hey i'm winston. i read a lot for fun and to help me better understand and interrogate our world. this web-blog is where i chronicle some of my learning. i work as a product manager for Honeycomb.
Recent posts
Watch the World Burn
This week there are two deaths in the news that stand out against the thousands of deaths that are in the news every week; Nex Benedict's and Aaron Bushnell's.
The Gravity of Capitalism
A theory about how to discuss what systems make easy, and an application of the theory to capitalism, to see if it helps us better imagine futures beyond capitalism.
Respecting Anxiety
I feel like the topic of anxiety often (ironically?) generates a good bit of anxiety itself. It's a mental health topic. High anxiety is the same as high stress—if it continues unaddressed for a long time, it's very bad for your health. Anxiety is thus widely recognized as a problem to resolved. But only pursuing self-care avoids asking the question I've come to believe is most important for me: what is this anxiety telling me?
Missing the Monster
Two centuries ago, Mary Shelley published the most incredible indictment of the tech world mindset when she released her classic novel _Frankenstein_.
Recently Read
Blood, Sweat, & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
Copyright 2022, William Morrow & Company
Cultural Analysis
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune 2052-2072
Copyright 2022, Common Notions Press
Climate Change, Fiction
Systems Ultra
Copyright 2024, Verso
Cultural Analysis
The Uncontrollability of the World
Copyright 2020, Polity Press
Cultural Analysis
Witches, Midwives & Nurses
Copyright 2010, Feminist Press
Disability Theory, Cultural Analysis
System Collapse
Copyright 2023, Tordotcom
Fiction
Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles
Copyright 2023, Harry N. Abrams
Climate Change, Cultural Analysis
Dancing On Our Turtle's Back
Copyright 2011, ARP
Indigenous Issues, Cultural Analysis
Links of Note
Articles, papers, and other things that don't make it on to my reading page.
The World is Toxic. Welcome to the Metabolic Era
The Stones Shall Cry out: Consciousness, Rocks, and Indians
On Nonscalability: The Living World is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
Feminists write the Anthropocene: three tales of possibility in Late Capitalism
Decolonization is not a Metaphor
Disability, Bias, and AI