not in a hater-esque “this shit is wack” way but in an radical-imagination-for-a-better-world way, i think there’s too much we simply can’t accept and if the stuff we *can* accept can be better, why not try? i think there’s a sweet spot between being content and being complacent and it’s important to strive for something more while also recognizing that getting there takes time and we have to find solace on the journey while still putting foot in front of foot
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reminder to self to stay open to other ideas and possibilities and perspectives
Feb 29, 2024
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radical acceptance in a non toxic positivity way. acceptance to where you have been and where you are going. acceptance in contrast. acceptance in how the way things are.
Aug 14, 2024
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i find that trying to accept that the world places constraints on us and we have no choice but to operate within those can help me loosen my grip on self-criticism in the pursuit of perfection
Jun 18, 2024
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024
