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• Changing Our Systems of Governance

  I have found Johar's essay From Power Diagrams to Settlement-Construction: What we may be missing about the New Right to be worth several re-readings. Read more

  The 20 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• New Ferality - Seeking New Ways of Being Wild in New Nature

  This post is to archive this link to a recent Venkatesh Rao essay, and also pass on condensations of its main ideas done by Google Gemini and ChatGPT 5.2. Read more

  The 18 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Medium, Substances, Surfaces (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 2)

  

  In this chapter, Gibson continues to lay out the rules of the environment (vs the physical world). In physics, there are objects in spaces, but this simply... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• The Animal and the Environment (Gibson, 1979, Chapter 1)

  Gibson's first chapter introduces his notion of the environment. This is a distinct level of description from the world according to physics, even though... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Reading Group - Gibson (1979) The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception

  

  Rob, Marianne, and I had so much fun with the Turvey (2019) reading group that we decided to keep going, and we decided to return to the source - Gibson's 1979... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Introductions in the 2014 Edition (Gibson, 1979 Reading Group)

  The 2014 reprint of Gibson (1979) includes the original Preface and Introduction, as well as an Introduction to the Classic Edition by William H Mace. Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Andrew D Wilson
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• Buying Futures, Renting the Past: How Speculation and Nostalgia Became the...

  I want to pass on this condensation by Google Gemini of a recent essay by Kyla Scanlon In her essay, "Buying Futures, Renting the Past," Kyla Scanlon explores... Read more

  The 16 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• MindBlog is Now 20 Years Old.

  I just realized that MindBlog is now starting its 21st year. I asked both Chat GPT 5.2 and Google Gemini about this, and paste in Gemini's sycophantic response... Read more

  The 13 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• Against the Machine

  I'm using this blog post to archive for myself ChatGPT 5.2's summary of Paul Kingsnorth’s "Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity" [In this same vein... Read more

  The 12 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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• The Future of Being Human

  

  I want to point to Patrick Tanguay's recent Sentiers piece and in particular to Johar's essay. I asked both ChatGPT and Google Gemini to summarize ideas in... Read more

  The 08 february 2026 by   Deric Bownds
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