Spiderwiki: "Spiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head."
I’m slowly rambling towards a regular writing practice of some kind. Thinking about a regular digital gardening practice and going to try and follow along with the Collector to Creator course.
Taken together, these two historical moments can help us imagine new ways to organize information that threaten the capitalist status quo— above all, by facilitating the wide circulation of the ideas of the oppressed.
In Capital is Dead, really liked reading Wark say how that to understand the current informatics-based forces of production, comrades with technical knowledge are needed to collaborate with those with the theoretical knowledge. I feel like I sit in the space between theoretical and technical where I could have something useful to contribute here.
I kind of see something like Ton’s public sharing of the details of his PKM as part of a body of artifacts for the Hacker class. That perhaps sounds a bit grandiose, but hey if Vectoralism is about appropriation of knowledge work and commodification of information, then open descriptions and sharing of how we do knowledge work without Vectoralist class tools is a small counter to that.
I’ve been reading through Ton‘s articles on his PKM system. Ton’s PKM. It’s of great interest to me because I really respect Ton’s views, and I’m keen to see where it might help me reflect on my own system. Ton tries to avoid silos and lock-in, and has recently been able to move much of his system to plain-text and Obsidian, and I think many of the methods would translate to org-mode, if I wanted them to. Thanks Ton for sharing it in such detail. https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2020/10/100-days-in-obsidian-pt-1/
