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last tended: October 29, 2026
Indira
Friend, amazing artist, creative technologist, person. I’m hoping you also meet Indira in your life. She brings so much joy.
RSS philosophy
Web feeds let you subscribe to a site and get whatever’s new, all in one place, without giving anyone your email or attention on their terms.
fluxus manifesto
written by George Maciunas, 1963.
The Moving Body
The Moving Body: Teaching Creative Theatre (English translation of Le Corps Poétique) is Jacques Lecoq’s account of his pedagogy: a physical, mime-rooted approach to actor training built around observation of movement, gesture, and the “neutral mask.” Lecoq (1921–1999) was a French movement teacher ...
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus is Albert Camus’ philosophical essay introducing the idea of the absurd: the confrontation between the human need for meaning and the universe’s indifferent silence.
There Is No Other
There Is No Other collects Ram Dass’ late-life teachings on non-duality and the illusion of separateness — the idea that beneath the many roles and identities we move through, there’s a shared awareness underneath it all.
Jack Verlaine
Musician and artist, album RITUALS. Working together on the music video for Blue and lucid sky — see Blue and lucid sky.
Mars The Star Child
Musician and artist. Working together on the music video for Body — see Body.
The Design of Everyday Things
Author: Don Norman I’ve been reading this book for the last couple of weeks, again.
summer-26 manifesto
i realized we don’t have a ton of summers in our lives.
noise music
I heard about the concept a couple of weeks ago. I felt in love at first hear.
A trip to the moon, 1902
Not only the tattoo I have on my arm, but also the fantastic 1902 first science fiction film! tattoo by Seezy.
Music Composition
i was going to start by learning from music theory, like what i realize it was the harmonic style of 18th century european musicians, which is what i associate with learning music usually.
just be.
I worried for so long. I ran from for so long. I worried for the future. For a life of lost possibilities. I run on the opportunities.
missing bridges
as the moon paints the waves, the closet door cringe. red lights bleeding onto the walls. rainy day echoing on the way.
How to write one song
Thanks Ali for the gift of this book.
The Garden of Earthly Delights
Author: Hieronymus Bosch Bosch was into something here.
Reading list
Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows Gödel, Escher, Bach .
Cruising Utopia
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity is a landmark text in Queer Theory and queer studies by José Esteban Muñoz, published by NYU Press.
Seezy
Biz partner on tetherbound, friend, talented tattoo artist on www.instagram.com/shouldnthurt/ and beyond.
nausicaä
visit her site about software, hardware, sound, paper, words more seeds and plants soon.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Author: Douglas Hofstadter A mind-bending exploration of consciousness, self-reference, and strange loops through the lenses of math, music, and art.
Values
A north, or like multiple norths. Soon more on my values, and the process and tooling i’ve been testing for value declarations.
envy
Oh envy… So much to write and to say here. How often do you feel envy? What do you do when that happens? Think about it. Feel about it.
Clowns
I’ve been exploring clowning.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Director Stanley Kubrick A pretty controversial film, but big fan. Here is an essay I wrote about it.
EMDR
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a form of psychotherapy developed by Francine Shapiro that helps people process and integrate traumatic memories.
Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a model of psychotherapy developed by Richard Schwartz that proposes the mind is made up of multiple sub-personalities, or parts, each with its own voice, role, and intention; all organized around a core Self.
No Bad Parts
Schwartz’s central argument is that the mind is not a single unified thing.
Symbolism, contradictions, and evil in all society - A Clockwork Orange.
essays Written by me in Spring 2024.
The Body Keeps the Score
Van der Kolk’s central argument is that trauma doesn’t just live in the mind, it lives in the body.
veneer theory
Veneer theory is the belief that civilization is nothing more than a thin veneer that will crack at the merest provocation — that beneath our social norms and institutions, humans are inherently selfish, brutal, and chaotic.
Attention Economy
The attention economy is the idea that human attention is a scarce resource — and that digital platforms, media, and advertising are all competing to capture and monetize it.
Backrooms (2026)
Director Kane Parsons.
Brazil (1965)
Directed by Terry Gilliam to read more about it dennisbiba.com/2024/12/15/gilliam-brazil-en/ .
Green-Wood Cemetery
A historic cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
How this garden works?
This garden lives in three places at once. Obsidian — Where everything starts.
How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy
This book is very related to the… Attention Economy “I hope that the figure of ‘doing nothing’ in opposition to a productivity-obsessed environment can help restore individuals who can then help restore communities, human and beyond.” How to be out of sync from chrononormativity as a way of resistan...
On taking notes
From here, “Create Zettel from Reading Notes According to the Principle of Atomicity” Capture on paper ideas A7 notebook example 0.5mm mechanical pencil (soft 2B leads) - [example 01](0.5mm mechanical pencil) Process notes into Obsidian Start as a note as general as possible Get to the details in su...
Performance artists
-Tehching Hsieh live in a jail for a year in his house in tribeca performance art intersects with Queer Theory and queer practice — see Queer Latitudes .
Psychotherapy
What a topic. I have so much to say here. I tried a few styles of therapy.
Queer Theory
A critical framework that interrogates how norms around gender, sexuality, identity, and time are constructed — and who gets left out when those norms are treated as natural.
Sources and inspiration on digital gardens philosophy
Sources & further reading Bernstein — Hypertext Gardens — A 1998 hypertextual essay about hypertext structure itself.
Systemic shame
Systemic shame is something I’ve had to learn to name. I read it for the first time on the book Unlearning Shame by Devon Price.
Testing a note here
Hola hola hola. Did you take a deep breath today? This takes you to the homepage: index.
The Attention Economy and the Net
Source: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/519/440 by Michael H.
Time Binds - Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
Link to essay Some concepts in it: chrononormativity.
Time is not linear
A linear time is a construction. An idea we inherited. I am not saying time is not linear. I am saying time is also not not linear.
Unlearning Shame
Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power is a book by social psychologist Devon Price that addresses the pervasive feeling of shame caused by societal and systemic problems.
chrononormativity
This concept is Elizabeth Freeman’s term for the way social institutions organize human life into a standardized timeline — and how that timeline gets naturalized as the only “normal” way to exist.
digital gardens
The garden is the web as topology.
hauntology
coined by Jacques Derrida in Spectres of Marx, 1993 Philosophical concept describing how the past persists, haunts, and structures the present, challenging linear time and fixed identity.
learning in public
Learning in public isn’t about publishing finished thoughts — it’s about letting people see the process.
liminal spaces
I’m so exited to watch Backrooms (2026) liminal spaces carry a quality of hauntology — haunted by prior use, suspended between what was and what hasn’t arrived yet .
post-individualism
Notes from the essay The Post-Individual by Yancey Strickler the shift from “who am I?” to “who all am I?” For most of human history, identity was given to you — by family, by geography, by blood.
resistance-in-place
Propossed by Jenny Odell on How to Do Nothing - Resisting the Attention Economy To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system.
steal like an artist and other connections
genius vs scenius: medium.com/salvo-faraday/what-is-the-scenius-15409eb6ac72 If we forget about genius and think more about how we can nurture and contribute to a scenius, we can adjust our own expectations and the expectations of the worlds we want to accept us — what digital gardens try to model ...
tigers-gifs
Why these gifts here — besides, I love tigers? Most come from GifCities, the Internet Archive’s animated GIF search engine built from old GeoCities pages.
undertone (2025)
interview with Director Ian Tuason, and how caring for his aging parents inspired Undertone.
why a garden?
Since I was 11 or so, the first time I got access to the internet (yeah, it was pretty different back in Argentina in 2006), my first thought was how I could have my own website.
Tetherbound
A handmade leather kink wear brand. I am starting with my friend Seezy More on this project soon here, but in the meantime, tetherbound.nyc/.