# 📚 Articles & Notes *A growing library of ideas across disciplines — click any link to read.* --- ## 🌿 Ecology & Rewilding Links exploring the natural world, ecological systems, and our relationship with the living environment. - [[Rethinking the Lawn]] — A guide to ecological gardening — rethinking the lawn, embracing moss, and working with nature rather than against it. --- ## 🌍 Climate & Environment The science, politics, and human dimensions of climate change and environmental breakdown. *Notes coming soon.* --- ## 🏛️ Sociology How societies are structured, how power operates, and how culture shapes the way we live together. *Notes coming soon.* --- ## 🧠 Psychology How humans think, feel, behave — and why we so often act against our own long-term interests. *Notes coming soon.* > [!example] Thread to pull > Why do people resist rewilding their gardens even when presented with evidence it is better? The psychology of control, tidiness, and social conformity. --- ## 💰 Economics Mainstream and alternative economic thinking — growth, degrowth, gift economies, and what we value. *Notes coming soon.* > [!example] Thread to pull > Robin Wall Kimmerer's concept of the gift economy — abundance through reciprocity rather than extraction — as an alternative framework to capitalist resource logic. --- ## 📖 Philosophy & Ethics Big questions about how to live, what we owe each other, and our obligations to the non-human world. *Notes coming soon.* > [!example] Thread to pull > Human exceptionalism — the assumption that humans stand apart from and above nature — and the philosophers and Indigenous thinkers who challenge it. --- ## 🌱 Indigenous Knowledge & Culture Traditional ecological knowledge, Indigenous philosophy, and the wisdom of old-growth cultures. *Notes coming soon.* > [!info] Key Thinkers > **Dan Wildcat** · **Elder Tom Porter** · **Robin Wall Kimmerer** · **Vine Deloria Jr.** > All writing on the restoration of Indigenous knowledge as essential — not peripheral — to navigating the present crisis. --- ## 🏡 History & Culture How the past shapes the present — social history, cultural movements, and forgotten ways of living. *Notes coming soon.* --- ## 🔗 Cross-disciplinary Threads *Ideas that refuse to stay in one category.* | Thread | Touches | |--------|---------| | The history of the lawn | Sociology · Ecology · History | | Gift economy vs capitalism | Economics · Philosophy · Indigenous Knowledge | | Human exceptionalism | Philosophy · Psychology · Ecology | | Rewilding | Ecology · Psychology · Sociology | | Indigenous plant knowledge | Ecology · Indigenous Knowledge · Philosophy | --- *Last updated: {{date}}* *Built in [[Obsidian]] · Part of an ongoing attempt to think more carefully about the world.* ![[LawnsEco.image.jpg|250]] A guide to ecological gardening — rethinking the lawn, embracing moss, and working with nature rather than against it. [[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:`