This 1000 times over

Im of the opinion that in our everyday lives, we often attribute foundational concepts and actions to digital technologies that are already latent within “nature”, or living systems. Computation, signal processing, even the basis of organizations and institutions have been latent

Something I've poured my heart and soul into, is growing into its own life form. A book written by myself, and @RegenFdn. I'll be unpacking facets and positions of the work, and the larger field over the coming months so get ready for nuanced hot takes. Learn more 👇

Excited to announce an upcoming event from a new R&D studio I'm involved in called River Computer. If you’re interested in how living systems can be understood as computational and cognitive systems (rivers as computers), this will be relevant. We’ll introduce the studio, share

This post is a reminder to myself that 20+ years ago I cultivated and sold oyster mushrooms in vertically suspended bags of sterilized straw in bulk, and now... wiser, grittier, and prettier, I can pick that project back up anytime I want...

I'll be discussing the intersections of mutualism, commoning, and gift-economies at the Mutualist Society pods tmrw morning w/ Sara Horowitz and Thaddeus Squire. If don't already know about the Mutualist Society, now's the time to get acquainted. https://t.co/aB4mVpsStH

civic covenants... who's in?

Life is a dynamic interplay between an interpretive “inside” and a meaningful “outside.” All biology is semiosis. - Donald Favareau, Introduction "A More Developed Sign" PDF - https://t.co/CSlhId5Wk5

I dont really think the work I do is "ecological". I just think it's regular social stuff at a higher order of entanglement

The world always already was an internet and we just overlayed a payment system on it

Am thinking about zero’s with metadata. A zero from Basel... Your sister’s zero... A file containing the number zero, that weighs 5mb. Nothing with provenance. So fun

“Formerly we thought of a hierarchy of taxa – individual, family line, subspecies, species etc – as the unit of survival. We now see a different hierarchy of units – gene-in-organism, organism-in-environment, ecosystem, etc. Ecology in the widest sense turns out to be the study

Last year artist @alvarobarringto and I wrote about how Notting Hill Carnival creates £100 million in economic value through collective creativity and community enterprise. Now it faces urgent funding cuts that threaten its future. This is exactly what's wrong with our economic

I'll be doing a deep dive on recent ideas and prototypes for the @UBC Blockchain Research Cluster this Thursday 06/12 at 1pm EST. Registration is open to public, so if you'd like to get a wash of some new thinking about how living systems and technical systems touch come through!

crafting involvement

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Still working through this idea of feral technology, so I wrote an intro. It draws on alt tech lineages rooted in living signs and compounds, not stone or bronze. Feels timely in an era of agents, big pattern compression, and tools that extend how we see and communicate. link👇

Feel like half my day is spent authenticating myself