un-disciplined mind - Curious interstitial forager, Dharma Bum
Focused on the alchemy of cultural change
Re-Imagining the Local #mmt
high street is full of alluring cafés, most are chains & products taste the same. We step into the dark of the cinema hoping to be taken somewhere new, but the journey follows submerged tracks like a theme park ride, and the only destination is back home
https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot
it’s how patriarchy creates itself. Erasing women makes men into the main characters in life and in history, and women into supporting cast, or caste.
many users who ask themselves why a much older, familiar technology continues to thwart their attempts to complete apparently simple tasks. Dropping and positioning an image in a word document often leads to audible groans of frustration.
https://stripepartners.substack.com/p/this-months-frame-using-w-brian-arthurs
Brain regions can participate in multiple networks simultaneously and shift their roles as needed
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings
“interregnum,” a notion invoked frequently in aphoristic terms as a moment during which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” In such a moment, “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05/15/diseased-neoliberalism/
an experiment with all the proper controls and found that bees biting plants made their flowers bloom as much as thirty days earlier than they would otherwise
The goal is not to ask “What would Kant make of driverless cars?” or “what would Heidegger lament about Large Language Models?” but rather to allow for appearance and cultivation of a new school of philosophical/ technological thought