> lately: quietly foraging ideas of serendipity and collaboration + Hope in Source podcast
> prev: maintaining the Babel team, Behance
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Tools for Conviviality
wikiIvan Illich
balancing industrial and communal via tools that work *with* us, not for us.
interdependence, proportionality, counterproductivity
Death and Life of Great American Cities
wikiJane Jacobs
an attack on modernist urban planning, celebrating cities as their own liturgy.
eyes on the street, organized complexity, sidewalk ballet, mixed-use
The Timeless Way of Building
wikiChristopher Alexander
philosophy disguised as architecture. explores the "quality without a name" that empowers everyday people to turn spaces into places.
wholeness, pattern language, centers
The Medium and the Light
wikiMarshall McLuhan
in jesus christ, there is no distance or separation between the medium and the message: it is the one case where we can say that the medium and the message are fully one and the same
extension of man, media tetrad
Personal Knowledge
wikiMichael Polanyi
knowledge is a process of knowing, requiring personal commitment. no certainty, only confidence
indwelling, tacit knowledge, subsidiary-focal integration
You Are What You Love
wikiJames K.A. Smith
we are what we worship. can't think our way out of addiction. loves are disordered.
cultural liturgies