you're telling me of seven billion people on the planet each preparing and eating a non-zero amount of meals every day that the cook who makes the best tasting food owns a restaurant or has a youtube channel? be serious. go to some remote village in india i guarantee you somebody grandma is putting gordon ramsay in a spliff and smoking him
the art form most essential to our survival has absolutely been white cis-het capitalist patriarchied and the sooner we unlearn that the better off we'll all be
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funny and weird, but //actually// good and easy recipes. also mysterious because the hands are anonymous and i don't think anyone knows who this person is.
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cooking for your family in whatever sense they might be - relatives, friends, lovers - cook n eat together the best ritual 🧚♂️
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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