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city roads Jan 26, 2020 blog

Beautiful rendering of the roads in any town/city/area: anvaka.github.io/city-roads/ Reblogged from daringfireball.net/linked/2020/01/24/city-maps

beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing Jan 26, 2020 blog Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too

dance my life away Jan 20, 2020 blog I don’t wanna die, I’d rather dance my life away – Prince “1999” (written in 1982)

git Jan 14, 2020 blog Git is what is known as a Version Control System primarily used by software developers to collaborate, to track the progress of their work, and to

move slow Jan 12, 2020 blog Move slow and take care of things

consent is only meaningful if it is informed Jan 12, 2020 blog The whole thing about whistle blowing [is that] it’s not about me. It’s about us and always is. In a democracy Government derives its legitimacy

just like you Jan 12, 2020 blog Walk gently on this earth with purposeful steps You share this space with seven billion human beings And countless other precious life forms Just

the ordinary people Jan 7, 2020 blog

You can cheer the end of Sulaimani and still be anti-war. You can condemn the way Sulaimani was executed but still be relieved that he is no longer

terrible sex Jan 6, 2020 blog It’s hard not to love Nina Power’s attempt to write a theory of dance: Dancers intimidate normal, unhealthy people. Their superior physique and

the long arc Jan 5, 2020 blog

I don’t seem to be posting a lot about dance and art at the moment but I couldn’t help but post this clear and succinct summary of the terrible

end of a dancer Jan 3, 2020 blog

Where dancers go to die (or open a pilates studio)

stuck on a sentence Dec 31, 2019 blog In August 2018, The New York Times published a history of the critical decade — 1979-1989 — in relation to the science and politics of climate

the worth of an idea Dec 29, 2019 blog All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all. Because the worth of the idea

on silence and speaking Dec 22, 2019 blog Not speaking and speaking are both human ways of being in the world, and there are kinds and grades of each. There is the dumb silence of slumber or

Dance and whiteness Dec 20, 2019 practice

Contemporary Dance and Whiteness is a research project by Royona Mitra, Arabella Stanger and me. We aim to to explore racism in contemporary dance

challenge our ways Dec 8, 2019 blog I always thought if we expect our students to challenge things, we as tutors should also challenge our ways of teaching. – Klaus Hoek This is

some dancing Dec 2, 2019 blog Some dancing I was doing back in 2017 as part of daily practice to do with thinking about and sensing time

strong opinions Dec 2, 2019 blog Here’s technology forecaster Paul Saffo from 2008: Since the mid-1980s, my mantra for this process [forecasting] is “strong opinions, weakly held.”

every young person Dec 1, 2019 blog I think every young person who regularly uses a computer should learn the following: how to choose a domain name how to buy a domain how to

education as a privately consumed good Dec 1, 2019 blog What I can say is common between the founding intellectual ideas and the roll out [of neoliberalism] is that the idea that only two things ought to