I recently finished At Work in the Ruins by Dougald Hine (co-author of the The Dark Mountain Manifesto). I aim to re-read it after it has sunk in a bit more. The arc of the book reminds me a bit of Bruno Latour’s thinking, in that it seems to make the axis of left/right political debates more two (or three) dimensional. In part, the book reflects on what we can learn from the response to the COVID19 pandemic, when thinking about climate change, and the unsustainable/extractive economies and...| inkdroid
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A monk asked Chao Chou, “The Ultimate Path has no difficulties–just avoid picking and choosing. As soon as there are words and speech, this is picking and choosing.’ So how do you help people, Teacher?” Chou said, “Why don’t you quote this saying in full?” The monk said, “I only remember up to here.” Chou said, “It’s just this: ‘This Ultimate Path has no difficulties–just avoid picking and choosing.’” (Cleary, 2005, p. 337) Cleary, T. (2005). The Blue Cliff Reco...| inkdroid
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Information is essential, and these days so readily available through the internet that we all suffer from a surfeit of it. But Information without selection and critique is like a relationship without love: everything you need is there, except the central element. And without it, nothing has real value. (Patterson, 2025, pp. 56–57). Patterson, I. (2025). Books: A Manifesto. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.| inkdroid
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From Jerome Rothenberg’s Pre-Faces and Other Writings: A Personal Manifesto (1966) I will change your mind; any means (= methods) to that end; to oppose the “devourers” = bureaucrats, system-makers, priests, etc. (W. Blake); “& if thou wdst understand that wch is me, know this: all that I have sd I have uttered playfully—& I was by no means ashamed of it.” (J. C. to disciples, The Acts of St. John) When I bought the book at Dog Eared Books in a visit to SF the bookseller told me ...| inkdroid
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