I’ve been doing quite a lot of reading and not much writing the past week or so. I think that’s OK. It’s things I know I’m interested in, just don’t know that much about yet. I think the notes will coalesce into something eventually, with a bit of tending. The note-taking I’ve been doing is a bit too much copy-paste, not enough writing in my own words, so I could probably do with revisiting them a bit.
I’ve noticed some constellations of interest forming around agency, self-determination, networked agency, assemblage thinking, actor-network theory, the actor model. Which tie into my past interests in agent-based systems, and technological and political distributed systems.
Also a strand on meditation, appropriate technology, Buddhist economics, and Schumacher, triggered by the Rev Left Radio episode on Meditation, Materialism, and Marxism. Panda previously recommended Buddhist economics to me.
One of the participants at our last unconference, Heinz, also remarked on the link between networked agency and Latour and ANT https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/09/latours-actor-network-theory/
Also wrt your remark on being practice grounded, https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2018/09/heinz-on-stm18/ , formulated it in a way that stood out to me: So it’s not about developing an overarching moral claim in a small context , but about shaping and networking one’s personal life in such a way that you collectively expand your capabilities to act. ….. ….that you meet people or meet them again, for whom these themes are personal themes, so that they are actually talking about their lives when they talk about them. Thanks for highlighting these notions again, helpful to understand my own ‘oracle messages’ better as well!