before i moved to the west coast, the deepest into the “country” i’d been was bethlehem, pa (an hour and a half into pennsylvania from nyc) - still suburbia, but more sprawled, more “rural”. going to pendleton and seeing what long, scenic highways and wide open fields and rolling hills had going on, no major metropole in sight, wasn’t something i ever saw myself doing!
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A great place to visit in the Fall, especially if you need a break from the hustle and bustle of the big city. Nobody knows about or cares about any of the things that fill the NYC zeitgeist and it's very refreshing to experience. It's a cold plunge of a home visit I do every few months.
Nov 6, 2023
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it’s like worshiping at the church of a religion I’m not a part of
Nov 22, 2024
My soul home. I dreamt of it before I ever visited. When I did, I didn’t want to leave. I came back and dreamt of it every night for weeks, waking up crying. I got engaged there. I eloped there. I almost moved there years before. My husband actually lived there before we met. I’d love to retire to a cabin in one of the forests. When I die, that’s where I’ll be.
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Mar 23, 2024
a treatise on the attention economy - checked it out on libby and got through it over the course of a work day, a lot of really interesting social and cultural explorations about how time itself is the final frontier of hypercapitalism and what decommodification of our attention and time should look like
the book starts with a story about the oldest redwood tree in oakland and how the only reason it’s still standing is bc it’s unmillable, and how being uncommercializable is essential to our survival. it ends with an exploration of alt social media platforms (mostly p2p ones) and what keeping the good parts of the social internet and rejecting the bad ones should look like
all in all a super valuable read; my only nitpick with the book is that odell isn’t just charting the attention economy but also attempting to “solve” it and relate it back to broader concepts about labor and social organizing, but her background is in the arts which leads to some really wonderful references to drive the points home while also missing some critical racial + socioeconomic analyses that one would expect (or at least really appreciate) from the book she promises to deliver in the introduction. but this does also make the book easier to read which is good because everyone should definitely engage with what she has to say
will definitely be revisiting
Mar 25, 2024