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By Jeremy P. Bushnell in notes — 01 Jan 2026

notebook from december 2025

Notes on "gorp jazz," Giorgio Agamben, Enlightenment racism, plus more notes from David Graeber and David Wengrow

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1. Agamben's "inoperativity"

2. "Form-of-life"

3. Richard Beck's "Homeland"

4. Enlightenment racism

5. The "loose constellation" of the Enlightenment

6. Mackenzie Cooley's "The Perfection of Nature"

7. Chavin imagery

8. Psychedelic Chavín culture

9. Chavín temples

10. "Sovereignty without the state"

11. The internal moral dynamic of sovereignty

12. James Nisbet's "Second Site"

13. "Walkscapes"

14. "Gorp jazz"

15. "A gorp jazz primer"

16. Sarah Clausen

17. Natasha Pirard's "Fernande, Cecile"

18. Overview of varying types of AI

19. Graeber and Wengrow's "three forms of freedom"

20. "The world's first peasantry"

21. "How the pyramids were actually built"

22. Factory logic and slavery

23. The decline in child mortality

24. Whitney Webb’s "One Nation Under Blackmail"

25. Selected Derek Bailey recordings

26. Asterales' "Fuse Modulations"

27. "Clearing" from Poor Isa + Evan Parker/Ingar Zach

28. Graeber and Wengrow's "caring labour"

29. Shang oracular texts

30. Ritual bureaucracies

31. Tell Sabi Abyad and "village bureaucracies"

32. Egalitarian administrations

34. Rhayne Vermette's "Levers"

35. Julian Castronovo's "Debut"