Kola
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Kola
@KolaHR
phd student @StanfordMTL. prev: faculty assistant @UMD_MITH. words in @logic_magazine, @COMPOSTmag, @ReckoningMag + others. he/him.
Katılım Haziran 2013
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new story alert! so grateful to be part of this retrospective on the Whole Earth Catalog :) check out "Getting Really Into Walks," which is all about taking Buckminster Fuller and his ideas really seriously
redux.wholeearth.info/index/getting-…
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@nnepenthes when you invent your own genre and nobody else ever joins you there 😌
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thinking abt the design of this book I read as a kid,,,so so so cool
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@bogosbinched damn…that’s terrible. hope my point didn’t come across as romanticizing WU or claiming that they weren’t cult like. I was just trying to highlight radical political action in that time of US history was also happening within a wider global unrest
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OBAA is a Hollywood movie though. it’s not the place to look for good history or revolutionary potential. fun action scenes, though. the closing sections of SDS by Kirkpatrick Sale provide some great details on WU’s formation and its relationship to white radicalism at the time
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the WU was a splinter cell of the way more moderate SDS. they blew things up bc they saw themselves as the US frontlines of a global revolution. in the context of active decolonization struggles unfolding worldwide, their position went beyond a “larp”!
Jonas Čeika@Jonas_Ceika
All I'll say about the One Battle After Another discourse is that the 60s/70s American urban guerrillas it's drawing from WERE often in fact ineffective LARPers who did a lot of stupid things. Hence why, for example, Fred Hampton criticized the Weather Underground.
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@VIRGINICIDAL @nonchalantly_ @disrupthehuman totally! I see some wild examples of this in the smart city projects I’ve been studying in Nigeria. postcolonial dynamics mediated through fantasies of technological surveillance
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@KolaHR @nonchalantly_ @disrupthehuman Technology lean is interesting; I’m reading necropolitics rn and thinking about the predictive algorithms of race and society as computer with the rise of predictive algorithmic security and related things. Spitballing just to say that I find this intriguing
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it's 2025 and the most vehement haters of Afropessimism still do not know what ontological means
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@nonchalantly_ @VIRGINICIDAL @disrupthehuman no fr, it’s too quiet in this corner 😭 DeForrest is doing great critical, in-depth work on Afrofuturism+black electronic music. I attended some talks of his, most recently in Berlin, where he had this unreal timeline of electronic subgenres and how they forked from one another
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