# 📚 Articles & Notes *A curated collection of ideas.* > [!tip] How to use this page > Each article below is tagged with one or more concept categories. Click any tag to see all articles with that tag: > > #Art #Ecology #Philosophy #Politics #Science #Sociology #Psychology #Economics #Indigenous Knowledge --- ## Art - [[Raw Art]] — On raw, unprocessed approaches to artistic practice. - [[Gardening & Art]] — The intersection of creative practice and ecological cultivation. - [[Artists method]] — Philosophy → conditions → process → rhythm → refinement → generative tools. ## Ecology - [[Rethinking the Lawn]] — A guide to ecological gardening — rethinking the lawn, embracing moss, and working with nature rather than against it. - [[Living Inside the Weather]] — Climate grief, hyperobjects, and the strangeness of inhabiting a crisis too big to see. - [[Monoculture of the Mind]] — How monoculture thinking shapes psychology and culture. - [[Old Ways for New Times]] — Traditional ecological knowledge, Two-Eyed Seeing, and why the coming century requires the oldest experiments on the planet. - [[Gardening & Art]] — The intersection of creative practice and ecological cultivation. ## Philosophy - [[The Trouble with Exceptionalism]] — Human exceptionalism and the philosophers dismantling it. On ethics and being one creature among many. - [[Living Inside the Weather]] — Climate grief and the politics of feeling in the Anthropocene. - [[Common Cause - The Case for Working with Our Cultural Values]] — Why social and environmental change depends on activating the right values. - [[Enneagram Spiritual-paths]] — Connecting the enneagram types with Buddhist, Stoic, and other spiritual teachings. - [[The Body That Thinks]] — Embodied cognition and the wisdom of the body. - [[Artists method]] — Philosophy at the root of artistic practice. - [[The Gift That Keeps Giving]] — Gift economies, reciprocity, and an alternative to extraction. - [[Old Ways for New Times]] — Indigenous philosophy and knowledge systems. ## Psychology - [[The Body That Thinks]] — Embodied cognition and somatic intelligence. - [[The Tidy Garden and the Social Gaze]] — Tidiness, class signalling, and the psychology of conformity. - [[Monoculture of the Mind]] — How monoculture thinking shapes psychology and culture. - [[Common Cause - The Case for Working with Our Cultural Values]] — The psychology of values and messaging. - [[Living Inside the Weather]] — Climate grief and psychological dimensions of crisis. - [[Enneagram Spiritual-paths]] — The enneagram as a map of human suffering and healing. - [[The Temptation of Endless Screens]] — The psychology of stimulation and endless consumption. ## Economics - [[The Gift That Keeps Giving]] — Gift economies and alternative models of abundance. - [[The Taking of the Commons]] — The enclosures and what a recovered commons might look like. ## Sociology - [[The Tidy Garden and the Social Gaze]] — Why we mow, tidiness as social signalling. - [[The Taking of the Commons]] — Social and economic history of shared resources. ## Indigenous Knowledge - [[Old Ways for New Times]] — Traditional ecological knowledge as essential to the future. - [[The Trouble with Exceptionalism]] — Indigenous thinkers challenging human exceptionalism. - [[The Gift That Keeps Giving]] — Robin Wall Kimmerer on gift economics and reciprocity. ## Science - [[Syntax]] — How language structure shapes thought and explanation. --- ## 🔗 Cross-disciplinary Threads *Ideas that resist single categories.* | Thread | Related Tags | |--------|---------| | The history and ecology of the lawn | Sociology · Ecology · Psychology | | Gift economy as alternative to capitalism | Economics · Philosophy · Indigenous Knowledge | | Human exceptionalism and ethics | Philosophy · Ecology · Indigenous Knowledge | | Why we resist change even with evidence | Psychology · Sociology · Ecology | | Indigenous plant knowledge and reciprocity | Ecology · Indigenous Knowledge · Philosophy | --- [[Artists method]] ![[Trace Dance.jpeg|250]] Part of an ongoing attempt to think more carefully about the world. --- There’s a lot of research on how writing as a form of communication differs from other modes, such as speech, and how it shapes different aspects of communication. Some key areas of study include: 1. Cognitive and Psychological Effects • Writing allows for more deliberate structuring of ideas compared to spoken language, which is often more spontaneous. • Walter Ong (1982) in Orality and Literacy discusses how literacy transforms thought, making it more analytical and abstract. • Research in cognitive science suggests that writing encourages reflection, metacognition, and deeper processing of information compared to speech. 2. Social and Cultural Impacts • Writing enables asynchronous communication, allowing for messages to be edited, reconsidered, and consumed at different times. • It creates a sense of permanence, unlike speech, which is ephemeral. This affects authority, historical record-keeping, and institutional memory. • Studies in media theory (e.g., McLuhan, 1964) suggest that writing externalises thought, leading to broader shifts in cultural and social structures. 3. Differences in Expression and Interpretation • Writing lacks paralinguistic cues (tone, pitch, body language), so meaning must be conveyed through [[Syntax]], punctuation, and word choice. • Pragmatics research (e.g., Grice’s maxims) examines how written communication often requires more explicit context than spoken conversation. 4. Digital and Technological Influence • The rise of digital writing (emails, social media, messaging) has created hybrid forms of communication that blend spoken and written elements. • Research on online discourse suggests that written communication is adapting to mimic conversational immediacy (e.g., emoji, abbreviations, tone indicators). `Concepts:`