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INDEPENDENT STUDIES

Notes from longer investigations on our relationships with care and technology.

Domestic Labor as Design

◼️Syllabus: Domestic Labor◼️What if we viewed home as a care studio?◼️Home as a site of power and resistanceHome as a site of social reproductionHome as a site of recoveryHome as a site of civic preparationHome as a site of cultural transmissionHome as a site of system designHome as a site of self-trust

Working with Companion Machines

◼️Syllabus: Companion Machines◼️What if a machine could help you return to yourself?◼️Observing ourselves observeTotal Recall

Developing a Civic Heart

◼️Syllabus: Developing a Civic HeartWhat is a civic heart?Navigating Media Across the ErasNews and the Nervous SystemMedia DietsWho gets to be a journalist?Soft Power and Moral ImaginationRaising a CitizenThe Long Vote

Formative Concepts: A Glossary

◼️Syllabus: Formative Concepts, A Glossary◼️ContainersAnti-memetics Soft PowerDiagrammatic Thinking

CRAFT NOTES

Essays on writing, publishing and creative life.

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