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“Hacking is a natural outgrowth of systems thinking. Systems permeate much of our lives. These systems underpin most of complex society, and are becoming increasingly complex as society becomes more c…

“The tools we use inform the marks we make” - Brad Bartlett

“Every man has two lives, and the second starts when he realizes he has just one” -Confucius

The potential of early, text-based internet culture for countering repressive gender regimes, generating solidarity among marginalised groups, and creating new spaces for experimentation that ignited …

“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” — Aldous Huxley

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." Franz Kafka

Emily Segal

People would be like, “how do you know this?” And I’d be like, I honestly have no idea. I’m just walking around noticing things, trying to do pattern recognition.      – Emily Segal

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Ursula K Le Guin

To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the fog…

"Man, sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself." –Miles Davis

steve jobs

"Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. You can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once yo…

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When you’re losing a game you don’t even want to play, or forcing a fit into a form you don’t want to be in, the best thing to do is to stop playing and go find your shape. “If we accept ourselves and…

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“The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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the unsayable

"Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all ot…

Your belief system

“Sometimes your belief system is really your fears attached to rules.” ― Shannon L. Alder

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‘Blue is the typical heavenly colour. The ultimate feeling it creates is one of rest. When it sinks to almost black, it echoes grief that is hardly human’ Wassily Kandinsky

“It takes courage to endure the sharp pains of self-discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.” – Marianne Williamson

I have led a toothless life, he thought. A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone. | Jean…

“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ANAÏS NIN

atmos.earth

“Ideas are never abandoned. They’re always in the compost heap, and they always turn up. To use a gardening metaphor, I’m always in there with a pitchfork turning things over to see whether the time i…

On Gathering

Building relationships between things is a form of authorship too. ⚘ ‍Mindy Seu, On Gathering: Collecting, sharing, and creating the Cyberfeminism Index (https://www.are.na/block/14873538)

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“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out …

–R. Arnold

“So, if you are too tired to speak, sit next to me because I, too, am fluent in silence.”

Play > Work

“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” —- Alan Watts

Ursula Le Guin

One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience. There are always areas of vast silence in any culture, and part of an artist’s job is to go into those areas and c…

“A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensel…

Steve Jobs

"Remembering you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."