#howToDoNothing

2023-12-16

"The actual play-by-play of the [Montgomery] bus boycott is a reminder that meaningful acts of refusal have come not directly from fear, anger, and hysteria, but rather from the clarity and attention that makes organizing possible."

- Jenny Odell
#HowToDoNothing

Lost (she/they)lostletters@cutie.city
2023-10-01

Since my leave of absence from work starts today, here's my reading list:
#HowToDoNothing by Jenny Odell
#RestIsResistance by Tricia Hersey
#NoShortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age by Jane McAlevey
#YouDeserveATechUnion by @beep
If you have any recs for books along similar #anticapitalism and #collectivebargaining veins, please let me know! #bookstodon

BowieBookClubBookClub
2022-12-03

Taking this book kind of literally.


@bookstodon

2019-09-19

Reading a great book on communes / intentional communities from 1971, written by a sympathetic but outsider journalist after touring and visiting them cross country for 3 years. Much crashing and burning and dissolution, but also great senses of what is motivating and functioning in parts. The questions of decision making and open/closed membership are central.

Referenced in #HowToDoNothing, it has the great title #GettingBackTogether by Robert Houriet.

2019-09-05

#Reading Jenny Odell's #HowToDoNothing call to reclaim attention from advertising social networks to retain more will and more connection->sensitivity->attentiveness to place and region. Discusses #mastodon briefly towards the end as well as #ssb, I quite like the idea of a home-based pub/instance for when folks visit, in our case almost a Guestbook (and echoes early bbs and web guestbooks). It is a beautiful book of non-traditonal art criticism and contextualism as well.

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