I'm a knowledge worker for the crafts. I live in Australia, where East and West meet in the South. From there, I edit @garlandmag
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The Roasters of Brunswick: The world in a cup
There is an astonishing abundance of coffee roasters in Brunswick. Each offers a unique story to savour with our morning brew.
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Snake Talk: A yarn with story-makers across the globe Tyson Yunkaporta reflects on the fluid connections made by serpent beings between peoples and nature. garlandmag.com/article/snake…
I have read Musa Al-Gharbi's "We Have Never Been Woke." It makes me ask, what is it that we symbolic capitalists are good for?
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We are delighted to share an essay by Dr. Kevin Murray @kmaustral "Knowledge weaving: A global tapestry of human sense-making" that covers his wide range of activities in the craft field.
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Life as a 'Non-Standard' Narrative by Hannah Kim
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Kim argues that the heroic narrative is culturally specific to an individualistic society, but her understanding of narrative is monological. She needs to take into account the audience. Narrative is social.
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Farid Abu Shakra ✿ GROUND? The curator Shlomit Bauman and the artist Farid Abu Shakra seek a common humanity. garlandmag.com/loop/farid-ab…
"We should make more of the things of our life, and know that we are doing so. We are a physical, social, cooperative species, not the airy avatars of economic models, point particles of labour and desire."
Guy Rundle
crikey.com.au/2024/04/26/mad…
It's great to see more social analysis in Crikey. This is an important read.
Meta quietly changed the default settings of every Instagram and Threads user last month to show less political content. Well, they tried to do it quietly. But in the frenzied backlash a subtle change flew under the radar, writes @crystal_jane. crikey.com.au/2024/04/18/met…
I did a Google search with the words "Temu" and "dopamine". I thought I'd get a sharp critical essay about the expanding frontier of limbic capitalism. Instead, I got page after page of dopamine products available on Temu. Nowhere to turn.
Strange how I find this on @nytimes and not in the Australian news media. Is Sinophobia not newsworthy?
nytimes.com/2024/03/16/world…
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Join @drurmilamohan , Prof. Susan Rodgers and Prof. Patrícia Rodrigues de Souza in a discussion on craft hosted by @kmaustral @garlandmagazine
12 March ‘24 at 6 pm NY Eastern Time.
Register on Zoom.
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#efficaciousintimacy #worldmaking #craft #tjp
The new @otter_ai AI transcript summaries are impressive, but they have now removed the export of manual highlights. AI should not replace our own judgment of what's important.
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Praise be all the critters!
As a culmination of the Sensorium series, we offer you a recipe for a poly-sensory ceremony to acknowledge creatures whose value is seriously underestimated. garlandmag.com/loop/sensoriu…
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How many homes in Brunswick and Coburg are still adorned with furniture bought from the (now closed) Franco Cozzo store in Sydney Road? theguardian.com/australia-ne…
Today the board of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies announced it would step down. This will allow a new generation of scholars and activists to take over. They represent an engaged and supportive community.
#transformIPCS