Hamish Campbell an #openweb organic intellectual and technologist
Let’s look fresh at an old idea, and useful path that is currently being blocked. Ideologies are frameworks for interpreting and navigating the world, the #mainstreaming “common sense” of rejecting them amounts to rejecting structured understanding. When people claim to eschew ideology, they default to the dominant paradigm, the #deathcult of #neoliberalism, without realizing it. … Continue reading Blindness and Compost
On this, it’s worth looking back on the 1980s #Thatcher era in the UK, #deathcult privatisations, this era is now ripe for real and useful contemporary criticism. And this criticism could be used for a useful push for the change and challenge we need now. Water Companies, privatized in 1989 with promises of efficiency and … Continue reading Talking about composting, and the privatisation of our “commons”
In the online spaces I navigate, there’s no shortage of #fashernistas crowding the conversation, diverting focus from the native #openweb paths we urgently need to explore. They take up space and ultimately block more than they build. Then there’s the #geekproblem: while geeks get things done within narrow boundaries, they’re rigidly resistant to veering beyond … Continue reading Composting the social mess to balance the change we need
NOTE: This might seam a little confused because it is, I am arguing for “balance” and “use” in truths, and arguing against dogmatic, blinded, worshipping of the #deathcult as a moral argument. None of this shit is rational, it’s a mess that I am pointing to, and a shovel to use for composting is needed … Continue reading Composting mess (truth)
The current state of discourse, particularly the ways in which left and right ideologies, have become so intertwined and confused that it’s difficult for people to distinguish between them. This post critiques the tendency of both sides to adopt a “victimhood narrative,” which is both unproductive and disempowering. The mess we have made in modern … Continue reading The victimhood narrative needs composting
On this website, I am advocating for a significant shift away from the current consumer-driven, society toward a humanistic, simpler, more sustainable, and equitable way of living. The path to this thinking and action is the that our modern lifestyles are neither natural nor necessary, to challenges the assumption that the way we live now … Continue reading There are many groups walking these paths, join them, to pick up a shovel and compost the mess we create
#mainstreaming people are always limited in their options, there is a strong pushing for them to see other people from their #neoliberlism and #postmodernism, these 40 years of “common sense” is mess making. Their behaviour tends to be vile when this “common sense” is challenged, by trying to get them to work in or even … Continue reading Working with #mainstreaming to compost the current mess
The #openweb has many benefits, though it will not always be the right tool for all situations, there is a lot of mature tech available for privacy and control. The desire to mix these technologies comes from #mainstreaming liberalisms desire for social media to be private, rather than inherently public. The decentralized #openweb and encrypted … Continue reading Thinking through composting the #techshit
When truth-telling is simply penalized, it’s a clear sign we’re navigating a post-modern, obfuscating mess. Instead of addressing issues openly, society hides and punishes those who expose inconvenient views, letting problems rot and fester. It’s a reminder that transparency is essential for creating a healthier culture. When truth is composted rather than suppressed, it breaks … Continue reading This is a way of stepping away from the post-truth would
Thinking on the modern UX for the #indymedia reboot. Tabs are a line at the top of the page – metaphor is not buttons. You are switching sheets of paper. The page is the paper. The top banner is the desk under the paper. It’s an interesting challenge to think through metaphors. Using buttons you … Continue reading Think the soil is a little dry past time for some compost, get your spades out.
The opening moment of the workshop on Methodological Strategies for Real-Life Theorising was unintentionally profound. A story of a seagull crieing above the glass façade of the Blavatnik School of Government – a building that stands as a temple to the #deathcult that shaped our lives for the last 40 years of #neoliberal change. In … Continue reading The Seagull Knows: Notes on a Constipated Discipline
Let’s look at a current issue that is in the news. The Americas have long been treated as a natural U.S. sphere of influence. From early Monroe Doctrine interventions to modern political pressure, the region has been viewed as a geopolitical backyard. Today, with Trump and MAGA pushing renewed U.S. dominance, countries in the region … Continue reading The Trump show is noise when we need to be focusing on signal