Notes from June 2025

Oldest to newest
1. Venezuela economic collapse
2. How Sanctions Work
3. Frederik Rasten's "Strands of Lunar Light"
4. Against majoritarianism
5. "Joinery"
6. "Sculpture is different from painting"
7. Textiles and abstraction
8. Weaving vs. painting
9. Abstraction vs symbolic cosmology
10. The "problems" of basketry
11. Ed Rossbach's "Constructed Color Wall Hanging"
12. "The age of repression" (or the lack thereof)
13. The "sexual cause"
14. Is sex repressed?
15. Nick Borelli's "Mold Mold Mold"
16. Declines in property crime and violent crime
17. Autechre flow chart
18. Josephine Berry on art
19. The Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
20. Multiplying edges
21. Suzi Gablik's "reenchantment"
22. How things hold
23. The self as environment
24. "No being is purely individual"
25. "Extractivist art"
26. Material and relational attachments
27. "Toxic dualisms" in art
28. Activism over art
29. Allan Kaprow, art, attention, and living
30. "We are nature defending itself"
31. "Acting as if you were already free"
32. The bocage
33. Moorland commons
34. "Reappropriating cities"
35. Kropotkin the geographer
36. The state's portion of history
37. "Les Sentiers de l'Utopie"
38. The Zapatistas
39. "Space-based movements"
40. Inhabitation as resistance
41. From commune life to surveillance capitalism
42. Michael Snow's "La Region Centrale"
43. Michael Snow's "So Is This"
44. David Keenan's "Volcanic Tongue"
45. Magic, attention, and imagination
46. The habits of thought
47. Perceptions of jargon and unclarity
48. "Defamiliarization for whom?"
49. The "social dimensions of style"
50. "Taste" and the repertoire of possible lenses
51. Warner's central concerns
52. Success in the public sphere
53. The inhibition of public-minded discussion
54. Journalists vs public discussion
55. Public politics vs public discussion
56. The segregation of intellectual publics
57. Warner on university presses
58. The "axiomatic preference for complexity"
59. Dialogue vs polemic, for Foucault
60. Foucault's "problematization"
61. Foucault and the public/private distinction
62. Foucault's view of inquiry
63. John Guillory's "On Close Reading"
64. What close reading is (for Guillory)
65. Close Reading in the Twenty-First Century
66. What close reading is (for Sinykin / Winant)
67. The five steps of close reading
68. "Horror in Architecture"

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