Notebook from May

Oldest to newest:

1. Magic Farm

2. Urban life does not inherently create social classes

3. Strong social ties vs. close biological kinship

4. Clan-based social systems

5. The small social world of the urbanite

6. Cities and amicable relations among strangers

7. Marsh metropoles

8. Mega-sites

9. Egalitarian organization on an urban scale

10. Women in early Mesopotamia

11. Carel Blotkamp and "old-age style"

12. The neoliberal pushback to social equality

13. The "new fusionism"

14. Alternative for Germany [AfD]

15. Haruomi Hosono

16. John Bevis' "A Surrey Naturalist"

17. Pauline Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation[X]

18. Solidarity, fear, and experience

19. Climate vs. weather

20. Uruk and writing

21. Sumerian teaching

22. Sumerian conceptualization of work

23. An inner life in two details

24. NPCs from Eco Mofos

25. A formula for economic characterization

26. Sumerian production and standardization

27. Heroic societies / warrior aristocracies

28. Proving the existence of self-governance

29. Caste hierarchies with egalitarian governance

30. Collective governance of complex infrastructure

31. Independent cities

32. Pre-Shang China

33. Political revolutions in prehistory

34. John Warner's "More Than Words"

35. Charles Simmons, "Wrinkles"

36. Dance and the viewer

37. Walter Pater's aesthetic project

38. Delany's list of "serious criticism of comics"

39. Publishing and anti-Semitism

40. Spivak's "text"

41. Samuel Delany's "Shadows"

42. Language, subject position, and meaning

43. Yvor Winter, American poetry, and the imagination

44. Delany on working with the imagination

45. Delany's "Dark Reflections"

46. Delany on structure, content, and form

47. Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man"

48. Androgynous Achilles

49. Delany on Michael Cunningham

50. Delany on Willa Cather

51. Plato and change

52. Clouds of connotations

53. The universe's beauty

54. Size and scale in medical ontology

55. The normal and the pathological

56. The clinic vs the lab

57. Foucault on the normal and the pathological

58. Where an organism begins and ends

59. Cultural hygiene

60. The institutionalization of ethnic identity

61. The boundary object

62. Networks and regions in geography

63. Networks and practices in science

64. Objects, practices, and reality

65. Biological facts vs. social events

66. Donna Haraway's "Primate Visions"

67. Praxiographic knowledge

68. "The practices forcing an object to speak"

69. Diagnosing, intervening, and enactment

70. Mol on "the effects of writing styles"

71. Epstein's "Impure Science"

72. David Armstrong's "Political Anatomy of the Body"

73. Edward Soja's "Postmodern Geographies"

74. "The critical ontology of ourselves"

75. John Law and Annemarie Mol

76. The royalties for "being oneself"

77. Kim Stanley Robinson on worker-owned companies

78. Kim Stanley Robinson on occupation

79. What the future needs

80. The nationalization of banks

81. People fighting for the good

82. Gotterdammerung capitalism

83. The "rentier class"

84. Revolutionary tax regimes

85. The cost of losing the biosphere

86. Cognitive errors around capitalism

87. Fighting for sentences

88. Ellen Arkbro's "Night Clouds"

89. "Geoengineering is no longer a useful word"

90. Forcing the hand of the market

91. "The everything feeling"

92. Fiscal non-compliance

93. Money and social trust

94. The pawnshop

95. The power of a thousand people

96. "Public utility districts"

97. Methods of capitalist breakdown

98. The future of coal

99. "The fuckers always win"

100. On Switzerland

101. Key methods of carbon draw-down

102. Good projects for the future

103. Europe's collective histor

y104. "We the living beings"

105. On being black and European

106. Cultural (dis)continuity

107. "Cultural insiderism"