Concepts

Design

The Comma Directory. Design elements and ideas for this website.

Minimalist Software. Collection of simple utilities for everyday life.

Beginnings. To set things into motion, or to arrive.

Cycles. Circular motion, patterns of movement in time.

Endings. Is to end to leave? Or is ending coming to a stop?

Home. On feeling at, longing for, and creating a home.

Dehumanization. Discourse and actions that construct an "other".

Humanization. Rapprochement, breaching distance with the "other".

Logic of War. Dichotomies that divide groups into enemies.

Movements. Collective change & revolution? Fanaticism & witch hunts?

Peace. A perpetual construction site, how do we build it last to last?

Violence. Its manifestations, its consequences, its causes.

Embodiment. Experience grounded in the body, its rhythms and its movements. The whole body as a site of knowledge and thought.

Dualism. The existance of the mind as independent from the body.

Local-first. More and more, today's software requires internet connection. But, what if that was not the case?

Measuring Energy Usage. We are expected to lower our CO2 footprint, but how can we do so without knowing how to measure improvements?

Permacomputing. Situating the idea of permaculture within the context of computing. For an intro see the original essay or XXIIVV wiki.

Memory. Words as building blocks for the (re)construction of memory.

Narrative Construction. How and why do we tell stories?

Publication. How do we disseminate ideas today? Why publish?