Blogging needs links. And a way to help that is to start writing about a link that you’ve just seen, rather than on the ideas swirling through one’s head. That way it has a chance of being a weblog instead of a youlog (which one should obviously reserve for the deep midwinter…)
In which spirit: Complicité have a show about John Berger
There. That feels better.
Ooh ooh. And it reminds me of another one.
Dougald is offering a course looking at Berger and Illich
Both Berger and Illich have their centenaries this year (I’ve suggested that Miles Davis would make an interesting apex to this triangle – we shall see).
Talking of Miles, I hear, from at least one person whose opinion I trust, that the new biopic of Bill Evans is good, if not exactly “enjoyable”.
Saw someone talking about the “Hate Economy” – a good reminder to abstain from “beef-only thinking” as described in The Internet of Beefs (V Rao/Ribbonfarm, 2020)
I’ve got chores to do, we’re going away for a few nights tomorrow.
But also (via Doug Belshaw) Dopamine Responsibly – I love how a 2×2 matrix gets everyone arguing about the placements of each dot rather than the concept that’s being illustrated. Something about clarity, nuance, beefs etc.
PS I don’t usually update posts as much as I have this one, because I worry about how that works with people who subscribe here by email. If that’s you, and you’ve had a horrible experience of this today, please let me know. Or I suppose I could always look up the functionality in the docs… Anyway, sorry if so. I’ll stop now.
