jillian crandall

@shanley @OJutel Thanks folks, this means a lot- and for those who want to read more the full open access paper is linked here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

@OJutel Hard hitting, epic, foundational work from @networkurb researchgate.net/publication/38…

A thread of some of the best articles and documents about the Network State. Please use them to learn about what is happening here + share with others. The Network State is *essential* to understand what will happen when Trump takes office in 9 days.

Not the “normal energy plants”!

@FieldsDesiree Thanks for sharing, Desiree!

voices inside the whirlwind saying the end is not destruction, saying two is not the answer, saying revolution is bigger than both of us, revolution is a science that infers the future presence of us.

Minnie Bruce Pratt, excerpt from The Tornado (in Magnified): Beauty into nothingness. You say, 'Let’s step back from the window.' You clasp my hand. What will be left of us? Bits of sound and matter, exhorting

By extension, I ask how does the design of our built environment enable the explorational space of fluidity of the individual in relation to a collective body?

John Jennifer Marx ends with the provocation: “Is there a core gender within ourselves, or are we only ever made in relation to the world that surrounds us? What, then, are our responsibilities to one another?”

Digging this recent monograph from AR, Towards Abundance: The Delightful Paradoxes of Gender digital.emap.com/38997/89687/in…

@mcmansionhell His argument is stupidly false. As someone who has been temporarily unhoused and who has lived in an SRO to avoid being homeless, if that single room didn’t have a window I’d probably not be alive to argue why windows are a human need. Almost as if that’s the whole point.

Living in a SRO in my 20s kept me from being unhoused but having a window kept me alive.

Demolishing a plate of emotional support potatoes

@tcmurray I bring the topic to our Cities&Territories course and our housing studio @ RPI Architecture, particularly addressing aesthetics of exclusion/inclusion & alternative affordable housing models that help combat displacement. But many critics think it falls outside the discipline.

Forget BIM, embroidery is the future of architectural drawings.

@TheChrisTharp @nayibbukele I don’t write about El Salvador in this article but I do center US imperialism in PR; agree it cannot be overstated- my title is a nod to Julian Go’s xlnt piece “Chains of Empire, Projects of State: Political Education and U.S. Colonial Rule in Puerto Rico & the Philippines”.

.@networkurb also criticizes @NayibBukele’s efforts to mine #Bitcoin using energy from Conchagua Volcano in #ElSalvador What she misses / ignores is violence & imperialism perpetrated through US dollarization & debt foisted upon these sovereignties.🇸🇻🇵🇷💸 jilliancrandall.net/wp-content/upl…

Don’t like labels—but some characterize my PoV as being classically liberal—tradition that viewed economic freedom as foundational to economic prosperity; increasingly powerful government controls only create distortions in prices & information leading to miscalculation & crises.

@TheChrisTharp But maybe that’s ok as an interim for smaller micro-economies. I’m a fan of the technological solidarity movement and platform cooperativism & while of course these have challenges I would love to see how decentralized ledgers could work equitably run by and for Puerto Ricans.

@TheChrisTharp Hi Christopher thanks for engaging w/ the piece, to clarify I did not pose VyC as a solution but as an example of alternative economic efforts and movements by Puerto Ricans. There’s a range of other reasons community currencies cannot “compete” at scale with the US dollar

Join us next Sunday 10.17 in FOUNDATIONS: TOKEN, a free event for the Venice Biennale’s Virtual Italian Pavilion, where we will be talking futures of (crypto)currency, exchange, and what it means for geographies, space, design. More info & registration: eventbrite.com/e/foundations-…