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| title | subtitle | disclaimer | reading conditions | chapter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hacking maintenance with care | some principles for a gentle polite caring survival in self-administered and floss infrastructures | the title and subtitle might change | admin realism |
More and more of us looked up one day and realized that the emperor had no clothes. It is in this dilemma that new tools for noticing seem so important Anna Tsing - The mushroom at the end of the world
That we are living in time of crisis it is no surprise, and it's actually been a while that the emperor has been going around with no clothes. Of course, we can all laugh about it as it happens in the famous folk tale Andersen rewrote, and indeed we kinda got used to it. But the truth is that not only more and more people started noticing that majestic nakedness: more and more people are experiencing the real consequences of this power loosing its meaning, and that's ain't funny at all. Now, while the emperor keeps walking col suo seguito di cretini, it doesn't matter the Now, it doesn't matter so much if we use this emperor as a metaphor for capitalism, or progress, or market, or crisis itself. What matters is that this shocking view of a structured reality that crumbles down in its ridiculousness
that we are talking about capitalism or progress or market or war
as Anna Tsing writes at the beginning of her book, among others*, the conditions of precarity this generalised crisis
when the reality created by this emperor going around with his booty in the air Yet there is something something uncanny, if not shocking, about this view
I wonder what would happen in Andersen's fable after that boy screaming that the emperor was naked. In this little excerpt, Anna Tsing refers to the fact that progress is
a shocking vision of reality. talking about crisis is obvious, but what is shocking is to really experience and empathize with the struggle
introducing the shift of vision, helped by noticing tools coupling with the entrance quote by ursula le guin: if the emperor is dead then what? tsing proposes to use the lens of precarity
the precarity and the unsustainable
the project of the thesis is a fieldwork in the crisis of evry day life in a specific context
the irony of doing taxes, it seems the monster that self-employed, free lancers need to confront, a topic for adults, a boring weekend on the spreadsheet. What is actually doing the taxes? can we do taxes otherwise? what is it that we need to pay and for whom?
the contraddiction of paying taxes if we are in a survival mode taxes and the common
Radical Administration is a term that indicates
coupling relationships with the infrastructure symbiosis