diff --git a/_posts/.obsidian/workspace.json b/_posts/.obsidian/workspace.json index 966b62082..3b3a28aed 100644 --- a/_posts/.obsidian/workspace.json +++ b/_posts/.obsidian/workspace.json @@ -83,12 +83,12 @@ "state": { "type": "markdown", "state": { - "file": "2026-05-11-instrumentalisation-ethnography.md", + "file": "2026-03-21-poetic-web.md", "mode": "source", "source": false }, "icon": "lucide-file", - "title": "2026-05-11-instrumentalisation-ethnography" + "title": "2026-03-21-poetic-web" } } ], @@ -252,7 +252,12 @@ }, "active": "7b1ca53b29d63749", "lastOpenFiles": [ + "2019-09-17-greetings-from-geneva-bringing-back-the-blog.md", + "2019-08-15-ann-douglas.md", "2015-01-11-template.md", + "2023-08-04-one-year-ttw.md", + "2023-02-15-goatherding-poetic-web.md", + "2022-03-13-photos-from.md", "2026-05-11-instrumentalisation-ethnography.md", "2026-03-21-poetic-web.md", "2026-03-20-html-review.md", @@ -275,11 +280,6 @@ "images/Screenshot 2025-11-06 at 20.02.16.png", "images/Screenshot 2025-11-06 at 19.54.33.png", "2021-06-21-supply-chains-us.md", - "2021-03-28-supply-chains-us.md", - "2020-12-03-the-open-movement-and-its-discontents.md", - "2021-01-11-template.md", - "2025-12-29-fellowships-residencies-etc.md", - "2024-12-01-five-readings-on-role-of-higher-education.md", "upload_a9888ba7c669b61ad48a2f12038df293.png", "images/Screenshot 2025-11-06 at 20.01.07.png", "images" diff --git a/_posts/2026-05-11-survey.md b/_posts/2026-05-11-survey.md index 22f631e66..92aa13ebe 100644 --- a/_posts/2026-05-11-survey.md +++ b/_posts/2026-05-11-survey.md @@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ published: false image: "../assets/img/preview.png" --- -My fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute is trucking along! +My fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute keeps going. -There were 32 people who filled out the survey. They were distributed across a few geographies: +There were 32 people who filled out the survey. They were distributed across a few geographies: ranging from In the months since this survey was released, it's been interesting to track how m diff --git a/_projects/2020-02-26-leyendos.md b/_projects/2020-02-26-leyendos.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e819209da --- /dev/null +++ b/_projects/2020-02-26-leyendos.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: leyendos de litio +range: 2026 +category: blog +published: false +image: "../assets/img/100-mountain-preview.png" +--- + +**Leyendos de Litio** was a project proposal about lithium extraction in the Bolivian salt flats. + diff --git a/_projects/2025-08-11-internet-walking-tours.md b/_projects/2025-08-11-internet-walking-tours.md index 2c24e54d8..22a5e209b 100644 --- a/_projects/2025-08-11-internet-walking-tours.md +++ b/_projects/2025-08-11-internet-walking-tours.md @@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ image: "../assets/img/walk-preview.png" Building off of the work of artists like Ingrid Burrington and Mario Santamaría, I'm keen to bring our digital infrastructures beyond the comfort of slide decks and auditorium-style presentations to something more experimental, something that shifts how ideas can be communicated through performance, movement, and spontaneous exchange. -_The first internet walking tour took place at the Open House festival. Please sign up on luma, or join my newsletter if you're interested in joining other internet tours!_ +_The first internet walking tour took place at the Open House festival. Feel free to sign up on luma or join my newsletter if you're interested in joining other internet tours._ During the first internet walking tour, we traced the routes of fibre-optic cables beneath our feet, decoded the markings on ubiquitous manholes covering British Telecom tunnels, and explored the emergence of 5G masts, public Wi-Fi networks, and even a functioning internet exchange point. -I’m interested in expanding this work into a broader series of “digital heritage” tours – mapping how London’s landscape has evolved alongside communication technologies. Could we walk through the former sites of the General Post Office, or trace the transformation of BT from a public utility to a global telecoms giant? These are the stories of connection, communication, and control that define the modern city. +I’m interested in expanding this work into a broader series of “digital heritage” tours – mapping how London’s landscape has evolved alongside communication technologies. Could we walk through the former sites of the General Post Office, or trace the transformation of BT from a public utility to a global telecoms giant? + +These are the kinds of stories of connection, communication, and control that define the modern city. ![tour-1](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1ZRjlC-Wx.jpg) ![tour-2](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkWCig0Z-l.jpg) diff --git a/_projects/2026-01-15-digital-cairns.md b/_projects/2026-01-15-digital-cairns.md index 904d64ab1..a77f856f0 100644 --- a/_projects/2026-01-15-digital-cairns.md +++ b/_projects/2026-01-15-digital-cairns.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post title: digital cairns range: 2026 category: blog -published: false +published: true image: "../assets/img/cairn-preview.png" --- @@ -11,8 +11,8 @@ image: "../assets/img/cairn-preview.png" More about the SUPERB project: -The systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest-related biodiversity and ecosystem services, also known as SUPERB, project is led by the European Forest Institute and involves a consortium of 36 project partners and 90 associate partners, and receives €20 million in support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. +> The systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest-related biodiversity and ecosystem services, also known as SUPERB, project is led by the European Forest Institute and involves a consortium of 36 project partners and 90 associate partners, and receives €20 million in support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. -King’s contribution will focus on exploring how humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and broader societal contexts and engagements around restoration, drawing on approaches from fields such as science and technology studies, environmental humanities and Internet studies. +> King’s contribution will focus on exploring how humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and broader societal contexts and engagements around restoration, drawing on approaches from fields such as science and technology studies, environmental humanities and Internet studies. _This work was commissioned by the SUPERB project with Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru._ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_projects/2026-02-26-100-mountains.md b/_projects/2026-02-26-100-mountains.md index f6f27e37f..eca4919c2 100644 --- a/_projects/2026-02-26-100-mountains.md +++ b/_projects/2026-02-26-100-mountains.md @@ -7,9 +7,17 @@ published: true image: "../assets/img/100-mountain-preview.png" --- -**100 Days, 100 Mountains** is a meditative endurance practice grounded in repetition. +**100 Days, 100 Mountains** is a meditative endurance practice, grounded in repetition. Over 100 days, I'm drawing 100 mountains. As of 15 March, I've drawn 22. -As of 22 April, I've drawn 59. \ No newline at end of file +As of 22 April, I've drawn 59. +As of 12 May, I've drawn 79. +As of 4 June, I've drawn 102. + +Maybe I'll make 100 more. + + + +_A few photos, from June 2026. Photos by David Littlejohn-Carrillo._ \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/assets/img/mountains-preview.png b/assets/img/mountains-preview.png new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e0e04825b Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/img/mountains-preview.png differ diff --git a/design.md b/design.md index ae203284e..ee9aceaf7 100644 --- a/design.md +++ b/design.md @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ I wrote that this website was made by me with peace in mind. But what does that # Principles -### On snails +### On snails and slowness First and foremost, the lovely snail that you see at the bottom of every page was illustrated by Mike Hankin originally for OffBeat Film Festival. I emailed him to ask if I can use his snail for this website. @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The rise of the phrase "move slowly and make things" (as opposed to all-too-famo Grace Lee Boggs also wrote a lot about the time and patience required build a better world, which I think is very snail-like, too. -### On the Quiet and Meditative Web +### On the quiet and meditative web The internet is noisy. In a time of [information glut](https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/neil-postman-on-technologys-faustian-bargain/), I aim to create work that decreases that noise, or at least makes it easier to navigate. For me, that usually means using less, not more design features. @@ -71,8 +71,22 @@ That is to say, I've learned from others' openness in the most expansive definit So for now, I'm still practicing with an open ethos, though I'm all too aware of its nuances in the present day. We'll see if that changes (and yes, I'm allowed to change my mind if I do)! +### What's so wrong with + +While I do aim to practice an open ethos, I believe firmly in privacy practices on the web. + +My website doesn't use any kind of tracking, cookies, or ad technology. I recently started using GoatCounter in June 2026 to collect very basic information about how many (and from where) people are navigating to my website. GC is widely known as an open source alternative to Google Analytics and others. + +It doesn't collect any identifiable information, which you can check here. This is why you didn't see a cookie consent banner when you came to my website. + +I've gone back and forth on on whether collecting data here is valuable, or simply a form of a vanity metric. + +Ultimately, my own justification is a sense of wonder and curiousity: I'm simply curious about who's . + +So, I suppose they are vanity metrics after all! + ### License Everything on this website is licensed CC BY 4.0, but I've love for you to be in touch if there's anything you found here that is meaningful or useful for you. -_This page was last updated on 13 May 2026._ \ No newline at end of file +_This page was last updated on 5 June 2026._ \ No newline at end of file