Category: Weeknotes 🗓️
A weekly missive from the virtual desktop of Jay Springett. Begun as an attempt to cultivate a regular writing and posting rhythm. Weeknotes newsletters cover what I’ve been; reading, doing, thinking about, and include links recommendations, a good meme and more. Every week without fail.
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No Marxist Disco
I also went to see Tim Ingold speak at the Monsoon [+ other] Grounds Symposium hosted at University of Westminster. He was speaking on ‘What is the ground’ and was extremely Ingold-ian. I loved it.
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Nice
I met with the founder of a super cyberpunk real estate project for Lunch on Friday.
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The odyssey – it’s long
I’ve seen a lot of friends that I haven’t seen in ages this week. Still haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet which is beginning a slow burn stress.
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Little black box of banality
I’ve been back on the chalk again. Went down late on Wednesday night.
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Citizenships and Community
You may remember I spoke about Kennith Olwig and his concept of landscape in episode 3 of permanently moved way back in April.
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Excess Salt
I caught up with some friends who i haven’t seen in a while, and also with my brother who is about to start a grand year long adventure abroad.
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Dystopias Now
Went to the launch of Ignota Books’ first publication Spells on Halloween.
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The Future Starts Today
I don’t know who many of you are even reading – let me know in the comments if you are – but i’m not particularly bothered.
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Next Up
Unsound was great. Had an amazing time. Might write a follow up piece to this talking through my highlights as I saw a lot of great artists.
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Catching Up
“The names of blockchain firms make Californian companies look humble – Gnosis, Ether, Kraken, Stellar …. Ontology” – Ben Cerveny I missed a week last weeks blog entry. I thought it might feel like the weekly chain had been broken and everything comes tumbling down. But it doesn’t so there’s that. The week before last was…
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Use a cobra-snake for a necktie
Had lunchtime coffees with friends through out the week.
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Another week past
If you listened to my podcast a while back on the synesthesia I have – where conversations have shapes and ‘materiality’ then you’ll know that I had a wild ride, a good conversation with someone is extremely pleasurable.
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Do what you can
There is so much utter nonsense going on in the world right now, it is difficult to fathom it all. But knowing that you have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on is a great help.
