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Random and untidy. Cloned at https://nitter.cf/t.co/asN3wXo1Pv and sometimes elsewhere.
Joined February 2009
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QS Show&Tell meetings are back. Steven Dean is organizing one for NYC in celebration of the book launch.
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In the spring of 2000, I got an assignment to go talk with Christopher Alexander at his rented house on Shasta Street in Berkeley, about a half hour walk from campus. The exterior was pink and dusty, the interior a desperate mess, and I felt an immediate sympathy for this stout and rumpled genius, who talked with me in an oversize blue shirt hanging loose and bare feet... Perhaps “talked with me,” is too gentle. He felt I needed firm correction. He’d read something I’d written about Rem Koolhaas and called it immoral. I didn’t like that. I said I’d neither excused nor glamorized. He made a sound of pain. He compared Koolhaas to Adolf Eichmann and asked: “Can one write objectively about such a person?” He had serious doubts about me, and before we agreed to talk more he wanted to understand where I was really coming from. That made sense. But in the next hours, he elicited very little information because he spoke without interruption. More here: thequantifiedself.substack.c…
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Our book is finally coming out, and the pre-order campaign starts today.
THE QUANTIFIED SELF: LEARNING TO OBSERVE (Workman, Oct 6). Pre-orders move reviewers and bookstores - pls help if you can.
Pre-order: amazon.com/dp/1523527927
Episode 2 of the Quantified Self Podcast: "Epistemic Agency." With Sara Riggare, Steven Jonas, Thomas Blomseth Christiansen, and Jakob Eg Larsen. thequantifiedself.substack.c…
Excerpt: "I had a chance to work with the great designer Paul Sahre..."
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Took a tour of social accounts to try to see where to post news of the new quantified self book, Substack, and archive, and eventually decided "everywhere but the Facebook group." (Do not try that one.) Here's our new hub: thequantifiedself.substack.c… @quantifiedself
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Is Quantified Self still active?
Yes — we’re back with a newly revived website and archive and a new Substack newsletter, Learning to Observe. Personal experiments, useful methods, and new work from the QS community:
thequantifiedself.substack.c…
Two kinds of social solidarity: universal solidarity (respect for every individual's human rights, the basis of mutual care and civil society) and ethnic solidarity (dissolution of the individual, along with their rights, into a non-human amalgam).
