Neil Mather, Author at doubleloop

Read: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy
- Finished it. Enjoyed it. Would recommend.
- Need to go back and note it up a bit.
Read: Theories of International Politics and Zombies
- “How international relations theory can be applied to a zombie invasion”
- Fun.
- I remember some of Robert Biel‘s articles saying how international relations was a field that applied systems theory to politics, so was looking for something that is a bit of an easy primer – this seems like it!

Shower thought.
- I want to make sure that I document at least the top two or three salient claims from every book and article that I read.
- Otherwise it seems like wasted effort.
- I’ll tag book files such that I can run a query that pulls out those that I’ve read but have no associated claims.
- To do so will be a positive act of knowledge commoning.

2024-02-17

Read: Forest and Factory
- Deep dive into the logistics of production of motors.
- Interesting, but still not convinced that this constitutes a scientific account of transition, in the language of their own critique.
How repairable is a Vision Pro?
- “…you’ve more chance of walking to Venus than getting the Apple Vision Pro repaired if you damage it.” – Why Vision Pro is a repair nightmare | TechFinitive
I’d like to add a ‘New connections‘ page to my garden.
- Adding a new connections page to my garden.
Flancian told me about Orgzly Revived.
- This is very good news to me.

Read: How to stop a data center.
- How organisers in Santiago stopped the development of a data centre in their locality.
- Seemed to be mostly information campaigns around water usage.
- Less drastic than How to Blow Up a Data Centre.
Read: Imagining social movements: from networks to dynamic systems
- social movements and complex systems.

Had to give up on Red Enlightenment: On Socialism, Science and Spirituality for now.
- It’s intensely and densely philosophical. A bit too much for me (especially when reading it in the middle of the night…)
- I still like the premise though, so maybe I’ll just try and read the conclusion.
Started on Talking to My Daughter About the Economy instead.
- Subtitle: A Brief History of Capitalism.
- Easier to read, that’s for sure.
- I think some of his broad sweep of history of agriculture and surplus and economics might need a bit of fact-checking. c.f. The Dawn of Everything.