"The _Companion Species Manifesto_ is, thus, about the implosion of nature and culture in the relentlessly historically specific, joint lives of dogs and people who are bonded in significant otherness." — P.16, Donna Haraway (1993) #rereads #theLibrary
What even is adulthood?
Biologically, turning 24 and ceasing growth?
Economically, turning 18 and ready to be exploited in the workplace, or kill in a war?
Sociologically, having to kill all your interests, and replace them. With drab, unexciting, bland, tasteless doldrum. Or you'll forever be economically locked out of any opportunity, for expressing yourself.
Adulthood is bullshit, don't ever grow up.
Grow your interests, and never lose yourself.
=== EXTENDED ===
== Call LIVE Director ===
LIVE Biennale Performance Art Society is seeking New Leadership!
details:
=== Active Passive - Line Up ===
Vol. 4
2022 August 21st, 1-9pm, Galiano Island
* IHA
* Caro
* tondive
* Lori Goldston
* Andromeda Monk
* Ora Cogan & Jon Scherk
* Genuine Happiness
* Zen Escalator
* Andy Zuliani
* Wallgrin
* PRS
=== LIVE is Searching for New Leadership ==
Their is no "Great Reset"
Their is no "Great Replacement"
Their is no (insert conspiracy theory)
We're going to fucking die if we don't solve climate change.
And were not going to be successful, unless we stop Capitalism
That's it, that's literally what's happening.
Scientists have even said so.
They release the same damn report, with the same damn conclusions every quarter.
"As I've written, it's not just that every billionaire is a policy failure: every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures at scale" — Cory Doctorow
The downsides of a world with billionaires in it are well-rehearsed: billionaires can convert their vast wealth to power, and use that power to turn their whims and pet theories into policy failures that affect millions - or even billions - of people.
Take Bill Gates. Forget all the conspiracy theories about Gates and vaccines - it's bizarre that people bother to make up those fairy-tales when the truth is so much worse.
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Please join us for watching and interacting with the Performance Art <Game[2Vancouver]>
Thursday May 12th, 7 pm
at VIVO MEDIA ARTS CENTRE
https://underconstruction.vivomediaarts.com/programming/game-2vancouver
=== LP360:VR Salon ===
at The Fishbowl from May 11 - 14, various show times.
The makers of @pixelfed, the Fediverse photo sharing platform, have just created a slick new guide to the Fediverse at:
It's got a list of Fedi projects, a list of mobile apps for Fedi platforms and an opt-in directory of people to follow.
The directory is particularly interesting as it works very differently to FediFollows or Trunk. You add hashtags to your profile plus a special extra hashtag #Fedi22, then submit your profile to the site, and it will become searchable for the tags in your profile.
(And, yes, Mastodon is part of the Fediverse, see here for details: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108215973331591896)
@exquisitecorp I only do computer tasks in the morning, I don't think I could give you any useful ritual if you're a night owl.
Generally, I "create" in the morning, I "maintain" in the afternoon, and I "explore" in the evening. I wake up with the sun, and read when the sun sets.
Brady is a #ComputationalArtist, who is concerned with our technological entanglement, and creates media configurations that express a middle way between technological fetishism and dystopian fantasies.