bell Gardens

72. Giuseppi Ielasi