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When The Uk’s Covid-19 Lockdown started I started writing. Writing about all the things that are important to me. How I was thinking and feeling about the world. Some of what I wrote between March and May ended up here.
Craving Canon
Canon, fandom, solarpunk, narrative, cultural fracking and other problems with story worlds in 2020
Tales of the Next Internet @ Sonar+D
Talk Video & Transcript of Tales of the Next Internet @ Sonar+D
Half formed thoughts On ‘Ralphing’ and Compass Memes
This week feels like the week that the weird Accelerationist political 4×4 compass meme levelled up out of cave twitter and went into wider consciousness.
#Asperity
I completely forgot to blog about this when it went up: I wrote a piece last year for the 5 Viridian Years collection curated by Tim Maly over on Medium. ‘Viridian Design was an avant-garde bright green design movement engineered by Bruce Sterling and intended to address climate change. It ran from 1998-2008. Five years…
The Coming Asperity
THIS ESSAY WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED NOV 13, 2013 TO MEDIUM.COM AS PART OF THE 5 VIRIDIAN YEARS RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION. AS OF JAN 2020 IT HAD RECEIVED 1.8K VIEWS. JAY SPRINGETT IS A SOLARPUNK, THEORIST AND STRATEGIST FOR HYBRID ENVIRONMENTS. HIS CONCERNS ARE WITH CULTURE, HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT. HE IS CURRENTLY WRITING HIS FIRST PUBLIC BOOK: LAND AS PLATFORM.…
