nika on oikos ness
nika dubrovsky on bachelard oikos law et al
via tweet [https://x.com/nikadubrovsky/status/2014726055508967460?s=20]:
I imagined feudal lords as military figures — on horseback, in armor, surrounded by jesters, financial barons, and beggars.
*I never could have think that the world would be ruled by real estate developers.
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Mikhail Bulgakov was already writing long ago about it.Control over living space becomes a source of power, conflict, and moral decay in the post-revolutionary USSR.
oikos (the economy our souls crave).. ‘i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.’ – gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
The Master and Margarita:
“Apartment No. 50 could not be called a good one.”
The apartment is a cursed place: it alters destinies, makes people disappear, and is redistributed by mysterious authorities. The world will be ruled by those who decide
who lives where,
who is moved in with whom,
who is “densified,”
and whose room is taken away under the pretext of “rationality.”[linked to pic of trump w miss universe runner up 1998]
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..
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be you. 