Enzo Mari’s Autoprogettazione

...an download Mari’s 1974 manual Autoprogettazione (roughly translatable as “self design”). The goal of Autoprogettazione is not to just offer measured drawings, rather it’s a manual to teach a vocabulary you can use to design and build your own furniture. Mari says, Therefore the way should be to involve the user of a consumer item in the design and realization of the item designed. Only by actually touching the diverse contradictions of the job is...

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Eating the Void: On Making a Raw Café Gratitude Chocolate Hazelnut Pie

...portunity to start practicing saying something new and affirming about yourself by simply placing your order. All of the items on our menu have self affirming names like “I am adoring,” “I am loved,” or “I am fulfilled,” which is how we encourage customers to order what they want. Then when the servers bring them their food and drinks, they place them down saying, “You are loved,” or “You are fulfilled”! Many of the recipes involve hours of dehydr...

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Saturday Linkages: One Year Behind the Mask

...In Japan, His Disaster Art Saves Lives Dutch Oven Cornbread In Your Fireplace = Easy La La La La La La How grey was my valley: forgotten Welsh architecture – in pictures Elon Musk declared himself ‘technoking’. He’s just a hyper-capitalist clown Giving Up the Ghost: On the Legacy of Mark Fisher Rick Roderick – Self Under Siege Why Bikes Make Smart People Say Dumb Things...

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News From Nowhere

...y support legalized pot but I can’t help but think that so many people are self medicating to relieve the misery of low paid work, the anxiety of the pandemic and life in this meaningless corridor leading to nowhere. It would be a mistake to just go along and accept this world as it is, to think that it’s just a matter of morality or that we can somehow go back to a previous “golden age” way of doing things. As Angela Davis said in a lecture in 20...

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Cartrivision: The Netflix of 1972

Self described “hardware/software necromancer” @foone posted some remarkable hardware necromancy in Twitter about an Ebay auction for a rare 1970s television containing a Cartivision, a long forgotten forerunner to the VCR. As @foone put it, Cartrivision is an early (1972) home video format which had some wacky DRM nonsense (well, ARM I guess, it’s not digital) and it only lasted about a year, and one of the reasons it’s impossible to play now is...

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