Spool-Five

Here’s our prompt for the day (optional, as always).

Today’s prompt is based on the ‘surrealist’ questions/answers by Paul Celan, for exmple:

It’s day one of poetry writing month of 2023.

Overview A folgezettel is a ’next note’.

tags #philosophy An (in)famous concept from the hermeneutic philosophy of Martin Heidegger.

It’s the beginning of a new year and I’ve dusted off an old smartwatch to help me with my new year’s goal of exercising and staying active more.

tags #philosophy I am rooted, but I flow. ― Virginia Woolf

A post about my own personal 2022 - financial situation, GTD, and downtime.

One of my goals for 2023 is to use YouTube as little as possible.

TODO

tags #philosophy Gilbert Simondon Process Philosophy The term ‘concrescence’ was coined by Alfred North Whitehead and figures strongly in his systematic account of process.

tags #philosophy years 1861 - 1947 notable works Process and Reality, Adventures of Ideas Originally a mathematician, Whitehead’s primary contribution to contemporary thought is through his Process Philosophy and Process Theology.

A Halloween Story

There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road.

tags #philosophy A difficult term to explain in a brief note, but I’ll try anyway.

I’ve just finished listening to the Homogenic episode of Bjork’s new podcast series Sonic Symbolism.1 Each episode of the podcast is a retrospective look at a Bjork album.

tags #technology I putting this note here more as a reminder to go an do some actual research on this topic.

tags #philosophy years 1952-2020 notable works Technics and Time An influential philosopher of technology.

A week ago, I switched my life to being primarily ‘offline’.

Snow Crash - A book by Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.

Last week (28 July), the Irish government reached an agreement on targets for carbon reduction across multiple sectors.

This site is hosted on Sourcehut and generated using Hugo.

Related to Idomdrottning’s post: Communism Against Earth Tug of war on the brink will lead to both falling over.

tags #biology #environmentalism Observe & Interact (the forces present on a site)

tags #biology #environmentalism :TODO: Fill in this section Permaculture refers to a way of thinking about land dwelling and the management of living systems, whose end goal is sustainability and ecological flourishing.

tags #technology #biology Permacomputing is an offshoot of permaculture .

tags #philosophy #technology #biology An influential philosopher of technology. noteable works On the Mode of Existenct of Technical Objects

An idealised place that is nowhere.

Gemini is an internet protocol designed by solderpunk in 2019.

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics There has been some debate over the image of the “circle” when discussing the hermeneutic circle.

tags #philosophy, #hermeneutics A theory that claims, broadly, that understanding is the product of iterative interactions between wholes and parts.

tags #philosophy A concept used by Jurgen Habermas in his book The Future of Human Nature.

tags #philosophy As espoused in From Chance to Choice, liberal eugenics is a system which seeks to apply John Rawls’ Theory of Justice to the field of genetics.

tags #philosophy #biology A highly influential idea first introduced by systems biologists Fancisco J Varela and Humberto Maturana.

The study of life.

tags #philosophy The Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness is one of those philosophical ideas that has stayed with me ever since someone first told me about it.

Updated [2023-03-28 Tue] I now use denote for managing my notes.

Org roam is a plain-text personal knowledge management system.

As with many features of org/emacs, it can be a bit intimidating at first.

The Box 3 portion of this website is my attempt at creating an online directory of personal knowledge notes.

Clippings from things I’ve read.

I’m writing this in response to the May 6th entry on Ran Prieur’s, always-lovely, blog:

I participated in this year’s global/national poetry writing month and I actually managed to write a poem a day!

Phew!

Today was another one of those busy days when I didn’t even have time to check the daily prompt.

Today’s prompt was an interesting one.