Notebook from June

Oldest to newest

1. Venezuela economic collapse

2. How Sanctions Work

3. Frederik Rasten's "Strands of Lunar Light"

4. Against majoritarianism

5. "Joinery"

6. "Sculpture is different from painting"

7. Textiles and abstraction

8. Weaving vs. painting

9. Abstraction vs symbolic cosmology

10. The "problems" of basketry

11. Ed Rossbach's "Constructed Color Wall Hanging"

12. "The age of repression" (or the lack thereof)

13. The "sexual cause"

14. Is sex repressed?

15. Nick Borelli's "Mold Mold Mold"

16. Declines in property crime and violent crime

17. Autechre flow chart

18. Josephine Berry on art

19. The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination

20. Multiplying edges

21. Suzi Gablik's "reenchantment"

22. How things hold

23. The self as environment

24. "No being is purely individual"

25. "Extractivist art"

26. Material and relational attachments

27. "Toxic dualisms" in art

28. Activism over art

29. Allan Kaprow, art, attention, and living

30. "We are nature defending itself"

31. "Acting as if you were already free"

32. The bocage

33. Moorland commons

34. "Reappropriating cities"

35. Kropotkin the geographer

36. The state's portion of history

37. "Les Sentiers de l'Utopie"

38. The Zapatistas

39. "Space-based movements"

40. Inhabitation as resistance

41. From commune life to surveillance capitalism

42. Michael Snow's "La Region Centrale"

43. Michael Snow's "So Is This"

44. David Keenan's "Volcanic Tongue"

45. Magic, attention, and imagination

46. The habits of thought

47. Perceptions of jargon and unclarity

48. "Defamiliarization for whom?"

49. The "social dimensions of style"

50. "Taste" and the repertoire of possible lenses

51. Warner's central concerns

52. Success in the public sphere

53. The inhibition of public-minded discussion

54. Journalists vs public discussion

55. Public politics vs public discussion

56. The segregation of intellectual publics

57. Warner on university presses

58. The "axiomatic preference for complexity"

59. Dialogue vs polemic, for Foucault

60. Foucault's "problematization"

61. Foucault and the public/private distinction

62. Foucault's view of inquiry

63. John Guillory's "On Close Reading"

64. What close reading is (for Guillory)

65. Close Reading in the Twenty-First Century

66. What close reading is (for Sinykin / Winant)

67. The five steps of close reading

68. "Horror in Architecture"