Transdisciplinary essays and dialogues with paleontologist-futurist Michael Garfield exploring human-technology co-evolution and how to develop the playfulness we need to thrive in our age of accelerating weirdness.
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✊🏼 Art is the only sane response to peak doom
“I can sum up my advice in the age of AI with two words: MAKE ART.”
– Phil Ford, Weird Studies Podcast
I’m not supposed to post like this on Substack. What follows is the kind of zine-length bricolage I used to knock out every few we...
What Capital Never Told You About Rent
Every invoice you have ever paid contains rent you cannot see.
In this piece originally published on the Atlas Research Group blog, reformed former Amazon UK finance manager Simon Quarmby and I trace how rent extraction, not profit, built...
䷰ From 99% Junk to Scenius at Scale: Why the Future of Work is an Economy of Play
Presented at DWeb Berlin, 09 July 02026. Mulled over for a year and a half prior.
You can’t get paid for work nobody sees. This is a problem since most of the work that matters most is invisible to institutional incentive structures:
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RIP Wendell Berry
“Problems of propriety are never ‘solved.’”
Many people remember Wendell Berry, if they know of him at all, as something like The Lorax: a caricature of environmental conservation. But a close reading of his work reveals incredible nuan...
Advertising Is Psychedelic Art Is Advertising
Originally commissioned by David Jay Brown for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Journal in 2012. Republishing now because it feels more pertinent than ever. Maybe even quaint.
Before we begin — and before you eithe...
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Evolutionary biologist turned feral scholar & wandering bard for an age of transformation. Award-winning futurist. Art & music volcano. Ex SFI, Long Now, Mozilla. Experiencer & precog. Professionally curious & ontologically weird. Here to help.
Capitalism told us wealth is power, progress domination, and life a resource to exploit. But nature shows us a different truth: abundance is found in the order, beauty and complexity of living systems. Composting Capitalism is a new, living story.
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