Are.na

inferno of psychogeographies

A friend of mine compared what has happened over recent years to a café. We enter it and search for a space in which we can sit with our friends and chat. But as time progresses, the café’s walls get …

On Daring to Care

"Gardening is simply a framework for engagement with our world, grounded in care and action. To garden is to care deeply, inclusively, and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads. It…

Knowledge making

"We do not obtain knowledge by standing outside of the world; we know because "we" are of the world. We are part of the world in its differential becoming. The separation of epistemology from ontology…

Paulo Coelho

"Don’t be intimidated by other people’s opinions. Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks and do what you really want to do." Paulo Coelho

Bird by Bird

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think per…

You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously. – Richard Feynman

“Beware of anything that you hear yourself saying often.” — Susan Sontag, from Reborn: Journals & Notebooks (1947-1963)

“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.” ― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

The one who learns to live with his incapacity has learned a great deal. This will lead us to the valuation of the smallest things, and to wise limitation, which the greater height demands… . The hero…

As long as you are interested in your present way of living, you will not abandon it. Discovery cannot come as long as you cling to the familiar. It is only when you realize fully the immense sorrow o…

The faster one goes, the more strain there is on the senses, the more they fail to take in, the more confusion they must tolerate or gloss over - and the longer it takes to bring the mind to stop in t…

"We can teach philosophy by teaching gardening, but we cannot teach gardening by teaching philosophy." Bill Mollison

Frank Bures, “The Fall of the Creative Class”

“[I]t may be wiser to try to cre­ate the place you want to live, rather than to keep try­ing to find it.”

Gilles Deleuze // "The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say... What a relie…

“Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another.” ― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I was introduced to the term by Timothy Leary when he and I were writing a book together, and I kind of fell in love with it. Neoteny is about the retention of childlike attributes in adulthood; curi…

Simplicity

"So many writers write small, shallow things in a complicated, difficult style. I think what I want to do is write serious, complicated, difficult things in a very easy style that is fluid and comfort…

“I’m too old” is something we tell ourselves to save ourselves from the emotional cost of the ego deflation involved in being a beginner. Cameron, Julia. The Artist's Way (p. 138). Penguin Publishing …

New ways of thinking

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

- Jenny Odell

Ideas are not products, as much as corporations would like them to be. Ideas are intersections between ourselves and something else, whether that’s a book, a conversation with a friend, or the subtle …

Clayton Christensen

“Questions are places in your mind where answers fit. If you haven’t asked the question, the answer has nowhere to go. It hits your mind and bounces right off. You have to ask the question – you have …

More generally, it’s not beginnings and ends that count, but middles. Things and thoughts advance or grow out from the middle, and that’s where you have to get to work, that’s where everything unfolds…

Stanislaw Lem

Any object, the simplest object, contains, potentially, an infinite amount of information. Therefore, however much we detail a transmitted description, it will always be unnecessarily precise for some…

Bonnie Friedman

“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.” — Bonnie Friedman

From the first issue of WIRED

“in the age of information overload, THE ULTIMATE LUXURY IS MEANING AND CONTEXT.” – Louis Rossetto

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” source: Barry H. Gillespie

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence …

“You never change things by fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” - Buckminster Fuller

Michel Foucault Quote

“There are more ideas on earth than intellectuals imagine. And these ideas are more active, stronger, more resistant, more passionate than "politicians" think. We have to be there at the birth of idea…