TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THINGS
A PUNKIST SHOULD KNOW
punkism - the ideology (-ism) of punk
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- Beginner's Mind
- Tao
- The operating system Plan 9 from Bell Labs
- The Breadpunk movement
- LOW-TECH MAGAZINE
- NO TECH MAGAZINE
- Cyberdecks
- The power of the Tarot
- How to maintain a bicycle
- The difference between consumerism and materialism
- The unfolding reality of pissed off Tsukumogami
- The physics of lever espresso machines
- That sustainable economic growth is an oxymoron
- Complexity in systems and the problem of reductionism
- That direction is everything
- That practice is enlightenment
- Thoreau's
alternative economics
- Eisenstein's alternative economics
- Most philosophies aim at refining the art of living
- There is no box
- The art of fermentation
- The Four Noble Truths
- The Noble Eightfold Path
- Cooking with fire
- Cooking with sunlight
- Deep work
- Voluntary simplicity
- The sublime
- Solarpunk
- Permaculture and regenerative agriculture
- Permacomputing
- Unbelieveable Bulgarians from 1998
- The story of the galgo
- Rose, rose, thorn, bud
- The smell of palo santo
- The relative neuronal density of ravens
- Why specialty coffee matters
- The potential determinism of obesity
- Free jazz
- The pacing of The Magic Mountain
- The sound of swifts playing in summer
- Sumi-e
- How to plan a wedding dinner
- The Dark Mountain Manifesto
- The silhouette of different birds of prey
- Lean Logic
- Tools for Conviviality
- The rush after a cold swim
- The writings of Dogen Zenji
- Slow TV
- Cassette tape
loops
- The underlying stories of the
world
- The importance of etymology
- Principles
of good design
- Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems
- GEB:EGB
- Wendell Berry
- Think global and act local
- Non-doing and inactivism
- Why the elves had to leave Middle Earth
- Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis
- Why
Atlantis sank
- Situationism beats dispositionism
- The beautifully irrational nature of morals and ethics
- Meta-optimisation
- How to smile at someone who will never smile back
- How to handle a scared dog
- The feeling of talking after a ten day silent retreat
- There are no detours or shortcuts to the future
- Buddhist economics
- The Part About The Crimes in Roberto Bolaño's 2666
- The staccato voice of Jorge Luis Borges
- The stoics
- Kafka's three novels
- The origin of the haiku
- That Isaac Newton was an alchemist
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- The difference between food and diet
- Moon in a dewdrop, earth in a teardrop
- Japanoise
- Martinus' cosmology
- Hilma af Klint
- How to forage for wild berries and mushrooms
- How to only
leave ashes
- The seven hermetic
principles
- Fika
- The Indonesian gamelan
- Why you should write poetry
- How far a train can take you in Europe
- How the foundations of languages
shape thoughts
- The value of a perfectly timed nap
- The taste of a midnight meal after a marathon
- Shaker-style furniture
- The art of Pierre Soulages
- The difference between a cruise and a voyage
- How important Glenn Branca has been for rock music
- Tove Jansson's Moomins
- Build it solar
- Simplifier
- Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language
- How to welcome new neighbours
- The life-changing intervention of putting your dental floss in the shower
- How to cook for yourself
- How to cook for others
- How to concentrate
- Why experiential wisdom is all that
really matters
- The most
dangerous tyrannies
- How Talk Talk's last two albums were recorded
- Listening to Brian Eno's Thursday
Afternoon on a thursday afternoon
- The existence of The Anarchist Library
- That new year's resolutions suck
- The Pomodoro technique
- Rousseau vs. Hobbes
- That rules are moral training wheels
- Swans
- Sprouted legumes are better than cooked
- How to tie a bowline
- The Charles H. Hayward collection
- What can only be found by those who have gotten lost
- Koyaanisqatsi
- Typewriters
- Minimal computing
- Für Alina by Arvo Pärt
- We won't get there
- The value of a family recipe
- How to grow your own food
- Karmic complexity
- Internet in a Box
- The computer is a bicycle for the mind
- We are different
- Sweden is a morally problematic nation
- We are privileged
- We shouldn't be relying on the quantifiable
- Post-civilisation and war
- The story of the three bricklayers
- Analogue film photography
- Zenarchy
- Assume all paid athletes are on PEDs (yes, Usain Bolt too)
- Penny Rimbaud
- Anarchy is not the absence of rules, it is the absence of rulers
- The closer you think you are the further away you've strayed
- Werner's Nomenclature of Colours
- That dropping out is diving in
- Self-sufficiency can never be an individualistic endeavour
- It’s not radical to try and save the last 5% of forests, what’s radical is logging 95%
- The list of music for punkists
- Settled work
- Finite and Infinite Games
- Marginalia Search
- The animal kill counter
- No moon, no finger -- nothing there at all
- Nannberga
- Russell Stutler's Book About Sketching
- Reality tunnels
- Do not add FIRE to the flames
- How to Be a Poet
- If you must read news, read slower news
- Doughnut Economics
- The importance of personal durable systems
- The world is so much more than you think
- We are all poets in the epic poem of being-time
- How to make noise
- The Society of the Spectacle
- Cutting edge computer research
- There is so much unnecessary cruelty in the world - and also so much unnecessary beauty
- Silence
- Pauline Oliveros' Sonic Meditations
- Simplicity lies on both sides of complexity
- Craftsmanship
- The broader use of the long-term nuclear waste warning messages
- Writing shit about new snow for the rich is not art
- The feeling of life in ancient forgotten places
- Identity politics is modern civilisation's great distraction
- The quiet stories whispered by wall lizards in the cracks behind the twisting wisterias
- Konnakol
- Every wise saying has an opposite
- Never primarily optimise for the approval of others
- Sans Soleil
- Bull of Heaven
- How to be a lebenskünstler
- Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis
- The map is not the territory
- Maps change our territory
- How to be a guerrilla artist
- Start Often, Fuck Achievements
- In this very moment there are people in airplanes heading to conferences to talk about the climate emergency
- The Art of Frugal Hedonism
- Diogenes
- The Atlas of Places
- Les Cités Obscures
- Nothing special
- UbuWeb
- Maitreya will be all of us
- Projekt Runeberg
- Leverage points
- Sundogs
- Suncats
- You contain the enemy
- How much bikes can carry
- Idle theory
- Technologies of the self
- Thomas Merton
- Lapsang tea and new snow
- Let it rot
- Design manifestos
- Writing is magic
- How to complain
- What the library of Babel sounded like
- How to notice universality classes
- A sky at dusk speckled with thousands of flying foxes
- This list doesn't matter much
- In-car record players
- The Matter with Things
- Awakening from the Meaning Crisis
- "And" is not merely additive, it is creative
- Attention creates the world
- Technology is not value neutral
- How to think with landscapes
- Being a fish means living in water, being human means living in a sea of ways
- The Tide of Sound Archive
- The Conet Project
- The Metacrisis
- Moloch
- The first buds of spring
- Agency
- Transcendence
- Conversations between Bohm & Krishnamurti
- Onkyokei
- The train scene in Spirited Away
- Silence is a commons
- Hemispatial neglect
- The importance of a work uniform
- Community fridges
- Yuppie dystopia
- The History of Every Noise at Once
- We keep studying human nature in systems that keep creating its corruption
- It's all about asking the right questions
- Panpsychism
- Everything is sacred
- Recursive abstraction
- Cecil Taylor
- Life: A User's Manual
- The Nature of Order
- No tree will reach heaven unless its roots reach hell
- Tibetan mind training
- Living with the essence of the divine
- The maximum power principle
- Humanity must exapt
- Patiently await the waning of the wind, allow the water to still, let the sediment settle, sink in without a sound
- All is eternal but things still end
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