Back From Holiday so settling back in.
Prepare for my talk and a panel at Unsound Festival
Finish Land As Platform
Make an audio comic?
Finish some musicThank you to everyone who has downloaded and shared my zine!
Links:
Guild: http://guild.is
Unsound Poland: https://www.unsound.pl/solidarity/events
Primer: http://primer.dk
Unseen Audio Comic: https://www.unseencomic.com
Quarterly zine; my gift to you ✉️
To Do List
As usual big hello to any new and all subscribers. And a big thank you to all those who have downloaded and shared the first issue of start select reset. I’m really pleased with it. The phrase ‘Your attention is Sovereign” seems to have been useful to some, and for that I’m glad. It’s also sparked some interesting discussions i’ve seen around and about. Particularly on attention as currency.
Despite participation in the crypto space – and the decentralised artists network guild.is. I’m not so sure that ‘attention as currency‘ is the best way of thinking about it. I point you in the direction of some of the better critiques of the Brave Browser and it’s token ecosystem to pursue at your leisure.
For those that are unaware. People who use the Brave Browser can earn Basic Attention Tokens or BAT by viewing privacy-respecting ads. In return BAT can be used to Tip creators. You can also buy BAT to tip creators from your token bag. It’s an interesting system but doesn’t really feel like anything that new. It feels like a slicker implementation of Flattr’s first iteration back in 2010. Founded by two of the creators of the Pirate Bay.
Anyways. I’ve come back from holiday and trying am trying to get back into the swing of things. Massive solidarity with everyone out on the Climate Strike today, it’s inspirational. Despite all the massive protests that have happened in my lifetime. Today’s Climate strike has the most Secessio Plebis about it.
Today will be another bitty episode. A few people have asked me for more essays on the culture industry. Continuing my thoughts on cultural fracking like the spiderman show etc. But they will come when they come.
I thought today I would take a look at my todolist and tell you about some of the things I thinking about working on.
At the top of the list obviously is:
Find some more freelance work.
My work over the summer doing some strategy with a pre seed drone AI company has come to an end as they got their funding. All those hours in spreadsheets doing burn rate senarios was worth it.
And some recent work with a few quote un quote content creators on their monetization strategies has finished too.
I was hoping a big medium term project i was going to be involved with would drop this autumn. But unfortunately it’s been pushed to 2020 due to budget stuff.
The work I did with the youtubers was really helpful in my own life. Its inspired me to sort out my own web presence. I’ll be moving my blog etc over to thejaymo.net at some point and make that website my central web hub.
So I have some ideas and plans of things I want to do creatively.
Firstly, I need to finish my talk titled “Solarpunk: Life in the future beyond the rusted chrome of yestermorrow” ready for unsound festival in krakow in October. I’m planning on talking about how solarpunk works as a memetic engine for featuring our ideas space. It will also include the most in depth history of the movement/genre I’ve done so far. I’m planning on recording the audio on my phone so watch my youtube for that. I also have to prepare for a panel on interspecies solidarity. I’m planning on using the work of Kenneth Olwig on landship as a framing device.
I have a commitment to finish the first draft of Land as Platform by the end of the year. My talk in copenhagen at http://primer.dk in January will be its first complete outing.
I have a vague idea of finishing up an 20k word ebook I wrote during a manic phase in 2015. I wrote it post transmediale festival in Berlin. Where I’d ran a workshop on Mobilising Infrastructure Space and Stacktivism. The title is “Corporate Phenomenology In the age of Planetary Scale Computation – New Narrative Strategies“.
I was working at a subsidiary of Gartner at the time and felt i needed to get all the ideas out of my head. But. It can be summed up with the subtitle. “If a corporation think it’s a person, then the singularity has already happened”. and it might be worth it seeing the light of day.
I have a few loose plans to do more audio projects to come out here on this feed. One is a self contained solarpunk fiction project on a solarpunk short story i wrote. Whilst well received by the anthology it was rejected. The repurposing of the project is inspired by the recent release of https://www.unseencomic.com/ by chad allen which is an audio comic for blind (and sighted) audiences. Its fantastic. Link in the show notes.
Lastly, I’ve been really into synthwave as I’ve playing the game hotline miami on the switch. I’ve made a couple of tracks. And as I think of myself as a musician before anything else it might be cool to put something out.
Permanently Moved
Permanently Moved (dot) Online is a quarterly audio personal podcast, written, recorded and edited by by @thejaymo
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