Seen at #UniversityofToronto used and #vintage #books store.

#Worldmaking #socialmovements #change #historyofideas #quotidianpolitics #sociology #workandsociety #thirdspace

For liberatory systems change, one might want to check:

#structures, #culture, #materiality, #agency, #theunconscious, #time, #place, and many other things;

other world(s) and ways of being, seeing, relating, creating, working and producing that are not extractive but #just, liberatory and in #solidarity are possible

Mexican Artist Chavis Mármol crushes a Tesla .
"Chavis Marmol is a sculptor from Apan, Hidalgo, Mexico. Chavis Marmol’s work is a blend of humor and critique, delving into reflections on contemporary issues. In his Neo-tameme series, he explores our pre-Hispanic past from a Western neocolonial perspective" >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KG22zPXIGo

Storytelling or storyselling?
"Artist Chavis Marmol dropped a nine-tonne replica of the colossal head carvings of the Olmec, the first known Mesoamerican civilisation, onto a blue Tesla 3. The Olmec head landed a year after Tesla announced plans to build a huge factory in northern Mexico."
https://theconversation.com/in-a-time-of-information-overload-enigmatic-philosopher-byung-chul-han-seeks-the-re-enchantment-of-the-world-225176 >>
#Narration #Narrative #storytelling #storyselling #narratology #experience #WorldMaking #SenseMaking #communities #IndigenousPeoples #ArtInstallation #information #InformationSociety #cars #EV #energy

Olmec Head Over Tesla | Neo Ta Memes Series

YouTube

Australia's semantic struggles over a "one and only" reality or a pluriverse?
From the 'heart of darkness' to the “sanitised” articles of sub/urban place names.

"Some (Wikipedia) editors told us they felt it was their responsibility to include First Nations’ perspectives, even though they met with heavy resistance. One, Lucas, had repeatedly tried to include First Nations place names, often unsuccessfully. He no longer edits Wikipedia. “I just ran out of energy for it”...One or two editors “were going around removing Aboriginal place names from all the articles about Australia and Australian places”.
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https://theconversation.com/we-analysed-35-000-wikipedia-entries-about-australian-places-some-sanitised-history-others-privileged-fiction-over-reality-241364
#wikipedia #SettlerSociety #Australia #SocialImaginary #ImaginedCommunity #fiction #violence #FirstNations #TruthTelling #naming #IndigenousKnowledge #pluriverse #EditWars #WorldMaking #EpistemicInjustice #language #framing #worldviews #AI

We analysed 35,000 Wikipedia entries about Australian places. Some sanitised history, others privileged fiction over reality

The first project to examine Australian Wikipedia entries finds topics such as Australian history and use of First Nations place names are sparking ‘edit wars’, with some serious omissions.

The Conversation
"If one takes the idea that old world is ending seriously, this opens up much broader horizons...Letting it end allows us to get on with the beauty and mystery that is living. From this perspective, the back loop is a time to evolve and
shed...Taking up the challenge of the back loop is fundamentally a wager
of the present, and it will only be met through a combination of adaption, reinvigoration, and a radical shedding" http://openhumanitiespress.org/books/download/Wakefield_2020_Anthropocene-Back-Loop.pdf h/t @adamgreenfield #WorldMaking
"Living in such a posture...Franciscans operated within a sphere of fiction...Or conceived another way, they lived out an alternative reality in hopes of living into being the world to come. What would it look like to create a fictional realm in which we live out the property relations we desire while actively seeking to make them more real? What would happen if we eventually forgot they were fictions? Would we be willing, then, to fight for them?" https://livingandfighting.net/A-Communism-We-Can-Use re: #worldmaking et al.
A Communism We Can Use — Living & Fighting

A Communism We Can Use: Common Use and the BCC By Ryan Fatica The following essay was originally published in the first edition of the Living & Fighting...

Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism

"Afrofuturism questions and undermines the eurocentric idea of progress and the universalizing values of rationalism, and empiricism."⁠

by Dr. Mich Nyawalo

#afrofuturism #Africa #ethnography #worldmaking #colonialism #futurism #sciencefiction

https://peepsmagazine.ca/afrofuturism-answers-back-to-afropessimism/

Afrofuturism Answers Back to Afro-pessimism

Dr. Mich Nyawalo shares how afrofuturism, a powerful art movement that identifies innovative spaces of power and opportunity, has evolved as a response to afropessimism, a limiting and reductive narrative. He examines how afrofuturism has become a sophisticated aesthetic through the award-winning work of Wanuri Kahiu and her film Pumzi.

Peeps Magazine
*re: the power of (constructing) architecture https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/18/impossible-made-perfect-builders-of-the-sydney-opera-house-look-back-in-wonder "I went in on one side and came out the other a different person...It made you realise that nothing is impossible." #worldmaking
Impossible made perfect: builders of the Sydney Opera House look back in wonder

On the landmark’s 50th anniversary, those who built it reflect on the political and technical turmoil of realising Jørn Utzon’s vision

The Guardian
#1018: Unpacking Protopia Futures Framework: Deconstructing DUNE & Critiquing Metaverse Sci-Fi with Monika Bielskyte | Voices of VR Podcast